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A small number of Tasmanina Masters swimmers took to racing again – less than a week aftere their Summer Championship.
Two record were broken at the Swimming Tasmania meet with the best swim of the meet recorded by Gabrielle Osborne in her 50m breastroke.
Here is the full story which we also cover in the Masters Tasmania –Latest News page.
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.
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.
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.
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.
You can find the mywaterworld.life compilation of all news items from 2023 here.
During the last week or so the Professional Development material on mywaterworld.life has been expanded by the inclusion of two new pages covering Post Exercise Recovery and Training to Achieve an Outcome.
The material for post exercise recovery comes from the American Council of Exercise. The paper covers areas including the physiology of post-exercise recovery, energy pathways, strategies to enhance recovery, the role post training nutrition plays, alternative methods of, and misunderstandings about, post-exercise recovery including the role of free radicals and antioxidants, and the practical translation of exercise, nutrition and training recovery research into practice. Recovery
The revised section on Training to Achieve an Outcome currently only covers two types of training – Ultra-Short Race Pace Interval Training (USRPT) and High Intensity Training. Both provide their own unique insights into intensive training sets. The design of high intensity sets, including what are commonly called lactate tolerance and lactate production sets, are critical to the development of racing skills.
Training to Achieve an Outcome.
You can access our new pages directly from the mywaterworld.life Professional Development page.
In our latest news story, mywaterworld.life looks at the Tasmanian masters swimmers who have broken national records over the years.
Top of the listing is Sue Mayne having set 69 national marks.
You can read all about the record breakers in our latest News story
mywaterworld.life congratulates Tracy Clarkson, from the Brisbane Northside Masters Swimming Club, on her two new Masters Swimming Australia records*.
Competing at a meet in Tasmania, Tracy set new Australian records in the 70-74 year age group for the 1500m freestyle in a time of 24:07.42 while also capturing the 800 record** on the way in a time of 12:49.34. Both the times were also new Queensland records.
Tracy also broke the Queensland 400 Individual Medley record in her second race within the space of two hours swimming a time of 7:29.28
To top the meet off, Tracy recorded the top two FINA points swim of the meet – Congratulations Tracy.
Masters Swimming Tasmania held their 25th Short Course Long Distance Championships on Saturday 12 December 2020 at the Launceston Aquatic Center.
* At the time of writing, the records were provisional. Since then they been confirmed.
** The time for the 800 record has been updated as it was incorrectly reported in the original post.
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