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Like a lot of his countrymen, Canadian breaststroke expertise Oliver Dawson stepped up with an enormous swim on the opening day of the 2025 World Cup cease in Toronto, setting a brand new Nationwide Age Group File within the 100 breast.
Dawson, 17, fired off a time of 58.54 within the males’s 100 breast prelims, knocking greater than four-tenths off the Canadian boys’ 15-17 NAG file of 58.97 set by Gabe Mastromatteo in 2019.
The swim additionally marked a drop of 1.22 seconds from Dawson’s six-day-old private greatest, which he set in 59.76 on the Westmont leg of the World Cup final weekend.
Coming into Westmont, Dawson’s PB stood at 59.93, set this previous March.
On Thursday in Toronto, he made the most important positive factors relative to his earlier PB on the primary 50, delivering 27.47 after he was 28.17 in Westmont. He additionally got here off greater than half a second faster, however the opening 50 significantly stands out, particularly with it being quicker than his greatest time within the 50, 27.61, which he set in Westmont.
Break up Comparability
Mastromatteo, 2019
Dawson, March 2025
Dawson, Westmont 2025
Dawson, Toronto 2025
27.74
28.35
28.17
27.47
58.97 (31.23)
59.93 (31.58)
59.76 (31.59)
58.54 (31.07)
Dawson additionally broke his personal Alberta Provincial File for 17-year-olds along with his swim, and strikes into #8 all-time in Canada within the occasion.
All-Time Performers, Canadian Boys’ 15-17 100 Breaststroke (SCM)
Paul Kornfeld, 57.10 – 2009
Finlay Knox, 57.90 – 2024
Mathieu Bois, 58.22 – 2009
Richard Funk, 58.35 – 2016
Scott Dickens, 58.48 – 2009
James Dergousoff, 58.50 – 2022
Gabe Mastromatteo, 58.51 – 2022
Oliver Dawson, 58.54 – 2025
Apollo Hess, 58.55 – 2022
Jason Block, 58.62 – 2016
Dawson’s big-time drop landed him ninth general in Toronto, narrowly lacking out on a lane within the remaining, with Italian Ludovico Viberti clocking 58.47 to snag eighth within the prelims.
Regardless of lacking out on the ultimate, Dawson nonetheless jumped up 11 spots from the Twentieth-place exhibiting he had in Westmont.
He’ll be one to look at for this weekend as Dawson races the boys’s 50 breast on Friday in Toronto after which finishes off the meet along with his greatest occasion, the 200 breast, on Saturday.
On Thursday night time, Dutchman Caspar Corbeau gained gold within the males’s 100 breast in a World Cup File of 55.55, simply 27 one-hundredths shy of the world file, whereas Canadian Josh Liendo stole the present in entrance of the house crowd by breaking the world file within the males’s 100 fly (47.68) after which claiming the 50 free (20.31) in a brand new Nationwide File simply minutes later.
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