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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Thanks for posting the video. Great swim.
Looks like Sun Yang is a big believer in breathing. He settled into a pattern where he would breathe on his last stroke into each turn and on each of his first three strokes (hand touches not cycles) out of each turn. You can see it best at the 1:20 mark in the Part 2 video.
Old school coaches everywhere are screaming that he would have broken the record if only he had not been breathing until past the flags.
Thanks for posting the video. Great swim.
Looks like Sun Yang is a big believer in breathing. He settled into a pattern where he would breathe on his last stroke into each turn and on each of his first three strokes (hand touches not cycles) out of each turn. You can see it best at the 1:20 mark in the Part 2 video.
Old school coaches everywhere are screaming that he would have broken the record if only he had not been breathing until past the flags.
