{"id":526754,"date":"2023-04-03T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T23:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=526754"},"modified":"2023-04-04T05:53:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T12:53:21","slug":"erika-fairweather-quietly-moves-up-to-no-6-all-time-in-400-free-with-400-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/erika-fairweather-quietly-moves-up-to-no-6-all-time-in-400-free-with-400-62\/","title":{"rendered":"Erika Fairweather Quietly Moves Up to No. 6 All-Time in 400 Free with 4:00.62"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erika Fairweather Quietly Moves Up to No. 6 All-Time in 400 Free with 4:00.62<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a week where one teen\u2019s exploits over 400 meters of swimming took center stage<\/a>, another flew under the radar. New Zealand Olympian Erika Fairweather<\/strong> set a pair of national records at the NZ Swimming Championships, rising to No. 6 all-time in the 400 free with a time of 4:00.62.<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old re-set her national record in the 200 free to 1:55.44, then lowered the 400 free mark to 4:00.62. It\u2019s isn\u2019t Summer McIntosh\u2019s new world record of 3:56.08 or any of the collection of 3:56 times put together by Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> and Katie Ledecky.<\/strong> But Fairweather is sixth all-time and is trying to be just the fourth woman to break four minutes, joining that current trio and Federica Pellegrini,<\/strong> who did so at Worlds in 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was really confident that I could break that 4-minute mark but halfway through the race I just realised that today wasn\u2019t going to be that day,\u201d Fairweather told Swimming NZ<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t quite nail that first 200m today so I\u2019ll work on that but it\u2019s a matter of when, not if, I\u2019ll go under that 4-minute mark.\u201d<\/p>\n