47-year-old Steve West of Irvine Novaquatics swam a 1:04.84 in the 100 breaststroke in long course meters on Sunday at the Fran Crippen Swim Meet of Champions in Mission Viejo, California. West lowered the Masters world record in the process that he set last month at the Speedo Grand Challenge in Irvine at 1:04.99.
West finished ninth overall in the morning’s prelims. 2016 Olympic gold medalist Dmitriy Balandin (1:01.40) is the top seed and Asian Games silver medalist Yan Zibei (1:01.80) is second.
West indicated he scratched finals for tonight. He also swam the 200 breast on Friday, placing 13th in the prelims at 2:21.39. West scratched out of finals of the 200 as well.
He also holds the 200 breast LCM records in the 40-44 age group (2:18.57) and 45-49 age group (2:19.44).
West’s best time in the 100 breast was all the way back in the 2000 US Olympic Trials at 1:03.39 at the age of 28. He has been as quick as a 1:03.81 from the 2015 Los Angeles Invitational. West still has some more room to go if he is to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Trials. The time standard for Omaha next year is a 1:03.29.
Steve West’s last appearance at the Olympic Trials was in 2012 when he placed 61st in the 100 breast and 62nd in the 200.
Event 30 Men Open 100 LC Meter Breaststroke
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MEET: M 1:01.01 2011 Kosuke Kitajima, JPN
POOL: P 1:01.01 2011 Kosuke Kitajima, JPN
AMERICAN: A 58.64 8/23/2017 Kevin Cordes, USA
US OPEN: U 58.74 6/30/2017 Kevin Cordes, USA
WORLD: W 57.10 8/4/2018 Adam Peaty, GBR
1:03.29 ~OLY 2020 Olympic Trials
1:06.09 ^JRS 2019 Junior National
1:08.69 ^FUT 2019 Futures
1:11.17 SMOC 2019 SMOC Meet Qual
Meet Qualifying: 1:11.17
Name Age Team Seed Prelims
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=== Preliminaries ===
1 Balandin, Dmitr 24 TROJ-CA 59.39 1:01.40 q~OLY
2 Yan, Zibei 23 CHIN 59.31 1:01.80 q~OLY
3 Iida, Sam 20 FORD-AZ 1:02.82 1:02.74 q~OLY
3 Zhang, Ruixuan 20 CHIN 1:01.02S 1:02.74 q~OLY
5 Elkamash, Youss 23 PSC-AZ 1:01.36 1:03.77 q^JRS
5 Deiparine, Jimm 26 BC-PN 1:03.71 1:03.77 q^JRS
7 Cook, Jon 19 ALTO-PC 1:03.58 1:04.69 q^JRS
8 Chavez, Miguel 24 TE-NC 1:01.97 1:04.71 q^JRS
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9 West, Steve 47 NOVA^-CA 1:04.90 1:04.84 q^JRS
10 Goodwin, Will 18 TOPS-CO 1:04.24 1:04.88 q^JRS
11 Lee, James 17 ROSE-CA 1:04.36 1:04.97 q^JRS
12 Martinez Scarpe 24 GSC-FL 1:03.78 1:05.64 q^JRS
13 Peribonio, Toma 23 GSC-FL 1:05.00 1:05.70 q^JRS
14 Sanes, Adriel 19 ISV 1:03.71 1:05.97 q^JRS
15 Dunn, Jordan 19 SUN-AZ 1:06.37 1:06.05 q^JRS
16 Kucharczyk, Jac 21 SUN-AZ 1:05.33 1:06.19 q^FUT
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The fastest time at prelims would’ve won Olympic Gold at the ’92 Olympics. People are getting soooo fast!
A World Master record should ONLY be beaten on a Masters competition. FINA rules.
Steve West! Congrats!
Way to go Steve, you da man!!!!
Congrats Steve!
Congratulations
Steve West did it again! Congrats!
It would be nice if Swimming World would state that it’s 100m and long course. I thought it might be yards until I saw the results at the end of the article.
It is in the first sentence of the article, and it is LCM season, being summer.
Your hair is also “world class”!