2011 14th Fina World Swimming Championships
Shanghai, China
Sat July 24 - Sun Aug 1st
Schedule
Results
Pretraining
there's Six pretraining venues has already prepared for the teams and athletics who arrive in shanghai ahead of the scheduled time. & the cheapest they charge the athletes to train is $20 per hour per swimmer.
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And Sun just beat Hackett's WR in the 1500! :applaud:
I didn't get to watch it live but saw this on the live blog: with 100m to go, Sun was stilling trailing the WR time 2.03 seconds. He caught the WR line less than 10m to the wall. This shows Sun has always been racing at his own pace. We can expect him to better the 1500m record a few more times when it's all said and done.
Nice job by Beisel. I would imagine that she is stoked. She seemed to struggle in her 200 back final. She is really close to the World Record. What is the American Record?
1 4 BEISEL Elizabeth USA 0.69 4:31.78
50m ﴾5﴿ 29.62
33.70
100m ﴾5﴿ 1:03.32
34.75
150m ﴾2﴿ 1:38.07
33.89
200m ﴾2﴿ 2:11.96
38.51
250m ﴾1﴿ 2:50.47
39.33
300m ﴾1﴿ 3:29.80
31.20
350m ﴾1﴿ 4:01.00
30.78
How do you know it wasn't slowing him down, though? The fact he went so fast doesn't mean he couldn't have gone faster. I agree 14:15 is a bit of a stretch, but I don't think it's impossible for him.
It is hard to fault a WR swim but that 1500 had me confused almost the entire race (or as much as NBC showed). Maybe the new strategy for that race is to hold a solid pace for 1425 and then let it totally rip.
And, those teeth, good grief.
It looked to me like he breathed every stroke at times in the middle of the laps too. Gary Hall Sr. Has been advocating this style for a while. I think if you are efficient with pull and body position (like he is) the extra air wins out in a cost benefit analysis. As for his kick, he looks to have fairly inflexible ankles so he probably can't do a relaxed and efficient 6 beat kick like Larson or the Aussies.
As for the world record, it made me wonder if he gets $$$ for each record. If so, it makes sense to break it by a little so he can do it again soon. East German backstroker Roland Matthes used to do this in the olden days.
As a former distance swimmer ,you cannot use the legs that hard in a distance race
Some guys have, though. Larsen Jensen kicked hard the entire time. Hackett kicked pretty hard. Maybe not a six-beat, but more than a two-beat like Yang used for most of the race.
