Published on, Aug. 25 -- August 25, 2025 12:37 AM

Pakistan's junior male swimmers tore through the record books as Rayan Awan and Azlan Sohail set new marks at the World Junior Swimming Championships in Romania, which concluded on Sunday.

Rayan clocked 30.87 in the Men's 50m Breaststroke to smash the previous record of 30.98 set by Abdul Aziz Chaudhry 17 years ago. To put it into perspective, the record was set before Rayan was even born. He finished 58th out of 86 swimmers in the breaststroke sprint.

Azlan can safely call himself the junior medley king after smashing the Under-16 national records in both the 200m and 400m Individual Medley.

He swam a 2:14.18 in the 200m IM to obliterate the previous record of 2:20.22 set by Ahmed Dur...