On This Day In History - Nall Nails It Twice In One Day, Aged 15 At U.S. Olympic Trials
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, Anita Nall set two World records in the 200m breaststroke at the U.S. Olympic Trials. It was quite a feat for the 15-year-old to rewrite history in both heats and finals:
A few months later, aged 16, Nall hauled gold, silver and bronze medals at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, her medley relays victory with USA teammates delivered in World record time. Her story is heading into our SOS Hall of Fame, alongside that of Peter Fick, who sent the last of his three world records over 100 free on this day back in 1934, and many others.
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 ... he looked like he took silver but Berlin 1936 organisers made It 6th!
Craig Lord
