FAIRFAX, Virginia., July 29. AMERICAN Olympian Ed Moses and Japan's Masami Tanaka stole the show at the Speedo\/Eastern Section II Championships this weekend at George Mason University's Aquatic & Fitness Center Pool here.<\/p>\n
Curl-Burke's Moses, who tore up the World Cup circuit this past winter while laying waste to world sc meters 50-100 and 200 breast records, went a sizzling unshaved 1:01.91 100 breast Friday evening — his seasonal pr and the top American time of the year.<\/p>\n
Tanaka, training with Moses at Curl-Burke since last fall, set a pair of meet records with her seasonal prs of 1:08.90\/2:27.06 for the 100-200 breast.<\/p>\n
Tanaka holds her country's 100 record with her 1:07.27 from the Japanese Olympic Trials in Tokyo in April of Y2K. That time ranks her 12th on the all-time performances' list, fourth performer. The Asian record
\nis a 1:06.96 by China's Luo Xuejuan from last fall's 9th National Games in Guangzhou, history's third-best performance (second performer).<\/p>\n
Luo also won last summer's World Championship 100 with a meet-record 1:07.18. So although her pr was done at a domestic meet where any sort of drug testing was presumably nominal at best, she is legit as her time from Fukuoka shows.<\/p>\n
In the 200, Tanaka's pr is even more impressive, i.e., an NR 2:24.12, also from the Trials. That time ranks her fifth on the all-time global performances' list, fourth performer. She has yet to medal at a major
\ninternational competition, however.<\/p>\n
Tanana's 100 ranks her sixth gloablly this year (peformer) and is the eighth-fastest performance. In the 200 she's even higher, i.e., fifth-fastest peformer and sixth-performance.<\/p>\n
Moses is ninth-quickest globally but his pr (American-record 1:00.29 from last year's World Championship Trials in Austin) ranks him fifth on the all-time performances' list and he's also second-best performer.<\/p>\n
However, the No. 1 man — Russia's Roman Sloudnov — has the world's four-fastest performances, including history's only two sub 1:00.0 clockings, and the World Championship title too.<\/p>\n
Tanaka's times here make her faster than any other Japanese woman this year by a wide margin, but since she did not swim at her country's Pan-Pac Trials in June she will be kept off the team for Yokohama and the Asian Games. <\/p>\n
Moses will have to finish among the Top 2 at the U.S. Nationals in Ft. Lauderdale next month to make the plane to Yokohama but he has told SwimInfo<\/b> he probably will not make the trip, preferring to return to the University of Virginia for the beginning of the fall semester.<\/p>\n
World 400 IM record-holder Tom Dolan made his competitve debut after taking the year off last season and won the 200 free in 1:53+. His pr in this
\nrace is a 1:49.89 from the '97 Pan-Pacs, the last time he's swum it seriously.<\/p>\n
— Bill Bell<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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