SANTA CRUZ, Calif., July 20. TEN Masters world records were set at the Pacific Masters Long Course Championships, held in Santa Cruz, California, July 12-14. <\/p>\n
Laura Val, 52 and representing Tamalpais Masters, accounted fot seven of them. Marjorie Sharpe had two and Ed Cazalet knocked down one.<\/p>\n
Val, SWIM<\/b> Magazine's "Masters Swimmer of the Year" for 2001, continued her onslaught on the record book, setting marks in freestyle, backstroke and medley for women 50-54.<\/p>\n
In the 400 meter free, Val posted a time of 4:47.93, making her the first woman over 50 to crack five minutes. Celeste Miller set the old mark of 5:00.65 two years ago. In the 800 free, Val became the first woman over 50 to dip under 10 minutes, touching in 9:52.55. Again, it was Miller's record — 10:17.70 set in 2000 — that Val shattered.<\/p>\n
Val collected all three records in the backstroke events, each formerly held by a difference swimmer. The Tamalpais Terror clocked 33.67 for the 50, 1:14.87 for the 100 and 2:46.81 for the 200. The old standards were 34.87 (Sakoto Takeuji, Japan, 1992), 1:18.36 (C. Panighetti, USA, 2000) and 2:48.10 (Barbara Burazeau, France, 2001).<\/p>\n
In the 200 IM, Val clocked 2:41.31, nine seconds under the old mark of 2:50.32 set by Miller in 2000. In the 400 IM, Val slashed through the previously inviolate six-minute barrier, swimming 5:42.80. Barbara Dunbar was the former record-holder with her 6:03.12 from 1999.<\/p>\n
Stanford Masters' Marjorie Sharpe swam true to her name, setting world Masters records in the 100 and 400 meter freestyle for women 85-89.<\/p>\n
Sharpe, 85, became the first woman her age to crack two minutes for the 100m freestyle, clocking 1:55.46. The previous record, 2:00.66, was set five years ago by Japan's Ume Wada.<\/p>\n
Wada lost another mark to Sharpe, this time in the 400 meters, as the Stanford swimmer clocked 9:10.43, well under Wada's 9:31.21 that had lasted five years.<\/p>\n
Ed Cazalet, representing Tamalpais Masters, set two American records and one world mark. Swimming in the 60-64 division, Cazalet, 60, clocked 5:49.43 to erase the global standard of 5:51.70 set by New Zealand's Barry Young in 1999.<\/p>\n
In the 200 back, Cazalet's 2:44.38 was fast enough to take down Don Brown's domestic mark of 2:45.93 set nine years ago, but was still off Young's world record of 2:41.10. Cazalet narrowly missed breaking another world and US mark when he touched in 20:07.99 in the 1500. Both records belong to Graham Johnston, who swam 20:04+ in 1995.<\/p>\n
–Phil Whitten<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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