2008 9th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m)

Kirsty almost broke the WR in prelims Event 19 11 APR 2008 Women's 200m Backstroke WR 2:03.24 29.11 1:00.25 1:31.79 NAKAMURA Reiko JPN Tokyo (JPN) 23 FEB 2008 CR 2:04.97 29.93 1:01.32 1:33.08 BENKO Lindsay USA Moscow (RUS) 5 APR 2002 1 6 COVENTRY Kirsty ZIM 0.75 29.44 1:00.61 31.17 1:32.28 31.67 2:03.69 31.41 CR

After tying for 8th in the 400 Free prelims, Robert Margalis touched out Pawel Korzeniowski in the swim-off by 0.08. omegatiming.com/.../C73A1_Res1Heat_322_Swim-off_Heats_1_Men_400_Free.pdf

Saturday finals... Jessica Hardy, American and championship record in the 100 ***: 1 4 HARDY Jessica USA 0.70 (1) 29.98 1:04.22 CR Peter Marshall won the 50 back. No US swimmers advanced to women's 50 back final. Van Wie and Adrian both advanced to men's 100 free final. Jessica Hardy advanced to the women's 50 free final. Adam Pine won the men's 50 fly; there were no US swimmers in the final. Rachel Komisarz advanced to the women's 100 fly final. Ryan Lochte set a world record in the 100 IM semifinal! 1 4 LOCHTE Ryan USA 0.69 23.36 51.25 WR Kirsty Coventry broke Alison Wagner's 200 IM world record (2:07.79) from way back in 1993. Mireia Belmonte also beat Wagner's record. 1 4 COVENTRY Kirsty ZIM 0.73 (1) 27.95 (1) 58.91 (1) 1:35.82 2:06.13 WR 30.96 36.91 30.31 2 3 BELMONTE Mireia ESP 0.88 (6) 28.96 (8) 1:02.94 (2) 1:37.72 2:07.47 1.34 33.98 34.78 29.75 Mark Gangloff advanced to the men's 50 *** final. (Lochte did not, just as he didn't in the 100 ***.) World record for the Netherlands in the women's 400 free relay. USA finished 5th with a new American record. 1 3 NED Netherlands 3:29.42 WR SCHREUDER Hinkelien 0.86 25.47 53.62 (3) 53.62 HEEMSKERK Femke 0.35 24.84 52.61 (2) 1:46.23 DEKKER Inge 0.23 24.57 51.76 (1) 2:37.99 VELDHUIS Marleen 0.46 24.41 51.43 (1) 3:29.42 2 4 AUS Australia 3:32.00 2.58 MILLS Alice 0.76 25.67 53.81 (4) 53.81 REESE Shayne 0.52 25.43 52.77 (3) 1:46.58 STUBBINS Kelly 0.17 25.41 52.94 (3) 2:39.52 BAINBRIDGE Angie 0.29 24.92 52.48 (2) 3:32.00 3 1 GBR Great Britain 3:32.88 3.46 HALSALL Francesca 0.76 25.25 52.36 (1) 52.36 MCCLATCHEY Caitlin 0.21 25.30 53.25 (1) 1:45.61 BECKETT Julia 0.27 25.41 53.54 (2) 2:39.15 MARSHALL Melanie 0.34 25.76 53.73 (3) 3:32.88 4 6 SWE Sweden 3:34.64 5.22 MARKOVARGA Ida 0.80 26.17 54.94 (5) 54.94 LILLHAGE Josefin 0.26 25.39 52.57 (4) 1:47.51 HEDENSKOG Claire 0.25 25.11 53.46 (4) 2:40.97 GRANLUND Petra 0.30 25.64 53.67 (4) 3:34.64 5 5 USA United States 3:34.96 5.54 HARDY Jessica 0.71 25.50 53.46 (2) 53.46 KOMISARZ Rachel 0.35 26.39 54.45 (5) 1:47.91 SILVER Emily 0.35 26.35 54.25 (5) 2:42.16 DENBY Kara 0.22 24.98 52.80 (5) 3:34.96

Outside smoke! Duje Draganja just broke Stefan Nystrand's world record from lane 1 in 20.81! 1 1 DRAGANJA Duje CRO 0.72 20.81 WR 2 4 FOSTER Mark GBR 0.83 21.31 0.50 3 8 ZANDBERG Gerhard RSA 0.69 21.33 0.52 4 3 LOCHTE Ryan USA 0.69 21.44 0.63 5 5 MEOLANS Jose ARG 0.80 21.48 0.67 6 2 BRITS Grant AUS 0.65 21.68 0.87 7 7 GODEC Jernej SLO 0.74 21.74 0.93 8 6 LUNDQUIST Bryan USA 0.72 21.77 0.96 vinovo.magnify.net/.../N2338CG32MPZH1P8 VIDEO Duje Draganja has set a world record in the men's 50-meter freestyle at the short-course swimming world championships. The Croatian swimmer, wearing Speedo's LZR Racer suit, finished in 20.81 seconds Friday, breaking the mark of 20.93 set by Sweden's Stefan Nystrand in 2007

Saturday Prelims didn't know jessica hardy was that fast in the 50 fr coventry and lochte posted great times

The rest of the Sunday finals... Men's 200 fly - Moss Burmester 1:51.05, new championship record. Nicholas Walkotten 5th with 1:53.05 Men's 1500 free - Yuriy Prilukov 14:22.98, just under his own championship record. Larsen Jensen 4th with 14:44.21, Robert Margalis 7th with 14:56.45. Women's 200 free - Erin Reilly was in 2nd at the 150 but fell to 5th. Mary Descenza finished 8th. Men's 400 medley relay - Russia and the US both went under the world record of 3:25.09. It was quite a race with multiple lead changes: 1 4 RUS Russia 3:24.29 WR DONETS Stanislav 0.86 24.72 50.57 (1) 50.57 GEYBEL Sergey 0.09 26.95 57.93 (2) 1:48.50 KOROTYSHKIN Evgeny 0.19 22.74 49.39 (1) 2:37.89 SUKHORUKOV Alexander 0.09 21.87 46.40 (1) 3:24.29 2 3 USA United States 3:24.38 0.09 BAL Randall 0.79 24.21 50.74 (2) 50.74 GANGLOFF Mark 0.22 26.64 57.34 (1) 1:48.08 LOCHTE Ryan 0.34 23.48 50.57 (2) 2:38.65 ADRIAN Nathan 0.26 21.77 45.73 (2) 3:24.38

Sunday finals so far... Men's 100 free: Nathan Adrian won with a championship record of 46.67! He touched out Magnini and Draganja. 1 1 ADRIAN Nathan USA 0.77 (2) 22.10 46.67 CR 24.57 2 3 MAGNINI Filippo ITA 0.74 (3) 22.68 46.70 0.03 24.02 3 4 DRAGANJA Duje CRO 0.71 (1) 21.75 46.83 0.16 25.08 Women's 50 back: Sanja Jovanovic lowered her own world record with a 26.37. Men's 200 back: Markus Rogan touched out Ryan Lochte. They both went way under Lochte's old world record of 1:49.05. 1 5 ROGAN Markus AUT 0.71 (4) 26.40 (4) 54.43 (2) 1:21.10 1:47.84 WR 28.03 26.67 26.74 2 4 LOCHTE Ryan USA 0.77 (3) 26.13 (2) 53.93 (1) 1:21.00 1:47.91 0.07 27.80 27.07 26.91 Women's 200 ***: Suzaan Van Biljon set a championship record with a 2:18.73. Men's 100 IM: Lochte lowered the world record that he set in the semis. 1 4 LOCHTE Ryan USA 0.69 (3) 23.77 51.15 WR 27.38 Women's 100 fly: Felicity Galvez set another world record, just faster than Libby Lenton's old record of 55.95. Komisarz had a strong swim as well. EDIT: in fact, Komisarz took 0.02 off Natalie Coughlin's American record! 1 4 GALVEZ Felicity AUS 0.74 (1) 26.08 55.89 WR 29.81 2 3 KOMISARZ Rachel USA 0.69 (4) 26.60 56.32 0.43 29.72

No surprises in the men's 50 ***. Good job by Gangloff. 1 5 LISOGOR Oleg UKR 0.80 26.46 2 1 GANGLOFF Mark USA 0.71 26.54 0.08 3 4 VAN DER BURGH Cameron RSA 0.68 26.67 0.21 4 3 TERRIN Alessandro ITA 0.81 26.79 0.33 5 6 VAN AGGELE Robin NED 0.73 26.88 0.42 6 7 DUGONJIC Damir SLO 0.77 27.08 0.62 7 2 ZANDBERG Gerhard RSA 0.72 27.19 0.73 8 8 DALE OEN Alexander NOR 0.78 27.33 0.87

World record by Veldhuis in the women's 50 free! 1 5 VELDHUIS Marleen NED 0.82 23.25 WR 2 6 SCHREUDER Hinkelien NED 0.79 23.83 0.58 3 4 HALSALL Francesca GBR 0.73 24.11 0.86 4 3 HARDY Jessica USA 0.68 24.28 1.03 5 2 MILLS Alice AUS 0.76 24.46 1.21 6 1 KORC Agata POL 0.66 24.58 1.33 7 8 HEDENSKOG Claire SWE 0.79 24.66 1.41 8 7 SEPPALA HannaMaria FIN 0.73 24.68 1.43 EDIT: Old WR 23.58 VELDHUIS Marleen

Not enough space in the Subject to properly thank Hillary Clinton for directing me to the CBC's airing (two hours) of the SCM World Championships. A show that CBC had kept mum about for the past few weeks. (I don't buy the TV guide......... a waste of money). I guess that such shows are Military or National Security secrets that must be kept well-hidden and unheralded. Anyway.............. I get home at around 3.15pm after my swim and gym and while waiting for the grill to heat (for a nice steak), I turn on CNN and what do I get but Hillary Clinton explaining her magic powers that will turn Big Oil into philanthropic organizations that will, gladly, (while rubbing their hands in glee and anticipation of their windfall profits at the prospects of raising their prices by so much more than the %age that they are supposed to absorb on behalf of the consumers), pay for the gas tax out of their record profits, I quickly click onto the on-air TV guide and see that CBC is airing the Manchester SCM World Championships. They started at 1400 (2pm) and I missed most of it. I rush to get a Video tape and start recording and very quickly come to realize why I don't really "like" SCM (or SCY, for that matter). There's hardly any "swimming" to watch. It's all starts, SD/FKs, turns, more SD/FKs and that's it. 60% of races are underwater. 60% of races have ---really---nothing to do with the style of the race itself.