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PHOENIX, Arizona, July 20. THIS weekend featured seven FINA Masters World records being set on both sides of the United States.
At the Gil Young Memorial meet held in Mount Hood, Ore., six global marks took a tumble.
David Radcliff, 75, took down four records in the men's 75-79 age division. He clocked a time of 30.28 in the 50 free to c...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 27. MASTERS swimmer David Radcliff has been on a tear this spring in the 75-79 age group, swimming under the world marks in all six freestyle short course meters events at the MSABC Provincial Championships in Duncan, British Columbia.
Radcliff, 75 years old and representing Oregon Masters, swam under the records owned by...
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VICTORIA, Canada, March 10. SOME top-flight swimming took place at the 29th Annual Victoria Masters meet held this past weekend over long course meters as eight FINA Masters world records were bettered.
American Gail Roper enjoyed a standpoint meet in the 80-84 age division with a FINA Masters world record trifecta. She clocked a swift time of ...
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CORAL SPRINGS, Florida, December 9. AT a short course meter meet held in Coral Springs, Fla, Burwell "Bumpy" Jones surpassed another handful of men's 75-79 age group FINA Masters world records. He's been on a tear of late with various standards falling before him in the division.
He cleared the men's 400 IM record of 6:52....
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SARASOTA, Florida, June 18. BURWELL "Bumpy" Jones, 75, really enjoyed aging up at the meet named in his honor, the Bumpy Jones Classic, this past weekend as Jones knocked down several Masters world records in the 75-79 age division.
Jones notched a time of 6:52.51 in the 400 IM to clear the previous mark of 7:08.74 set by Graham Johns...
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CHICAGO, Illinois, November 13. SEVERAL Masters swimmers are up for awards in the 2007 GeezerJock of the Year awards. Get the vote out to help our Masters swimmers trounce the other sports!
The following is a list of those Masters swimmers nominated for various awards:
Sue Walsh
Durham, N.C.
Women's 40-49
Dan Stephenson
Ann Arbor,...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, September 22. WHEN Graham Johnston's swimming career first began, he didn't wear goggles because there weren't any. He trained in a chemical-free pool with no lane lines or starting blocks. And he swam only three strokes, because butterfly hadn't been invented yet.
Seventy years later, with t...
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THE WOODLANDS, Texas, August 12. 888 – That's the number for the first three days of competition as eight Masters world records have fallen each day at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) Long Course National Championships held in The Woodlands, Texas. After watching 16 world records posted the first two days, competitors recorded eight ...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, May 20. The water at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., proved to be on fire as even more national Masters records fell at the 2007 USMS Short Course National Championships held from May 17-20.
Men's 200 backstroke
Richard Todd (65-69) posted a national record in the event wit...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, May 19. ON the third day of competition at the 2007 USMS Short Course National Championships held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., from May 17-20, Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen went to town on the 45-49 division national record book with three standards in three tries.
Men's 100 IM
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, May 18. IN the second day of short course yard swimming at the 2007 USMS Short Course National Championships held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., from May 17-20, competitors lit up the water with a bevy of beautiful efforts.
Men's 100 butterfly
After a blistering first d...
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, May 17. DURING the first day of competition at the 2007 USMS Short Course National Championships held at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Wash., from May 17-20, the men's distance freestylers put on a show. During the first session, nine national short course yard records fell in the meet – a...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 19. IN the latest edition of
Swimming World Magazine, which arrived in subscribers mailboxes earlier this month, we named the Top 12 World Masters Swimmers of 2006. They hail from five different countries and range in age from 29-91.
Here is the complete list of winners:
MEN
GRAHAM JOHNSTON, 75, UNITED STATES
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 16. WITH the impending selection of the third-annual
Swimming World Magazine World Masters Swimmers of the Year, we wanted to make sure we had all of our facts straight. With that in mind, we are checking with you – our diligent readers – to make sure our initial list of Masters world records (as defined as short ...
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By Phil Whitten
TEMPE, Arizona, November 30. LAURA Val and Jeff Commings each set a world Masters record to highlight competition on the second day of the Southwest Zone Short Course Meters Championships, held at Arizona State University on November 19.
On a perfect, 80-degree, late-autumn day, Val, 55, smashed the 800-meter freestyle mark f...
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By Phillip Whitten
TEMPE, Arizona, November 18. THREE Masters world records and an additional US mark highlighted the first day of competition at the Southwest Short Course Meters Zone Championships at Arizona State University in Tempe. The two-day meet concludes tomorrow.
Mike Freshley, San Diego Swim Masters, got the ball rolling in the fi...
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STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 10. The final day of swimming competition at the 2006 FINA World Masters Championship featured 12 world record fall at the Belardi and Baker pools at the Avery Aquatic Center on the campus of Stanford University on Thursday.
World records broken are as follows:
United States’ Sheri Hart broke the women’s 35-39 50-meter ba...
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STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 7. WORLD records continued to be in the crosshairs for swimmers at the FINA World Masters Championships in Stanford, Calif. The most notable records to fall throughout the day were an eight-year-old record of the United States’ Robert Strand in the men’s 50-54 50-meter breaststroke. Sweden’s Ronny Oltner set the record wit...
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STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 6. A plethora of world records went down at the FINA World Masters Championships held at the Belardi and Baker pools at the Avery Aquatic Center on the campus of Stanford University on Saturday. The longest running standard to go down previously belonged to the United States’ Ray Taft since 1995 as his countryman Graham John...
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STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 6. A bevy of global standards fell at the FINA World Masters Championships held at the Belardi and Baker pools at the Avery Aquatic Center on the campus of Stanford University on Sunday. The most impressive outing came from Britain’s Jane Asher as she moved her world-record haul to four during the meet with a pair of standa...
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