Shareef Elaydi Blazes 53.45 100 Fly, Turns into Third-Quickest 15-12 months-Outdated American at Summer time Champs

2024 SPEEDO SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS

Whereas the A-finalists commanded heart stage on the Speedo Summer time Championships on Thursday night time, some of the spectacular swims of the session really from the lads’s 100 butterfly B-final courtesy of Santa Clara Swim Membership 15-year-old Shareef Elaydi.

Elaydi scorched a time of 53.45 for eleventh place within the 100 fly, dropping greater than half a second off his previous-best 54.01 from final month. Within the course of, he moved as much as No. 13 all-time within the 15-16 NAG rankings and have become the third-fastest 15-year-old American ever behind Thomas Heilman (51.98) and Rowan Cox (53.10).

Quickest 15-12 months-Outdated People, 100 Fly

1. Thomas Heilman – 51.98, 2022
2. Rowan Cox – 53.10, 2023
3. Shareef Elaydi – 53.45, 2024
4. Michael Andrew – 53.46, 2014
5. Justin Lynch – 53.74, 2012

Earlier this week on Tuesday, Elaydi blasted a personal-best 200 fly time of 1:58.92, eleventh all-time in his 15-16 age group nationally. He solely simply turned 15 final month.

Different swims you may need missed from the third night time of motion in Irvine included Irvine Novaquatics 16-year-old Andrew Maksymowski ascending the NAG rankings with a 14th-place displaying within the males’s 400 free B-final (3:56.23). He dropped virtually half a second off his previous-best 3:56.71 from Might, rating 53rd all-time in his 15-16 age group.

Rising Texas junior Ryan Branon obtained over the hump after a virtually three-year plateau within the males’s 100 fly. He positioned seventh in 53.77 after posting a personal-best 53.42 in prelims, which destroyed his previous-best 54.26 from method again in 2021.

Badger Swim Membership (NY) 16-year-old Michael Geh continues to drop time within the males’s 200 again. He touched in 2:03.86 for tenth place, taking a number of tenths off his previous-best 2:04.21 from earlier this month. Earlier than this month, his greatest time stood at 2:06.85 from March.

You may need caught this already in Thursday’s finals reside recap, however Schroeder YMCA Swim Group 14-year-old Maggie Dickinson impressed with a 4th-place displaying within the ladies’s 200 again (2:14.04), dropping greater than a second off her greatest time heading into in the present day (2:15.66 from Might). Now she ranks thirty third all-time within the U.S. women 13-14 nationwide age group (NAG) rankings.