Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain
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The finals of the first day, show:
.) in the men 400 meter free final, Thorpe (Aus.) went 3:42.58 for #1, Hackett (Aus.) went 3:45.17 for #2, and Coman (Rom.) went 3:46.8x for #3;
Coman -who is my fellow countryman, and I was telling you about him for years-, defeated Rossolini (Ita.) of the 2000 Olympics fame, Keller (U.S.) and Carvin (U.S.);
.) in the women 400 meter free final, Simona Paduraru (Rom.) finished #7, with a fast time;
.) in the 4x100 men free relay, Russia won;
the fastest split was by Frenchman Frederic Bousquet at 47.03 -which is the second fastest split in history-, and fast splits (in the 47s) were recorded by Alex. Popov (Rus.) and Jason Lezak (U.S.);
.) in the 4x100 women free relay, U.S. won, anchored by an ace 53.xx from Jenny Thompson (U.S.).
He! he! he! :D ho! ho! ho!
I post this, ahead of www.swiminfo.com and www.swimnews.com who are sandbagging...
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Originally posted by nyswim
Swimmer,# of Olympics, total medals, breakdown
Fraser 4, 8 (4,4,0)
Biondi 3, 11 (8,2,1)
Popov 3, 9 (4,5,0)
Perkins 3, 4 (2,2,0)
Salnikov 3, 4 (4,0,0)
Wiessmuller 2,6 (5,0,1)
Dolan 2, 3 (2,1,0)
Biondi got a lot out of relays.
Compared to Perkins, Salnikov, Weismuller, Fraser, Dolan and Popov.
In 1984, Biondi, under the name Matthew Bond, went to the Olympics on the U.S. relay team of 4x100 free and no individual event.
Popov medalled individually in three Olympics.
Popov, Perkins, Fraser, Dolan, Salnikov and Weismuller, they all defended their individual wins at the Olympics with more individual wins at the Olympics.
Dawn Fraser did this the most:
.) three different Olympics, three different golds in the 100 free;
.) she was banned from participating in a fourth Olympics when she was still dominant, because she had a run in with a pushing papers Australian official.
Cynthia points out this relay business that benefits Biondi's tally of Olympic medals.
In individual sprints:
................................
1) Biondi won the 50 free and the 100 free in 1988 Olympics.
In the 1992 Olympics, Biondi got #2 in 50 free and #5 (behind #3 Stephane Caron (Fra.) who I knew when I was student in the 80s) in 100 free.
So Biondi didn't back up in 1992, the 1988.
Neither did he try to back up the 1988, after 1992.
He just quit at age 26, when it got challenging...
2) Popov won the 50 free and the 100 free in the 1992 Olympics.
Popov backed up the 1992, by winning the 50 free and the 100 free in the 1996 Olympics.
Popov tried to back up the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics, by winning silver in the 100 free in the 2000 Olympics.
Popov tries to back up the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics, by training and competing now at age 31 -which is more than 26-.
Originally posted by nyswim
Swimmer,# of Olympics, total medals, breakdown
Fraser 4, 8 (4,4,0)
Biondi 3, 11 (8,2,1)
Popov 3, 9 (4,5,0)
Perkins 3, 4 (2,2,0)
Salnikov 3, 4 (4,0,0)
Wiessmuller 2,6 (5,0,1)
Dolan 2, 3 (2,1,0)
Biondi got a lot out of relays.
Compared to Perkins, Salnikov, Weismuller, Fraser, Dolan and Popov.
In 1984, Biondi, under the name Matthew Bond, went to the Olympics on the U.S. relay team of 4x100 free and no individual event.
Popov medalled individually in three Olympics.
Popov, Perkins, Fraser, Dolan, Salnikov and Weismuller, they all defended their individual wins at the Olympics with more individual wins at the Olympics.
Dawn Fraser did this the most:
.) three different Olympics, three different golds in the 100 free;
.) she was banned from participating in a fourth Olympics when she was still dominant, because she had a run in with a pushing papers Australian official.
Cynthia points out this relay business that benefits Biondi's tally of Olympic medals.
In individual sprints:
................................
1) Biondi won the 50 free and the 100 free in 1988 Olympics.
In the 1992 Olympics, Biondi got #2 in 50 free and #5 (behind #3 Stephane Caron (Fra.) who I knew when I was student in the 80s) in 100 free.
So Biondi didn't back up in 1992, the 1988.
Neither did he try to back up the 1988, after 1992.
He just quit at age 26, when it got challenging...
2) Popov won the 50 free and the 100 free in the 1992 Olympics.
Popov backed up the 1992, by winning the 50 free and the 100 free in the 1996 Olympics.
Popov tried to back up the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics, by winning silver in the 100 free in the 2000 Olympics.
Popov tries to back up the 1992 and the 1996 Olympics, by training and competing now at age 31 -which is more than 26-.
