Swimming Finals at the World Championships in Barcelona, Spain
Former Member
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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Former Member
Ed Moses competes his hardest.
However in 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, the most improvement happened in the last few years when comparing to the other strokes, even though the breaststroke technique hasn't changed recently:
.) in the 1998 World Championships, Kurt Grote (U.S.) was winning the 200 meter *** in 2:13.xx;
.) now, Kitajima (Jpn.), the new world record holder of the 100 meter *** in 59.7x who just had his world record for 200 meter *** of 2:09.xx broken by a Russian a month ago, is going to swim here the 200 *** at around 2:09.xx.
I warned before:
in breaststroke, there are right now something like eight Mark Spitzes world wide, and Moses is one of them.
In men 50 meter butterfly, I see that Roland Schoeman represented well the U.S..
Up until a few months ago, he was from South Africa.
Roland Schoeman is a 23 years old tough-as-nails pure sprinter, who either got out touched (in 2001) or did out touch (in 2002) Anthony Ervin (U.S.) in N.C.A.A. sprints.
In 1999, Schoeman led the world Long Course rankings in 50 meter free, with 22.04.
Ed Moses competes his hardest.
However in 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke, the most improvement happened in the last few years when comparing to the other strokes, even though the breaststroke technique hasn't changed recently:
.) in the 1998 World Championships, Kurt Grote (U.S.) was winning the 200 meter *** in 2:13.xx;
.) now, Kitajima (Jpn.), the new world record holder of the 100 meter *** in 59.7x who just had his world record for 200 meter *** of 2:09.xx broken by a Russian a month ago, is going to swim here the 200 *** at around 2:09.xx.
I warned before:
in breaststroke, there are right now something like eight Mark Spitzes world wide, and Moses is one of them.
In men 50 meter butterfly, I see that Roland Schoeman represented well the U.S..
Up until a few months ago, he was from South Africa.
Roland Schoeman is a 23 years old tough-as-nails pure sprinter, who either got out touched (in 2001) or did out touch (in 2002) Anthony Ervin (U.S.) in N.C.A.A. sprints.
In 1999, Schoeman led the world Long Course rankings in 50 meter free, with 22.04.
