Swimming Video is courtesy of Team Andrew / Indie Swimming.
Reported by Braden Keith:
Michael Andrew has re-broken his own National Age Group Record in the 100 yard backstroke on Sunday evening, swimming a 48.10 in the A-final at the College Station sectional meet.
That improves upon his 48.37 done in prelims, and placed him 3rd in the race. The record coming into the day was also his, and the second-fastest 13-14 in history is Thomas Anderson from KING in 48.73. The five fastest swimmers on the all-time age group list have done their best swims in the last year, showing how men’s backstrokes have progressed. Andrew is now a full second faster than Gray Umbach’s old record of 49.20 set in 2009.
The comparisons between Andrew’s three best swims in this race are below:
Jrs ’13 – 23.58/25.10 = 48.68
Prelims – 23.68/24.69 = 48.37
Finals – 23.30/24.80 = 48.10
He attacked his finals swim as hard as he’s ever attacked this race, and though he didn’t finish as well as he did in prelims, the overall time (aka, what counts) was almost three-tenths of a second faster.
The win in the 100 back went to Brock Bonetti, who will race in this pool in the fall as a Texas A&M Aggie, with North Texas Nadadore Brett Ringgold placing 2nd in 47.76.
Brett Ringgold is in the lane at the bottom of the screen (lane 3). Next to Ringgold in lane 4 is Andrew Liang, Michael Andrew lane 5, and then Brock Bonetti in lane 6.
Best to include what lane he is in. How else are we to know?
Hi Bustembucky…
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Remarkable swim, congratulations.
I suggest he approach each race with a kick count plan. Knowing how many SDKs (streamline dolphin kicks) he’s going to do off each wall. UTs Hill Taylor did 10 / 11 / 11 / 12 for his 1 bk & fl
On his 3rd turn, he turned over too late & flipped too close to the wall. He’ll fix it & go faster before he turns 15
I prefer to watch the races at the right speed.
And what’s that background noise?
It looks like it’s the sound from dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or from monsters in War of the worlds.
Hi Bobo GIGI – sometimes we receive videos in slo mo. We run what we get.
No problem. It’s better than nothing.
C’mon bobo, I’m as cynical and hard to please as anyone and I think this is too cool. Oh, and those “dinosaur” noises just happen when Michael swims, I think it is the sound of God unfolding the wrinkles of the space-time continuum so he can peek through and watch Michael perform. I could be wrong tho, because I passed out from the intensity of the experience.
What lane is he in?
46 high is reachable before Michael ages up. He missed his last turn and got no push off the wall. He has a few more chances and he’s getting faster with every swim. Also, think about how many brutal races he had accumulated over three days before this race….and he still had enough in him for a :48.1 (with a missed wall)!
Maybe I’m blind, but I’m not seeing the missed last wall.
It’s usually difficult to see a missed turn unless there’s no contact with the wall at all. He made contact, but I don’t think he got any power on the push off. He came up well short of 10 yds, about a body length shorter than his other turns.
I watched this video several times and I don’t see the missed wall. He was as close if not closer to the wall on this final turn then the previous two. If there is first hand account of it or real time video we would have a better idea. To me, it just looks like he came up just passed the flags, which is significantly less then the previous walls. The philosophy of taking only as many kicks/specific distance as you can maintain a higher velocity then swimming exists in these walls, then that is something else. That, I guess, is something that can be built upon.
You are correct David. I think it takes being there sometimes to see such things. His last wall was not great. I have to chuckle because I think you, as well, could have dropped an even faster time in the 100 breast had you not slightly mistimed your finish. You had at least a few more tenths in you. Regardless, I’m as impressed by your swim as by Michael’s!
Michael said he missed the last turn. He didn’t make a big deal about it, but he was a little annoyed, knowing he left some meat on the bone.
And, thank you! Yeah, I was a little too hit or miss on my walls! Short armed the finish in prelims, then was long on the finish in finals. I’ll chalk it up to 1st meet of the season and keep working on it. Making the adjustment on the last stroke doesn’t work. It’s too late. t think prescription lenses would help, too! ;v)
These slow motion videos are awesome