Produced by Coleman Hodges.
Reported by Braden Keith.
Connor Jaeger has already established himself as America’s best distance freestyler, but is now starting to elbow his way into a more global conversation in the 1500 free, especially so after a 14:58.13 to win the final individual event of the day on Sunday.
Jaeger often swims well in this April/May time frame, but even for him this is a new level, as it’s his first time to go faster than 15 minutes outside of a national or international championship meet in long course.
The Club Wolverine 24-year old had little competition in this race in what was a very wide-spread final heat, but Egyptian Ahmed Akram’s swim was still significant. He touched in 15:07.84, which crushes his own National Record set in 2013 by three seconds.
Ryan Feeley took 3rd in 15:38.09.