Journal article
What does it take to shatter the international individual medley?
Swimming in Australia: journal of the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association, Vol.25(3), pp.38-43
2009
Abstract
Last year's Olympic Games held in Beijing provided one of the most successful individual medley (IM) meets in recent Olympic history. World records were broken in the Men's and Women's 200 m and 400 m IM finals by American swimmer, Michael Phelps and Australian, Stephanie Rice. Since 2000, the world record time for long course IM races has dropped 8 times in the men's 200 and 400 m events, all by Michael Phelps. For the women's IM races, the world record since 2000 has dropped by 2 times in the 200 m IM (both by Stephanie Rice) and 4 times in the 400 m IM (with Stephanie Rice and American, Katie Hoff alternating the ownership of the WR mark). This has equated to an improvement in world record time for the 200 m IM by 3.3% and 1.0% and for the 400 m IM by 3.1% and 1.5% for the men's and women's events respectively. An analysis of the dominance of Phelps and Rice in these events from the Beijing Olympics provides an insight into the pacing and stroking elements of a 'world record breaking' medley race.
Details
- Title
- What does it take to shatter the international individual medley?
- Authors
- A Lyttle (Author) - Western Australian Institute of SportBrendan J Burkett (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health and EducationB Savage (Author) - Swimming Australia
- Publication details
- Swimming in Australia: journal of the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association, Vol.25(3), pp.38-43
- Publisher
- Australian Swimming Coaches & Teachers Association
- Date published
- 2009
- ISSN
- 1445-2545
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health - Sports & Exercise Science
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449729102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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