18 year old Sun Yang goes 14:35 in the 1500m free

RE: 18 year old Sun Yang goes 14:35 in the 1500m free

Former Member — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:19:01 GMT

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.

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Former Member — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 06:18:12 GMT

^^^ thanks for posting the video- an amazing stroke

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Former Member — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:12:58 GMT

The youtube video in the original post is no longer available, but I've found somebody uploaded CCTV's coverage for the entire race: YouTube - 2010 Asian Games - Swimming / Men's 1500m Free Style Final 1/2 YouTube - 2010 Asian Games - Swimming / Men's 1500m Free Style Final 2/2 Here are some newbie observations and questions from me. Sun Yang's stroke is textbook perfect - high elbow recovery, full extension, EVF, etc. Sun's kicking is a little "irregular", but neither is Grant Hackett, I believe. In some footage I even notice Sun's toe are not exactly pointed when kicking. Is that normal for long distance swimmers? Sun over-rolls his head a bit when he breaths, no? Wish there is more underwater footage. I understand noboby in the world swims perfectly in all aspects during a race. Just want to know if I am in the right direction as I try to emulate Sun Yang's swimming. Thanks.

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ande — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:03:17 GMT

super impressive for yang and park

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Former Member — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:24:59 GMT

Yikes. That's the only pre-2008 record. I thought people had just stopped trying.

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JoeBob — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:11:20 GMT

Park could get Sun-burned in the 400 next year in Shanghai. Two years ago, Park was about 6 seconds ahead of Sun. Now his advantage is less than a second. Denis Cotterell really knows how to train them. www.indianexpress.com/.../0

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Former Member — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 06:16:31 GMT

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.

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Former Member — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 15:11:32 GMT

Anyone want to take odds on whether Ye Shiwen ever shows up in international competition again?

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Former Member — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:29:40 GMT

I Park Tae-hwan was also pretty impressive winning the 100m, 200m, 400m and coming second in the 1500m. 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.

RE: 18 year old Sun Yang goes 14:35 in the 1500m free

Former Member — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:12:00 GMT

I was going to post this. He is actually still 18 but this birthday is in a couple weeks according to Wikipedia. Park Tae-hwan was also pretty impressive winning the 100m, 200m, 400m and coming second in the 1500m. Yep, you're right. Fixed it, thanks :)

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Former Member — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:07:29 GMT

RE: 18 year old Sun Yang goes 14:35 in the 1500m free

knelson — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 01:21:30 GMT

Very impressive. I've mentioned before that I think one of the reasons Hackett's record hasn't been broken is that competition at the major events like the Olympics and Worlds has become very tight. Making finals requires swimming very close to 15:00 and it's difficult to come back from this kind of prelim swim and swim faster in finals. I believe the Asian Games 1500 free was timed finals, so that might be part of the reason Sun was able to swim so fast. Not to take anything away from his amazing swim!