To those that have set or broken any swimming records, which are they? :banana:
Anything from a school, local, club or meet record on up to world qualifies. :cheerleader: :worms:
Feel free to include any story leading up to how and when you broke the record.
I made a difference between 6 and 7 because of the number of times someone can be Number 1. You need one swim at Number 1 to be All American. You could have 20 Number 1 swims in the top ten and that would be a difference between swimmers in those categories.
The reason I put World Number 1 Swims at 2 and World Championships at 3 was because you can compare great swimmers from around the world with those two categories. With 4 and 5, it would just be USMS swimmers and you could be right but then you could not compare the great swimmers from around the world.
Just like Swimming, there is something you can compare for the first 7 items and I kind of modeled this from that. The World Top Ten does discriminate a little against USMS because they ignore short course yard swims and I believe even though we have some great swims in SCM, we don't have as much as SCY and with our National Meet being SCY, USMS loses something there.
I agree with you on the World Championships and it depends on who shows up in the age group and where the meet is held. I remember Dennis Baker was getting ready to swim an event at the 2006 World Championships and I volunteered as a Marshall and noticed in his heat that he had Sergei Fesenko, who was the 1980 Olympic Medalist, Roger Von Jouanne, who was an American Record holder, Cammeron Reid, National Team member, Marcus Mattioli, 1980 Olympian, and Bill Specht, ISHOF Masters swimmer all in the same heat for the World Championship. This is an example of when Number 3 is really Number 3.
I made a difference between 6 and 7 because of the number of times someone can be Number 1. You need one swim at Number 1 to be All American. You could have 20 Number 1 swims in the top ten and that would be a difference between swimmers in those categories.
The reason I put World Number 1 Swims at 2 and World Championships at 3 was because you can compare great swimmers from around the world with those two categories. With 4 and 5, it would just be USMS swimmers and you could be right but then you could not compare the great swimmers from around the world.
Just like Swimming, there is something you can compare for the first 7 items and I kind of modeled this from that. The World Top Ten does discriminate a little against USMS because they ignore short course yard swims and I believe even though we have some great swims in SCM, we don't have as much as SCY and with our National Meet being SCY, USMS loses something there.
I agree with you on the World Championships and it depends on who shows up in the age group and where the meet is held. I remember Dennis Baker was getting ready to swim an event at the 2006 World Championships and I volunteered as a Marshall and noticed in his heat that he had Sergei Fesenko, who was the 1980 Olympic Medalist, Roger Von Jouanne, who was an American Record holder, Cammeron Reid, National Team member, Marcus Mattioli, 1980 Olympian, and Bill Specht, ISHOF Masters swimmer all in the same heat for the World Championship. This is an example of when Number 3 is really Number 3.
