Yesterday at the Chinese Nationals, China’s Liu Zige demolished the 200 meter butterfly long course world record, with a time of 2:01.81 where Australia’s Jessicah Schipper’s world record from the World Championships in Rome this summer was 2:03.41. The new world record is “as fast as Mark Spitz was as he sped towards his destiny with seven gold medals in Munich in 1972“, and faster than the current 2:03.12 short course world record of Japan’s Yuko Nakanishi. Read swimmingworldmagazine.com
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Alshammar Sets 2nd WR On 2nd Day Of World Cup
Sweden’s Therese Alshammar withdrew from the 100 meter IM final at the FINA World Cup meet in Durban today, even though she set a new world record in the event during prelims this morning. Instead, she focused totally on the 50 butterfly, and managed to set a new world record also in this event, with a time of 24.75, where Australia’s Marieke Guehrer’s world record from the World Cup meet in Berlin last year was 24.99. Read swimmingworldmagazine.com
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2 More World Records In Durban
USA’s Jessica Hardy set at new 50 meter breaststroke short course world record, with a time of 29.45 where her world record from the 2008 World Short Course Championships in Manchester was 29.58. And USA’s Peter Marshall set a new 50 meter backstroke world record, with a time of 22.75 where USA’s Randall Bal’s world record from the 2008 World Cup meet in Berlin was 22.87. Read swimmingworldmagazine.com
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Alshammar Sets 100 Meter IM World Record
Sweden’s Therese Alshammar set a new 100 meter individual medley world record this morning, at the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 meet in Durban, South Africa. The new world record time is 58.51, where Australia’s Emily Seebohm’s world record from last August was 58.54. Read swimmingworldmagazine.com
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Torres Needs Her Leg Broken In Order To Heal Knee
42 year-old olympic swimmer Dara Torres is to have her left shinbone broken, in order to create more room for cartilage to grow around the kneecap. After that, she’ll have to recover for up to 18 months, but hopes that this will motivate her even more, to come back for the 2012 London Olympics. Read espn.go.com
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Schipper Sets 100 Butterfly World Record
Australia’s Jessicah Schipper set a new 100 meter short course world record today, at 2009 the Australian Short Course Swimming Championships. Her time was 55.68, where Libby Trickett’s world record from 2008 was 55.74. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Australians Set 3 World Records
Libby Trickett broke her own 100 meter world record at the Australian Short Course Championships on August 10th, clocking 51.01 where her world record from 2005 was 51.70. Her first personal best in 4 years, after taking the week off since Rome 09. Christian Sprenger erased Ed Moses from the record books, with a time of 2:01.98 in the 200 breaststroke, where Moses’ time from 2004 was 2:02.92. And Emily Seebohm set a new 100 individual medley world record, with a time of 58.54 where Natalie Coughlin’s world record from 2002 was 58.80. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Canada Sets 4×100 Medley World Records
Canada’s Katy Murdoch, Annamay Pierse, Audrey Lacroix and Victoria Poon set a new 4×100 medley world record at the British Short Course Grand Prix on August 9th, with a time of 3:49.95 where USA’s world record was 3:51.36. And Canada’s Jake Tapp, Paul Kornfeld, Joe Bartoch and Brent Hayden clocked 3:23.33 in the same event, where Russia’s world record was 3:24.29. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
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Van Der Burgh Sets 100 Breaststroke WR
South Africa’s Cameron van der Burgh became first man under 56 seconds in the 100 meter breaststroke, when he at the South African Short Course Championships on August 9th swam 55.99, where his world record from the day before was 56.39. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine