SWIMMING: ZIEGLER STILL ON RECORD PACE TEEN SETS MEET, POOL MARKS AGAIN.Byline: ERIK BOAL Special to the Daily News MISSION VIEJO Mission Vi·e·jo A community of southern California southeast of Irvine. It is mainly residential. Population: 96,300. -- Jason Lezak Jason Edward Lezak (born on November 12, 1975 in Irvine, California) is an American swimmer. He is a member of the Irvine Novaquatics. He went to Irvine High School in 1994, then to University of California, Santa Barbara in 1999. made sure his name remained in the record book at the TYR/Swim Meet of Champions, while Kate Ziegler Kate Ziegler (born June 27, 1988 in Fairfax, Virginia) is a world record distance swimmer from the United States, who won two golden medals at the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montréal and the same two events at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships in Melbourne. continued to rewrite it. The 31-year-old Lezak was on the wrong end of two misprints in Friday's program, first listing the incorrect time for his 2005 meet record in the 100-meter freestyle, then listing former Hart of Newhall standout and Olympic gold Olympic Gold is the official video game of the XXV Olympic Summer Games, hosted by Barcelona, Spain in 1992. It was released for the Sega consoles, Mega Drive/Genesis and Master System, and Sega's handheld, Game Gear. medalist Anthony Ervin Anthony Lee Ervin (born May 26, 1981 in Burbank, California) to a white mother and a black father, is an American swimmer who won the gold medal in the Men’s 50m Freestyle at the 2000 Summer Olympics, finishing with the same winning time as Gary Hall Jr. as the American record-holder in the event. Although Lezak didn't improve on either mark, the UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. graduate's time of 49.90 seconds was good enough to win the title against a strong field at Marguerite Recreation Center. Ziegler, 18, smashed meet and pool records for the second consecutive night, winning the women's 400 freestyle in 4:05.44, the ninth-fastest time in event history and second only to Janet Evans Janet Elizabeth Evans (born August 28, 1971) is a record-breaking American competitive swimmer. Born in Placentia, California, Evans started competitive swimming as a child. By the age of 11 she was setting National Age Group records in the longer events. (4:03.85) on the list of U.S. performers. Evans set the meet and pool record of 4:09.46 in 1988 on her way to clocking the former world-record mark of 4:03.85 -- broken last year by France's Laure Manadou (4:02.13) -- at the Seoul Olympics. "I'm proud to put my name in the same sentence as hers," said Ziegler, who competes for the Virginia-based FISH Swim Team. "Any time I break a record, whether it's 20 or 30years old, and especially when it belonged to Janet Evans, it always amazes me and inspires me and excites me." Ziegler, who won the 800 free Thursday in 8:24.40 -- the third-fastest time in the world this year -- to break a 23-year-old pool record, continued to benefit from a three-week altitude training Altitude training traditionally called training at an altitude camp, or now commonly using altitude simulation tents or mask based hypoxicator systems is the practice by some endurance athletes of training at high altitude, usually over 2,500 m (8,000 ft) above sea level, camp in Colorado Springs, Colo., before arriving Tuesday in Mission Viejo. Her 400 performance ranked her fourth in the world this year, No. 1 among American swimmers. "I feel like that swim was a 90percent swim," said Ziegler, who was three-tenths better than Evans' American-record pace following the first 100. "To go a best time in season has me super, super pleased, but I feel like there are areas that I can still improve on." After clocking a lifetime-best 56.60 in the 100 free in the morning prelims, Ziegler finished fifth in the finals (56.76), trailing world-record holder Britta Steffen of Germany (56.25) and a trio tied for second at 56.72. Steffen's mark broke the 2005 meet record -- shared by Gabrielle Rose and Kaitlin Sandeno -- by two-hundredths. Former Crespi of Encino standout and Stanford sophomore Patrick Simpkins, racing in his first competition since the Pacific-10 Conference Championships in February, took sixth in the men's 200 butterfly in 2:04.68. Tamas Kerekjarto, a former USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. All-American, was second in 2:01.53, trailing UCIrvine's Eddie Erazo (1:59.91). USC sophomore James Martin, a Crescenta Valley of La Crescenta graduate, was 11th in the men's 200 backstroke (2:08.42). erik.boal@dailynews.com (818) 713-3607 |
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