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SWIMMING SWIM 1 Fact Sheet Table of Contents Open Water Schedule Team History pp. 1-5 March 18 Day 2 March 20 Day 4 March 21 Day 5 contains fact sheet, schedule, 5KM 10-11:30 a.m. (W) 10KM 12-2:30 p.m. (W) 10KM 12-2:30 p.m. (M) Team USA notes, athlete lifestyle 12-1:30 p.m. (M) highlights Roster p. 6 March 24 Day 8 March 25 Day 9 Athlete Bios pp. 7-52 25KM 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (W) 25KM 10 a.m.-4 p.m. (M) Coach Bios pp. 53-55 Meet History pp. 56-61 contains list of past World Champs medalists and medal count Pool Schedule Times History pp. 62-91 contains Record Progressions, All- PRELIMS FINALS PRELIMS FINALS Time Top Performances and Sunday, March 25 Day 9 Monday, March 26 Day 10 Performers, fastest fields 100m Fly (W) 100m Fly (W)- Semi 100m Back (W) 100m Breast (M) contains World, American pp. 92-94 400m Free (M) 400m Free (M) 200m Free (M) 100m Fly (W) U.S. Open and World Champs 200m IM (W) 200m IM (W)- Semi 100m Breast (W) 100m Back (M)- Semi records 50m Fly (M) 50m Fly (M)- Semi 100m Back (M) 100m Breast (W)- Semi Schedule p. 95 400m Free (W) 400m Free (W) 1500m Free (W) 50m Fly (M) contains USA Swimming Event 100m Breast (M) 100m Breast (M)- Semi 100m Back (W)- Semi Schedule for 2007-08 400m Free Relay (W) 400m Free Relay (W) 200m Free (M)- Semi 400m Free Relay (M) 400m Free Relay (M) 200m IM (W) Quick Facts WHAT: Tuesday, March 27 Day 11 Wednesday, March Day 12 12th FINA World Championships 50m Breast (M) 200m Free (M) 28 100m Free (M)- Semi 200m Fly (M) 100m Back (W) 50m Back (W) 50m Back (W)- Semi WHEN: 200m Free (W) 50m Breast (M)- Semi 100m Free (M) 200m Fly (M) March 17-April 1, 2007 800m Free (M) 1500m Free (W) 200m Fly (W) 200m Free (W) Open Water Dates: March 18-25 100m Back (M) 200m IM (M) 50m Breast (M) Pool Dates: March 25-April 1 200m Free (W)- Semi 200m Fly (W)- Semi Prelims: 10 a.m. 200m Fly (M)- Semi 200m IM (M)- Semi (6 p.m. the previous day for EST) 100m Breast (W) 800m Free (M) Finals: 7 p.m. (3 a.m. the same day for EST) WHERE: Thursday, March 29 Day 13 Friday, March 30 Day 14 Melbourne, Australia 100m Free (W) 100m Free (W)- Semi 50m Fly (W) 100m Free (W) *Open water swimming events will be 200m Back (M) 200m IM (M) 50m Free (M) 200m Back (M) contested at St. Kilda beach, approx- 200m Breast (W) 200m Breast (W)- Semi 800m Free (W) imately five kilometres from the 50m Fly (W)- Semi Melbourne central business district. 200m Breast (M) 100m Free (M) 100m Fly (M) 50m Free (M)- Semi *Pool swimming events will be con- 800m Free Relay (W) 200m Fly (W) 200m Back (W) 200m Breast (W) tested in a temporary pool at Rod 200m Breast (M)- Semi 800m Free Relay (M) 100m Fly (M)- Semi Laver Arena in Melbourne Park. 50m Back (W) 200m Back (W)- Semi 200m Back (M)- Semi 200m Breast (M) FORMAT: 800m Free Relay (W) 800m Free Relay (M) 50 meters (Olympic distance) USA SWIMMING CONTACTS: Saturday, March 31 Day 15 Sunday, April 1 Day 16 Jamie Fabos 50m Free (W) 50m Fly (W) 400m IM (M) 50m Back (M) [email protected] 50m Back (M) 50m Free (M) 400m IM (W) 50m Breast (W) +1 (719) 235-8051 50m Breast (W) 200m Back (W) 400m Medley Relay (M) 400m IM (M) *available at this number in Melbourne 1500m Free (M) 50m Breast (W)- Semi 50m Free (W) 400m Medley Relay (W) 100m Fly (M) 1500m Free (M) Sara Hunninghake 50m Free (W)- Semi 400m IM (W) [email protected] 50m Back (M)- Semi 400m Medley Relay (M) +1 (719) 440-2424 800m Free (W) *available at this number in Melbourne 400m Medley Relay (W) SWIM 2 Team USA Notes Scouting The Olympic Team the beginning of the meet, which limited her ability to compete. With less than 540 days until the Despite that, she still helped Team USA to a gold in the 400m 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the free relay and a silver in the 400m medley relay. She also fin- countdown is on. As the buzz ished eighth in the 100m fly. Coughlin recovered without much increases, expect the 2007 FINA of a hitch, making the 2004 Olympic Team and winning five World Championships to give a Olympic medals - two of them gold - which was the most of any sneak peek at the potential swim- female at the 2004 Games. Since then, Coughlin has racked up ming stars of the next Olympics. 11 medals - five of them gold - in major international competi- Outside of the Olympics, this meet is tions. At the 2006 Pan Pacifics, she captured four golds, finish- considered the top international ing with a six-medal haul from Victoria. swimming competition. Looking back at the 2003 Worlds, 22 members of The World Record Trio that team went on to make the 2004 Two of the three members of Olympic Team. The Texas Trio - Ian Crocker (Portland, Maine / Longhorn), Brendan Hansen (Havertown, The Home Court Advantage Pa. / Longhorn) and Aaron As was the case in 2005, the World Championships will set the Peirsol (Irvine, Calif. / stage for the 2007 Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool, where Longhorn) - broke world long-time rivals Team USA and Australia will battle in a dual records last summer, and whenever these three take a dip in the meet. The world's top two swimming countries will square off for pool, records are at risk of being broken. Last summer, Hansen bragging rights in this event, which will be televised over the took down the 100m breaststroke world record once and the course of two days on NBC. And for the first time, the Aussies 200m breast record twice. Peirsol lowered his own world mark in will have the advantage of the home crowd. The inaugural event the 200m back in 2006, a race in which he has not lost at a in 2003 was in Indianapolis, and in 2005, the teams went head- major international competition since 2000. to-head in Irvine, Calif. The three are each competing in their fourth World The Americans have dominated the series, winning both meet- Championship. They have a combined 22 World medals (16 of ings. In 2005, Team USA captured victories in 18 of the 28 them gold), and all three won individual gold in their signature events in front of the sold-out crowd of 2,600. Teams USA won events at the 2005 World Champs in Montreal. 190-102, but the Australians rode a wave of talent on the women's side, outscoring the American women 76-70. Worth noting is the rivalry between Crocker and Phelps in the 100m fly, which initially heated up in 2003 when Crocker U.S. Relays shocked the world by out touching Phelps for the world record Team USA swept all the relays at and the gold medal. Since then, the two have gone head-to- the 2006 Mutual of Omaha Pan head at numerous major meets. Three of the times Crocker has Pacific Championships, setting beaten Phelps, it has been a world record. one world, three American and six Championships records. But with Breakout Stars the whole world gunning for them in Australia, that feat will be a Both Whitney Myers (Oxford, Ohio / Arizona) and Cullen challenge to repeat. Currently, the Jones (New Brunswick, N.J. / NC State Aquatics) have the Americans own world records in two of the men's relays (400m potential to retain the title of Team USA's breakout stars in 2007. freestyle and 400m medley relays). Myers turned heads in 2006 when she defeated U.S. teammate Katie Hoff in the 200m individual medley at Pan Pacs, narrowly missing Hoff's American record by six-hundredths. Jones gave How Many Records Will He Break? the swimming community reason to buzz when he beat defend- People weren't necessarily asking the question of Michael ing world champion Roland Schoeman of South Africa in the Phelps (Baltimore, Md. / Club Wolverine) in 2003, but after his 50m free at Pan Pacs. Jones also became the first African- performance at the World Championships in Barcelona, they American swimmer to break a long-course world record as a might be this time around. Phelps became the first person since member of the 400m free relay team that captured gold and Mark Spitz at the 1972 Olympic Games, to break at least five brought the world record back to the USA for the first time since world records in one meet when he took down world records in 2000. the 100m butterfly, 200m fly, 200m individual medley (twice) and the 400m IM. He was named the Swimmer of the Meet after Both Myers and Jones earned year-end accolades at the 2006 winning six medals - four of them gold. Golden Goggle Awards. Myers took home Female Performance of the Year, and Jones won Breakout Performer of the Year and Last month, Phelps provided an indication of what’s to come in Relay Performance of the Year. Australia, breaking his own world record in the 200m butterfly during the finals of the 2007 Missouri Grand Prix, Feb. 16-19 in Keep An Eye On The Record Columbia, Mo.

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