{"id":2533,"date":"2001-05-20T16:06:39","date_gmt":"2001-05-20T21:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/uncategorized\/2001\/05\/volker-posts-world-leading-times-in-50-and-100-free\/"},"modified":"2014-07-24T18:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T01:13:44","slug":"volker-posts-world-leading-times-in-50-and-100-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/volker-posts-world-leading-times-in-50-and-100-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Volker Posts World-Leading Times in 50 and 100 Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY, May 19.  DON&#39;T tell anybody &#8212; especially NOT that &quot;little Dutch girl&quot; who romped to three golds and set three world records at last September&#39;s Olympics &#8212; but there&#39;s a not-so-new kid on the block ready and willing to take away her mantle.<\/p>\n<p>For those who thought that Holland&#39;s Inge deBruijn, winner of the 50-100 frees and 100 fly, all in world record-setting times at Sydney, was going to have another walk in the park at this summer&#39;s World Championships in Fukuoka, Fraulein Sandra Volker begs to differ.<\/p>\n<p><b> VOLKER STARS AT GERMAN NATIONALS <\/b><br \/>\nThe 27-year-old veteran German star, holder of the world record in the 50 back (28.25 from last year&#39;s German Olympic Trials), has won four events so far in this week&#39;s German Nationals (50 M)-World Championship Trials at Braunschweig, set a national record in the 50 free (24.72) and swam a world-leading 28.52 in the 50 back and 54.53 in the100 free too.<\/p>\n<p>Volker dropped her pr-NR in the half-century from 25.09 at last year&#39;s Trials to a fast 24.72 here (third on the all-time European list), then sped 54.53 in the 100 free &#8212; dropping her old pr of 54.88 done at the Atlanta Olympics.  That time ranks her No. 2 behind teammate Antje Buschulte&#39;s 54.39 NR from the German Olympic Trials last June.<\/p>\n<p>In the 100 back, where Volker&#39;s pr is 1:01.39 that won the gold at the European Championships in Istanbul two years ago, she went a solid 1:01.51 &#8212; fourth globally for 2001.  Her 50 back clocking is not only No. 1 globally but also third-performance all-time &#8212; trailing only her wr 28.25 from the heats and 28.29 from the finals of the Trials.  <\/p>\n<p>With her four wins, Volker now has 39 national titles in her career and appears to be improving as she ages towards that &quot;Big 30&quot; mark.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, &quot;Inky&quot; and her 24.13, 53.77 50-100 free global standards are decidely superior to anything Fraulein Volker has ever done or come close to doing.  However, if the German &quot;wundermadchen&quot; keeps up this rate of improvement she could be a definite medal contender this summer.<\/p>\n<p>Volker swims for SG Hamburg and has always been a talented backstroker-sprinter. But 24.7-54.5 takes her into uncharted territory and it will be interesting to see how she fares against the toughest competition in the world at Japan. She didn&#39;t medal at Sydney and, in fact, has never medaled at an Olympics or World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from the fact that her times are world-leading for &#39;01, how good are Volker&#39;s swims? 24.72 ranks her third all-time among Euro performers with Sweden&#39;s Therese Alshammar&#39;s 24.44 silver medal-winning performance at Sydney No. 2.  In the 100, 54.53 ranks her fourth among continental performers but Buschulte was not among the Top 2 finishers in the 100 so she likely will not swim it in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Alshammar and deBruijn have yet to make their long course debut this year and the jury&#39;s still out on whether either and\/or both can duplicate their magical success from last season. As has been noted before, the World Championship schedule seems tailor-made for deBruijn to duplicate her Sydney performance but don&#39;t mortgage the house &#8212; yet.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from Volker&#39;s outstanding swims, the biggest news from Braunschweig has been the stellar performance of 18-year-old Annika Melhorn. She won the 400 IM in a world-leading 4:41.11; raced to a pr-NR 2:13.86 today to win the 200 IM (No. 2 globally behind China&#39;s Qi Hui&#39;s 2:13.71) and won the 200 fly in a pr-NR 2:09.14 &#8212; second-fastest for &#39;01 behind Australia&#39;s Petria Thomas&#39; 2:07.32 from the Aussie Trials eight weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Melhorn ranked 23rd globally last year in the 200 IM (2:16.23, down from her 2:16.28 in &#39;99); was 83rd (!!!) in the 400 IM (4:54.61, but she had been 4:50+ in &#39;99); and was 46th in the 200 fly (pr 2:13.55, down from a 2:15.08 the year before).<\/p>\n<p>University of Alabama star Anne Poleska, who won the Southeast Conference Championship 200 breast title a couple of months ago and was runner-up at NCAAs, was second here in 2:31.00 to teammate Simone Wailer&#39;s 2:30.39. Poleska&#39;s pr-NR is a 2:27.76 that won her a spot on the plane to Sydney at last year&#39;s Trials.<\/p>\n<p>In the distances, 20-year-old Hannah Stockbauer &#8212; who ranked sixth last season in the 800 free (pr 8:29.84)<br \/>\n&#8212; swam a world-leading and NR 16:21.84 1500 free.<\/p>\n<p>On the men&#39;s side, the results were more modest but showed promise. In the 50 free it was 26-year-old sprinter Torsten Spanneberg first (22.78) followed by Carsten Dehmlow (22.92).  The 100 was won by Mitja Zastrow (50.20) with Spanneberg next (50.46).  In the double-century Stefan Herbst was No. 1 (1:49.55) and in the 800-mile it was distance specialist Heiko Hell (8:02.67-15:22.98).<\/p>\n<p>The 100 back was won in something of an upset by 20-year-old Steffen Driesen in a pr 55.13 over dorsal specialist Stev Theloke (55.32). The winning time ranks Driesen sixth globally.  In the 200 Driesen was again atop the victory podium (pr 2:01.11) with Theloke trailing (2:01.95).<\/p>\n<p>Jens Kruppa, still competitive at 27, won the 100 breast (1:03.03) with up-and-comer Michael Fischer (1:03.27) second. Kruppa&#39;s pr is a 1:01.79 from the USA Dual meet at the 1998 Goodwill Games in East Meadow, New York. The German record is 1:01.33 by Mark Warnecke from the Atlanta Olympics.  Now 31, Warnecke was fourth here (1:03.42) and won the 50 breast today (28.38) with Dirk Nowakowski (28.53) next.<\/p>\n<p>The flys were dominated by 100 NR-holder Thomas Rupprath, who went 52.60 (fifth globally) and the 200 in (1:56.96, fourth in the world).  His national 100 standard is 52.58 from the &#39;00 Olympic Trials and his pr in the 200 is 1:56.82 from the ssme meet.  The 24-year-old flyer ranked sixth and eighth, respectively, last year &#8212; his highest placings ever.<\/p>\n<p>The other men&#39;s event so far contested was the 400 IM, won by 30-year-old Jirka Letzin in 4:22.76. His pr is 4:18.63 from the Sydney prelims, ranking him 25th globally for the year.<\/p>\n<p><b> BALTIC CHAMPIONSHIPS <\/b><br \/>\nAt the recently concluded Baltic States Championships in Tallinn, Estonia May 15-16, 20-year-old Estonian Jana Kolukanova lowered her pr-NR in the 50 free from 25.87 at the Olympics to 25.74.  In the 100 she was second to countrywoman Elina Partoka (57.38-57.85). The latter also won the 200 (2:08.94).<\/p>\n<p>The backstrokes were dominated by 16-year-old Estonian Berit Aljand (1:07.92-2:24.42) and teammate Natalia Hissamutdinova (18) swept the breaststroke races, winning the 50 (no time available), the 100 (1:12.84) and the 200 (2:38.97). Ave Merisala (EST) won the 50 fly (30.16) and countrywoman Nino Metsar won the 100-200 flys (1:05.06-2:29.69). Her time for the former is an Estonian national youth record.<\/p>\n<p>Latvia got on the board via wins in both IMs, Agnese Carolina winning both (2:25.47-5:11.55).<\/p>\n<p>On the men&#39;s side Lithuania&#39;s Rolandas Gimbutis dominated the sprints, winning both in 23.72-51.66. In the 200 teammate Romans Miloslavskis was first in a pr-NR 1:53.49, but in the 400 he was runner-up to Lithuania&#39;s Saulius Binevilius (4:06.34-4:15.54).<\/p>\n<p>Former Lithuanian world 50 back record-holder Darius Grigalionis won his specialties (57.69-2:10.67); Estonia&#39;s Raiko Pachel did likewise in the 50-100 breast (29.41-1:04.97) and Latvia&#39;s Valerijs Kalmikovs &#8212; a former University of Nebraska &quot;All-America&quot; for Coach Cal Bentz and an Atlanta-Sydney Olympian &#8212; won the 200 breast (2:23.67). 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