SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – September-October 2003 CONTENTS Germantown Academy Aquatic Club 1969-2002 (Dick Shoulberg)...............................................90 Barcelona – 2003 Swimming World Training Natalie Coughlin – SPEED RACER (Teri Championships .................................................1 McKeever & Michael J. Stott) ............................92 Open Water Swimming 2003 World Georgia Swimming Middle Distance Program – Championships .................................................8 with a spotlight on Maritza Correia..................96 An Armchair View of the Barcelona World ASCTA, PO Box 824, Lavington Championships (Otto Sonnleitner) ....................10 Mailing Address NSW 2641 Highlights of Swimming at Australian Deaf Email [email protected] Games.............................................................12 Web Site www.ascta.com Swimming in the Fastlane with a Disability Membership Phone: 02 6041 6077 (Paul Gockel)....................................................14 Enquiries Fax: 02 6041 4282 Letters to the Editor ........................................14 ASCTA Insurance 1300 300 511 Hidden Factors in Freestyle Swimming (Cecil Brokers Colwin)............................................................15 Sports Medicine – Pool Temperatures (Jessica SWIMMING in AUSTRALIA is published six times annually. 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The Power of Elegance – the Russian team is unbeaten since the 1998 FINA World Championships.................................................... 80 Views expressed in articles are those of the A Pedagogue in Papua New Guinea (Jean-Louis authors and do not necessarily reflect those of Meuret)................................................................. 82 the Editor or the Board of ASCTA. Croc scare in Cairns (Mark Davies) ..................83 Portrait of a Grand Master (Tito Morales) .........86 SWIMMING IN AUSTRALIA – September-October 2003 the 400m Freestyle. She then backed up to take her place in the Australian Women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay Team with Libby Lenton, Jodie Henry and Sophie Edington which qualified fastest. barcelona03 Defending champions Australia scraped into X FINA World Championships the Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Final by the skin of their teeth, qualifying eighth with 2001 silver Downloaded from Australian Swimming Website medallists from 2001, Netherlands and fourth placegetters Sweden both shock eliminations. THORPE & HACKETT TO LEAD AUSSIE Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett set up the CHARGE th anticipated gold medal showdown by qualifying 20 July in 1st and 2nd spot for tonight’s final of the 400m The stage is set for a block busting start to Freestyle with effortless wins in the heats this the X FINA World Swimming Championships morning. Thorpe, looking as relaxed and with Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett comfortable in the water as ever, was the fastest spearheading 12 Telstra Dolphins into qualifier, clocking 3.47.44, to be almost a full individual events on the opening day at the second in front of Hackett, whose time of Palau Sant Jordi. 3.48.35 puts the pair side-by-side in the final. Defending champion Thorpe will attempt to Both swimmers swam well within themselves, become the first swimmer in world and seven seconds inside Thorpe’s world record, championship history to win three consecutive with the knowledge that they have very busy titles in the one event when he lines up against programs over the next eight days. Hackett in the 400m Freestyle. “I went into the race just trying to control Thorpe, the world record holder and Olympic things and get through to the final,” Thorpe said. champion, has defeated Hackett in the last two “I was delighted with my even splits and look World Championships in Perth in 1998 and forward to the final.” Fukuoka in 2001. Alice Mills also looked strong in qualifying 5th Australians have won 24 individual world fastest for the semi finals of the 200m championships in the pool since the original Individual Medley, which will be contested “Superfish” Steve Holland won our maiden title tonight. Mills clocked 2.15.37 to comfortably in Belgrade in 1973. advance while compatriot Leisel Jones missed Other Australians in action on Day 1 will be the semi finals. Jessicah Schipper and Libby Lenton in the Geoff Huegill showed he is ready to defend 100m Butterfly; Elka Graham and Linda his 50m Butterfly world title by qualifying 2nd MacKenzie in the 400m Freestyle; Geoff Huegill fastest for tonight’s semi finals with Matt Welsh and Matt Welsh in the 50m Butterfly, Leisel also looking strong in progressing in 12th place. Jones and Alice Mills in the 200m Individual Up and coming Butterflyer Jessicah Schipper Medley; Regan Harrison and Brenton Rickard in made a solid start to her international career, the 100m Breaststroke as well as the men’s and by stopping the clock at 59.90 to go through the women’s 4x100m Freestyle Relay. tonight’s semi finals of the 100m Butterfly in RICKARD’S AUSTRALIAN RECORD IN 11th place. BREASTSTROKE HEATS th THORPE RE WRITES HISTORY WITH 400 20 July FREESTYLE TREBLE Melbourne rookie, Brenton Rickard, today 21st July broke Phil Rogers’ long-standing Australian It was a mixed day of results on Day 1 of the record in the heats of the 100m Breaststroke on X FINA World Swimming Championships Day 1 of the X FINA World Swimming highlighted by the performance of Sydney 20- Championships in Barcelona. year-old, Ian Thorpe who today added yet Rickard, an 18-year-old Monash University another accolade to his growing list of student, clocked a time of 1:01.37, to qualify achievements, becoming the first swimmer in fifth into tonight’s semi finals. His time took the history of the sport to record three 0.19 secs off Rogers’ Australian record of consecutive world championship victories in the 1.02.59, set at the 1993 Pan Pacs in Kobe, one event, the 400m Freestyle. Japan. Five years ago it was a fresh-faced teenager In other highlights from the first session, by the name of Thorpe who won the hearts of a Elka Graham produced one of the gutsiest nation when he powered home in the final lap of swims of her career to swim a personal best the 1998 World Championships in Perth to time of 4.10.58, to qualify fifth into the final of record his first major international victory and W W