Video interview captured by swimswam reporter Colin Blair.
Boys 50 Back – FINAL – as reported by Braden Keith, swimswam editor-in-chief.
Matching the record of his country-mate in the race before, University of Louisville-bound Russian Grigory Tarasevich won the boys’ 50 backstroke in 25.44. That completed a Junior sweep for him, as he won the Russian Junior title (26.1), the European Junior title (25.4), and now the World Junior title in 2013.
Germany’s Carl Louis Schwarz took silver in 25.76, and Greece’s Michail Kontizas was 3rd in 25.90.
Brazilian Goustavo Louzada added only a tiny bit from the semi-finals, but that amount was enough to knock him out of podium position despite swimming in the middle lane. He was 4th in 25.93, followed by Italy’s Simone Sabbioni, Australia’s Ryan Hore, Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys, and Trinidad & Tobago’s Dylan Carter. Those last four were all 26.1′s.