The USA swimming site is running a series of sports science articles investigating what made some of the greatest American performances of all time possible. The articles include stroke rates, splits and underwater distances for all the swimmers and provide some interesting reading, despite an understandable USA bias. There's also the opportunity to … Continue Reading→
Results for the English Schools Inter-divisional Swimming Championships re now available at the English Schools Swimming Association website. Highlight of the event, held at Sheffield's Ponds Forge on 25th and 26th October, was a British Junior record of 56.67 for the 100m butterfly, set by Liverpool's 15 year-old Michael Rock. This … Continue Reading→
The ASA have announced the composition of the World Class Potential, Youth and Start programmes for the 2002/2003 season. These are based on performances at this year's National Age Group and Youth Championships.
Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima has broken the 10-year-old 200m world breaststroke record at the Asian Games in Busan. The world championship bronze medallist, who is also the Asian record holder came home in 2:09.97. He won by a massive 3.5 seconds to smash the mark of 2:10.16 set by American Mike Barrowman in Barcelona in … Continue Reading→