The HardCoreSwim of the week this week goes to the Australian 100 freestylers James Magnussen and Cate Campbell for their exploits at the 2013 Australian National Championship meet this past week.
Magnussen, after seeing Vlad Morozov win the award last week with his 47.9 from Russian Trials, popped off a 47.53 – the best time in the world by four-tenths of a second. That’s already ties his silver-medal winning time from last summers Olympics (or, as American fans prefer to refer to it – .01 seconds behind Nathan Adrian).
After all of that, he said after the race that he didn’t even feel 100% – a claim that his results from this meet last year probably back up.
Anything he can do, she can do better; his now World Championship teammate Cate Campbell swam a 52.83 in the semi-finals of the women’s 100 on the same day, en route to a 52.92 victory, to break the Australian All-Comers record in the event – and a Libby Trickett record at that. She had an unbelievable front-half to her swim, splitting 25.12 on the front-half!
That’s a 25.12 with a rather slow reaction time (she’s rarely quick off of the blocks) and to her feet rather than a hand touch. And then she was still the fastest swimmer of the field on the second 50 meters. Her’s was a dominant performance from prelims to finals, start to finish, in the women’s 100 free.
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http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/more-sport/teenager-swimmer-heir-jordan-harrison-powers-to-a-dominant-1500m-freestyle-time/story-fnduixme-1226635238003
http://www.theage.com.au/sport/swimming/harrisons-droughtbreaking-swim-surprises-coach-20130504-2j01c.html
Some interesting pieces about Jordan Harrison, I can’t shake the feeling that Harrison went 10 or 15 seconds faster than he was expected to. Even Cotterell seems taken aback
yes, and so it seems Harrison is very race tough
I didn’t think a reaction of 0.3 was legal? I’m glad Cate’s getting such great results. It sounds like she’s had a rough time.
UKSwimmer – unlike track, there’s no “illegal” level of reaction time in swimming on a flat start…though I’d (anecdotally) imagine that it’s probably impossible to get under .4 without guessing on the start.
A .3 reaction doesn’t automatically disqualify you if an official doesn’t call it, though maybe it’s a little incredulous that seeing her off the blocks that fast, even if done fairly, wouldn’t elicit a response from the judges. Seen it happen before – “you were faster than everyone else, you must have left early”.
Swimming officials are thought to “observe not inspect” and to clearly see violation not suspect, as would your “you must have left early” imply. Also, as you know, both starter and official must sign on a DQ.
Cate’s RT is a languid 0.82 in that semi swim and 0.81 in the final and 0.85 in her 50 free prelims. For an elite pure sprinter, that’s almost unacceptable.
get Cate to do sprint work with Jacco Verhaeren for a few months and we may get to see her swim 52 mid and may break 50 free WR.
De Bruijn had an other worldly RT of 0.3 on her 50 free WR.