Swim: Hansen closes US swimming championships with world record

AAP Sports News (Australia);  August 6, 2006 ;     358 words ......championships with world record IRVINE, California...with his second world record of the week today...bettering his previous world record of 2:09.04 set...100m breaststroke world record to 59.13sec on...year, was ahead of world record pace the ...

Dubuquer sets world record; Focus: Mellon lifts 534 at tournament

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  December 31, 2002 ;     623 words ......him he set the world record but not the American record. "I asked h...If you have the world record, you should have the American record, too. Right...it. They have a world record and an American record. This was a world...

Peirsol and Jones take world record breaking wins

Xinhua News Agency;  July 30, 2005 ;     691 words ...Peirsol and Jones take world record breaking wins MONTREAL, July 29 -- Aaron...Friday as both of them win their races at world record time. Peirsol is the unexaggerated dominator...1:54.66, wiping 0.08 off the previous world record established by himself in 2004. Adding...bagged home ...

Hansen makes world record in 100m breaststroke at US Olympic trial

Xinhua News Agency;  July 9, 2004 ;     146 words ...Hansen makes world record in 100m breaststroke at US Olympic...Hansen broke the 100m breaststroke world record at the US Olympic trials in a time...Hansen, 22, broke the previous world record of 59.78 set by Japan's Kosuke Kitajima...said Hansen, who improved the American ...

JOYNER-KERSEE MISSES IN BID FOR WORLD RECORD SHE CAPTURES US TITLE BUT...

The Boston Globe;  June 25, 1987 ;     700+ words ......for a third straight world record in the heptathlon go...She is arguably the world's greatest woman athlete...in the event and the American record holder in the long...meet looking for a world record and, as Kersee said...ranked No. 6 in the world and No. 1 in the ...

U.S. women nearly break swimming's oldest world record

AP Worldstream;  July 25, 2003 ;     473 words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: BARCELONA, Spain The oldest world record in swimming could be about to fall. The American women on Thursday clocked 7 minutes 55.70 seconds...for the Olympics next year in Athens. Missing a world record is obviously a disappointment, she said. It's the closest any one has ...

Phelps Narrowly Misses Swim World Record

AP Online;  February 12, 2004 ;     267 words ......championships, narrowly missing a world record in one of them. Phelps finished the...short of Aaron Peirsol's world and American record of 1:55.15. Phelps' time is the second-faste...and saw I was a half-second off (world record pace) so I just cranked it up, but...butterfly, an ...

Swim: Hansen breaks 100m breaststroke world record

AAP Sports News (Australia);  July 9, 2004 ;     158 words ......Australia) 07-09-2004 Swim: Hansen breaks 100m breaststroke world record LONG BEACH, California, July 8 AFP - Brendan Hansen broke the 100m breaststroke world record today, winning the final at the US Olympic trials in a time of 59.30sec. Hansen, 22, broke the previous world record ...

Dragila sets world record en route to pole vault title.(Sports)(Olympic...

The Washington Times;  July 24, 2000 ;     665 words ......greatest pole vaulter in the world would have been lost in the...history books by breaking her own world record at 15 feet, 2 1/4 inches. I...said Dragila, whose previous world record (15-1 3/4) was set on May 27...make the team and to get the world record was incredible. This ...

hke Moses Sets Short Course World Record

Xinhua English Newswire;  March 25, 2000 ;     177 words ......States broke his own world record by almost a second...Nate Dusing set an American record of 52.00 seconds in...of Texas team set an American record of 1:35.66, and Tim...4:06.02 in another American record.

Coughlin Sets Swimming World Record

AP Online;  November 23, 2002 ;     102 words ...00-00-0000 EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) _ Natalie Coughlin set a world record in the 100-meter butterfly on Friday, finishing in 56...NCAA swimmer of the year, came back 14 minutes after her world record to capture the 50-meter backstroke in an American- record time of 27.08. That eclipsed ...

Phelps sets world record in 400 IM

Daily Breeze;  April 7, 2003 ;     368 words ......17-year-old swimmer set a world record in the 400-meter individual medley, an American record in the 100 butterfly and...76 seconds of setting a world mark, as the Americans coasted...IM, breaking his previous world record of 4:11.09. He turned in a 51.84 to best his own ...

Phelps sets world record as U.S. beats Australia

AP Worldstream;  April 7, 2003 ;     526 words ......baby-faced swimmer set a world record in the 400- meter...medley Sunday, an American record in the 100 butterfly...breaking his previous world record of 4:11.09. He turned...84 to best his own American record in the 100 butterfly...Krayzelburg was on a world ...

Phelps opens Athens run with world record in 400 medley

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 8, 2004 ;     674 words ......Phelps opens Athens run with world record in 400 medley By MICHAEL HUNT...the field, as well as his own world record, as his predicted assault on...trials, Phelps crushed his world mark of 4:09.09, established last summer at the World Championships in Barcelona...with the fastest ...

U.S. Swimmer Phelps Sets World Record

AP Online;  April 7, 2003 ;     567 words ......baby-faced swimmer set a world record in the 400- meter individual medley, an American record in the 100 butterfly...breaking his previous world record of 4:11.09. He turned...84 to best his own American record in the 100 butterfly...Krayzelburg was on a world ...