That's just one second short of Hackett's record of 14:34!
YouTube - sun yang, won 1500 mt freestyle final.. asian games 2010
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Sun Yang (CHN) has taken a sledgehammer to his own personal standards all week at the Asian Games, medalling a touch away from Park Tae-hwan (KOR) in the 200m and 400m free, but over 30 laps he almost took a sledgehammer to the only surviving men's world record from pre-shiny suit times.
Grant Hackett (AUS) remains king of the 1,500m clock, on 14:34.56. The closest to him had been a shiny suited 14:37.28 by US-based Tunisian Oussama Mellouli, the man who in Beijing, by 0.69sec, prevented Hackett from becoming the first man in swimming history to win the same Olympic crown at three Games.
Now the closest to Hackett is Sun - on 14:35.43, an Asian record. And his last 100m: 54.40! Sun is the only swimmer in 2010 to swim faster in an event than the best effort in 2009.
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His times were:
48.70
1:44.8
3:41.5
15:01
After the 1500 he anchored the 400 Medley in 48.04 so my guess is he held back a little after he figured he wasn't going to win. Either that or he has ridiculous recovery time.
Except 1500, the 100, 200 and 400m are all his pb. I think Park will be a serious contender for gold for these events in 2012. These are very good times without wearing full body high tech suits. He's an extrodinary swimmer, especially being only at 6 feet tall. He's likely to defend his 400 gold and possinly win another gold as well in the 200. Pretty inspirational for us guys of normal size.
His times were:
48.70
1:44.8
3:41.5
15:01
After the 1500 he anchored the 400 Medley in 48.04 so my guess is he held back a little after he figured he wasn't going to win. Either that or he has ridiculous recovery time.
Except 1500, the 100, 200 and 400m are all his pb. I think Park will be a serious contender for gold for these events in 2012. These are very good times without wearing full body high tech suits. He's an extrodinary swimmer, especially being only at 6 feet tall. He's likely to defend his 400 gold and possinly win another gold as well in the 200. Pretty inspirational for us guys of normal size.
