The Austin Grand Prix swimming competition was held this past weekend, Jan. 14-16, at the Jamail Texas Swimming Center at the University of Texas. It featured some of the top U.S. swimmers including 2008 Beijing Olympic medalists Michael Phelps, Jason Lezac, and Ryan Lochte. 
Nobody will ever forget Jason Lezak's 2008 Olympic performance when he made up what seemed an impossible deficit in the final leg of the 400-meter freestyle relay, stunning the favored French team and keeping Phelps' gold medal string alive. Lezak is pictured below in Lane #3.
14-time gold medalist Michael Phelps, returned to the pool where as a 15-year old he became the youngest man to set a swimming world record. The 1:54.92 Phelps clocked in the 200-meter butterfly in March 2001 lasted only a few months as a world record before he lowered it, but it still remains a pool record here in Austin. Below, Phelps competes in the 100-meter backstroke.
Six-time Olympic medalist and 2010 American and World Swimmer of the Year, Ryan Lochte won the 200-meter freestyle Friday night.
A nice moment of Phelps with his mom after the competition.
The one thing I learned from photographing this event, is that shooting a swimming competition is hard!! Without access to the pool deck level and an amazing zoom lens, it is difficult to grab the images that we see in SI that look so stunning. All in all it was fun, and it was neat to see these icons of the sport that thrilled us so much in the summer of 2008.
Nobody will ever forget Jason Lezak's 2008 Olympic performance when he made up what seemed an impossible deficit in the final leg of the 400-meter freestyle relay, stunning the favored French team and keeping Phelps' gold medal string alive. Lezak is pictured below in Lane #3.
14-time gold medalist Michael Phelps, returned to the pool where as a 15-year old he became the youngest man to set a swimming world record. The 1:54.92 Phelps clocked in the 200-meter butterfly in March 2001 lasted only a few months as a world record before he lowered it, but it still remains a pool record here in Austin. Below, Phelps competes in the 100-meter backstroke.
Six-time Olympic medalist and 2010 American and World Swimmer of the Year, Ryan Lochte won the 200-meter freestyle Friday night.
A nice moment of Phelps with his mom after the competition.
The one thing I learned from photographing this event, is that shooting a swimming competition is hard!! Without access to the pool deck level and an amazing zoom lens, it is difficult to grab the images that we see in SI that look so stunning. All in all it was fun, and it was neat to see these icons of the sport that thrilled us so much in the summer of 2008.
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