By Phillip Whitten<\/p>\n
PHOENIX, June 23. THE heat relented a bit – down one degree to 104 – but the swimming on Day Two of the USA Swimming National Disability Championships remained red hot. Eight more worlds records fell beneath the onslaught to bring the two-day total to 26.<\/p>\n
Spain's Xavier Torres got things going in the 200m Individual Medley in the S-4 category (see yesterday's story for an explanation of the different disability categories). Torres clocked 2:39.41 in prelims to bring the record below 2:40. In finals he lowered it to 2:34.66.<\/p>\n
Mexico's Juan Reyes took the 50m backstroke for men in the S-4 category down to 46.36 seconds – some three seconds faster than his winning time at the Paralympic Games in Sydney last September.<\/p>\n
The superbly conditioned Curtis Lovejoy notched the first world mark for the USA, when he won the 150m IM in the S-2 category in 4:47.86. It was the second world mark in the meet for the 44 year-old Lovejoy, who is a pariplegic. (In the 150 IM, the swimmer does 50 meters each of back, breast and free.)<\/p>\n
In the 200m backstroke, Jennifer Butcher, the Paralympic champion, twice lowered her own world mark in the S-13 division. Butcher first clocked 2:44.36 in prelims, then improved to 2:40.50 in finals.<\/p>\n
In the men's 200m back, Canada's Benoit Huot clocked 2:19.48. The time was a record in the S-10 division.<\/p>\n
Four marks fell in the men's 100m breaststroke. Canada's Kirby Cole clocked 1:19.16 to take the S-13 division.<\/p>\n
Mexico's Cristopher Tranco notched his second world record of the meet when he won the SB-1 division in 2:41.88. The USA's Curtis Lovejoy was also under the old mark with his 3:37.05. <\/p>\n
Mexico's Arnulfo Castorena took the SB-2 record down to 2:13.42.<\/p>\n
(Swiminfo<\/b> is indebted to USA Swimming's Dave Thomas, who compiled the list of records set.)(\/i>)<\/p>\n
Complete results of prelims, finals and timed finals under RESULTS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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