Elliot Leasure Destroys 13-14 NAG Record in 50 Again, Blasts 26.00 at AQJT Summer Spectacular

Continuing a sizzling streak of massive swims worldwide, Rochester Swim Club’s Elliot Leasure received in on the motion with an enormous 50 backstroke efficiency in Minneapolis on the Aquajets Summer Spectacular, notching a brand new 13-14 National Age Group Record in 26.00, erasing the previous NAG document by greater than a half second.

Leasure, 14, took down the previous document time of 26.70, set by Jack Alexy in 2017.

Coming into this meet, Leasure boasted a greatest time within the 50 again of 27.03, which he swam in May.

This meet proved to be a productive one for the Rochester native. Including a number of different greatest instances, such because the 100 again in 56.70, a three-tenth-of-a-second timedrop from his greatest time of 57.00 in May. That time additionally leaps him inside the highest three within the 13-14 NAG rankings, solely behind NAG document holder Thomas McMillan (56.36) and Josh Zuchowski (56.62). His earlier greatest 100 again time ranked him only one spot outdoors of the highest 5 at sixth.

One of his greatest timed drops of the meet got here within the 200 backstroke, taking the win within the occasion in 2:02.66, two and a half seconds sooner than some other time he had ever clocked earlier than that swim. Just just like the 50 and 100 backstroke races, Leasure discovered himself climbing the 13-14 ladder with this swim as properly, leaping from a pre-meet sixteenth place all-time to now inside the highest 5, at 4th, simply forward of US Olympic Gold Medalists Ryan Murphy (2:02.86) and Aaron Peirsol (2:02.78) in sixth and fifth, respectively.

In complete, Leasure captured six wins on the meet, with different standout performances together with the 100 fly (56.69), 400 free (4:16.20), and the 400 IM (4:52.02).