Castries, Saint Lucia: Workforce Saint Lucia’s Jayhan Odlum-Smith will make his PAN AM Games debut in Santiago, Chile. He enters the Video games as EC (Japanese Caribbean) customary bearer within the 100 metre butterfly.
His NR and EC customary set in 2021 on the Puerto Rico Open . Competing for Azura Florida Aquatics then he clocked 54.70. He has essentially the most sub 55 seconds performances at 5. Jayhan might be on the lookout for the sub 54 seconds efficiency.
With a 50 butterfly NR and EC of 24.38 low 53 seconds within the occasion must be on the playing cards. on the just lately concluded CAC Video games in El Salvador he grew to become the primary EC swimmer to make the Championship ultimate . Then he positioned seventh. In Chile he might be aiming for extra historical past to grow to be the primary EC swimmer within the prime 16.
Within the 100 metre freestyle he created EC historical past when he topped the B ultimate . He swam to the be part of quickest third time in sub regional historical past in 51.29. The NR and EC Olympian Jordan Augier gave the perfect EC efficiency on the 2015 PAN AM in Canada.
Then Augier set an then regional customary within the heats of fifty.82 . That propelled him to the B ultimate the place he positioned fourth in 50.83. In 2016 he lowered the mark to 50.79 on the now defunct Caribbean Islands Swimming Champs. Together with his countryman displaying it may be achieved Jayhan as at all times can swim with confidence as normal.
Odlum-Smith is now based mostly within the France with famend coach Fred Vergnoux. The coach has coached a lot of elite swimmers to incorporate Spanish Olympic Gold medallist Mireia Belmonte (200 butterfly Rio 2016) and Olympic Silver medallist Belgium’s Pieter Timmers (100 freestyle Rio 2016)
The area can witness historical past unfold on the PAN AM sports activities chanel. Odlum-Smith might be in motion within the 100 metre butterfly on Oct 22 and the 100 metre freestyle on Oct 23.