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unusual facts about long course



World record progression 1500 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 1500 metres freestyle in a long course (50 metres) swimming pool was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.

World record progression 800 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 800 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.


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Afzal Tahir

He joined the Pakistan Navy on 11 May 1967 and attended the Pakistan Military Academy (with 40th PMA Long Course) and the Naval Academy at Abbottabad and Karachi respectively prior to commissioning in December 1970 in the special operations branch.

Anthony Robinson

Anthony Robinson (swimmer), from the United States, who briefly in 2001 held the World Record in the long course 50 breaststroke.

Bradford Worrell

Worrell holds several Saint Lucian swimming records, including the long course 200 m event (with a time of 2:03.10, set in 2004), and the short course 200 m (2:01.63; 2004), 400 m freestyle (4:23.75; 2004), 100 m (1:07.65; 2013) and 200 m breaststroke events (2:36.92; 2013).

Imran Ullah Khan

On graduation from Royal Military Academy Sandhurst UK, he was commissioned into the Frontier Force Regiment on 18 September 1955 in the 12th PMA Long Course.

Kaio de Almeida

In June 2004, participating in the second stage of the Circuit Marenostrum in Canet, France, Almeida broke the long-course South American record in the 200-meter butterfly with a time of 1:57.38, which was set by the Venezuelan Rafael Vidal since 1984 (1:57.51).

Karnatakada Haridasaru

The reader of this book gets a fair glimpse into the cravings (or philosophical enquiries) of the human spirit through ages; the way such enquiries coursed through historic times in ancient Sumeria, Assyria, Egypt, Greece and Israel and later in Europe and Arabia and found its fulfilment in the long course of the development of Vedic thought in Hinduism, in the north and south of India through successive phases of Vedic, non-Vedic, Puranic and Darsanic thought.

Katy Sexton

In the Long Course World Championships in Fukuoka Katy made the semi finals in both the 100m and 200m backstroke.

Lillian Watson

Watson broke Dawn Fraser's six-year-old world record in the 200-meter freestyle (long course) on August 19, 1966, with a time of 2:10.5, and held the record for one year.

World record progression 50 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 50 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1976.