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
Good times, but not Olympic caliber times. Remember these are yards times, not meters. Kaye Hall of Tacoma Swim Club swam a sub 1:00 SCY 100 back in 1967. However, the results Skip found are from 1965, so she would have had three years to improve. At least we now have some kind of data. It's a good start!
Bill: In the record progression for the 100 SCY back, I do see that Kendis Moore set a new record, presumably at Spring Nats in 1967, with a 1:01.30. That time is darn close to the 1:01.63 you cited. See:
www.usaswimming.org/.../New In-depth SCY women.pdf
It's too bad USA Swimming doesn't have all the results from past Nationals on their web site, but these in-depth record histories sure are interesting.
Kirk:
The people over at USA Swimming are working on that and it will be up on there website soon. They have also started the Top 16 project and they have a lot of that completed over there now but have a ways to go to capture all of the years since 1960 when the USA Age Group Swimming program really took off.
You can find every AAU/USS/USA Nationals on the Swimming World website in the pdf format if you are a premium member. They started in 1960 and until recently had all off the National Championship results in the back of the magazine. I believe they went to abbreviated results in about the last 7 years because you can find them on many different websites like USA Swimming, Swimming World, and the Omega Timing website if there equipment was used.
The only other place that you can find this is in the Annual AAU Swimming, Diving, Synchro, and Water Polo guides that used to come out and had the rule book, officers, results of all National Championships for every sport. They stopped publishing them in 1980 when all sports became there own governing bodies. They would always report the year before in the annual book. Before 1960, this is the only place that you can find AAU National Championships that are published that I know of.
Good times, but not Olympic caliber times. Remember these are yards times, not meters. Kaye Hall of Tacoma Swim Club swam a sub 1:00 SCY 100 back in 1967. However, the results Skip found are from 1965, so she would have had three years to improve. At least we now have some kind of data. It's a good start!
Bill: In the record progression for the 100 SCY back, I do see that Kendis Moore set a new record, presumably at Spring Nats in 1967, with a 1:01.30. That time is darn close to the 1:01.63 you cited. See:
www.usaswimming.org/.../New In-depth SCY women.pdf
It's too bad USA Swimming doesn't have all the results from past Nationals on their web site, but these in-depth record histories sure are interesting.
Kirk:
The people over at USA Swimming are working on that and it will be up on there website soon. They have also started the Top 16 project and they have a lot of that completed over there now but have a ways to go to capture all of the years since 1960 when the USA Age Group Swimming program really took off.
You can find every AAU/USS/USA Nationals on the Swimming World website in the pdf format if you are a premium member. They started in 1960 and until recently had all off the National Championship results in the back of the magazine. I believe they went to abbreviated results in about the last 7 years because you can find them on many different websites like USA Swimming, Swimming World, and the Omega Timing website if there equipment was used.
The only other place that you can find this is in the Annual AAU Swimming, Diving, Synchro, and Water Polo guides that used to come out and had the rule book, officers, results of all National Championships for every sport. They stopped publishing them in 1980 when all sports became there own governing bodies. They would always report the year before in the annual book. Before 1960, this is the only place that you can find AAU National Championships that are published that I know of.
