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Power to be in awe of – Kaylee McKeown

Kaylee McKeown sets a new World 200m women’s backstroke record in a time of 2:03.14

Every body is writing about this fabulous swim so it is hard to say anything new.

What mywaterworld.life has done is look at some of the stats of Kaylee’s magnificent 200 backstroke and we have included, as a comparison, the former world record holder’s times.

Kaylee’s 200m stats

Meters Under Water
(at Start and Turn)		Strokes
(per 50m)		Lap timeSplit timeDPS* (meters)Regan Smith
(lap time)		Regan Smith
(split time)
143229.3229.321.1329.0629.06
103531.411:00.731.1431.311:00.37
93631.111:31.841.1431.471:31.84
93731.302:03.141.1131.512:03.35
* DPS – Distance Per Stroke

Taking a closer look at this data, Kaylee did a magnificent 2nd 100m – just fabulous pacing. Her 1st 100 was in 60.37 while the 2nd was in 62.41. Kaylee was behind Regan by 0.26 seconds at the 50, and a further 0.10 seconds at the 100 meter mark.

From then on it was all Kaylee who caught up the 0.36 advantage Regan held at the 100m mark on the 3rd 50, and then powered home in a 31.30, outpacing Regan on the last 50 by 0.21 seconds.

mywaterworld.life has located footage of this swim on YouTube that is worth watching.

Controlled pace and an amzingly powerful last 50m by Kaylee – a must watch and a lesson to all.*

The footage on YouTube comes from the BairnOwl channel, while Regan Smith’s times were sourced from a SwimSwam news story from July 26, 1019. mywaterworld.life was poolside in Gwangju when Regan smashed Missy Franklin’s record by 0.71 seconds.

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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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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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Great swims of 2022 by Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki

The latest news from mywaterworld.life takes a look at the best swimming performances of 2022 by masters swimmers in Tasmania.

The dominant swimmers of 2022, based on World Aquatics Points (not sure what “FINA” points are now called) were Amanda Duggan and Maciej Slugocki. Their 800 and 1500 metre freestyle times would have placed them both well within world top ten rankings in 2021 and Maciej’s 800m freestyle time would have scored him a number two in the world that year. The 2022 world ranking will be out in March.

You can read all about those swims and more in the mywaterworld.life news of 29 January. The story is also on the Masters inTasmania – Latest News page where you can find previous news items.

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Happening in Tasmania

The 2003 pool season has now well and truly started for Tasmanian masters swimmers. Two swimming meets, jointly sanctioned with Swimming Tasmania have now been completed – one in Hobart on 14 January and the other in Launceston on 21 January.

Three Tasmanian records have already been broken, two by Brent Walker from the Hobart Aquatic Centre Masters SC and the other by Maciej Slugocki from the Tomatoes.

Here is the latest news from 21 January.

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You can find the mywaterworld.life compilation of all news items from 2023 here.

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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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LEN Masters Swimming Championships – Day 1

The LEN Masters Swimming Championships are now in full swing with racing on day 1 completed – the 800m freestyle for both women and men.

So how did they go?  Two LEN Records – one female and one male, a high standard of racing and great times across the genders and most age groups.

And now, turning to the winning times. The table below sets out the winning time in each age group. Times in Bold are the new LEN records.

An impossible task, to report on the results from 26 age categories, so here are the links to the downloadable results for each gender.

Results day 1 – including splits

FINA Point* comparisons

FINA points for age group winning times are a great comparative indicator of the standard of each age group competition at the championships. The benchmark for each age group and gender is the FINA world record for the event as at 31 December of 2021.

The table that follows sets out the FINA points achieved by the winning time in each age group.

The average FINA points for the winners in the age categories were 852 for the men and 784 for women. The FINA points for the LEN Record breakers are displayed in bold.

To get a better understanding of the quality of the results, a comparison to the 2022 Australian championships results may help.  At those championships, conducted at the site of the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the average FINA points of the winners, with the events conducted in short-course mode, were 673 compared to 852 LEN for men, and 624, compared to 784 LEN for the women.   As one would expect, the standard at the LEN Championships was significantly higher and the points confirm that conclusion.

So that’s a bit of a look at the LEN Masters Swimming championships, Day 1.

Day 2 events are the men’s and women’s 400m freestyle and 100m butterfly. You can follow the results and the live stream from here.

* To avoid any confusion, mywaterworld.life points out that the downloadable LEN results include world record times (WR).  These are the WR times at the date of the LEN Championships. These may not be the same times used in the FINA points calculation, which, for Long Course events are the WR times at 31 December 2021.

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Update on the 2022 FINA World Masters Championships

It is only tentative at this stage,  but looks like this is going to be the schedule for the Masters Championships. 

Lots of water to flow under the bridge and possibly some heavy seas before these championships are up and running, starting with making the program final and the entry system being opened.

The promising signs are that the organizing committee is in the process of getting the medals designed and has called for volunteers for the championships. Japan is now also slowly opening up to international travel with Japan commencing to accept foreign nationals coming to the country for business trips, study abroad or technical training starting on Monday, 8 November (Japan Times.)    Still to come of course is news of when other visitors to the country will be able to enter Japan.

The current situation with vaccinations in Japan is that 73.6% of the population is fully vaccinated while 78.3% have had their first shot. The comparative percentages at 4 November for the USA are 58.3 % and 67.7%,  Australia 66.8% and 75.0% and France 68.3% and 76.1%

As for the numbers of new infections in Japan, on 6 November there were 230 with a 7 day average of 201.

It’s looking very favorable for the championships … at this stage.

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Kyle Chalmers – 44.84 – 100m Free World Record

How good is it to get first hand insights into what it took to set a new men’s 100 Freestyle World Short Course Record – Congratulations Kyle Chalmers!!!!

Out in 21.40, (0.32 under world record pace) and back in 23.44 for a new world record mark of 44.84 Wow!!

Thanks as well to Brett Hawke for the interview.

Kyle has been on a journey of racing over the past couple of months, maximizing that imense talent, and racing like he has never raced before.  One of the keys to that world record was Kyle’s racing schedule, week in and week out, and the opportunity to implement what he practices in real racing conditions.

I his own words, Kyle has “ finally started to figure it out”.  The constant racing enabled Kyle to work out and implement what he had to do to execute a great swim for that world record and execute he did.

The fruits of the work Kyle has put in can be seen in the break out off his start, the “execution into the walls”, leg speed in the turns, “pumping five fly kicks off the wall”, stroke rate maintenance, and hitting his goal time at the 50m split. 

Yes, the importance of the work off the wall. In the interview Kyle maintains that this is still “an area [he] needs to improve on to be the best in the world”. He also speaks about the role of his coach in pushing the skills aspect ”day-in, day-out”.  Kyle also talks about his breathing pattern – shows how individual that is.

Check out Brett Hawke interviewing Kyle Chalmers about his short course 100m freestyle world record.