Second personal best set by V.I. swimmer on Day 2 of World Junior Championships

Another swimmer from the U.S. Virgin Islands set a personal best Wednesday morning on Day 2 of the World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Romania.

The World Junior Championships — open to swimmers ages 13-18 — runs through Sunday, Aug. 25, at the Aquatics Complex in Otopeni, Romania, just outside the capital city of Bucharest.

St. Croix’s Daryan Maynard set the second personal-best mark by a USVI swimmer at the World Junior Championships, doing so in the heat races for the men’s 200-meter freestyle.

The 16-year-old Maynard, a senior at Good Hope Country Day School, finished fifth in his heat race — the fourth of 11 heats held in the men’s 200-meter freestyle — in 2 minutes, 1.47 seconds.

That bettered his former personal best of 2:02.95, set at the Pan-American Aquatics Championships in Medellin, Colombia, on May 14.

Maynard wound up finishing 82nd out of 107 entries after the men’s 200-meter freestyle heat races, with only the top eight times advancing to Wednesday evening’s final.