Interval Racing

That is pretty interesting. I've never heard of that before at a meet.

Braden Keith didn't seem to know that these were broken swims. swimswam.com/.../ We’re not quite sure what it means, but Katie Goldman was a 6:11.25 in the women’s 600 meter free final. What little context we have is that this is a medal-winning split to an 800 free at Worlds last year (Ledecky and Friis were both right around 6:11), though of course tagging on another 200 meters is a task not to be taken lightly. It’s certainly a good position for her medal chances at the Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs. Finally, in the men’s 900 free, Mack Horton was an 8:43.99 for the win. That paces out to a 7:45 over 800 meters, which would have been 5th at Worlds last year even having the extra 100 on the end. That, we know, is an impressive swim.

Good questions, Chris. I would assume they just let the clock run and determine the time for each swim based on the split recorded by the pad.

Would be curious if each interval is done with a dive or a push? Or is it a dive on first one then push the next two? Or dive all three? Or push all three? (I don't think two dives and one push or a dive-push-dive would really be an option). How is the start of each interval handled so that it is accurate to the 1/100th of a sec? Just wondering outside the bun :)