Rowdy throws down!

Ni, we were out of town. What did he do??????

:bow: 1:54.5 (200m), slaughtered the old world record!:bow::bow:

Very impressive swim. I saw Rowdy swim this event in 1989 Pan Pacific Championships in Indianapolis and he went a 1:50.91, so in 22 years he has only slowed down 3.5 seconds and that is what I am impressed more with. Any swimmer that has been swimming over 20 years and can come within 3.5 seconds of what they did in a 200 race back 22 years would be just overjoyed. I have a video of that race and I remember he just hammered every turn. Dan Stephenson was right next to him and swam a 1:53.66 but was getting hammered on all 7 turns.

Is this LCM? If so, that's crazy fast! No, SCM.

Does anyone know his splits or have video? Splits were 26.55(26.55), 55.58(29.03), 1:25.27(29.69), 1:54.61(29.34) www.usms.org/.../meet.php

Never mind. Nothing to see here (Chris found the results before I did!). Check out Keith Switzer's swims, too. Very impressive.

We have video of Rowdy's world record and others at swimmingworld.tv: tv.swimmingworldmagazine.com/.../2011-rowdy-gaines-masters-classic Here's Rowdy's swim

:bow: 1:54.5 (200m), slaughtered the old world record!:bow::bow: Is this LCM? If so, that's crazy fast! Edited: What I really meant was "Is this metres!". Short or long, still amazing.

Does anyone know his splits or have video?

26.55 55.58 1:25.27 1:54.61 www.dixiezone.org/.../1110orlando.pdf He definitely went for it. 55-mid at the hundred? Wow! Yet very evenly split for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 50s.