Swimming Championship or JAKED, ARENA & SPEEDO CHAMPIONSHIPS

Hello,

Never has this happened and never will it happen again. The Championships have seen a record 35 records broken, written and rewritten.

With the superhuman swimsuits getting banned from January 1,2010 I fear that these records if allowed to remain inthe books will be difficult to erase.

To get an idea of what has been happenning take a look at the existing world records after day six of the championships.

Sunday July 26 (Six world records):
Monday, July 27 (Five world records):
Tuesday, July 28 (Four world records):
Wednesday, July 29 (Seven world records):
Thursday, July 30 (Seven world records):
Friday, July 31 (Five World Records):

MEN
100 mtrs freestyle 46.91 Cielo Filho , of brazil
200 mtrs freestyle 1:42.00 Biedermann , Paul of Germany
400 Mtrs Freestyle 3:40.07 Biedermann , Paul of Germany
800 mtrs Freestyle 7:32.12 Zhang Lin of China
200 Mtrs Backstroke 1.51.92 Aaron Peirsol of USA
50 Mtrs Breaststroke 26.67 Cameron Van Der Burgh of South Africa
100 Mtrs Breaststroke 58.58 Brenton Rickard of Australia 
200 Mtrs Breaststroke 2.07.31 Chritian Sprenger of Australia
100 Mtrs Butterfly 50.01 Milorad Cavic of Serbia
200 Mtrs Butterfly 1.51.51 Michael Phelps of USA
200 Mtrs Individual Medley 1.54.10 Ryan Lochte of USA
4x 200 Mtrs Freestyle Relay 6.58.55 USA (Michael Phelps, Ricky Berens, David Walters and Ryan Lochte)


WOMEN
100 Mtrs Freestyle 52.07 Britta Steffen of Germany200 Mtrs Freestyle 1.52.98 Federica Pellegrini of Italy
400 Mtrs freestyle 3.59.15  Federica Pellegrini of Italy
50 Mtrs Backstroke 27.06 Zhao Jing of China
100 Mtrs Backstroke 58.12 Gemma Spofforth of Great Britain
100 Mtrs Breaststroke 1.04.84 Rebecca Soni of USA
200 Mtrs Breaststroke 2.20.12 Annamay Pierse of Canada
50 Mtrs Butterfly 25.07 Therese Alshammar of Sweden
100 Mtrs Butterfly 56.06 Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden
200 Mtrs Butterfly 2.03.41 Jessicah Schipper of Australia
200 Mtrs Individual Medley 2.06.15 Ariana Kukors of USA
4x100 Mtrs Freestyle Relay 3.31.72 Netherlands (Inge Dekker, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Femke Heemskerk & Marleen Veldhuis)
4x200 Mtrs Freestyle Relay 7:42.08 China (Yang Yu, Zhu Qianwei, Liu Jing & Pang Jiaying)

With a couple of days still left and a few of the superstars still in the fray we are sure to get another good harvest so that we can declare it as the Bumper Crop of records.

The banning of the supersuits may indirectly help Michael Phelps who is at sea trying to explain why he is complaining when it was he who actually started it all by wearing the Speedo LZR.

Best wishes,

Manoj