Category: World Record
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USA sets 4×100 medley world record in 1st race of Duel in the Pool
Ouch, the Duel in the Pool started with a bang, with USA setting a world record in the women’s 4×100 relay, 3:45.56 to Europe’s 3:51.04. American swimmers were Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Missy Franklin, old record was USA 3:47.97 at the Manchester 2009 Duel in the Pool. Coughlin even set an American…
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BREAKING: Missy Franklin Breaks World Record in Berlin
16-year-old Melissa “Missy” Franklin from USA set a new short course world record in the 200 backstroke today at the World Cup leg in Berlin, with an agonizing 2:00.03, so close to the magic 2 minutes. Japan’s Shiho Sakai set the old world record in a ‘supersuit’ also in Berlin in 2009. Read The Swimmers…
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Video from Palfrey’s record-setting swim
Video here from Penny Palfrey’s swim between Little Cayman and Grand Cayman, and from the moment when she walked ashore after more than 40 gruelling hours in the sea. She beat the existing record for longest solo unassisted ocean swim by four miles, so that it now stands at 67.25 miles (108.22 km), but her…
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Palfrey sets world record for longest unassisted ocean swim
At approximately 10:07 pm Sunday night, marathon swimmer Penny Palfrey set a new world record by swimming 67.25 miles from Little Cayman to Grand Cayman in 40 hours and 41 minutes. Read more here on compasscayman.com and here on The Daily News of Open Water Swimming.
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Severinsen first man to hold breath for 20 minutes
Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new Guinness World Record today, completing a 20 minute, 10 second static breath-hold after breathing pure oxygen for 12 minutes. This was in a shark tank at the Kattegatcentret oceanarium in Greenå, Denmark. Read for instance deeperblue.com
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Severinsen Sets World Record Under Ice
Danish freediver Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new world record last Saturday the 6th of March, swimming 72 meters under ice in one breath. This was in lake Knudsoe near Ry in Denmark. The former world record was 57.5 meters, swum by Wim Hof of the Netherlands in March 2001.