OREGON CITY, Oregon, March 11. FOUR Masters short course meters world records fell last weekend at a three-day short course meters meet in Oregon in the middle of the short course yards season.<\/p>\n
Willard Lamb, who already has six short course meters world records in the 85-89 and 90-94 age groups, broke his own mark in the 400 freestyle in the 90-94 age group with a 7:46.30. Lamb, 92 years old and representing Oregon Masters, previously swam a 7:51.96 at the same meet last year. Though he was far off the world record of 3:59.25 by Japan\u2019s Goro Kobayashi in the 200 backstroke, he set a new U.S. Masters Swimming record of 4:29.29 last weekend.<\/p>\n
David Radcliff just turned 80 and wasted no time in obliterating a world record in the 80-84 age group in the 400 free. Swimming for Oregon Masters, Radcliff posted a 5:39.27 to take down the 5:56.77 swum in 2011 by Spain\u2019s Roberto Alberiche. Radcliff also took aim at Alberiche\u2019s 200 free world record of 2:45.24 but fell short with a 2:48.49. Radcliff\u2019s time was a USMS record, shattering Graham Johnston\u2019s mark by nine seconds. This is Radcliff\u2019s first short course meters world record in the 80-84 age group, though he leaves behind six in the 75-79 age group.<\/p>\n
Two swimmers from Ventura County Masters in southern California made the trip north and were rewarded with one world record each. Hubie Kerns, 65, posted a 2:35.67 in the 200 IM to beat Richard Burns\u2019 2:38.42 that had stood as the world and USMS record since 2009 in the 65-69 age group. Kerns has been a part of world record-setting relays for Ventura County Masters, but this marks his first individual world record.<\/p>\n
Glenn Gruber also set his first individual world record with a 4:55.10 in the 400 freestyle in the 65-69 age group. Gruber shaved a few tenths off Tom Landis\u2019 seven-year-old world record of 4:55.56 in the process.<\/p>\n
Gruber, 65, told Swimming World that he began using the Ultra-Short Race Pace Training program in September with the explicit goal of breaking the record.<\/p>\n
\u201cUSRPT is all about race pace,\u201d Gruber said. \u201cIt makes sense to me to train at the speed you are going to race. All I kept saying behind the blocks before the race was, \u2018Do what you do every day in practice.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The result was not only a world record, but Gruber\u2019s fastest swim in the 400 free since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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