Rank Yourself

This section contains charts on the placings in all individual events at Two World Masters Swimming Championships. If you didn't know already, the World Masters are held every 2 years - they were held in Sheffield, England in 1996; Casablanca, Morocco in 1998; Munich, Germany in 2000 & Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002. The charts on this website were crunched from the results taken from the 1996 and 2000 events. The results for the 2002 (IX) event were crunched in a different manner and placed in the oddball section.

If you had, for example, attended Munich 2000, you would have been rubbing shoulders with over 4,700 fellow Masters (55% men/45% women) from over 1500 clubs in 66 countries competing in 16,000 heats. If you want to check out the raw results for this August 2000 meet, there is a monster 674 page pdf file circulating elsewhere on the web.

Ok, back to the charts. The World placings for each event and age group have been tabulated into 32 charts (one chart for each stroke/distance) which can provide an interesting insight into the placing you could have achieved if you had attended. These charts can also suggest which stroke, distance and time you may wish to target if you would like to make the top 10 at the next World Masters which will be held in Rome, Italy in 2004. With these charts you can also check to see how you might compare if you were advancing to the next agegroup.

As some events had over 100 finishers and there was a large time difference between the various agegroups, the charts would have been prohibitively congested if all the placings had been shown. These charts therefore only show the first 25 placings (in some cases there were less than 25 participants) for the 10 agegroups spanning 25-70. The charts all have the same layout for each year, are less than 20Kb each and will open into a new window when selected.

If you are looking for an incentive to give you an edge, you will want to reflect on this food for thought.

you can't get to the top by sitting on your bottom