Category: Competition
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Swimming Australia relaxes Shanghai selection standard
Australia has ripped up the national selection standards for the world championships in Shanghai in July after only 34 swimmers reached the tough times in Sydney this week. That gave 11 swimmers – seven men and four women – unexpected tickets to Shanghai, including Commonwealth Games gold medallist Geoff Huegill. National head coach Leigh Nugent…
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Lauren Boyle set 800 free record
US-based Lauren Boyle set a new kiwi national record at the New Zealand championships last night, winning in 8:33.30, more than 2.5 seconds under the FINA ‘A’ qualifying time, and more than 2 seconds quicker than the record set by Phillipa Langrell at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. Interesting to read that she set her…
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Hocking set Australian 200 backstroke record
Belinda Hocking chased down the Australian record in the women’s 200 back today at the Australian Nationals, with a winning time of 2:06.88. Meagen Nay previously held the record with a 2:07.41 set back in 2009. Read more here on SwimmingWorld Magazine.
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Sun Yang swam 14:42.52 in Wuhan
Breaking news from the Speed Endurance Twitter feed. Accordingly to sports.sohu.com, Sun Yang ‘only’ managed a 14:42.52 in the 1500 freestyle, today at the Chinese Nationals in Wuhan. 8 seconds from his Chinese and Asian record, and about 9 from the world record. The time is well and clearly the best time in the world…
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Video from the Chinese Nationals
At this moment, the holy grail of swim reporting would be an online live video feed from the Chinese Nationals men’s 1500 freestyle final. This is as far as I’ve come … (Video after the break, since it autoplays)
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Sun is going for the 1500 today
Sun Yang won the China Nationals 200 freestyle yesterday in impressive 1:44.99, new Chinese record and almost half a second faster than Yannick Agnel’s 1:45.47 French record and world’s best this year. He won 800 freestyle in 7:44.12 last Sunday and 400 freestyle in 3:41.48 on Tuesday, also clear world leading times this year. And…
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Sun Yang takes 200 too
Fourth day of China nationals produced one Asian record and two more Chinese records, when Wang Chengxiang set an Asian and Chinese record with 4:11.89 in the men’s 400 IM, Sun Yang set a Chinese record with 1:44.99 in the men’s 200 freestyle, and Li Xuanxu set a Chinese record with 16:09.56 in the women’s…
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Sun 3:41.48 in the 400 freestyle
China’s Sun Yang swam an impressive 3:41.48 in the 400 freestyle, today at the Chinese national championships in Wuhan. Only Thorpe has ever been faster in textile, from when he back in 2002 swam 3:40.08 in his trademark long-sleeved suit. And Sun is now only 0.13 seconds from Zhang Lin’s Chinese and Asian record of…
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Teens whipped Sullivan and Targett
The story yesterday was accordingly to Gold Medal Mel, that “Aussie Swimmers set to rewrite history in sprint freestyle”, describing how scary fast the 100 meter semi final was at the Australian Championships, with Matt Target posting best time 48.66, and Matthew Abood following in 48.69. Teenagers outshine swimming favourite by tvnportal Well, today two…