At the FINA Bureau meeting proceeding this month’s Short Course World Championships in Doha, Qatar, the global governing body for aquatic sports approved the implementation of short course meters World Records to complement the long course meters World Records that the organization began record in April of 2014.
Times swum to set those new short course meters Junior World Records will be allowed to be broken beginning on January 1, 2015. This means that times swum at the 2014 Short Course World Championships will not be eligible as Junior World Records.
Much like the long course requirements, these newly-established records will be for girls aged 14, 15, 16, or 17 and boys aged 15, 16, 17, or 18 as of December 31st of that year. This means that in 2015, female swimmers born in or after 1998 will be eligible, and male swimmers born in or after 1997 will be eligible.
FINA doesn’t have a Junior World Championships in short course meters to fall back on as the “world bests,” but sources tell us that the organization this week will release “Junior World Bests,” which is a set of times that swimmers will have to beat if they want to be crowned the first official Junior World Record holders in the event.
We will post these Junior World Bests as soon as they’re made available by FINA.
It does not mean female swimmers born in or after 1998 will be eligible in 2015. They must also be born in or before 2001. For males it must be in or after 1997 and also in or before 2000.
That let s Sedov 20.59(50free) and Santana 47.07(100free) out of the books.Save the rising of some powerstud, it will be very hard to see a 18year-old catching Sedov time…