What's your opinion on best swim of all time ?
It probably won’t be a swim prior to the 70's.
I use to think that the best swim of all time would be a medley however I'm starting to change my tune on this.
For me now I think the truly finest swim would be a freestyle event...i.e Freestyle is more important than the strokes because it's unique.
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I would recommended Melvin Stewart's 200 fly from the 1991 NCAA Championships. He went 1:41.78, which is still the meet record.
For backstroke, David Berkoff's 54.95 at the 1988 Olympic Trials. That changed the backstroke. Short Couse, Neil Walker's 1997 swim at the NCAA's of 44.92. This was simply an super swim to watch.
Freestyle, short course, I am split between Biondi's 1:33.03 and Simon Burnett's 1:31.20. I saw Burnett's swim in person and the tv coverage certainly didn't do it justice.
For the I.M, both short and long course go to Tom Dolan. His swim at the 2000 games was amazging, esp. after most everyone wrote him off. Then the 1995 NCAA's, the 400 IM was breath taking. His whole meet was breath taking that year.
My $.02 cents worth
I would recommended Melvin Stewart's 200 fly from the 1991 NCAA Championships. He went 1:41.78, which is still the meet record.
For backstroke, David Berkoff's 54.95 at the 1988 Olympic Trials. That changed the backstroke. Short Couse, Neil Walker's 1997 swim at the NCAA's of 44.92. This was simply an super swim to watch.
Freestyle, short course, I am split between Biondi's 1:33.03 and Simon Burnett's 1:31.20. I saw Burnett's swim in person and the tv coverage certainly didn't do it justice.
For the I.M, both short and long course go to Tom Dolan. His swim at the 2000 games was amazging, esp. after most everyone wrote him off. Then the 1995 NCAA's, the 400 IM was breath taking. His whole meet was breath taking that year.
My $.02 cents worth
