Category: World Record
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Katie Ledecky 8:11.00 and World Record in the 800 free
Read SwimmingWorld Katie Ledecky put an exclamation point on a thrilling meet this afternoon with a world record in the women’s 800m free during the final day of racing at The Woodlands Senior Invite. Ledecky, who lowered her own world record in the 1500m free on Thursday, broke her second world record of the meet…
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Katie Ledecky 15:34.23 and World Record in the 1500 free
Read SwimmingWorld The American distance star just keeps on dropping jaws as NCAP’s Katie Ledecky smashed her own world record in the women’s 1500-meter free with a sizzling time of 15:34.23. Ledecky’s effort crushed her previous mark of 15:36.53 set at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, and provides a potentially scary time to come…
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Jaring Timmerman, age 104, sets 2 world swimming records
See CBC and WPTV A 104-year-old Winnipeg man swam his way into the record books, finishing two races and becoming the world’s oldest masters swimmer. Pan Am Pool was packed with family members, friends and swimming fans who cheered on Jaring Timmerman as he completed the 50-metre backstroke and 50-metre freestyle races at a masters…
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Herning 2013 Europeans Day 2 – Finals
Mie Ø. Nielsen saved the day for Denmark, well and truly. Yuliya Efimova broke the women’s 200 meter breaststroke world record, Nielsen the women’s 100 backstroke European record, Russia an (obligatory?) world record in the mixed 4×50 medley, and Sarah Sjöström a championships record in the 50 fly.
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Mireia Belmonte blasts 1500 meter Short Course World Record, now 15:26.95
See SwimmingWorld and rfen.es According to the Spanish Swimming Federation (RFEN), Mireia Belmonte Garcia has smashed the short course world record in the women’s 1500-meter freestyle. Belmote Garcia raced to a 15:26.95 to demolish Lotte Friis’ world record of 15:28.65. That gives Belmonte Garcia a sweep of the 400-800-1500 freestyle world records currently. Post by…
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Aussie relay set another 2 World Records in one day
Read SwimmingWorld and see the result lists here and here from the 2013 World Cup meet in Tokyo. The Australian foursome of Tommaso D’Orsogna (21.48), Travis Mahoney (21.59), Cate Campbell (23.10) and Bronte Campbell (23.44) nearly unified the world record and the world best in the mixed gender 200 free relay with a winning time of 1:29.61.…
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Yuliya Efimova 28.71 and new World Record in the 50 breast
Correction: Efimova’s time was 28.71, as written in the SW piece below. Not 28.17 Read SwimmingWorld and see the result list here. After a particularly rough FINA World Cup circuit during which she’s drawn disqualifications on a routine basis, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova finally had her major breakthrough as she clipped the world record in the…
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Australia’s mixed 4×50 medley relay 1:37.84 and a new World Record
At the FINA World Cup leg in Tokyo today, Australia’s mixed 4×50 meter medley relay broke their own world record yet again, clocking 1:37.84 where their record from Singapore was 1:38.02. Split times were Robert Hurley 23.46, Christian Sprenger Christian Sprenger (25.91), Alicia Coutts (25.19) and Cate Campbell (23.28). See the result list here. Watch…
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Australia’s mixed 4×50 relay two world records in one day
At the World Cup meet in Singapore today, Australia’s mixed 4×50 meter medley relay broke the world record twice, with a time of 1:38.02 in the final, beating their own 1:39.08 world record from the prelims the same morning, and before that the 1:39.54 of France from Doha last month. The swimmers were Robert Hurley…