Category: World Aquatics

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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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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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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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Starts, Turns and Pacing

World Aquatics Championships provide a great opportunity to have a look at the difference in skills, and therefore the effectivness of the execution of race plans.

mywaterworld.life has put together this quick analysis of the Women’s 400 and Men’s 1500m freestyle events and the 4 x 100 freestyle relays.

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In none of the events were the diffences in reaction times and skills off the turns significant enough to affect the results in any meaningful ways.

The events featured are all longer events, or relays, but when you get down to the shorter ones (50s and 100s) , and especially as this is short coure racing, hundreths of a second make the diffrence between a podium finish and not even making a final. This equally applies in relays as there are multipel changeovers and corresponding reaction time. It is so important to make evey push-off and turn in training a skill development pririoty. And as for the starts and turns, try some box jumps and burpees.

Pacing for the distance events is critical so have a look at the tables and see how consistent the pacing needs to be – train that pacing.