FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Freshman Yusuke Legard punched his ticket to the 2016 British Olympic Trials Thursday on the opening day of competition at the 2015 AT&T Winter National Championships.
Legard, who hails from Weybridge, Surrey, United Kingdom, earned his Olympic Trials cut in a 50-meter freestyle time trial. He surpassed the British Trials standard of 23.62 with a 23.36 clocking to secure his trip to Glasgow in April.
Another British Blue Devil and Olympic Trials qualifier, junior James Peek, was also in action Thursday in Federal Way.