Sun Yang Smashes Men's 1500m Freestyle World Record - London 2012 Olympics

China's Sun Yang sets an incredible new world record of 14:31.02 in the men's 1500m freestyle at the London 2012 Olympic Games (4 August). The event's silver medal was won by Ryan Cochrane (CAN) with the bronze going to Oussama Mellouli (TUN). Subscribe to the Olympic channel: http://bit.ly/1dn6AV5 Swimming has featured on the programme of all editions of the Games since 1896. The very first Olympic events were freestyle (crawl) or breaststroke. Backstroke was added in 1904. In the 1940s, breaststrokers discovered that they could go faster by bringing both arms forward over their heads. This practice was immediately forbidden in breaststroke, but gave birth to butterfly, whose first official appearance was at the 1956 Games in Melbourne. This style is now one of the four strokes used in competition. Women's swimming became Olympic in 1912 at the Stockholm Games. Since then, it has been part of every edition of the Games. The men's and women's programmes are almost identical, as they contain the same number of events, with only one difference: the freestyle distance is 800 metres for women and 1,500 metres for men. Find more about Swimming at http://www.olympic.org/swimming

Comments

1. What
2. It takes me 20 ish seconds JUST to do 25 yards... and it takes them (for the world record) like 19 seconds!!
3. I come here after I watched Sun Yang on Real Men 2..
4. Well there is breaking the WR and then there is smashing it.
5. I really loved the part at 20:32 when the man in the lane came next to him and gave him a hug. Different nationalities, languages, and cultures, but brought together for the love of the sport❤️❤️
6. הספורט הכי יפה
7. The other day at the pool I did 15:56 and watching this I was like OMG with a bit more training I could be an Olympian. Then I realised I only did 1k :(
8. How?! I get tired when I do 200M
9. lool when he jumps in
10. And then there's me, who I can't do 20 strokes before my body starts yelling at me to stop
11. Great job!!! 1500m is really long. Running 1500m would actually be really tiring if you don't do any sports
12. After an almost disqualification came back and gave the angriest 1500m swim you'll ever see
13. That fail 3:55 xDD
14. Sheer poetry.
    NOTICE: He is not fighting harder/thrashing through the water more than the other swimmer.
    He is measured, and paced, taking longer, smoother strokes, with less splash on entry than the others.
    He is using a 2-beat kick almost all the way through.
    
    Reducing resistance = more velocity than propulsion alone. Streamlining folks!
15. Clark Smith of Texas will beat Dung Quang's world record.
16. I thought Korea would win. 😡
17. I am not tired at all when I am swimming. I could swim more than 100 m
18. Can anyone tell me how fast he swam the last 100m?
19. i have a 1k swimming test...i get out of breath after like 4 laps
20. His name is Sun Yang? I'm freaking out because of rwby