JONES MISSING SWIMMING RECORD
World record eludes Jones
Three days after swimming the second-fastest women's 100 metres breaststroke in history, Leisel Jones went agonisingly close to a new world mark over the 200m distance at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane tonight.
Jones swam a time of 2:21.60 to win the national title, 1.06 seconds slower than the 2:20.54 she swam in February, but still the second-fastest time ever recorded.
Just as Jessicah Schipper threatened the 200m butterfly world record for three laps on Thursday, Jones was well in front of world record pace for all but 25 metres, fading in the final few strokes.
"Two-hundredths hurt so much, but I'm pretty happy with that time," she said. "I actually did have a quick look at the time at the 100 metre mark to see how I was going and I thought it was a bit harder than I wanted.
"I tried to hold on for the last 50 metres but it didn't exactly work."
Jones said she had plenty of room for improvement and was confident she could be the first woman to go under 2:20.
"I go into training every day and work harder and harder and there are some things I can improve, " she said.
In the women's 100m freestyle, Libby Lenton beat arch-rival Jodie Henry in a battle of two former world record holders.
Lenton swam 53.77 to edge out Henry (53.93) and immediately signalled her intention to regain the world record she lost to German Britta Steffen in August.
In other results, Hayden Stoeckel won the men's 200m backstroke and Brenton Rickard made it a breaststroke treble when he added the 200m to the 100 and 50m titles he took earlier in the week.
Rickard swam 2:11.45, ahead of Jim Piper (2:13.05) and Robert McDonald (2:15.22).
-AFP
Three days after swimming the second-fastest women's 100 metres breaststroke in history, Leisel Jones went agonisingly close to a new world mark over the 200m distance at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane tonight.
Jones swam a time of 2:21.60 to win the national title, 1.06 seconds slower than the 2:20.54 she swam in February, but still the second-fastest time ever recorded.
Just as Jessicah Schipper threatened the 200m butterfly world record for three laps on Thursday, Jones was well in front of world record pace for all but 25 metres, fading in the final few strokes.
"Two-hundredths hurt so much, but I'm pretty happy with that time," she said. "I actually did have a quick look at the time at the 100 metre mark to see how I was going and I thought it was a bit harder than I wanted.
"I tried to hold on for the last 50 metres but it didn't exactly work."
Jones said she had plenty of room for improvement and was confident she could be the first woman to go under 2:20.
"I go into training every day and work harder and harder and there are some things I can improve, " she said.
In the women's 100m freestyle, Libby Lenton beat arch-rival Jodie Henry in a battle of two former world record holders.
Lenton swam 53.77 to edge out Henry (53.93) and immediately signalled her intention to regain the world record she lost to German Britta Steffen in August.
In other results, Hayden Stoeckel won the men's 200m backstroke and Brenton Rickard made it a breaststroke treble when he added the 200m to the 100 and 50m titles he took earlier in the week.
Rickard swam 2:11.45, ahead of Jim Piper (2:13.05) and Robert McDonald (2:15.22).
-AFP
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