Jessicah Schipper doubts her performance after outlawed swimming suits
One of Australia’s greatest female butterfly swimmers, Jessicah Schipper is still confused of her performance after the ban on polyurethane swimming suits. Schipper is on the way to claim Australian titles for the 100m and 200m butterfly at the Australian
Nationals this week, which will then qualify her for the 2011 Shanghai World Championships in July.
After a ban on the polyurethane swimming suits, Schipper said, "I look at it that I now have two different PBs. I have the [super] suit PB and then I have my original PB. I'm concentrating more on my original PBs and what I can do with these suits."
Shanghai Championships will be the first major world level event in July and Schipper is uncertain that what time she should report in to qualify in her main events for the 2011 World Championships.
She uttered that since the ban on suits in the early days of last year, it would be exciting to see everyone in textile suits at the World Long Course Championships. However, to qualify for that, Schipper would have to keep the new generation of Australia
at a distance at the National Championship in Sydney.
The 24-year-old Schipper is the multi World Championships gold medallist and two-time Olympic bronze medallist. She won the gold medal in the butterfly event in the 2005, 2007 and 2009 World Championships then she won the gold medal at the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth
Games. Schipper also won the bronze medal in the 100m and 200m butterfly respectively at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
During her successful career, Schipper also faced some hard challenges, which she marks as the strongest, but also claims that she was not frightened of those swims. She made her debut to the Australian Swimming Team nine years ago and has remained reasonably
fit throughout her career, so the probability of her getting ill before the trials is almost zero.
Schipper is an asthma patient and last year she missed her spot for the 100m butterfly at Australian Nationals to qualify for the Commonwealth Games as she suffered a respiratory infection on the first day of the trials. However, she managed her way to the
200m butterfly and won the gold medal in the same event at the Commonwealth Games.
"This has been a lot quieter [than last year] no injuries, not too many illnesses. I've had a good solid training block in for the past couple of months so I'm happy," Schipper said.
Schipper said that she has been training for a long time and she realises the difference between good and a bad preparation, she also expressed that she is quite happy with her in-training performance but the only thing that she wonders is the effect of
the costume on her swimming time.
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