Henry Allan Blasts Huge Mark in 50 Backstroke

Aussie Age Champs: 17-year-old Henry Allan Produces The Swim Of The Meet, successful the 50m backstroke in 24.51

Australian swimming’s newest marvel boy, 17-year-old Henry Allan, has tonight produced the swim of the meet on the Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast, with a scorching world class time of 24.51 within the 50m backstroke.

After tearing aside Australian information set by a backstroking who’s who  earlier within the meet – together with Aaron Peirsol, Mitch Larkin and Isaac Cooper – he has saved his finest until final.

The super-talented Victorian highschool scholar setting a brand new 50m backstroke All-Comers report of 24.84 within the morning heats.

Then returning at evening to decrease the time once more within the closing, but in addition breaking two-time Olympian and 2024 world champion Isaac Cooper’s Australian 17-year’s report.

It was additionally the second quickest  time ever clocked by an Australian with Cooper holding the Australian open report at 24.12. Allan charging up the Australian and World rankings in fast time over the past 12 months.

50 Metres Backstroke:

World Record 23.55 Kliment Kolesnikov

Australian All-Time Top ten

24.12 Isaac Cooper

24.51 Henry Allan

24.54 Ben Treffers

24.63 Mitch Larkin

24.72 Robert Hurley

24.73 Ashley Delaney

24.83 Daniel Arnamnart

24.97 Zac Incerti

24.99 Matt Welsh

24.98 William Yang

Allan, coached by John Jordan in Bendigo East (150km north west of Melbourne in central Victoria) sat in 10^th place earlier than his 24.65 second-place end within the US Open meet, pushed him as much as fourth earlier than this meet.

(The US Open meet was received by US World Short Course champion Shane Casas with Hungarian famous person, 200m backstroke gold medallist from Paris, Hubert Kos.)

Allan additionally presently sits third on the 2026 World Rankings behind Chinese legend, five-time Olympic medallist and two-time world champion Jiayu Xu (24,36) and Italian report holder and Paris Olympian Michele Lamberti (24.38) – son of Italy’s first world champion Giorgio Lamberti.

And forward of reigning South African world champion within the 100m backstroke and silver medallist within the 50 and 200m backstroke Peter Coetze. 

His time of 24.51 quick sufficient to have completed fourth within the 2025, 2024 and 2023 World Aquatics Championship – and third in  2019 – a pleasant string to his bow with the 50 kind strokes on this system for the primary time in LA28.

Allan opened up his Australian Age marketing campaign with a National Age report within the boys’ 17/18yr 200m backstroke warmth, clocking a time of 1:57.56 the place he smashed Mitch Larkin’s previous mark of 1:59.09 from 2011.

Later that day within the finals, he went even faster and broke USA Olympian Aaron Peirsol’s All-comers report (1:57.35) that stood for nearly 26 years.

Allan, then erased Cooper’s 17-years boys 100m backstroke All-Comers report, clocking 53.45 to sneak beneath Cooper’s mark of 53.49 by simply 0.04secs.

And for good measure the 17-year-old unleashed a tidy 1:48.80 to win his age group’s 200m freestyle. And it’s solely the start….Allan has set himself up for what may nicely be a Trials Meet to recollect for the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs on the Sydney Olympic Aquatic Centre.

In different highlights….Gold Coast powerhouse Leny Grigor (Somerset, QLD) timed his 16 Years 200IM to perfection to assert his second National report of the meet, touching  first in 2:00.53, forward of Lukas Dunn (Knox Pymble, NSW) 2:01.30 who additionally went beneath the previous mark of two:02.17, with Christopher Montana (Trinity Grammar, NSW) holding  on for bronze in 2:03.39.

For Grigor (pictured above in a sequence of photographs taken by Delly Carr, Swimming Australia) it was his second massive swim of the week after shattering the 16 Years Boys’ 400m IM National Age report set in 2010 by triple Olympian and world champion Mitch Larkin. From the previous mark of 4:20.48 to Grigor’s 4:16.15, he has been on hearth this week and exhibiting the advantages of the specialist teaching from the likes of grasp coach Leigh Nugent.

Meanwhile continuous multi-talented duo, Lucy Ma (MLC Aquatic, VIC) and Molly Young (Carlile, NSW) each claimed their respective seventh gold medals of the meet. For Ma, her seventh gold was awarded after her efficiency within the 14 Years Girls’ 200m breaststroke, clocking 2:33.25, nearly 5 seconds forward of the sector.

Western Sydney’s Zoe Durbridge (Norwest, NSW) in 2:37.74) claimed silver simply forward of Tess Izard (Yarra Plenty, VIC) in 2:38.45.Young picked up her seventh within the 13 Years Girls’ 800m freestyle with one other dominating show. Young stopped the clock at 8:55.83, nicely forward of her Carlile clubmate Mia Hoo (9:11.41) and St Peters Western’s Sieanna Teevan(9:25.98)

And Lilla Ribot-De-Bresac (Newmarket Racers, QLD) delivered with a cultured 1:08.02 to take the 16 Years 100 breaststroke.

The grand-daughter of former excessive profile Australian Rugby League participant and administrator, John Ribot De Bresac – the primary Brisbane Broncos CEO John Ribot, architect of the Melbourne Storm NRL conglomerate and a member of the 1982 “Invincibles” Rugby League Kangaroo squad, received gold to assert the breaststroke triple.

And by doing so staking a declare for the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships to be held in Vancouver, Canada, August 17-20, with then group introduced tonight.

Lilla saying: “I started at Newmarket when I was about eight and Lizzy Dekkers was training there. And she went on to swim at the Olympics in Paris and that’s pretty cool to think we shared the same pool.”

Quinn Richards (Camberwell Grammar Aquatic, VIC) underlined his title once more for selectors with a second National report of the week.

Richards lowered the 14-year boys’ 50m breaststroke National age report of 29.52 (held by Somerset, QLD’s Koa Stotz) to his 29.28.

Sunshine Coaster Noah Ellison (Cooroy Dolphins, QLD) positioned second in 29.83 with Singapore’s Zavier Tay(Warringah Aquatic, NSW) third in 29.91.

Earlier within the meet Richards turned the primary 14-year-old Australian to interrupt 1:04 within the 100m breaststroke, clocking 1:03.65 to interrupt Stotz’s earlier mark of 1:04.21.

With North Queensland’s 13-Year-old Sunny Kito (Cairns Stingrays, QLD) including the 1500m freestyle to his 200/400IM victories, clocking 17:04.28, from Luca Boersma (Miami, QLD) 17:16.56 and Elijah Lamont (Yarra Plenty, VIC) 17:22.02 third.

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