{"id":136966,"date":"2015-06-17T14:15:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=136966"},"modified":"2015-06-24T15:05:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T22:05:05","slug":"petra-schneider-400-im-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/petra-schneider-400-im-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Petra Schneider\u2019s 4:36.10 In 400 IM In 1982 Was Untouchable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/ads.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/abmc.aspx?b=939&amp;z=6\" target=\"_blank\">Wylas Timing<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a previous performance at the world championships that still carries significance.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The 1982 FINA world championships carried a lot of importance in the swimming community. It was the first time the best in the world had gathered in one pool since the 1978 world championships, and would turn out to be the last place where the top swimmers raced each other until the 1986 world championships.<\/p>\n<p>The 1980 Olympics had been boycotted by the United States and a few of its allies. This meant the Soviet Union, East Germany and others who reigned behind the Iron Curtain were the stars of the Moscow Games, leaving the Americans and a few other nations without an opportunity to show their skills on the world stage. (The reverse of this would happen in 1984 when the Soviet Union led the Eastern Bloc through a boycott of the Los Angeles Games.)<\/p>\n<p>When the 1982 world championships convened in Guayguil, Ecuador, it was perceived to be a showdown between East Germany and the United States for supremacy. The Americans had a fresh crop of talent that was hungry to crush the Eastern Bloc\u2019s rumored steroid-addled athletes. Among them were future legends <strong>Tracy Caulkins<\/strong> and <strong>Rowdy Gaines<\/strong>. But none of them won individual gold medals, faltering in Ecuador just one week after qualifying for the team at the U.S. nationals. As <i>Swimming World Magazine<\/i> editorialized in the October 1982 edition that covered the meet, United States Swimming (as the national federation was known at the time) erred by holding its trials just before the world championships, giving athletes little time to readjust and acclimate to Ecuador before racing.<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wylas-timing.com\/?utm_source=Swimming%2BWorld&#038;utm_medium=Block%2Bad&#038;utm_campaign=wylas%2Btiming target=_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"139062\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/50-freestyle-1986-world-championships\/wylas-timing-block-ad\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wylas-timing-block-ad.gif\" data-orig-size=\"300,250\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wylas-timing-block-ad\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Wylas Timing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Photo Courtesy: Wylas Timing&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wylas-timing-block-ad.gif\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wylas-timing-block-ad.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/vmrw8k5h.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wylas-timing-block-ad.gif\" alt=\"Wylas Timing\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"size-full wp-image-139062\" \/><\/a>\n<p>From the October 1982 issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>All that remains now is to apply what was learned in time to reverse our fortunes in 1984. As <strong>Steve Lundquist<\/strong> said after the first night\u2019s events at the World Championships, \u201cDon\u2019t get mad \u2013 get even.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Americans were summarily embarrassed by teams that approached the world championships more prepared and ready to race. The East Germans, who continued to dope its athletes despite suspicions being aroused since the 1976 Olympics, won 12 gold medals to eight for the Americans. The East Germans and the Americans each won 25 total swimming medals, but at the time, it was the gold medal count that stung. Many of the events given to the East Germans or the Soviets could have been won by Americans, many of whom hadn\u2019t swum this slow in years. Some of the Americans swam times at the world trials that would have won gold medals.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most humiliating races for the Americans was the women\u2019s 400 IM on August 1, 1982. Caulkins was supposed to be the next IM queen, and had been the one to beat in 1980 before the boycott. Two years later, the East Germans put Caulkins and the rest of the field to shame with a 1-2 finish.<\/p>\n<p>In the gold medal position was a 19-year-old who had won the 400 IM at the Moscow Olympics by a stunning 10 seconds. <strong>Petra Schneider<\/strong> had first broken Caulkins\u2019 world record in May 1980 with a 4:39.96, starting an unbeaten streak in the event. Two years later in Guayguil, Schneider was still untouchable.<\/p>\n<p>Though her winning margin was only seven seconds over teammate <strong>Kathleen Nord<\/strong>, Schneider\u2019s world record would transcend those world championships, becoming a standard which many in the aftermath of the East German doping scandal would fail to reach.<\/p>\n<p>Schneider gave no indication that a world record was possible. She was behind the pace through the first 300 meters, splitting the butterfly leg almost a full second slower in Ecuador than she did at the Moscow Olympics when she went a 4:36.29. The rest of the field was so far behind from the start that Schneider might not have had the needed motivation to push the pace.<\/p>\n<p>But that freestyle leg was a shocker. Schneider blazed through the final 100 meters in 1:02.92, which would still be a respectable split in 2015. It helped her dip under her world record and reset it with a 4:36.10.<\/p>\n<p>The race \u201cwent absolutely perfect for me,\u201d Schneider said after the swim. \u201cI expected Tracy to be a much tougher competitor and much closer, and I was surprised that Kathleen beat her. I wanted to break the world record, but I think that this time is my limit for now. I could not have gone any faster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schneider never went faster in the 400 IM. She continued to swim through 1984, but the Soviet-led boycott meant no more Olympics for her. Her name would still be a part of the swimming conversation for many years. Schneider\u2019s world record would not be touched until 1997, when China\u2019s <strong>Chen Yan<\/strong> swam a stunning 4:34.79 at the Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Once the media caught wind of the East German doping regime in the mid-1990s, Schneider was one of the few who stepped forward and admitted to being doped during her career. She also called for her legendary 4:36.10 to be eradicated as the German national record, though it remains <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_German_records_in_swimming\" target=\"_blank\">the fastest time ever swum by a German<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the German swimming federation was right in keeping the record intact. It stands as a reminder of a dark period in the country\u2019s history. And though no German has broken 4:40 in many years, it also lives as a motivator for the current generation.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous world championship retrospectives<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/do-you-remember-ryan-lochte-michael-phelps-200-im-battle-royale-from-2011-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Lochte-Michael Phelps 200 IM from 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/doping-whispers-were-true-surrounding-china-swimmers-at-94-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Jingyi and the Chinese women at the 1994 world championships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":136969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,17,10],"tags":[447,51895,51896,951,1202,3455,638,142,272],"class_list":["post-136966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-commentary","category-world","tag-chen-yan","tag-guayguil","tag-kathleen-nord","tag-mary-t-meagher","tag-petra-schneider","tag-rowdy-gaines","tag-steve-lundquist","tag-swimming","tag-tracy-caulkins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - 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