2024 SPEEDO SUMMER CHAMPIONSHIPS
Luka Mijatovic grew to become the quickest 15-year-old American within the 800-meter freestyle throughout the ultimate session of the 2024 Speedo Summer season Championships on Saturday night time, inserting fifth in Irvine with a personal-best 7:57.94.
The Pleasanton Seahawks phenom reached the wall nearly two seconds quicker than his previous-best 7:59.64 from final August, snapping an uncharacteristic 11-month plateau within the occasion. Mijatovic now ranks fifth within the U.S. boys 15-16 nationwide age group (NAG) rankings behind solely Luke Ellis (7:56.40), Evan Pinion (7:55.92), Bobby Finke (7:55.16), and Larsen Jensen (7:52.05). Pinion was beforehand the quickest 15-year-old American within the historical past of this occasion along with his 7:58.93 from 2010.
Mijatovic was a number of seconds quicker tonight than he was final month on the U.S. Olympic Trials on his technique to seventeenth place (8:01.54). He was 3:58.83 on the halfway level of the race tonight and got here dwelling in 3:59.11, displaying off remarkably balanced splitting.
He wasn’t the one A-finalist who climbed the NAG rankings on Saturday night time as Shawmut Aquatic Membership 17-year-old William Mulgrew broke the eight-minute barrier for the primary time on his technique to third place within the 800 free (7:57.71). The Harvard commit (’25) obliterated his previous-best 8:06.28 from April by nearly 9 seconds, taking pictures as much as 18th within the 17-18 NAG rankings.
