Five Australian Masters Records Fall

By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters correspondent

PERTH, Australia, July 8. FIVE Australian records fell to the usual suspects, Victor Paul and Rodney Baker, last weekend at a carnival hosted by Swan Hills club in their uniform two-meter deep short course meter home pool.

Paul resumed his record run in the Australian 65-69 years age group with a short course record in the 200 IM breaking the previous mark by more than 10 seconds in a time of 2:47.43, beating John Crisp's 2002 record by 10.06 seconds. He backed up in the 100 fly in a time of 1:19.75 taking 2.11 seconds off Colin Mayrhofer's 2007 record.

Baker broke three records in the 80-84 years age group. He took Ken Bullock's January 2009 25 free record time of 18.18 seconds down to 16.36 seconds. He then broke his short course 50 free record set last month by 0.73 seconds in a time of 35.14 seconds. In his third swim, he smashed Pieter Valburg's 2007 25 back record by 3.27 seconds in a time of 21.38 seconds.

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