Saturday, March 22, 2008

New World Record for Alain Bernard in the 100 LCM freestyle: 47.60!



Update 1:33 PM:
If you go to "You Tube" and type in " &fmt=18 " after the URL and then reload the page, the video will have much more clarity.

Update: 47.50
in the finals according to an anonymous comment who also included a "You Tube" link. Thank you SO MUCH, anonymous.



Note there is not a straight arm freestyle here. Also note that he is looking up rather than looking down. Watch his head as he swims into the wall.

France has given us both Laure Manaudou and Alain Bernard. They are obviously doing something right over there. New 100 LCM Freestyle world record set at the European Championships at Eindhoven.

UPDATE: Rick Beerendonk out of Amsterdam I believe has an amazing stroke analysis at his site that includes speed, frequency, stroke length, and more. go to his site and check it out: [Link]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sk78ySIGPF8

47.50 in the finals.

Anonymous said...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sk78ySIGPF8

47.50 in the finals.

Anonymous said...

i can't wait for the french trials , he wasn't fully rested before the euro meet , two weeks ago he was training very hard in florida. the 100 m free at the trials will be very hard and it will determine the team of the relay. i think we will have a good team at the games.

Anonymous said...

I was there, it was such a great race, amazing!