Australian Masters Record Rewritten

By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters correspondent

PERTH, Australia, May 21. MASTERS swimming returned to Challenge Stadium, the scene of the FINA World Masters Championships, for a state 1500-meter swim meet.

Success came when Helen Bird of Osborne Park AUSSI Masters broke the 70-74 800 backstroke Australian record on her way through to a 1500 swim that was 0.86 seconds outside the Australian record. Her 800 split time was 16:31.63, breaking Tricia Liddy's 2006 Australian record by 4.16 seconds.

Among other notable swims on the day, Vic Paul of Bold Park club stripped 1.95 seconds off the Australian men's 60-64 long course record in a time of 20:06.29.

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