Category: World Record
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Adam Peaty’s 100m Breaststroke World Record – Race and Reaction
Watch Adam Peaty smash the world record in the 100m breaststroke at the British Championships in London. The City of Derby swimmer also gave us his reaction after his outstanding race.
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Adam Peaty 57.92 and New 100 Breaststroke World Record
Adam Peaty’s world record in the 100 breaststroke today at the British nationals capped off a session in which he was the only person to beat the very tough automatic qualifying times for the world championship team set by British Swimming. Peaty blazed through the final with a 57.92, beating the world record of 58.46…
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Mieko Nagaoka: 100-year-old Japanese swimmer sets 1,500m record
A Japanese woman has become the first 100-year-old to complete a 1,500m freestyle swim in a 25m pool. Mieko Nagaoka, who only took up swimming at the age of 82, already holds the record in her age category for the same distance in a 50m pool. She completed the latest feat in just over one…
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Longest underwater kiss (mouth to mouth breathing) – Classics
To celebrate Saint Valentines Day we present to you the Longest Underwater Kiss (mouth to mouth breathing)! Antonio de la Rosa Suarez (Spain) was able to stay underwater sat at the bottom of a tank for 7 min 1 sec by being given air through kisses from Esperanza Ruiz Aranda and Sonia Matesanz (both Spain)…
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Mireia Belmonte smashes 1500m short-course record
Short-course 1500m world champion Spain’s Mireia Belmonte broke the discipline world record by almost three seconds at her national swimming championships on Friday. The new mark of 15 minutes 19.71 seconds, set during the Spanish short-course championships at Sabadell, takes over from New Zealander Lauren Boyle’s previous world record mark of 15min 22.68sec. Belmonte won…
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Natalia Molchanova sets new Freediving World Record, 237 meter Dynamic
At the AIDA team world championships in Sardinia, Italy, on Friday the 26th of september 2014, Natalia Molchanova from Russia broke the world record dynamic with a dive of 237 meters. Camera Daan Verhoeven http://daanverhoeven.com
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FINA videos of Hosszu’s and Gyurta’s World Records at the Dubai 2014 World Cup leg
Specifically Katinka Hosszu’s 100 and 200 meter individual medley short course world records, and Daniel Gyurta’s 200 meter breaststroke short course world records.
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FINA videos of Katinka Hosszu’s 200 and 400 IM SC World Records at the Doha 2014 World Cup leg
Courtesy of FINA on YouTube, thumbs up from here!
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 56.86 and New 100 IM Short Course World Record
At the FINA/Mastbank Swimming World Cup leg in Dubai this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu set a new short course world record yet again, clocking incredible 56.86 in the 100 meter short course individual medley, where her world record from Doha last Thursday was 57.25. First woman ever under 57 in the 100 IM, and her…