[RACE VIDEO] Tom Shields Becomes First Man To Break 44 Seconds In 100 Fly SCY

Yikes. That is FAST.

Mostly USA traditionally all NCAA pools are 25yards. All College, University and school historically have 25yrd pool. Other parts of the world is metric and most pools for competition are 25m or 50m internationally. Some pools in USA have movable bulkheads that can make 25yd, 25m or 50m pools. So yes 25yds racing is mostly an American thing and not international

In UK back in the 70’s most of the pools were 25yds, when I was racing there. Now mostly replaced by the 25m

Peter Scott are you kidding? We had a school meet in 1979 in a 33 1/3 yard pool, lol. Built in central London in the 1800’s. There were other pools with really strange measurements too. I think we won the London Schools relay championships in a 45 yard pool too.
However, our school had a 25m tank.
Thanks for the memories I hadn’t thought about this for a long time.

We had a 33&1/3 yard, a 25 yard, a 25 meter, 50 meter, and a 44 yard pool on our circuit. You never knew how your times were going to correlate. The 44 yard pool was supposed to be 50 yards but the city council thought they could save a buck and shortened the pool and building on the plans prior to construction

I swam in Scotland in those days. Yes there was a 33 and 1/3 pool in Dundee. You swam 3 lenths for a 100. Now in fact the trend is sometimes to build useless play pools that you can’t race or train in.

In the 70’s most of my training was in 20yard pool (approx)??.

70’s back in the day all indoor pool training. Now my training in 25 and 50m pools all outdoor??. Also open water training in the sea year round and no need for wet suit…it is a big difference????

Peter Scott this is happening in Canada. 24m pools so the city won’t have to host swim meets!

Peter Scott we had a 20 yard pool too. It had 2, 5 yard shallow ends and the deep end was in the middle?

Yes and kidney shaped pools as well.??

We used to use the comparison tables that approximately converted times from different pool lengths. Unfortunately they don’t cater for 24m pools, kidney shapes, and wave pools with artificial beaches etc????

oh nevermind its 9m difference in america so doesnt count

Sammy Gregory yeah i was about to say doesn’t count

theyre so dumb tho like wtf??? just swim in a 50m pool cause thats what it is at the olympics???

yeh aha

im pre sure its feet

they swim in yards

oh yeah thats it

if that isnt the dumbest thing idk what is

Pas de stress 44 secondes… sur 25m peut-être

I would have been first if I hadn’t partied so much

Wasted talent

Lol “wasted” talent, get it

I wouldn’t mind that time doing freestyle especially all the disappointment over the last 4 years. I hate all of you

V fast

That’s fast

Ok. Do it