www.swiminfo.com, in an article about 27-years old Olympic Algerian sprinter Salim Iles who two days ago in France set a new African record in 100 meter freestyle in a 50 meter pool at :49.00, claims that age 29 is now considered the "prime years for male swimming".
One day ago, Franck Esposito (Fra.), age 31, swam 1:54.62 in 200 meter butterfly in a 50 meter pool, second fastest time in history, marginally behind Michael Phelps (US) 1:54.58, age 17.
(As a side note, Esposito is not a giant like 6' 7" Tom Malchow (US), or tall like Phelps' 6' 3", he is 5' 11").
Alex. Popov (Rus.), Mark Foster (GBR), John Miranda (US), Ron Karnaugh (US), Sven Lodziewski (Ger) are clear Olympic-level calibers for male swimmers past the age of 30.
So, age 29 is now considered within the "prime years for male swimming" in this sport that is physically fitness-driven.
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Well, I do have to give credit to some older gentlemen. I think that the oldest person to swim 200 butterfly is a man who was in his early 90's. No woman I think has done that yet at that age. I don't know who has the most swimmers in the 95 plus age group. Granted, women live between 5 to 3 years longer than most men in most western and Japanese countries, yet I think that there is a few older gentlemen in masters in the 95 plus age bracket. Anway, I got mad at the TV for putting baseball in place of the US nationals. No wonder we don't get respect. And rememeber us women were treated as second class for a long time in sports until the mid-1970's. So many people in their 60's are probably going to have more guys try sports in their senior years since women in that age group where not encouarge as much when they were younger. Getting out of swimming for a little while. You probably read the Robert Graves novels I Claudius and Claudius the god or watch the BBC series based on it. Remember Livia finished at the finished line of life after Augustus and according to Graves and his source Tactius she was setting up Tiberius to rule Rome by poison. Us Women find a way to get ahead of things by our own methods.
Well, I do have to give credit to some older gentlemen. I think that the oldest person to swim 200 butterfly is a man who was in his early 90's. No woman I think has done that yet at that age. I don't know who has the most swimmers in the 95 plus age group. Granted, women live between 5 to 3 years longer than most men in most western and Japanese countries, yet I think that there is a few older gentlemen in masters in the 95 plus age bracket. Anway, I got mad at the TV for putting baseball in place of the US nationals. No wonder we don't get respect. And rememeber us women were treated as second class for a long time in sports until the mid-1970's. So many people in their 60's are probably going to have more guys try sports in their senior years since women in that age group where not encouarge as much when they were younger. Getting out of swimming for a little while. You probably read the Robert Graves novels I Claudius and Claudius the god or watch the BBC series based on it. Remember Livia finished at the finished line of life after Augustus and according to Graves and his source Tactius she was setting up Tiberius to rule Rome by poison. Us Women find a way to get ahead of things by our own methods.
