Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom is one of the best sprinters in history and is arguably the best sprinter in the last decade. Being from Sweden, Sjostrom has not had a chance to swim a short course yards (SCY) 50 freestyle. We are petitioning for Sjostrom to swim a SCY 50 freestyle before retirement.
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The 30 year old Sjostrom currently holds the long course meters (LCM) 50 and 100 freestyle and 50 butterfly world records. She also is the former world record holder in the 100 butterfly.
She also has had success in the short course meters (SCM) pool, being the former world record holder in the 50 and 100 freestyle events as well. Sjostrom’s turns and underwaters are powerful enough that she has had the success in both pools. What might her success be in the “bathtub” pool?
With her dominance in both the long course and short course meters sprint events, Sjostrom surely has the potential to make history in the short course yards pool as well. Could she be the 2nd woman to break the 20-second mark in a flying start 50 freestyle? Could she break Gretchen Walsh‘s record of a 20.37 in the flat start 50 freestyle?
Sign the petition above if you support the potential for Sjostrom to make history, etching her name into the records books once again. Sjostrom is currently preparing for her 5th Olympics after first competing at the 2008 Beijing Games.
I’ve always thought short course versus long course isn’t just about turns and underwaters. A big piece of long course swimming is how well a swimmer holds their stroke/speed through a 50. This skill isn’t very important for short course swimming, and becomes less and less important the faster/longer the swimmer’s underwaters. But a short course ace may very well be good at holding their stroke; this describes the large divergence between how well short course specialists can transition to long course.
Sjostrom has always struck me as extrodinary as holding her speed through a 50. This suggests that her yards races wouldn’t be as exceptional as her long course performances–and indeed, her times in short course meters are not… Read more »
She’d crack her heels on the gutter so please no.
‘not had the chabce to swim’ Because the only ppl in the world who swim yards short course are Americans?
Feels like the rare lose – lose proposition.
She swims a crazy record, and well ofc she did, she’s the fastest ever and SCY is for American AGs and second tier college athletes.
But if she doesn’t break a record?? Huh guess she’s not that good.
Does she care at all about SCY ?
No.
Only Americans are obsessed about SCY.
Similar petitions – Douglass, AWalsh, GWalsh, Ledecky, Regan, Huske, Manuel and King all out taper for short course worlds, let’s set some world records, especially relays!
Add McIntosh, Titmus, O’Callaghan, Jack, Harris, and Mckeown to the petition too
Interesting plural on relays there friend!
shes fast on top of the water. Not saying she would go slow but I dont think it would be as impressive as you might think
Uh, not interested in this. Not signing…
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