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...highly partisan crowd its money's worth. With Stanford freshman Dave Sims opening up an early lead and gaining the victory with a strong 15:01.31, Hackett provided the excitement with a mid-race battle with Edmonton Keyano's Peter Szmidt. At the 500 mark. Szmidt, the world record-holder or the 400-meter freestyle, had the edge, but Hackett proved tougher, inching up and then moving out when Szmidt began to fade...
...free, Cal sopomore and 400-meter world record holder Peter Szmidt came from behind the pack to edge American record holder Brian Goodell with a time of 4:21.10. Harvard swimmers sopomore Ted Chappell and senior Bobby Hackett also swam in the finals of the event, finishing fifth and sixth respectively with times...
Today's events include the mile, the 100-yard backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly, and the 400-yard medley relay. Look for Caulkins to set another American record in the 100-breast, and for world record holder Mary T. Meagher to lower her own national standard...
Other record-setting swims last night included former Olympian Jill Sterkel's 1:46.13 in the women's 200-yard freestyle. Swimming against a fast field, Sterkel held off a challenge from American record holder Sippy Woodhead to touch first with a new Blodgett record...
...obvious strength, certain individual races are already looking good. If both Longhorn and Mission Viejo enter their two stars in the race, the women's 200-yd. freestyle will be a classic. And the men's 400-yd. individual medley could coneivably include Alex Bauman (the current world record holder in the 400 meter event), Jesse Vassallo (the man whose record Baumann broke last month). Brian Goodell (the three-time NCAA champion in this event), and Djan Madruga (last year's winner...