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I have to admit I am a bit surprised he was able to break 3 world records (2 times in a row 100M, then 50 M) in such a short interval.... Let's see if he can confirm in Beijing!
Fred.
That's not all that surprising. It's not that unusual for swimmers to swim multiple PRs over the course of the same meet, even swimming PRs in the prelims and the finals. After all, not that many swimmers can take it easy and make the finals. In my last meet, I swam career best times in all my events (500, 400 IM, 1650 (1000 split also a career best), swimming PRs in prelims and finals in the 500 and 400 IM, and also PRed my 200 free on the 4 x 200 relay in about 48 hours. Here's something really impressive. My HS championship meet swam prelims in all events in the morning and finals at night. Senior year, I saw a guy set the American national prep school record in the 200 in prelims, break it in the finals in the 200, set the national prep record in the 100 fly in the morning, just missed going faster at night and then swam the fastest 100 free in the country that year to lead off his school's 4 x 100 free relay, which also set a national prep record. That was quite a day's work.