What a day Sunday turned out to be! Fred Schlicher set another two World Records
today, while Len Gushe set two Canadian National Records and Barbara Hummel set
an American record. In addition to those, there were an 17 more New England
personal records broken, raising the total number of New England record-setting swims
to 48 for the meet.
Major highlights from today's action included
Fred
Schlicher's World Record setting performances. Fred started
the day by setting the World Record in the men's 60-64 400 meter IM, crushing the
previous record by more than ten seconds with a time of 5:30.99. Later in the day
he set yet another World Record in the men's 200 meter butterfly with his time of
2:31.58,
2 seconds faster than the previous record. For you New England swimmers
keeping track, those swims beat the prior New England records by nearly a full minute
and
nearly forty seconds respectively. Together, Fred has earned four World Records
during the meet and one New England record. The NEM top-10 swims
by age group has
Fred's name listed an astounding 55 times, including a NEM record still standing
in the 100 freestyle set back in 1976. Congratulations Fred, and if the future is
anything like the past, we're all in for some exciting swims.
Len Gushe from Canada continued his fast swims of the
weekend. Len's time of 2:21.16 beat his previous Canadian record in the men's 45-49
200 meter butterfly by 0.03 seconds. His time of 5:00.51 in the 400 meter individual
medly surpassed the prior record by over 17 seconds, giving Len his third Canadian
record for the weekend.
In the women's 55-59 age group,
Barbara Hummel set a US record in the 50 meter breaststroke with
a 39.63. That gives Barbara a US record and two New England records for the weekend.
We saw our fair share of New England records fall as well.
Alyson Fletcher set a New England record in the women's 18-24 400 Meter
IM with a time of 5:50.06.
Also swimming the 400 IM,
Mike Schmidt set
a New England record in the men's 45-49 age group, finishing in 5:11.07.
Mary Estabrook completed the women's 45-49
50 meter butterfly in 31.51 to earn her a New England record.
Also in the 45-49 50 meter butterfly, but this time on the men's side,
Doug Pride completed the race in 27.40 seconds, pushing teamates Hodding
Carter and Michael Schmidt into the second and third place all-time spots for the
second time of the weekend.
James Nickoloff set the New England record
in the men's 60-64 50 meter butterfly in 31.80, beating the prior record by 2.3
seconds.
Walter Lincoln won both the men's 75-79 100
meter backstroke and the men's 75-79 100 meter freestyle in 1:42.87 and 1:19.52
respectively.
Both were fast enough to net him two more New England records to add to his two from yesterday.
Jessica Holmes set the New England record
in the women's 35-39 100 meter backstroke with a winning time of 1:15.84. Unfortunately
for her, she just
missed setting the New England record in the 200 breast by 0.68 seconds, but the good news is she was smiling the whole time she was swimming.
In the women's 80-84 age group,
Joan McIntyre
set a new record for the 100 meter backstroke with her time of 1:14.76.
John Merrill added a New England record to
his two US National records. John won the mens' 90-94 100 meter backstroke
in 2:13.03.
Homer Lane set the New England record for
the 55-59 men's 400 meter freestyle. Homer completed the race in 5:10.77 beating
the prior record by 4.5 seconds. Homer ages up next year and has a great chance
to set back to back records in that event.
In the women's 200 meter fly for the 40-44 age group
Rhonda Grasberger set the New England record in 3:07.49.
Also in the women's 200 meter fly, but for the 45-49 age group
Anne Uecker finished in 3:15.02 to earn a New England record as well.
Beth Estel got the New England record in
the women's 50-54 50 meter breaststroke. Beth finished the event with a time of 39.53.
Once again, congratulations to all our swimmers and start thinking about next year!
Sunday's Results with 50-meter splits