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
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
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
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
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
Britain’s Joanne Jackson set a new 400 freestyle short course world record, at the British Short Course Grand Prix on August 8th, with a time of 3:54.92 where Laure Manaudou’s world record from 2006 was 3:56.09. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
Cameron van der Burgh lowered his 50 and 100 breaststroke short course world records, at the South African Short Course Championships on August 8th, clocking 25.43 and 56.39, where his world records from last year were 25.94 and 56.88. And Roland Schoeman set a new 50 freestyle world record, with a time of 20.30 where Amaury Leveaux’s world record from last year was 20.48. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
USA’s Jessica Hardy set both the 50 and the 100 long course breaststroke world record, when she at the 2009 U.S. Open National Championships on August 7th swam the first 50 in a world record time of 29.80, and then the full 100 also in a world record time of 1:04.45, where Rebecca Soni’s world record from the World Championships was 1:04.84. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
Canada’s Annamay Pierse lowered her own 200 breast short course world record from, 2:17.50 in March to 2:16.83 on August 7th. And Canada’s Colin Russell, Stefan Hirniak, Brent Hayden and Joel Greenshields set a new 4×200 freestyle short course world record, with a time of 6:51.05 where Australia’s world record from 2007 was 6:52.66. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine
