How good it is to watch an international swimming competition courtesy of the International Swimming League.
We have seen eight new world record marks set in ISL 2020, great presentation of the meets, incredibly good photography and a team based competition. Records are subject to ratification by FINA.
ISL includes innovative events such as the skins racing format – 8 competitors with 4 eliminated, a further two eliminated in the next race and finally the last 2 remaining race head to head in the final. Rounds of the skin event are held every three minutes.
The stroke of the skins race is picked by the winners of the women’s 400 medley relay and the same for the men. Great to see stokes other than freestyle swum in a skins event.
SWIMMING FAST – WORLD RECORDS
| Name | Country | Team | Event | Time |
| Caeleb Dressel | US | Cali Condors | 100m Butterfly | 47.78 |
| Caeleb Dressel | US | Cali Condors | 100m Individual Medley | 49.28 |
| Caeleb Dressel | US | Cali Condors | 50m Freestyle | 20.16 |
| Adam Peaty | UK | London Roar | 100m Breaststroke | 55.49 |
| Adam Peaty | UK | London Roar | 100m Breaststroke | 55.41 |
| Kliment Kolesnikov | RU | Energy Standard | 100m Backstoke | 48.58 |
| Kira Toussaint | NL | London Roar | 50m Backstroke | 25.60 |
| Women | US | Cali Condors | 400 Medley Relay | 3:44.52 |
A full listing of all results is on the ISL Results web page.
In Australia you can catch the ISL on the 7Plus app. As it is a team competition, each of the two day sessions are called a “Match” by ISL and are all on the 7Plus app.
A further ISL format innovation is being introduced to address the need for a distance event – the 800 free.
The proposed format includes three checkpoints – at the 100m 400m and 800m marks. Contestants will win points at each of the checkpoints which has both jackpot times and an event cutoff time. The details of the points system are set out toward the end of the official ISL announcement.
– ISL Trials new race ahead of season 2020 finale – 19 November 2020
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