Well ever since I aged up from 12 to 13 (which was a while ago), I have always wondered why there is no 100 IM for kids who are 13 and over, at least for short course (Yards) season (you can't really do a 100 IM in a LCM pool >.>). While there are some meets where you can do it, it isn't like a state event or anything. It seems like USA swimming is the only team that doesn't really allow it in such a way. I have looked at info on other countries and their swim teams and they seem to do it, as a state (province for other countries....) and above event even.
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As previously stated, I think it just a historical issue with time to run swim meets. Few event offer all the swim event, so only have under-12 do 100 IM and over-12 do 200IM/400 IM is our best guess.
Just like few elite event have few 50m events, we can only guess.
FINA does keep world records for the 100IM SCM and all 50m events:
www.fina.org/.../index.php
So at least some events do hold 100 IM SCM for over 12-year olds !
As previously stated, I think it just a historical issue with time to run swim meets. Few event offer all the swim event, so only have under-12 do 100 IM and over-12 do 200IM/400 IM is our best guess.
Just like few elite event have few 50m events, we can only guess.
FINA does keep world records for the 100IM SCM and all 50m events:
www.fina.org/.../index.php
So at least some events do hold 100 IM SCM for over 12-year olds !
