No LZR / No Jaked / No X-Glide .. any WR since 2007 ?
Former Member
If you discount the Jaked and X-Glide records, you also have to discount the LZR records, even Phelps swimming only in the legskin. So who is actually swimming "faster" than any 2007 records ?
The British Backstroker Spofforth swam more than a second faster than Coughlin wearing an LZR - she is close.
Steffen did a WR last year in the addidas suit + is more than a second faster than her own 2006 time - but it would be close.
Phelps maybe in the 200 Free - he dropped less than a second last year, but the LZR has dropped a lot more time for most swimmers - so I would say no.
For sure a very very short list ....
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Former Member
Yeah - I messed up on the 100 Free records -
USA swimming has a nice database for record progression -
www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
Even so - there have been Olympic cycles without a lot of records. If you account for some of the rule changes and the evolution of the SDKs --- but then again - there will be new things to improve upon.
I go back to the sub 21 though - I just can't see anybody even close to that for decades in a regular suit.
Yeah - I messed up on the 100 Free records -
USA swimming has a nice database for record progression -
www.usaswimming.org/.../DesktopDefault.aspx
Even so - there have been Olympic cycles without a lot of records. If you account for some of the rule changes and the evolution of the SDKs --- but then again - there will be new things to improve upon.
I go back to the sub 21 though - I just can't see anybody even close to that for decades in a regular suit.
