In the Manchester (2002) and Melbourne (2006) Commonwealth Games, a whole 4 events for swimmers with disability on the program - Men's and Women's 50FR and 100FR.
...each swimmer racing against the WR for their disability classification (WR is 1000 points etc). Very unusual for an International meet, but at lower levels of competitions it's more or less the norm (sometimes as mixed gender multi-class, sometimes as M/F).
Something similar could theoretically be done with Masters WRs - Masters Swimming Australia database automagically puts a point score with every swim, and some meet results include them too. Racing against WRs rather than for wall, M35 swimmers could theoretically compete against W80 ones.
Goodness, I hope they don't go there for a concurrent elite/Masters Worlds! (It didn't work too well for EAD events at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games - half the spectators didn't understand what was going on - hence the move to single-classification events at Delhi 2010).
Also, if elite and Masters Worlds were run concurrently, how would you get eg accommodation for all the swimmers (and hangers on - Australia sent 19 swimmers, 6 coaches and 9 other staff to the recent World Short Course Champs in Instanbul).
In the Manchester (2002) and Melbourne (2006) Commonwealth Games, a whole 4 events for swimmers with disability on the program - Men's and Women's 50FR and 100FR.
...each swimmer racing against the WR for their disability classification (WR is 1000 points etc). Very unusual for an International meet, but at lower levels of competitions it's more or less the norm (sometimes as mixed gender multi-class, sometimes as M/F).
Something similar could theoretically be done with Masters WRs - Masters Swimming Australia database automagically puts a point score with every swim, and some meet results include them too. Racing against WRs rather than for wall, M35 swimmers could theoretically compete against W80 ones.
Goodness, I hope they don't go there for a concurrent elite/Masters Worlds! (It didn't work too well for EAD events at the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games - half the spectators didn't understand what was going on - hence the move to single-classification events at Delhi 2010).
Also, if elite and Masters Worlds were run concurrently, how would you get eg accommodation for all the swimmers (and hangers on - Australia sent 19 swimmers, 6 coaches and 9 other staff to the recent World Short Course Champs in Instanbul).
