Congratulations Aaron to a new World Record and defending the Olympic title!

* Days complete results -> here

Men’’s 100 Back

1 2 PEIRSOL Aaron USA 0.63 (2) 25.65 52.54
26.89 WR

2 5 GREVERS Matt USA 0.67 (3) 25.68 53.11
27.43 0.57
3 3 VYATCHANIN Arkady RUS 0.77 (7) 26.11 53.18
27.07 0.64
3 4 STOECKEL Hayden AUS 0.58 (4) 25.78 53.18
27.40 0.64
5 8 DELANEY Ashley AUS 0.53 (5) 25.89 53.31
27.42 0.77
6 7 TANCOCK Liam GBR 0.55 (1) 25.11 53.39
28.28 0.85
7 6 WILDEBOER Aschwin ESP 0.61 (6) 26.00 53.51
27.51 0.97
8 1 MIYASHITA Junichi JPN 0.62 (8) 26.30 53.99
27.69 1.45

* Aaron Peirsol Crushes 100 Back World Record En Route To Win

“...Sitting back during the preliminaries and semifinals, Peirsol shredded the field in the championship final, establishing a world record of 52.54, well under the 52.89 he posed at Trials. Peirsol was out in 25.65, trailing only Liam Tancock of Great Britain, and brought his race home in 26.89, easily the fastest back-end split. ...”

* Aaron Peirsol defends Olympic 100 back title
* Coughlin and Peirsol Repeat Their Sweep of 100 Backstrokes
* Peirsol breaks 10th world record wins 100m backstroke

***

Reuters Jerry Lempen

AP Mark J. Terrill

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Aaron qualified 5th with a time of 53.56 for the final of the 100m Backstroke.

* 52 Club Grows to Four, Hayden Stoeckel Wins Semifinal Round of 100 Back

* Day’s Complete Results -> here

Men’s 100 Back Results
1 2 6 STOECKEL Hayden Aug 10 1984 Australia 0.59 25.77 52.97
27.20 OR
2 2 4 GREVERS Matt Mar 26 1985 United States 0.66 25.89 52.99
27.10 0.02
3 1 4 VYATCHANIN Arkady Apr 04 1984 Russian Fed. 0.78 26.01 53.06
27.05 0.09 ER
4 1 5 WILDEBOER Aschwin Feb 14 1986 Spain 0.60 26.17 53.51
27.34 0.54
5 2 5 PEIRSOL Aaron Jul 23 1983 United States 0.72 26.07 53.56
27.49 0.59
6 1 3 TANCOCK Liam May 07 1985 Great Britain 0.56 25.68 53.61
27.93 0.64
7 1 2 MIYASHITA Junichi Oct 17 1983 Japan 0.58 26.09 53.69
27.60 0.72 AS
8 2 2 DELANEY Ashley Apr 11 1986 Australia 0.50 25.96 53.76
27.80 0.79

* Coventry, Kitajima Set New World Marks

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* official site Beijing 2008

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Complete Results can be found here

Aaron won his heat of the 100m backstroke with a time of 53.65 and qualified 3rd for the semifinals tomorrow morning.

Official heats ranking here

1 Grevers Matt United States 53.41*
2 Vyatchanin Arkady Russia 53.64*
3 Peirsol Aaron United States 53.65*
4 Wildeboer Aschwin Spain 53.67*
5 Zandberg Gerhard South Africa 53.75*
6 Tancock Liam Britain 53.85*
7 Stoeckel Hayden Australia 53.93*
8 Krizko Lubos Slovakia 54.07*
9 Delaney Ashley Australia 54.08*
10 Miyashita Junichi Japan 54.12*
11 Donets Stanislav Russia 54.18*
12 Morita Tomomi Japan 54.21*
13 Rogan Markus Austria 54.22*
14 di Tora Mirco Italy 54.39*
15 Barnea Guy Israel 54.50*
16 Tait Gregor Britain 54.62*

Aaron video interview on FloSwimming.org

I have added the Beijing 2008 Gallery, it’s still empty but I will be adding photos over the next days.

Some Olympic Coverage websites:

All sports:
* NBCOlympics.com
* Eurosport.com
* official site Beijing 2008

Swimming Only:
* SwimNetwork.com
* Swimming World Magazine.com

Results and Schedules from NBColympics.com:

Top News, videos and photos from NBColympics.com:

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