\t\t\t\t\tBest of the West Fest 2026<\/p>\n
April 23-26, 2026
\nWinnipeg, Canada
\nLCM (50 Meters)
\nResults Available on Meet Mobile: \u201cBest of the West Fest 2026\u201d<\/p>\n
On Friday night, 14-year-old Canadian Mark Aistov swam the boys\u2019 100 butterfly at the 2026 Best of the West Fest in Winnipeg, Canada. He stopped the clock in 54.25, taking down Josh Liendo<\/a>\u2018s Canadian Age Record time of 54.76 from 2017.<\/p>\n Boys\u2019 100 Butterfly Top Three<\/p>\n Mark Aistov (OS) \u2014 54.25 Aistov won the event by more than four seconds, ahead of HYACK 14-year-old Jeremy Lee, who finished 2nd in 58.70 and more than five seconds ahead of Maddox Woodruff, who finished 3rd in 59.53.<\/p>\n His swim was also a new personal best time by more than a second from the 56.06 he swam in January.<\/p>\n Aistov was out in 25.41 and came home in 28.84, outsplitting Liendo, who went 25.88\/28.88.<\/p>\n Mark Aistov (New Age Record) 1st 50 2nd 50 Total Time For comparison, Aistov is still about a second behind the current American NAG record in the 13-14 age group, which is held by Thomas Heilman<\/a> at 53.27.<\/p>\n He will move up to the top 10 in the current season Canadian rankings with just seven athletes holding faster times this season. Josh Liendo<\/a> does not appear on the list since he has not swum any long course meets this season.<\/p>\n Current Season Canadian Rankings<\/p>\n Finlay Knox<\/a> \u2014 52.62 * denotes junior athletes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Best of the West Fest 2026 April 23-26, 2026 Winnipeg, Canada LCM (50 Meters) Results Available on Meet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[10070,17,10071,10072,10073,10074,10075,10076,10077,10078,10079,10080,10081,10082,10083],"class_list":["post-20104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-anton-semenyuk","tag-canada","tag-cole-pratt","tag-eric-ginzburg","tag-finlay-knox","tag-jeremy-lee","tag-josh-liendo","tag-kai-lilienthal","tag-keir-ogilvie","tag-kent-goni-avila","tag-laon-kim","tag-maddox-woodruff","tag-mark-aistov","tag-raben-dommann","tag-thomas-heilman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJeremy Lee (HYACK) \u2014 58.70
\nMaddox Woodruff (GPP) \u2014 59.53<\/p>\n
\nJosh Liendo<\/a> (Former Age Record)<\/p>\n
\n25.41
\n25.88<\/p>\n
\n28.84
\n28.88<\/p>\n
\n54.25
\n54.76<\/p>\n
\nEric Ginzburg<\/a> \u2014 53.35
\nKent Goni Avila<\/a> \u2014 53.57
\nKeir Ogilvie<\/a> \u2014 53.97
\nCole Pratt<\/a> \u2014 54.11
\nAnton Semenyuk<\/a> \u2014 54.16*
\nKai Lilienthal<\/a> \u2014 54.23
\nMark Aistov \u2014 54.25
\nRaben Dommann<\/a> \u2014 54.26
\nLaon Kim<\/a> \u2014 54.39*<\/p>\n