2001 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS CANADIAN UNIVERSITY CHAMPIONSHIPS $ 4.95 USA NUMBER 269 www.swimnews.com JAN-FEB 2002 $ 4.95 CAN WORLDWORLD CUPCUP QUEENQUEEN MARTINAMARTINA MORAVCOVAMORAVCOVA General Meet setup screen Splash Software The Future of Swim Meet Management Results screen for a single heat of an event Has Arrived! • Advanced data formats that • Accepts electronic meet are optimized to integrate entries in several formats into the Swimnews World including Commlink, SDIF, Rankings database WSV, Lenex & Aquabec •Works with all major timing • Save meet results in several systems including Omega, popular formats including Daktronics, Colorado, Alge SDIF, Splash, WSV, Lenex & and Longines Aquabec Entries screen - allows you to check all individual or relay entries • Uses the latest IPS • Operate the software in any International Point Score number of languages tables to assign point values including: English, French, to all performances - the German, Spanish, Italian, same point tables used on Portuguese, Dutch, Polish the FINA World Cup series and Icelandic Operate the interface in one of 9 languages, while outputting results in another splash.swimnews.com SwimNews Contents Jan-Feb 2002 N. J. Thierry, Editor & Publisher CONSECUTIVE NUMBER 269 VOLUME 29, NUMBER 1 Marco Chiesa, Business Manager Karin Helmstaedt, International Editor Russ Ewald, USA Editor FEATURES Paul Quinlan, Australian Editor Cecil Colwin, Features Editor 5-8 2002 FINA World Cup Nick J. Thierry Anita Smale, Copy Editor Feature Writers World Cup Commentary Nikki Dryden, New York Wayne Goldsmith, Australia Ed Moses and Martina Moravcova Top Performers Anita Lonsbrough, England International Statistical Support Group: 17 2002 Canadian University Championships Rumen Atanasov, Bulgaria Chaker Belhadj, Tunisia UBC Wins Fifth Consecutive Team Titles Szabolcs Fodor, Hungary Gerd Heydn, Germany Brian Johns Top Performer with Seven Golds Franck Jensen, Denmark Berth Johansson, Sweden 18 2001 US Open Nikki Dryden Daniel Pichon / Michel Salles, France Juan Antonio Sierra, Spain A Preview of What’s to Come Neville Smith, South Africa Fratisek Stochl, Czech Republic 20-21 Poster: Jennifer Button Marco Chiesa Nelson Vargas, Mexico Janusz Wasko, Poland 22 Your Health Part V Nikki Dryden Sumire Watanabe, Japan Sports Psychology SWIMNEWS established in 1974 Published ten times yearly (January to October) Mental Health Contributes to Great Work Ethic Contents copyright © No portion of this magazine may be reprinted without permission of the 33 European Short Course Championships Nick J. 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For details call: IMS at 4 About This Issue, Calendar 16 Results Canadian University Championships 1 (800) 428-3003 Editorial Offices: 9-10 World Cup Medallists 25-32 TAG (Top Age Group Times) SWIMNEWS, 356 Sumach St., Toronto, Ontario, 11 Record Setters 10&Under, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17&Over M4X 1V4, CANADA Tel: (416) 963-5599 Fax: (416) 963-5545 12-13 TOP (Tiny Olympic Prospects) 35 Results European Championships E-mail: [email protected] http://www.swimnews.com 14 Boys World Junior Rankings 38 Making Waves SWIMNEWS / JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002 3 ABOUT THIS ISSUE CALENDAR We are late. 2002 CANADIAN 11-14 BC Championships The hold up was TAG times. Everyone expects March 17-21 Youth, Junior, SWAD Nationals, Winnipeg accurate Canadian Top Age Group Times, but it took 16-17 EKSC White Bears, Edmonton 26-28 Eastern Cup, Montreal longer than expected to merge data files and to clean 16-17 Lethbridge Invitational, AB August up the mess. 19-24 Spring Nationals Cwlth Trials, Winnipeg 6-10 Summer Nationals, Victoria Most meets are now using a meet manager 23-24 CAMO Invitational, Montreal software to run thier competitions, unfurtunately few April 2002 UNITED STATES understand this software. After many weeks of effort 5-7 NB SC Team Championships, Fredericton March we have figured some of it out. It still requires close 6-7 SAMAK Invitational, Brossard 19-23 Spring Nationals, Minneapolis, MN monitoring of each data file to make sure it is clean. 6-7 Excalibur Invitational, Lethbridge 21-23 Women’s NCAA Championships, Austin, TX Software tools had to be developed for this clean-up 13 Etobicoke Pentathlon, ON 24 5K Open Water Nationals process. 13-14 Laser Septathlon, Saskatoon 28-30 Men’s NCAA Championships, Athens, GA We have also transferred our 15-year history of 13-15 LMRL Invitationals, Vancouver May rankings with over a million performances into our 13-15 Chinook Invitational, Calgary 17-19 US Grand Prix 1, Ann Arbor new database. 19-21 Trojan Invitational, Halifax 25-27 10K-25K Open Water Nationals, Newport Beach. CA Shortly, a searchable database of rankings and 19-21 Ontario Team Championships June results will be available on our website Brantford (I), Sudbury (II), TBD (III) 6-9 US Grand Prix 2, Charlotte, NC www.swimnews.com. Gradually it will be expanded 19-21 Island Invitational, Victoria 13-16 US Disability Championships, Federal Way, WA world wide. 26-28 Quebec Team Championships 14-17 Mission Viejo Invitational, CA What follows is an explanation on current Sainte-Foy (I), St-Jean (II), Sherbrooke (III) 28-30 US Grand Prix 3, Santa Clara, CA published TAG times. We have expanded the number 26-28 EKI International, Edmonton July of pages to eight from the previous six. Records and May 13-14 US Grand Prix 4, Long Island, NY relays will be added later. Rankings are for single 3-5 Hicken Invitational, Etobicoke 19-21 US Grand Prix 5, Los Angeles, CA years, that is age as of the first day of competition. This 4-5 Olympian 10&U, Edmonton August allows for a swimmer to be listed in two categories as 9-12 Hollandia Garden Invitational, London 12-17 Summer Nationals, Fort Lauderdale, FL they change age. If we have an incorrect birthdate, 9-12 ROW Invitational, Waterloo 18 5K Open Water Nationals, Fort Lauderdale, FL this will affect the rankings. The birthdate is part of 9-12 Cascade NIKE Invitational, Calgary December the data file for each swimmer, but if it is incorrect or 9-12 Leduc Invitational, AB 5-7 U.S. Open, Minneapolis, MN changing from meet to meet it will cause problems. 9-12 AMAC Invitational, AB So we remind everyone entering competitions to 17-19 ALDO Invitational, Montreal 2002 INTERNATIONAL insure all the required information is accurate. 17-19 TOP Cup, Etobicoke March Quebec meets are a particular problem as they 17-20 Masters Nationals, Saskatoon 15-19 South American Championships, Belem, BRA don’t come in data format and a good part of the delay 24-26 NB LC Team Champs, Saint John 18-23 National Championships, Brisbane, AUS was caused by this. 24-26 Quebec Cup 2 April The rest of this issue covers the most exciting 23-26 Zajac International, Vancouver 4-7 FINA World SC Champs, Moscow, RUS FINA World Cup series where 22 World Records fell, June 10-15 British Championships, Manchester, GBR the most ever. 31-2 Ontario SR Championships 11-14 Carifta Championships, Barbados The Canadian University Championships resulted 31-2 Regina Invitational, SK 15-21 National Championships, Chalon-sur-Saone, FRA in UBC winning its fifth consecutive men’s and 6-9 Etobicoke AG International, ON June women’s team title with Brian Johns winning seven 7-9 Nova Scotia Championships, Halifax 1-2 Mare Nostrum 1 golds and establishing a Canadian 200 IM record. 14-15 Toronto Swim Finale, ON 8-9 Mare Nostrum 2 The four-day European Championships was the 14-15 Central Region Champs, Etobicoke 27-30 ASA Championships, GBR perfect made-for-TV event, a tight two hour length, 14-16 Moose Jaw Invitational, SK July with lots of swimming and little pomp and cermony. 14-16 HYACK Invitational, BC 1-7 Caribbean Championships, Curacao Since LEN’s main source of income is TV it pays to 14-16 Island Invitational, Victoria 6-7 Coupe de France Finals, Millau cater to their needs. The fast swimming also help. 21-23 Central Region Team Champs, Etobicoke 25-4 European Championships, Berlin Nikki Dryden continues her series Your Health 27-30 Quebec Cup 3 August with an article on Sports Psychology and write on the 27-30 Man-Sask Championships, Winnipeg 30-4 Commonwealth Games, Manchester, GBR US Open and profiles top backstroker Natalie Coughlin. July 22-25 British SC Championships, GBR Wayne Goldsmith writes on how to manage 4-7 Ontario JR Provincials, Etobicoke 25-31 Pan Pacific Champs, Yokohama, JPN yourself to get the most out of our training.