On This Day In History - When Peter Fick Set The Last Of His Three 100 Free Standards
Timeline - The SOS Daily Trawl of official World long-course records (plus all pre 1954 standards, all pools and metrics) set this day throughout history.
On this day, American Peter Fick set the third and last of his 100m freestyle records in the pool at Yale University, at 56.4:
His story is one that highlights the reasons why long-course and short-course records came about - and how he was deprived of Olympic honour by fraud at the Nazi Games of 1936:
Peter Fick - The Sprinter Who Refused To Salute Hitler
On this day 90 years ago, 11 February 1936, sprinter Peter Fick, set the third and last of his 100m freestyle records in New Haven, but was denied his place in Olympic history by Nazi fraudsters
Craig Lord
