Kayla Han Jumps to #3 in the All-Time 11-12 Girls’ 400 IM Rankings in Irvine | SwimSwam

By Braden Keith on SwimSwam

2020 U.S. OPEN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Thursday, November 12-Saturday, November 14
• William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center, Irvine, CA
• LCM/timed finals
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• Meet Central – Irvine
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12-year old Kayla Han, a member of La Mirada Aquatics, dropped 4 seconds in the 400 IM on Friday evening at the Irvine site of the US Open Championships, and now ranks as the #3 swimmer in U.S. age group history in that event.

Han swam 4:58.36, which improves her previous best time of 5:02.36. She previously ranked 10th all-time in the age group, but that catapults her all the way to 3rd place, behind only Elizabeth Beisel (4:55.35), and Leah Hayes, who is still working her way through the age group rankings now as a 13-14.

Beisel set the National Age Group Record in this event in 2005, and 6 years later was the World Champion in the same event.

Han’s previous 5:02 best time was done in September of this year, coming out of quarantine, at altitude in Arizona. With an altitude adjustment, which doesn’t get applied to times for all-time age group rankings, that time converted to a 4:59.86.

Han has improved in each of the four legs of her 400 IM since September.

	Kayla Han – Old PB	Kayla Han – New PB
Fly	1:07.81	1:06.93
Back	1:18.25	1:16.88
Breast	1:27.61	1:26.86
Free	1:08.69	1:07.69
Total Time	5:02.86	4:58.36

In Han’s first swim of the meet, on Friday morning, she swam 4:26.75 in the 400 free.

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