MISSION VIEJO, California, August 9. MASTERS world records continued to fall under the southern California sun today at the U.S. Masters long course national championships, with a few swimmers adding to their list of records already broken this week.<\/p>\n
The first event of the day was the men’s 50 breaststroke, where David Guthrie, 53, broke the world record in the 50-54 age group of 30.88 by two-time Olympian Richard Schroeder with a 30.48. He now owns all three breaststroke long course records in that age group, and still has the 200 breast left at nationals on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Katie Glenn, 37, notched her second world mark of the meet as well, taking the 50 breast in the 35-39 age group with a 32.86, beating out Roberta Crescentini’s 33.10 from 2011. The swim also erased Cynthia Lewis’ national mark of 33.86.<\/p>\n
Richard Burns put up a 2:44.59 in the men’s 200 backstroke for a world record in the 70-74 age group. Burns, 70, took down New Zealander Barry Young’s 2:48.10 and Burwell Jones’ national record of 2:55.19. That wasn’t Burns’ only big swim of the day, as he posted a 31.42 in the 50 butterfly to break Hiroshi Matsumoto’s world record of 31.49 and Ron Johnson’s national record of 32.11.<\/p>\n
Also breaking a world record in the men’s 200 back was Fred Ferroggiaro, who swam a 2:33.09 for a new mark in the 60-64 age group. Ferroggiaro’s time beat out Jim McConica’s 2:33.94 from May 2012.<\/p>\n
Noriko Inada, known mostly for her backstroke prowess as a three-time Olympian for Japan, set a world record in the 50 butterfly today in the 35-39 age group. Inada, 35, swam a 27.80 to beat Australian Lynn Hayes’ world record of 28.03, as well as Tracie Moll’s 14-year-old national record of 28.32. Also breaking a world record in the women’s 50 fly was Traci Granger, who swam a 30.97 to become one of the few to beat a Laura Val world record. Val’s record in the 55-59 age group stood at 31.42 since 2009.<\/p>\n
Rita Simonton was the only woman to set a world record in the 800 freestyle today, with the 95-year-old posting an incredible 21:53.69 in the event to drop more than seven minutes off Mieko Nagaoka’s mark of 29:29.02 from 2010. On the men’s side, Willard Lamb set a world record in the 90-94 age group to go along with his 1500 freestyle record from day one and his 200 free record from yesterday. Lamb’s time of 16:28.37 in the 800 today was nearly a minute and a half faster than the record of 17:54.12 swum by Tokushi Komeda in 2005, and also faster than the 18:00.20 swum by Jurgen Schmidt earlier this year for the national record. Schmidt, meanwhile, beat his national record with a runner-up time of 17:58.02.<\/p>\n
The host team, the Mission Viejo Nadadores, celebrated a world record in the mixed 200 freestyle relay today. In the 360-299 age group, Frank Piemme (88 years old), Maurine Kornfeld (92 years old), Simonton (95 years old) and Schmidt (90 years old) posted a 3:36.78 in the event to obliterate the standing world record of 4:18.13 set by a team from Japan in 2005 and fully clear the national record set by Coast Masters in 2003 by nearly two minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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