Aug 2nd, 2018

Aug 2nd, 2018

A 10-year-old has broken a swimming record set by Michael Phelps 1996 by more than a whole second.

Clark Kent Apuada, won the 100m butterfly during the Far Western Long Course Championships in California with a time of 1:09.38, over a second faster than Phelps.

The boy, nicknamed “Superman”, won every event he took part in at the meet and has his eyes set on competing at the Olympic in the coming years.

“Paris 2024 or Los Angeles 2028,” he told the Huffington Post.

“This record has motivated me to keep swimming, to keep striving and do everything I can to get to that elite level.”

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Arpuada has been swimming competitively for four years and said he wanted to take part in the event because Phelps held the record in it.

“That was one of my dreams — to beat Michael Phelps’s record — since I was 7,” Apuada said.

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The 10-year-old’s mother said the reason why she came up with the name was because she liked the name Clark and that his father’s favourite superhero was Superman.

“We’re always just telling people his name is Clark,” Cynthia Arpuada said.

“But when they realise his full name, people just call him Superman.”