Category: World Record
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Matt Grevers breaks 100 back world record at 2015 Duel in the Pool
Olympic champion Matt Grevers (Lake Forest, Ill.) set a short-course meters world record in the 100-meter backstroke and Team USA swimmers totaled nine American records Saturday to clinch a seventh consecutive Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool title, 155-107, over Europe at the Indiana University Natatorium. Grevers, who set an American record leading off…
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Team USA breaks 400 medley relay World Record at 2015 Duel in the Pool
On the women’s 400m medley relay, Manuel hit the water even with the European squad and pulled away down the stretch to touch in 3:45.20 to eclipse Team USA’s four-year-old world record. Courtney Bartholomew (Holland, Mich.), Katie Meili (Colleyville, Texas) and Kelsi Worrell (Mt. Holly, N.J.) swam the first three legs of the American- and…
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Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 4:19.46 and new World Record in the 400 IM
This morning at the LEN 2015 European Short Course championships in Netanya, Israel, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu broke the 400 meter individual medley world record, clocking 4:19.46 where Spain’s Mireia Belmonte Garcia’s world record from the Doha 2014 World Short Course Championships was 4:19.86. See the result list here. Katinka Hosszu said after the race: “Ever…
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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. Watch this video on YouTube
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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 Watch this video on YouTube