Category: World Aquatics

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A Masters World Record Destroyed

It is not often that there is a chance to see truly world class swimming – swimming where a masters world record is absolutely shattered.

That is what masters swimmers witnessed at an evening club meet on 3 March at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre.

The Powerpoints Masters Swimming Club held their “Summer Smash 2023” meet where a powerful relay team from their club attacked the 4 x 200m mixed, freestyle world record.

At the halfway mark, the “red line” would have been nearly 60m behind the Powerpoints team.  For more, here is the mywaterworld.life write-up of the attack on that World Aquatics record. 

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The Australian section of our news will be updated with this story later today.

mywaterworld.life will also bring you some vision of the 200m world record broken by Kaylee McKeown in the Women’s 200m Backstroke in a time of 2:03.14 – this record was set at the NSW Open Swimming Championships conducted at the Sydney Olympic Park Pool on Friday, 10 March 2023

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Roundup of the 2023 Masters Swimming Tasmanina Championships

Finally, mywaterworld.life has caught up and posted its news item on the results of the Masters Swimming Tasmania 2023 Summer Championships.

National, Victorian and Tasmanina records broken, and the swim of the meet by Victorian visitor from the powerful Powerpoints Masters Swimming Club Jennie Bucknell, were the highlights of the meet.

Congratulations go to Jennie Bucknell and Rod Laurie for their new Australian records and to Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki for their Swimmer of the Meet awards. The Tasmanina club with the highest standard of racing was the Hobart Aquatic Centre Masters Swimming Club.

Here is our news story.

mywaterworld.life is the home of the most comprehensive news of Masters swimming racing in Tasmania looking at the standard of the swimming using the World-Aquatics points as its benchmarks.

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Tasmanian Summer Championships

Masters Swimming Tasmania is holding its 39th Long Course Summer Championships on Saturday and Sunday, 18 and 19 February. These are the first championships in Australia for 2023. Competitors include world Record breakers John Cocks (Malvern Marlins, Victoria) and Jennie Bucknell (Powerpoints, Victoria), both of whom have previously set World Aquatics (formerly FINA) records.

All the details of the meet are on SwimPhone. There you can find the Psych and Heat sheets and once the meet starts the results as well.

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Tony Goodwin – Top Australian masters swimming national record breaker for 2022.

Masters swimming in Australia came roaring back in 2022 to its pre – pandemic levels – 233 national records in World Aquatics (WA) events broken during the year an an additional 91 in non-WA events.

Australia’s top record breaker for 2022 was Tony Goodwin who set 15 new national records in WA events and a further 5 in non-WA events – 20 in total for the year.

Our new story includes break-downs of the national record breakers by state, gender, club and distinguishes between WA and non-WA events.  A download of all the national record breakers by state is available from within the news item.

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Previous national news stories

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News of Masters Swimming in Tasmania continues.

mywatereworld.life has published two more news items looking back and summarising performances from 2022

Our strory on 29 January looked at the top World Aquatics point swims for 2022 and from 4 February we look at the Tasmanian record breakers for that year.

Those stories, and the ones from earlier this year, are on our News from Tasmania page.

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Daily Training Programs

mywaterworl.life is expanding its offering – this time by making a daily training program available on line.

You don’t need to be a subscriber to this site but we would like you to be. That way you can guarantee that you recieve a notification each time we post something new.

This is a sample program , the first one mywaterworld.life has published on its NEW training programs page.

The programs are part of an integrated season training plan which mywaterworld.life can tailor to your racing season.

The 2023 focus of the training plan is the 2022* FINA World Masters Swimming Championships, starting on the Japanese island of Kyushu on 2 August 2023.

* And if you are curious why the chahmpionshisp being held in 2023 are called the 2022 championships it is beacuse that is what FINA, soon to be called World Aquatics, calls them.

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Reaction Times and More on Pacing

How important and significant are reaction times?

Today we take a dive into the outcome of the Mens 4 x 50m freestyle relay at the World Aquatics Short Course Championships.

The margin between the 1st and 2nd placings was only 0.04 seconds – tighter margins are feasible, but not by much. Australia won this relay, not because it swam faster in the water, it didn’t, but because team members had better reaction times, by 0.09 seconds in total, than those of the Italians – and that was enough for the win.

Check out our story on the importance of reaction times and pacing in 400s.

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