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the_milky_wayTHORPE TURNS UP THE HEAT IN 400 METRE FREESTYLE
18-03-02 | 10:14pm
AUSTRALIAN Superfish Ian Thorpe tonight smashed the Australian all-comers record and narrowly missed his own world record in a stunning opening swim in the 400m freestyle on the first night of finals at the Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane. DAVID MASON was poolside for all the action.
Thorpe clocked 3:40.54 to finish 0.37 outside his world mark, set at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, and took 0.05 off his own Australian all-comers record, the world record time he established to win gold on the opening night of the 2000 Olympic Games.
Thorpe defeated world ranked number two Grant Hackett (3:45.39) with a typically awesome performance, which saw him hold Hackett at arms length before surging away at the 250m mark with the 19-year-old under world record pace at the 300m mark.
Thorpe admitted after the race: "That's the hardest 400m I have swum in two years. I really put a lot into it and I walked away happy with the result. My race plan was to swim the first 150m moderately and then the next 50 to 100m hard and then hold on. I intended to negative split tonight because that's how I think I can get the best out of myself.
Asked about his last out of competition drug test, he said: "I had a drug test seven days ago and have had four in the last three weeks. Tonight was the first time I can remember that I didn't have to do a test in competition. It has been a while but it is good. You can spend hours here trying to pass a sample but thank goodness I can go home early tonight.
Thorpe and Hackett will be back in the water tomorrow morning (Tuesday) for the heats of the 200m freestyle with the final to be swum tomorrow night.
18-03-02 | 10:14pm
AUSTRALIAN Superfish Ian Thorpe tonight smashed the Australian all-comers record and narrowly missed his own world record in a stunning opening swim in the 400m freestyle on the first night of finals at the Telstra Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane. DAVID MASON was poolside for all the action.
Thorpe clocked 3:40.54 to finish 0.37 outside his world mark, set at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka, and took 0.05 off his own Australian all-comers record, the world record time he established to win gold on the opening night of the 2000 Olympic Games.
Thorpe defeated world ranked number two Grant Hackett (3:45.39) with a typically awesome performance, which saw him hold Hackett at arms length before surging away at the 250m mark with the 19-year-old under world record pace at the 300m mark.
Thorpe admitted after the race: "That's the hardest 400m I have swum in two years. I really put a lot into it and I walked away happy with the result. My race plan was to swim the first 150m moderately and then the next 50 to 100m hard and then hold on. I intended to negative split tonight because that's how I think I can get the best out of myself.
Asked about his last out of competition drug test, he said: "I had a drug test seven days ago and have had four in the last three weeks. Tonight was the first time I can remember that I didn't have to do a test in competition. It has been a while but it is good. You can spend hours here trying to pass a sample but thank goodness I can go home early tonight.
Thorpe and Hackett will be back in the water tomorrow morning (Tuesday) for the heats of the 200m freestyle with the final to be swum tomorrow night.
