Discipline, tenacity key to success, says Dubai coach

While achievements are built on the knowledge of what one wants, it is discipline, tenacity, and willpower that drive home the record, said a swimming coach from Dubai who has brought home three gold medals, from a recently-concluded international competition in Singapore.

- Mariecar Jara-Puyod, Senior Reporter

Records, furnished by the management of the UAE Swimming Federation (UAESA/Union)-registered All Stars Academy-Dubai, revealed that Irakli Revishvili clocked in 1:55.03 in the 200-metre (m) freestyle compared to the existing World Champion Record (WR) of 1:51.84; 4:03.09 (WR 4:00.78) in the 400-m freestyle; and 8:26.97 (WR 8:17.65) in the 800-m freestyle, from the July 26 to August 22 "2025 World Aquatics Masters Championships (2025 WAMC)."

Competition dates for the freestyle events (age group 35 to 39) were on August 7, 10 and 13.

UAESA/Union, established in 1974, is the national governing body overseeing swimming, open water swimming, water polo, diving, finswimming, rescue, and underwater sports.

The native of Tsibilsi, Georgia defeated in the 200-m freestyle Robin Backhaus (1:57.01) and Ryan Hanson (1:59.73) who also represented their respective swimming clubs in Germany and the UK - at the races that exhibited as well the dexterity in diving, water polo, artistic swimming, and open water swimming of 6,000 master-aged aquatics athletes from 100 countries.