the
12th FINA World Masters Swimming Championships begin
Friday April 18th and run through Thursday April 24th
RESULTS & Heat sheets
www.2008finamasters.org.au/infoswim.htm
The World Championships are being held at
Challenge Stadium in
Perth, Australia.
Challenge Stadium has one 50 meter indoor pool, an indoor diving and water polo pool, two outdoor 50 meter pools, and an outdoor water polo pool.
Follow the results at
www.2008finamasters.org
Time Line
www.2008finamasters.org.au/.../PoolUsage.pdf
Psyche Sheets
www.2008finamasters.org.au/infoswimpsych.htm
Events
Friday 18 April
1. Women 800 Freestyle
2. Men 800 Freestyle
Saturday 19 April
3. Women 200 Backstroke
4. Men 200 Backstroke
5. Women 100 Freestyle
6. Men 100 Freestyle
7. Women 100 Breaststroke
8. Men 100 Breaststroke
Sunday 20 April
9. Women 400 Individual Medley
10. Men 400 Individual Medley
11. Women 200 Freestyle
12. Men 200 Freestyle
13. Women 50 Butterfly
14. Men 50 Butterfly
Monday 21 April
15. Women 50 Freestyle
16. Men 50 Freestyle
17. Women 200 Individual Medley
18. Men 200 Individual Medley
19. Women 100 Butterfly
20. Men 100 Butterfly
22. Women 50 Breastroke
22. Men 50 Breastroke
Tuesday 22 April
23. 200 Mixed Medley Relay
24. 200 Mixed Freestyle Relay
25. Women 200 Freestyle Relay
26. Men 200 Freestyle Relay
27. Women 200 Medlay Relay
28. Men 200 Medlay Relay
Wednesday 23 April
29. Women 200 Breaststroke
30. Men 200 Breaststroke
31. Women 100 Backstroke
32. Men 100 Backstroke
33. Women 200 Butterfly
34. Men 200 Butterfly
Thursday 24 April
35. Women 50 Backstroke
36. Men 50 Backstroke
37. Women 400 Freestyle
38. Men 400 Freestyle
For results go to the 2008finamasters website listed on top, then click on championship information on the left, then swimming, results are on the bottom.
Interestingly enough, the 10 lane pool doesn't seem to be seeded correctly...
www.2008finamasters.org.au/.../MensHeatsDay2.PDF
For example, take Heat 3 of the 200 Back. The fastest person in the heat is in Lane 5 (which would be correct if the pool was numbered 1-10 but its 0-9) and the two slowest are in 0 and 1.
It appears the computer is seeding like this:
5-6-4-7-3-8-2-9-1-0
when it should be:
4-5-3-6-2-7-1-8-0-9
Interestingly enough, the 10 lane pool doesn't seem to be seeded correctly...
It appears the computer is seeding like this:
5-6-4-7-3-8-2-9-1-0
when it should be:
4-5-3-6-2-7-1-8-0-9
Perhaps Lanes 0 and 1 are "lower priority" lanes. This is from the Meet Manager help files:
In addition to these very specific options, Win-MM also offers you the option of customizing Lane Preferences based on the particular setup of your pool. In most cases, no changes should be made to these "standard" lane preferences. For example, for meets using 8 lanes, the default standard lane preferences will be lane 4 for fastest, lane 5 for 2nd fastest, lane 3 for 3rd fastest, lane 6 for 4th, etc. But, if you are swimming in a pool where Lanes 5 and 6 are at the shallow end and you wish to give them "lower priority" in terms of lane preferences, you might want to seed the fastest in Lane 3, then 2, then 4, then 1, then 5, then 6. Another example is if you have a 10 lane pool and are using only the middle 8 lanes, change the 8 lane row to 5, 6, 4, 7, 3, 8, 2, 9 and in the Events Menu, set-up each event's number of lanes to be 8 standard lanes instead of 10 standard lanes.
Also, the 30-34 and 35-39 age group results for the 800 free are missing. All other age group results are posted.
That's because they're not complete. I got an e-mail from someone in Perth. He said that it rained and they had to postpone the later women's heats (at least the 30-34 age group). They're now supposed to swim on Tuesday.
Anna Lea
Lane 0 is the lane next to lane 1 and lane 9 is next to lane 8. Both are outside lanes. I dont think anyone is really concerned with the seeding. There are more concerns about seeing the heat sheets.
The women's 800 was called for lightning and then after canceling the heats for the evening brought them back. The said they were going to have them swim at the lunch break. Now it is posted that they will swim at 8:15 on Tuesday (relay day).
Interesting races seen: Suzanne Heim-Bowen beat Shane Gould in the 100 free. Suzanne was first of the block (good start) and held a half-a-body length lead at the turn. She held off Shane at the end to take first place (1:02.31) to Shane's (1:02.95). There was a lot of cheering for Shane by the local crowd and the end had a big awww. (except for the Americans who were wildly cheering Suzanne).
Shane also had a lot of pressure on her. Local TV was following her march to the blocks and there were plenty of mikes around here.
Both Sue and Shane could have been DQed as they left the pool by going over the top as opposed to going to the side to get out. They were told not to do it again.
Laura Val took the women's 55-59 100 Free. She went a 1:02.45 to Heather Campbell 1:03.45. Heather told Laura it was the fastest 100 she had swim.
I heard Bobbi Calison (Rinconada) took first in the 200 back ( have not seen the results).
Carol MacPherson Rinconada took 5th in the 100 Fr.
64 yr old Ken Frost of TAM took first in the 100Breaststroke. He was about two body length ahead at the finish.
Larry Krauser took first in the 800 Free. He was in third most of the race and at the last 100 took off to win the event. Afterward he went to play water polo with Kaos.
Richard Todd (TCAM) took second in the 100 Breaststroke.
Suzanne Heim-Bowen took first in the 800 Free, breaking Laura Vals record by about 4 seconds. She was the only woman to break 10 minutes (at least those results that were posted).
Tracy Grilli took 5th in the 800. Tracy scratch the 100 Free so she could play Water polo. (If I read the score correctly her team was beat 20-2).
Rich Burns took second in the 200 back.
I broke my seed time and finished in the top 80% of my age group (both personal goals) in the 800 Free.
michael
