By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
60-year-old Olympic legend Mary T. Meagher, now generally known as Mary Plant, is again to breaking world data.
The American swimming legend retired from swimming after the 1988 Olympic Video games, however has returned to swimming within the masters realm in latest months.
Simply minutes in the past on the SPMS SW Zone LCM Championships in Mission Viejo, California, Plant threw down a brand new masters World File within the girls’s 60-64 200 butterfly. She stopped the clock with a time of two:39.31, which eclipsed Laura Val‘s former mark of two:41.03 from August 2011. Val is likely one of the most embellished masters swimmers of all-time, having damaged almost 450 world data throughout her masters profession thus far.
Plant damaging cut up every 100, recording 36.62 on the primary 50 and 36.59 on the second 50. She closed with splits of 44.10 and 42.00, respectively. She received her warmth by 2.40 seconds and her age group by 1 minute and 36.97 seconds.
This was solely her fourth officially-recorded meet since her return to racing.
Her most up-to-date competitors was the Augusta Blue Tides Canine Days of Summer time Masters Meet on August 15, the place she received the 50 fly (31.27), 100 fly (1:09.59), and 200 fly (2:45.99).
On the Rose Bowl Masters competitors in March, she recorded instances of 28.34, 1:04.03, and a pair of:29.84 within the yards variations of these races, however these swims had been her first recorded lengthy course swims since retiring from skilled swimming.
Earlier that month on the Ski-n-Swim meet, she swam 42.52 within the 50-yard free in her first meet, again, after which per week later swam 28.34 within the 50-yard fly, 1:04.03 within the 100-yard fly, and a pair of:29.48 within the 200-yard fly. That fifty fly time was simply 1.33 seconds off the USMS Nationwide File for the 60-64 age group that was set by Ellen Reynolds earlier this yr.
Throughout her skilled profession, Plant received 5 Olympic medals, together with golds within the 100 fly, 200 fly, and 400 medley relay on the 1984 Olympic Video games in Los Angeles. She gathered 9 World Championship medals as effectively, two of which had been gold. She held the World File within the 100-meter fly from 1980 till 1999 and the 200 fly from 1979 till 2000, setting these data when she was 15 and 14, respectively.
Her 200 fly time of two:05.96 from 1981 stays the U.S. Nationwide Age Group File in that occasion 44 years later, one of many oldest data on the books.
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