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\u2019 Robert Strand in the men\u2019s 50-54 50-meter breaststroke. Sweden\u2019s Ronny Oltner set the record with a 31.97. Meanwhile Frank Piemme\u2019s world-record legacy took a bit of a beating as three of his standard fell throughout the day.<\/p>\n
Piemme became quite a story in the Masters ranks when he first started swimming Masters at the age of 55 to lose weight. During one remarkable year in 1995, the 2004 International Masters Swimming Hall of Fame inductee notched 25 national and 13 world records.<\/p>\n
World records broken are as follows:
\nUnited States\u2019 Shelly Johnston set the women\u2019s 25-29 100-meter fly record with a 1:03.18 to break the 1:03.48 previously held by Japan\u2019s Hitomi Matsuda since 2005.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Jeff Commings set the men\u2019s 30-34 50-meter breaststroke record with a 29.01 to break the 29.17 previously held by Austria\u2019s Patrick Schmollinger since 2003.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Susan Von Der Lippe set the women\u2019s 40-44 100-meter fly record with a 1:03.38 to break the 1:04.84 previously held by United States\u2019 Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen since 2004.<\/p>\n
Von Der Lippe was at it again in the women\u2019s 40-44 50-meter breaststroke as she touched in 33.45 to break the 33.79 set by countrywoman Caroline Krattli in 2002.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Dennis Baker demolished the men\u2019s 45-49 200-meter IM record of 2:18.61 previously held by Ukraine\u2019s Sergii Fesenko since 2004 with a 2:18.61. Notably, Fesenko is the father of former Indiana University swimmer Sergiy Fesenko who completed his eligibility this past season.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Richard Schroeder set the men\u2019s 45-49 50-meter breaststroke record with a 30.27 to break the 30.41 previously held by Sweden\u2019s Glen Christiansen since 2002.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Brigitte Heuer eclipsed the previous women\u2019s 45-49 50-meter freestyle record of 27.78 set by countrywoman Beth Lutz Knight in 2005 with a 27.76.<\/p>\n
Sweden\u2019s Ronny Oltner set the men\u2019s 50-54 50-meter breaststroke record with a 31.97 to break the 32.16 previously held by United States\u2019 Robert Strand since 1998.<\/p>\n
A pair of swimmers (Melinda Mann and Dagmar Frese) surpassed the women\u2019s 50-54 50-meter breaststroke standard of 37.93 set by Germany\u2019s Petra Schroer in 2004. Mann, however, put her hand on the wall first with a 37.51.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Greg Shaw set the men\u2019s 55-59 100-meter fly record with a 1:01.05. That time broke the 1:03.90 set by United States\u2019 Richard Abrahams in 2000. Meanwhile, Sweden\u2019s Leonard Bielicz also touched ahead of Abrahams\u2019 time in 1:03.24 for second.<\/p>\n
Norway\u2019s Alexander Mills surpassed the men\u2019s 55-59 200-meter IM standard of 2:29.02 previously set by United States\u2019 Jim McConica in 2005 with a 2:27.92.<\/p>\n
Mills continued his world-record pace with another standard in the men\u2019s 55-59 50-meter breaststroke by touching in 33.03. That effort tied the 33.03 set by Japan\u2019s Hiroshi Kotegawa in 1993.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Charlotte Davis took down her second world record of the meet with a 2:53.15 in the women\u2019s 55-59 200-meter IM to surpass Germany\u2019s Brigitte Merten, who previously held the record with a 2:53.72 since 2003.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Laura Val claimed her third world record of the meet by becoming the first sub-30-second women in the 55-59 age group in the 50-meter freestyle with a 29.59. That effort eclipsed the former standard of 30.03 held by the Netherlands\u2019 Jacoba Boer-Buijs since 2005.<\/p>\n
Val kept on rolling in the women\u2019s 55-59 100-meter fly with her fourth standard of the meet by touching in 1:12.13, well ahead of anyone else in her age group. The time broke the 1:13.71 set by Britain\u2019s Judy Wilson in 2000.<\/p>\n
After watching Davis erase her 55-59 age group record in the women\u2019s 200-meter IM, Merten did some damage of her own with a 2:58.08 to become the first sub-three-minute woman in the 60-64 age group. That effort broke the previous standard of 3:00.52 set by Canada\u2019s Bonnie Pronk in 2002. The standard is the second for Merten this meet.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 John Calvert set his third record of the meet with a 2:36.07 in the men\u2019s 60-64 200-meter IM. His effort eclipsed the 2:40.00 set by Britain\u2019s Duncan McCreadie in 2005.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Richard Abrahams broke his own men\u2019s 60-64 50-meter freestyle record of 25.54 set last year with a 25.23.<\/p>\n
United States\u2019 Robert Strand set the men\u2019s 60-64 50-meter breaststroke with a 34.20 to break the 34.42 previously held by United States\u2019 Peter Andersen since 2003.<\/p>\n
Germany\u2019s Christel Schulz pocketed her second record of the meet with a 3:08.85 in the women\u2019s 65-69 200-meter IM to clear her own record of 3:10.66 set last year.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s Aldo Eminente erased a six-year-old record of 31.19 set by United States\u2019 Frank Piemme in the men\u2019s 75-79 50-meter freestyle in 2000 with a 31.14.<\/p>\n
Piemme\u2019s records in the men\u2019s 75-79 age group continued to fall as United States\u2019 Graham Johnston touched in 3:18.31 in the 200-meter IM to break the 3:18.35 set by Piemme in 2000.<\/p>\n
Another Piemme standard fell as United States\u2019 Thomas Maine clocked a 1:45.50 in the men\u2019s 80-84 100-meter fly to break the previous Piemme standard of 1:46.11 set in 2005.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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