Former South African Olympian Darian Townsend won the 100 IM at Masters Nationals in a new USMS record. He chats with SwimSwam’s Mike Lewis about that unique event in the video above, saying that he’d like to see the 100 IM more involved in U.S. Swimming, perhaps even added to the NCAA meet lineup.
Townsend seems to now have his sights set on the U.S. National Team, as he says American Pan Pac Trials will be his next major competition.
Video capture courtesy of Mike Lewis.
Vlad…. oh my god
David Nolan??
100 IM is a great race for SCY.
Who among current NCAA swimmers that would dominate 100 IM?
Ryan Murphy?
Franklin?
Boostma?
Olivia Smoglia?
I think Bootsma. Great power underwater and a good breaststroke (was the breaststroke leg on a NAG record if I recall)
Tran
Josa
Caitlin Levernz
Katinka Hosszu
Kevin Clement
Ryan Lochte
Eric Shanteau
Steve Lundquist
Neil Walker
Brendan Hansen (I believe he won the 100 IM at the Texas All-Star meet that floswimming had covered)
Gotta think Brian Retterer would have been good, though I don’t know about his Breaststroke
Aaron Peirsol
Ian Crocker won that race with an illegal backstroke underwater, Adam Ritter got second (mods, I’ll toss the link in here, feel free to delete if necessary):
http://www.floswimming.org/coverage/234427-2008-Top-10-Floswimming-Videos/video/104332-9-The-All-Star-100-IM
In terms of the 100 IM, I always thought it’d be a neat thing to do as a swimmer of the meet type dealio at NCAAs (pick the top 6 or 8 guys or girls and have them race it after the 4free relay) but with the schedule the way it is, it’d be really rough on the swimmers. Maybe the last day at short course nats in the winter, with some type of points system to earn your way into the race followed by… Read more »
OK. Let’s do this… who in the NCAA past would have been great 100 IMers???
My quick list…
Vlad Morozov
Darian Townsend
Roland Schoeman
Albert Subirats
George Bovell
Ryk Neethling
Ian Crocker
Natalie Coughlin
Jessica Hardy
Ariana Kukors
Jenny Thompson
Dana Vollmer