Sentence examples for pool length from inspiring English sources

He was a pool length slower than the medalists, but the crowd cheered him on noisily.

All races are in multiples of the pool length, so that the touch before turning, which is varied for different stroke races, is important for success.

Joel Stager, director of the Indiana University's Counsilman Center for the Science of Swimming, and two researchers told the Wall Street Journal that results seem to indicate swimmers in the higher-numbered lanes had a performance boost in the 50m, which has competitors swim one pool length.

I know I can handle the bike and the run — at least in theory — but at the beginning of April, I can only swim half a pool length without panting to a stop: not 1,500 meters but 12.5 meters; not a mile, but the length of a house.

I set my pool length and duration and jumped right in.

The fire spacing was set as an integral multiple of the half pool length.

The 400 I.M., which consists of two pool lengths of each of the four major strokes, is Phelps's signature event.

Velez passed the eye exam and moved on to the swim test: two and a half pool lengths — fifty yards — in thirty-five seconds.

— AUSTIN KELLEY SWIMMING | 400-METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY THE FACTS It used to be that to medal in this frenetic race — two pool lengths each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle — you had to be strong in only three strokes.

It used to be that to medal in this frenetic race -- two pool lengths each of butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke and freestyle -- you had to be strong in only three strokes.

At the end of the first leg, he trailed a nonentity from Barbados by a third of the pool's length.