The World Champion from 1978 in 100m breaststroke, Walter Kusch is still going strong at the age of 55. At the North German Masters Championships in Goslar swam the former worldclass breaststroker the 100m in 1.16,65 breaking the nine old year old European record of 1.17,1 owned by a finnish swimmer. Kusch, a practicing MD, is looking foward to the World Masters Championships in Göteborg next year.
Martti and his Fan-club
Masters swimmer Martti Laajus from Finland knows the importance of relaxing and having a good time after a swim competition.
Just click on the video to see the race!
Henrik from Sweden, Danny from Italy and Jukka Laikari from Finland who swam new record in 1500m free.
After a weeks camp in Göteborg, Sweden and swimming Swedish Open Masters, the flying finns flew to Zurich to see if their training had led to any good results. Martti Laajus took away the new nordic record (55-59) in 50 back from Ebbe Rasmussen, Denmark, as he swam 34,34! Jukka Laikari swam a new nordic record in the 1500m freestyle ( 20,34) agegroup 50-54 taking the record away from another USG, Copenhagen swimmer Fin Beiring-Sörensen. Congratulations!
Martti Laajus, new record 50 backstroke
Klick on this link and you will find the preliminary starting lists ” Heat Sheets” for the European Masters Championships in Cadiz, Spain in September. European Masters; fast and fun competitions!
SwimStars World Masters Swim Camp
T3 Tenerife 15-22/11-2009
Trainingpools
Participate in the World Masters swim camp in Tenerife and train with one of the world most experienced Masters coaches Glen Christiansen for a week. Glen will give you technique advices, great training and ideas about how to get in shape for the World Masters, or other competitions. You will get an unique chance to swim in T3´s swim Flume and get your technique analyzed. We can coach in English, German, Japanese and the Scandinavian languages.
Time: 15th to 22nd of November 2009
Place: T3 50m.pool. Please look at: www.topswimming.com
Coach: Glen Christiansen:
Olympic coach in Atlanta 1996. Ranked # 1 in the world in 1981 in 100m breaststroke.
13 times World Masters Champion. Over 50 world masters records broken. Former head coach Olympic performance centre in Hamburg, Germany.
Glen has coached swimmers world record holder and world champion in distance swimming and sprints. 1500 freestyle Jörg Hoffmann, world champion in backstroke Antje Buschschulte and European champion in 50m freestyle Linda Olofsson.
Price: 651 Euro p.P in a triple apartment, 735 euro p.P in a double apartment (price includes Hotel Jardin Caleta with full board, all trainings, seminars, one Swim flume analyze and a World Masters Camp T-shirt & swimcap)
Information and entry: gc1769@gmail.com
Program:
Monday 16/11: 08.00 Breakfast 09.30 – 11.30 Swim training. “Get to know each other” + Stretching
12.00 Lunch
16.00 – 17.30 Swim training. Focus on speed
18.00 Welcome Dinner + Information
Tuesday 17/11: 08.00 Breakfast 09.30-11.30 Swim Training. Focus on technique. Swim flume analyze.
12.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Swim training. Focus on starts and turns.
18.00 Dinner + Theory: How to plan your training
Wednesday 18/11: 08.00 Breakfast 08.45 – 09.30 Weight training (volunteer/freiwilliges)
09.30 – 11.30 Swim training. Focus on Conditioning/Aerob
12.00 Lunch
Afternoon Free or/and sightseeing (Ausflug)
Thursday 19/11: 08.00 Breakfast 09.30-11.30 Swim training. Focus on pace work & Technique
12.00 Lunch
15.30-16.30 Theory: How to prepare for a competition by Glen Christiansen.
16.30-17.30 Swim training. Speed. Time trials.
18.00 Dinner + Analyzing of Swim Flume results.
Friday 20/11: 08.00 Breakfast 08.45 – 09.30 Weight training (volunteer/freiwilliges)
09.30 – 11.30 Swim training. Focus on Technique & Aerob/Recovery
12.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Swim training. Focus on Pace and Technique
18.00 Dinner
Saturday 21/11: 08.00 Breakfast 09.30 – 11.30 Swim training. Focus on Speed
12.00 Lunch
16.00 – 18.00 Swim training. Focus on Anaerob.
18.00 Goodbye Dinner.
Sunday 22/11: 08.00 Breakfast 08.45 – 09.30 Weight training (volunteer/freiwillig)
09.30 – 11.30 Swim training. Focus on Aerob.
12.00 Lunch
Top modern gym at T3
High tech swim-flume for technique analyzes
World Record 100 breaststroke
Glen Christiansen after he has broken the world record with 1,1 seconds in Göteborg, Sweden today. In a nearly perfect race Glen took it out in a controlled 33,63 and came home in the amazing 36,6 finishing in 1.10,34 over a second faster than the old world record. “It was a perfect finish of my Masters Camp here in Göteborg and it also shows that my training methods are working. Great to do the record in my old homepool where I learned to swim and in front of many of my old swimming friends” – says Glen with a big smile on his face. “Next time I´ll shave and see if I can get under a 1.10″ he contiues never stopping trying to improve. ” I train according to my 9 week cykle and have done about 7 km a week latetly, working a lot on technique (using the SwimStars drills), rythm and pure speed. I have done little less weight training that I wanted to do but enough flexibility training but I see room for improvement in my training. In order to bring the record down to 1.08-09 and to swim a fast 200m I will have to raise the weekly volume to around 12km in some periods but never compromising the technique. I am very happy that also the swimmers who have trained for are swimming very well and I am looking foward to a great camp in Tenerife in November. The world record will be on Youtube as soon as my finnish collegues Martti and Jukka gets it on.
Father & son having fun at Pre World Masters
At Masters competitions you meet people of all ages having fun together, and if you are not allowed to race yet you can still get up on the award podium and then have an ice cream afterwards.
Eliten T.I.G 35 years later
We started to swim together around 1970 in Valahallabadet and soon became good friends. We called ourselves Eliten T.I.G. and had our focus on having fun and swimming, with emphasis on having fun. The swimming “careers” finally ended and life took us different directions. But the friendship never ended and now we are looking for a 4th swimmer for our +200 years medley relay at the World Masters Championships in Göteborg next year. We are looking for someone to swim the third leg, the butterfly, but it is not enough that you can swim fast! You must be at least 45 years old, you must be able to drink 05, L beer in less than 3,5 seconds AND have humour! The last qualification being the most important. Camps on Canary Islands are planned and tours of other important (swim-) sights like High Chapparall and Zillertal. Hotel Malmen will be official hotel for northern Sweden. More information is to come. The sponsorpool is expected to be full at the end of this year. After that there will be a waitinglist published in DI. If you think you´re the man for the job, think twice. Then contact us on this address.