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Thomas Heilman (born February 7, 2007) is an American competitive swimmer. He is a world junior record holder in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay. He is also a 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships gold medalist in the 100-meter butterfly, 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and 4×100-meter medley relay, and a silver medalist in the 100-meter freestyle, 200-meter butterfly, and 4×200-meter freestyle relay.

Thomas Heilman

Personal information
National team	United States
Born	(2007-02-07) February 7, 2007 (age 15)[1] Virginia, United States
Height	6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle, individual medley
Club	Cavalier Aquatics[2]
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  United States Event 1st 2nd 3rd Junior Pan Pac Championships 3 3 0 Total 3 3 0 Junior Pan Pac Championships 2022 Honolulu 100 m butterfly 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 4×100 m medley 2022 Honolulu 100 m freestyle 2022 Honolulu 200 m butterfly 2022 Honolulu 4×200 m freestyle

Background

Heilman attends Western Albemarle High School in Crozet, Virginia and trains with the swim club Cavalier Aquatics.[2][3][4]

Career

2021–2022

By the start of 2022, Heilman had amassed over ten National Age Group records, fastest times ever swum by an American swimmer under 18 years of age and bracketed into a certain age range, including setting a record of 53.27 seconds in the 100-meter butterfly, which broke the former record that had been set by Michael Andrew.[2][3] At the 2022 USA Swimming International Team Trials, held in Greensboro, North Carolina, he qualified for the United States roster for the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships in the 50-meter freestyle, 100-meter butterfly, and 200-meter butterfly.[5][6] Following his addition to the team roster, he was announced as a nominee for the "Boys Rising Star of the Year", a High School Sports Award by USA Today.[4] The following month, in August at the 2022 Junior National Championships, he won the 100-meter freestyle with a time that made him the first 15-year-old male American swimmer in history to swim the race faster than 50 seconds.[7]

2022 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

2022 Junior Pan Pac Championships
	100 m butterfly	51.98 (CR,NAG)
	4×100 m freestyle	3:15.79 (WJ,CR)
	4×100 m medley	3:36.65 (CR)
	200 m butterfly	1:56.52
	100 m freestyle	49.34
	4×200 m freestyle	7:15.18

The first day of competition at the 2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, contested in Honolulu at the Veterans Memorial Aquatic Center, Heilman won the silver medal in the 200-meter butterfly with a personal best time of 1:56.52, which ranked him as the fourth-fastest American 15 to 16 year old in history in the event, behind Michael Phelps, Luca Urlando, and Andrew Seliskar.[8][9][10] The second day, he ranked first in the preliminaries of the 100-meter freestyle with a personal best time of 49.06 seconds.[11] His time set a new National Age Group record for the boys 15–16 age group, lowering the former mark set by Caeleb Dressel in 2013 at 49.28 seconds by over two-tenths of a second.[12] In the evening final, he won the silver medal with a time of 49.34 seconds, finishing 1.11 seconds behind gold medalist Flynn Southam of Australia.[10][13][14] The start of the race was delayed from the initially set start time due to heavy rain, competition was conducted at an outdoor pool.[14] With a split of 1:47.98 for the second leg of the 4×200-meter freestyle relay later in the same finals session, he helped win the silver medal in a time of 7:15.18.[14][15]

On the third morning, Heilman swam a 52.75 in the preliminary heats of the 100-meter butterfly, qualifying for the final ranking second behind Jesse Coleman of Australia.[10] He edged out Jesse Coleman in the final by 0.25 seconds to win the gold medal in a Championships record and personal best time of 51.98 seconds.[16][17] His time marked the fastest time ever swum by a male American swimmer in the 15–16 age group, lowering the former National Age Group record of 52.40 set by Luca Urlando.[17][18] Later in the session, he led-off the 4×100 meter freestyle relay with a 49.14 to help win the gold medal in a world junior record and Championships record time of 3:15.79.[19][20][21] Sprinting to a finish in a time of 23.05 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 50 meter freestyle on the fourth and final day, he qualified for the b-final ranking first, 0.17 seconds ahead of fellow American and second-ranked Daniel Diehl.[10][22] He withdrew from competing in the b-final prior to the start of the race.[10] Splitting a 51.71 for the butterfly portion of the 4×100 meter medley relay, he contributed to a new Championships record of and gold medal-win in 3:36.65.[10][23][24]

2022 Swimming World Cup

For his first FINA Swimming World Cup, Heilman chose a home-country debut, entering to compete in the 100 meter freestyle, 200 meter freestyle, and the 50 meter, 100 meter, and 200 meter butterfly events at the 2022 Swimming World Cup in Indianapolis.[1] Day one of three, he placed eighteenth in the morning preliminary heats of the 100 meter butterfly with a personal best time of 51.68 seconds, not qualifying for the evening final.[25] The second day, he started off with a rank of twenty-second in the 100 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 48.32 seconds, which was 0.05 seconds behind twenty-first ranked fellow American Hunter Armstrong and 1.71 seconds behind first ranked Kyle Chalmers of Australia.[26] Later in the same session, he ranked twelfth in the preliminary heats of the 200 meter butterfly, 4.40 seconds slower than first ranked fellow American Trenton Julian with a personal best time of 1:55.44.[27]

On the third and final day, Heilman placed thirteenth in the 50 meter butterfly with a personal best time of 23.34 seconds, which was 0.40 seconds behind eighth-rank final qualifier Matthew Temple of Australia.[28] Later in the morning, he placed thirty-second in the 200 meter freestyle with a personal best time of 1:48.75.[29]

International championships (50 m)

Meet	50 freestyle	100 freestyle	100 butterfly	200 butterfly	4×100 freestyle	4×200 freestyle	4×100 medley
PACJ 2022	WD

Personal best times

Long course meters (50 m pool)

Event	Time		Meet	Location	Date	Notes	Ref
100 m freestyle	49.06	h	2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships	Honolulu, Hawaii	August 25, 2022	NAG	[11]
100 m butterfly	51.98		2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships	Honolulu, Hawaii	August 26, 2022	NAG	[10][16]
200 m butterfly	1:56.52		2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships	Honolulu, Hawaii	August 24, 2022		[9][10]

Short course meters (25 m pool)

Event	Time		Meet	Location	Date	Ref
100 m freestyle	48.32	h	2022 FINA Swimming World Cup	Indianapolis, Indiana	November 4, 2022	[26]
200 m freestyle	1:48.75	h	2022 FINA Swimming World Cup	Indianapolis, Indiana	November 5, 2022	[29]
50 m butterfly	23.34	h	2022 FINA Swimming World Cup	Indianapolis, Indiana	November 5, 2022	[28]
100 m butterfly	51.68	h	2022 FINA Swimming World Cup	Indianapolis, Indiana	November 3, 2022	[25]
200 m butterfly	1:55.44	h	2022 FINA Swimming World Cup	Indianapolis, Indiana	November 4, 2022	[27]

Legend: h – preliminary heat

World records

World junior records

Long course meters (50 m pool)

No.	Event	Time	Meet	Location	Date	Age	Status	Ref
1	4×100 m freestyle	3:15.79	2022 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships	Honolulu, Hawaii	August 26, 2022	15 years, 200 days	Current	[19][20][21]

Awards and honors

• USA Today, High School Sports Awards, Boys Rising Star of the Year, nominee: 2021–2022[4]

References

External links

• Thomas Heilman at FINA

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