One Hit Wonders

Originally posted by Howard Kurt Krumpholz Anyone remember his one hit? I hardly think of Kurt Krumpholtz has a one hit. I was there and witnessed that 400 Meter Free swim of 4:00.11 that set the World Record. What I remember is that everyone was very suprised because I believe he was ranked like 22nd or something like that. He swam in a heat in lane 7 or 2 and I remember Mike Burton was in his heat and he had to be about 4 seconds in front of him at the 200 mark. I believe he dropped his best time by 6 seconds and he beat all of the favorites that I remember like Kinsella, Burton, McConica, Tingley, Genter, Favero, Northway, and McBrean. Considering he placed 7th in the 500 at the recent NCAA Championships and in doing so lost to John Kinsella by 10 seconds (4:34.49 to 4:24.45) this was a swim out of nowhere. The fact that he could not duplicate it was not surprising to me. This happened to George Breen at the 1956 Olympics in the 1500 Free setting a World Record in qualifing but placing 3rd in the final and his prelim time would have won the gold medal. Jessica Hardy did this last year in the 100 *** in Montreal so this has happened before. So he placed 6th with his second best time. He went on from there to a great swim career being selected All American for 4 years in both Swimming and Water Polo at UCLA. The next year he got second at the World Championships in the 200 Free losing narrowly to a new an upcoming star Jim Montgomery. At the 1974 NCAA Championships he got 2nd in the 200 Free again to Jim Montgomery. He readshirted in 1975 and swam to a second place in the 800 Free Relay for UCLA in 1976. My Michigan Masters teamate, Dan Stephenson was on that relay as a freshmen at UCLA. He did all this by playing Water Polo and being part of 2 NCAA Championship teams. Today he is on the Executive Committee of USA Water Polo as Secretary. He also was involved heavily in the success of organizing the 2004 Olympic Trials in Long Beach.

Originally posted by Howard Kurt Krumpholz Anyone remember his one hit? I hardly think of Kurt Krumpholtz has a one hit. I was there and witnessed that 400 Meter Free swim of 4:00.11 that set the World Record. What I remember is that everyone was very suprised because I believe he was ranked like 22nd or something like that. He swam in a heat in lane 7 or 2 and I remember Mike Burton was in his heat and he had to be about 4 seconds in front of him at the 200 mark. I believe he dropped his best time by 6 seconds and he beat all of the favorites that I remember like Kinsella, Burton, McConica, Tingley, Genter, Favero, Northway, and McBrean. Considering he placed 7th in the 500 at the recent NCAA Championships and in doing so lost to John Kinsella by 10 seconds (4:34.49 to 4:24.45) this was a swim out of nowhere. The fact that he could not duplicate it was not surprising to me. This happened to George Breen at the 1956 Olympics in the 1500 Free setting a World Record in qualifing but placing 3rd in the final and his prelim time would have won the gold medal. Jessica Hardy did this last year in the 100 *** in Montreal so this has happened before. So he placed 6th with his second best time. He went on from there to a great swim career being selected All American for 4 years in both Swimming and Water Polo at UCLA. The next year he got second at the World Championships in the 200 Free losing narrowly to a new an upcoming star Jim Montgomery. At the 1974 NCAA Championships he got 2nd in the 200 Free again to Jim Montgomery. He readshirted in 1975 and swam to a second place in the 800 Free Relay for UCLA in 1976. My Michigan Masters teamate, Dan Stephenson was on that relay as a freshmen at UCLA. He did all this by playing Water Polo and being part of 2 NCAA Championship teams. Today he is on the Executive Committee of USA Water Polo as Secretary. He also was involved heavily in the success of organizing the 2004 Olympic Trials in Long Beach.