Summer season has come and gone, but one major continental championship is still hanging on – the 2014 Asian Games are just over halfway done in Incheon, South Korea, and they’ve been an exciting way to close out what’s been a riveting long course season on the international level.
Catch up on all the action with these race videos from the first 4 days of competition, courtesy of DeportesPlus on YouTube.
Day 1
Men’s 200 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GjNOfpUwE
Women’s 400 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueR_HDRre3Q
Men’s 100 Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=New8lLoS5LA
Women’s 100 Breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7TBOWIHrIg
Men’s 200 Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhw4H7oa7z8
Women’s 4×100 Free Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oVtm60hLpA
Day 2
Women’s 50 Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wia_uGUvoOc
Men’s 50 Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6Qk6d77P1Q
Women’s 100 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ-UA9hFwNE
Men’s 200 IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1bCrVy43oY
Women’s 200 Breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI0L_BXj2mw
Men’s 4×200 Free Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9JWpmBVUNM
Day 3
Women’s 50 Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocK4_JDTq1c
Men’s 50 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ0TWjDQoGw
Women’s 400 IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYMf55wf1s
Men’s 200 Breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExTaY9TUa-E
Women’s 100 Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrnBR6ktHjs
Men’s 400 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oFpnME2Z9E
Women’s 4×200 Free Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcp55KY3IiE
Day 4
Men’s 100 Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D18_CaLKWCs
Women’s 200 Free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm2CiVQaYis
Men’s 100 Breast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asSNpGVOEeI
Women’s 200 Fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RddoTKzb8N4
Men’s 400 IM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1fta0VoiUE
Women’s 100 Back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFer5TxsCrI
Men’s 4×100 Free Relay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4fKaW5Etm0
Thanks for organizing all these videos into one place, SwimSwam! I like to occasionally go back and look at the championship races from various seasons to get a bigger picture of how athletes/teams are improving over the years. I usually run a search on Youtube, but that can be frustrating in terms of finding the best video quality, etc. 🙂
Hagino has to be the fastest “little” male swimmer ever. I thought swimming was becoming a sport where the taller swimmers had an advantage.
Any comments?
I think that if you were to make a formula to adjust times for height, I think Hagino would be up there. Irie as well, for his event, and also Vlad Morozov for his. And basically every Japanese breaststroker, I think. Across the board, though, I’d say it’s Hagino. I mean, most of his times are competitive or at least comparable to Phelps and Lochte, but minus 7 and 5 inches, respectively.
Honorable mention/shout out: Ricky Maestri of Italy, who split 1:47 in the 200 free for Italy in London at about 5’9″. When he was over here on a foreign exchange trip back in 2010, he swam for the club I coached with at the time. By far the… Read more »
Hagino, if he wants to win gold medals at worlds next year needs to cut his program.
He should cut one or both the backstroke events, with Irie, Lochte, Clary, Murphy, Larkin………
My opinion what he should swim at worlds:
-200, 400 free
-200,400 IM
-one backstroke event (possibly)
Balandin’s 200 breast reminds me of the way Cordes looks going out. Check out his tempo compared to Koseki.
Also, Hagino majorly misjudged that wall at the 250 turn. About 3:55 seconds on the 400 IM video, he comes into the wall with a breaststroke pull and no kick. Ugly, but he still pulled the turn off pretty well.