Category: Competition
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Nathan Adrian scorches the 2012 Austin Grand Prix 50 free
1st in 21.94 (long course meters), second man Frédérick Bousquet in 22.05, and Anthony Ervin (!) number three in 22.27. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Phelps debuts the Speedo Fastskin3 system at the Austin Grand Prix
He won the 100 butterfly in 52.41 and the 400 IM in a for this time of the season impressive time of 4:16.95. Sure helps to see someone swim fast in that strange-looking ‘racing system’. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine here and here Here’s Michael Phelps talking to the media after 1st night’s 100 fly And here’s…
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Ervin takes top seed in the Austin Grand Prix 50 free
Wow, Anthony Ervin is back, posting a 22.30 in the 50 free prelims at the 2012 Austin Grand Prix, best time in the World this year, despite being put in the B-final. Nathan Adrian was second in 22.45. Via The Swimmers Circle
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Watch the Austin Grand Prix LIVE on iHigh.com
I just loove that BOSS button ! :-) (video moved below the break because it autostarts, see also ihigh.com)
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Ian Thorpe bounces back with a 1:50.59 and 5th in the Victoria state 200 freestyle
Five-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe finished fifth in the 200-meter freestyle at the Victorian state championships today, his best result since coming out of retirement last year. “This is the best I can swim at this stage, there’s a lot I have to improve upon now,” says Thorpe, “technique-wise I wasn’t very good tonight, I…
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Janet Evans posts 4:17.27 in the 400 free, qualifies for U.S. Olympic Trials
While other comeback swimmers are struggling with regaining form, the greatest of them all, 40-year-old Janet Evans, clocks a 4:17.27 in the women’s 400 freestyle prelims at the Austin Grand Prix this weekend, easily beating the U.S. Olympic Trials qualifying standard of 4:19.39. Read for instance The Washington Post.
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Targett wins the Victoria 100 freestyle, Klim in the Final, Thorpe no 13
Ouch, Friday the 13th for Ian Thorpe … “Matt Targett walked away with the men’s 100 free crown in 48.71 after watching Ian Thorpe continue to struggle in his return to competitive swimming during prelims. Competing in Australia for the first time since 2006, Thorpe missed making finals in the 200 free with a 13th-place…
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CC photo #14: The Faroese flag “Merkið” flying high in Shanghai
The Faroese flag “Merkið” in the midst of the entire swimming world’s forest of flags, outside the Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai during the 14th FINA World Aquatics Championships 2011. I got to touch it for inspection, no silk expert here, but it seemed like the nicest material possible. Called Merkið or ‘The Mark’ because…
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Ian Thorpe’s former coach Tracey Menzies also thinks he’s left it a little late
Menzies said yesterday she did not want to second-guess her former pupil and did not have any knowledge of his training regimen under respected coach Gennadi Touretski. But she had been surprised that he had made the decision to come back to a very different swimming landscape so late. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, via…