Australian Olympian David Morgan Swims New Masters 30-34 100 Fly World Record (SCM) in Queensland

David Morgan, a 2016 Australian Olympian and five-time World Championship medalist, has simply added one other achievement to his swimming profession. However, this one won’t be highlighted by a medal, however somewhat a spot because the all-time quickest 30-34 brief course 100 butterflyer in Masters Swimming historical past.

Morgan raced the occasion at a meet on the Sleeman Aquatic Center in Queensland, the place he would surge to a ultimate time of 51.26, properly over a full second quicker than former AQUA Masters World Record holder Bruno Kenji Ozeki of Japan, who in April of 2025 set the now-former all-time normal in 52.36.

This was not the primary time that Morgan had gotten a style of a masters world document, as again in April, as part of the Barbarian Masters males’s 4x50m free relay for the 120-158 age class, he and his stacked foursome would take down the AQUA Masters World Record in 1:28.22, a relay wherein he break up 22.37. Also on that relay had been present males’s 50 free (LCM) World Record holder Cam McEvoy (20.33), Grayson Bell (21.65), and Pedro Goidanich (23.87).

That swim additionally befell within the Sleeman Aquatic Center. It downed the previous document mark from Japan’s relay of Yuki Joho, Koki Shida, Kenta Nakatsuka, and Kazuki Suzuki from April of 2025 in 1:29.88.

During his aggressive profession, Morgan’s greatest brief course 100 fly got here on the World Championships in 2016, the place he received bronze in 49.31 when he was 22-years-old. At the time, that was the quickest ever efficiency from an Australian; that normal has since been lowered to 48.62 by Matthew Temple in 2023.