Laure Manaudou; (the girl on the left), holds the world record in the 400m free in a time of 4:02.13 which she set in Budapest, Hungary in 2006. Just this weekend Kate Ziegler swam a 4:05.44 at the TYR Swim Meet of Champions and granted it is still 3-seconds-and-change slower than Manaudou's world record but please consider that Ziegler is the only person to have beaten Manaudou in both the 800m and 1500m freestyle events and her times are descending. Swim News has called her swim a "shot across the bow." [Link]Here is what Kate Ziegler said about Laure Manaudou on April 5th of this year at the WCSN blogs: [Link]
2 comments:
I wonder how long it will take for the women to go under four minutes in the 400? When you have two great swimmers at the same time they can push each other to great things. Could it be as soon as Beijing?
Scott, you should be a writer on this blog with me. Your insight in invaluable
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