On This Day In History - When Madison & Jones Set The Global Pace
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 in history, in...
- 1931 - Helene Madison (USA) set one of her 20 individual World freestyle records, this one over 400m at home in Seattle
- 2006 - Leisel Jones (AUS) took the pace of the women's 100m breaststroke below 1:06 for the first time, on 1:05.71 at the Australian Championships in Melbourne
Legends in the SOS Hall of Fame
Helene Madison (USA)
Helene Madison - Queen Of Waves
The American ace set 20 individual World freestyle records and at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, claimed three gold medals in the pool, over 100 and 400m freestyle and as a member of the 4x100m freestyle with USA teammates
Craig Lord
Leisel Jones (AUS)
- from our 2017 Archive
Lethal Leisel Jones, Her 1:05.09, 2:20.54 & A Fat Slap n The Face Of ‘6:1.20’
The Australian’s stellar career masked some lessons that every program in the world should learn from, the details set out candidly in her 2015 autobiography, Body Lengths
Craig Lord
