I am looking for a list of Olympian Masters and what Olympics and events they particpated in. If you have such a list or know where one is, please let me know. Individual anecdotes are OK too.
Background:
I want to write to "Splash" magazine and ask them to feature some of the people on such a list when they write about great swimmers. I'm tired of reading (and having my kids read) about so-and-so great swimmer, who got to the Olympics, did great, and now swimming is behind them (i.e. they don't swim anymore). On the "mission statement" of Splash, they give lip service to a lifelong involvement with swimming, but they never seem to come up with an example of such a person.
wiredknight
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I would be interested in knowing who or how the results of the 1968 Olympic Trials were compiled. I notice that a number of heats are missing 1-3 swimmers, assuming each heat had 8 swimmers. Furthermore, not all of the "final" results list 8 swimmers, example the women's 200M Backstroke lists only 7 swimmers.
Yes, I noticed that too. In the 200M backstroke, the 8th swimmer should have been Kendis Moore. Her qualifying time (from Heat 3) was 2:27.41, which was the second-fastest time in the preliminary heats. I also noticed, though, that there are no DQs in the results at all. It makes me wonder if maybe they just didn't list DQs in the final results. Maybe she swam the finals and got DQ'd. Or maybe she just didn't swim the finals at all.
Kendis Moore did make the team in the 100 backstroke and (according to the USOC site mentioned earlier) finished 4th overall.
Another thought - back then they didn't have the luxury of using Meet Manager software like we do today. They most likely had to pre-seed the entire meet, type up the heat sheets on a (*younger swimmers probably won't understand this word*) TYPEWRITER, then run off copies on a (*younger swimmers definitely won't understand this word*) MIMEOGRAPH machine.
So, if a swimmer didn't show up, they didn't have any way to re-seed the heats; they most likely would have just left empty lanes in those heats.
If you look at the Women's 400IM results, you'll see that none of the prelim heats show eight swimmers:
Heat 1: 6
Heat 2: 5
Heat 3: 7
Heat 4: 6
Heat 5: 6
Finals: 8
That's a total of 10 empty lanes over 5 prelim heats. In today's world I'd hit "re-seed event" in Meet Manager and condense those 5 heats into 4 heats.
Anna Lea
I would be interested in knowing who or how the results of the 1968 Olympic Trials were compiled. I notice that a number of heats are missing 1-3 swimmers, assuming each heat had 8 swimmers. Furthermore, not all of the "final" results list 8 swimmers, example the women's 200M Backstroke lists only 7 swimmers.
Yes, I noticed that too. In the 200M backstroke, the 8th swimmer should have been Kendis Moore. Her qualifying time (from Heat 3) was 2:27.41, which was the second-fastest time in the preliminary heats. I also noticed, though, that there are no DQs in the results at all. It makes me wonder if maybe they just didn't list DQs in the final results. Maybe she swam the finals and got DQ'd. Or maybe she just didn't swim the finals at all.
Kendis Moore did make the team in the 100 backstroke and (according to the USOC site mentioned earlier) finished 4th overall.
Another thought - back then they didn't have the luxury of using Meet Manager software like we do today. They most likely had to pre-seed the entire meet, type up the heat sheets on a (*younger swimmers probably won't understand this word*) TYPEWRITER, then run off copies on a (*younger swimmers definitely won't understand this word*) MIMEOGRAPH machine.
So, if a swimmer didn't show up, they didn't have any way to re-seed the heats; they most likely would have just left empty lanes in those heats.
If you look at the Women's 400IM results, you'll see that none of the prelim heats show eight swimmers:
Heat 1: 6
Heat 2: 5
Heat 3: 7
Heat 4: 6
Heat 5: 6
Finals: 8
That's a total of 10 empty lanes over 5 prelim heats. In today's world I'd hit "re-seed event" in Meet Manager and condense those 5 heats into 4 heats.
Anna Lea
