On This Day In History - When Evans & Bernard Rewrote The Books
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.
March 21 - 22 and 23
On this day in history:
March 22, 1988: American legend-in-the-making Janet Evans broke the World record over 800m freestyle with an 8:17.12 in Orlando. There's much more to say... that story to come soon, as we add more entries in our SOS Hall of Fame.
March 22, 2008: the middle day of three over which Alain Bernard sent smoke off the water at the European Championships in Eindhoven. On March 21, wearing thew first generation of shiny suits, he took the 100m World record down to 47.60 in heats; a day later, it was 47.50; and then, on March 23, a 21.50 World mark in the 50m completed the swim hat-trick. The non-textile suits had two big summer seasons of life in them before they were banned. Much more on that to come, too.
