SWIMMING — JOSE FIOLO, Brazil's 17 - year - old Pan-American Games champion, broke the world 100 - meter
breaststroke record in Rio de Janeiro with a 1:06.4 clocking,.3 second faster than the mark set by Vladimir Kosinsky at Leningrad last November.
Not exact matches
The day's
record spree began with Britain's Adam Peaty, who broke his own world mark of 57.92 in the heats of the 100
breaststroke when he clocked 57.55.
# 30 Mark Miller LARAMIE Set state swimming
records in 200 - yard freestyle and 500 free at Laramie High; second in 200 - yard
breaststroke at 1988 NCAAs.
Originally from Switzerland, Martin holds the Swiss national
record for the 50m and 100m
breaststroke and has been named Swiss national champion on numerous occasions.
Soni, the current world -
record holder in the 200 - meter
breaststroke, was born and raised in New Jersey by her Hungarian parents.
At last summer's worldchampionships Ziegler won gold medals in the 1,500 and 800 freestyles, andHardy set a world
record of 1:06.20 in the 100
breaststroke semifinals beforefinishing second in the final to Australia's Leisel Jones.
Brendan Hansen shattered his own world
records in the100 and 200
breaststroke, while Michael Phelps added five more national titlesto his hardware mountain, losing only the 200 back, to the elder Peirsol, whohasn't been beaten in the event since 2000.
Jackie Hogan, 10, of Radnor Woods, Del., who has won 185 swimming awards, set five age - group
records in the state meet: 100 - yard individual medley (1:12.8), 50 - yard freestyle (29.0), 50 - yard
breaststroke (37.7), 100 - yard free (1:02.3), 400 - yard free (4:47.5).
His victory in the
breaststroke in 53.39 seconds also set the national high school
record previously held by U.S. Olympian Brendan Hansen.
In the spring, he won an NCS title in the 200 individual medley, and finished second in the 100
breaststroke despite a time that was faster than the previous high school national
record.
HANNAH TURLISH LEWISTON, MAINE Hannah, 12, a seventh - grader at Lewiston Junior High, set Maine age - group
records in the 50 - and 100 - yard freestyle, the 50
breaststroke and butterfly and the 100 and 200 IM in one meet.
Spindrift Beck DALLAS > Swimming Spindrift, a junior at The Hockaday School, set a national independent - school
record in the 100 - yard
breaststroke (1:00.66), breaking the mark of Olympian Caroline Bruce.
PATTY CARETTO of the City of Commerce (Calif.) Swim Club posted new U.S. marks in the 1,650 -(18:03.6) and 500 - yard (5:15.6) freestyle events; CYNTHIA GOYETTE of Detroit set new
records in the 100 -(1:09) and 200 - yard (2:26.4)
breaststroke; SHARON STOUDER swam the 100 - yard butterfly in 58 seconds flat, bettering by 8/10 second the mark set in 1964 by Kathy Ellis of Indianapolis; CATHY FERGUSON of the Los Angeles AC won the 200 - yard backstroke and set a
record in the 100 - yard backstroke (1:09.9); SUE PITT of East Brunswick, N.J. broke the 200 - yard butterfly mark with a 2:09.6; PENNY ESTES of Miami the 200 - yard freestyle (1:58.2); and the City of Commerce teams the 400 - yard medley relay (4:06.8) and the 400 - yard freestyle relay (3:40.8).
Renee Laravie, 10, of the Dayton Dolphins set a new state
record of 2:23.3 for the 200 - yard freestyle at the Ohio AAU Class A championships — plus new meet
records in the 50 - and 100 - yard free - styles, the 100 - yard individual medley and the 50 - yard
breaststroke.
SUSIE ATWOOD (backstroke), KIM BRECHT (
breaststroke), ALICE JONES (butterfly) and CINDY SCHILLING (freestyle) combined for a 4:27.4, trimming seven - tenths of a second off the old mark and finishing well ahead of the second - place Japanese team, whose 4:36.3 broke the national
record.
Renshaw clocked a British
record 2:22.33 to qualify third fastest in the 200m
breaststroke, while Tutton was seventh fastest through on 2:22.71.
Around 200 people gathered at Repton School's Sports Centre on the morning of Monday August 8 to watch GB swimmer Adam Peaty power his way to an Olympic gold medal and a new world
record in the men's 100m
breaststroke event.