personal-best

Arabic translation: أفضل أداء في تاريخه كسباح

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English term or phrase:personal-best
Arabic translation:أفضل أداء في تاريخه كسباح
Entered by: maiabulela

16:21 Apr 20, 2011
English to Arabic translations [PRO]
Sports / Fitness / Recreation / sports
English term or phrase: personal-best
Dear all.

How can we translate "personal-best" in:

[After swimming a personal-best in Beijing, Shanteau underwent successful surgery]

Is it a famous expression? there only a film under that name on Google!

Thanks a lot.
maiabulela
Local time: 10:55
أقصى سرعة في السباحة - أفضل أداء في السباحة
Explanation:
The definitions:

PB (Personal Best) - This is when a swimmer goes faster than their previous fastest performance in a particular stroke over a particular distance. Each swimmer can set a PB for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and individual medley (IM) over each available distance, such as 25M, 50M, 100M, 200M, 400M and even 1500M.
http://www.paulsadlerswimland.com/SSC/Glossary.aspx

personal best (plural personal bests)
A person's best performance at a task to date.
His personal best was a seven-minute mile.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/personal_best


[After swimming a personal-best in Beijing, Shanteau underwent successful surgery]


خضع شانتو لعملية جراحية ناجحة بعد أن سبح في بكين مسجلا أقصى سرعة / أفضل أداء في سباحته
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Mohamed A. Moustafa
United States
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4 +1رقم قياسي شخصي
TargamaT team
4تفوق على نفسه
Hassan Lotfy
4أقصى سرعة في السباحة - أفضل أداء في السباحة
Mohamed A. Moustafa


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رقم قياسي شخصي


Explanation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Moussambani

TargamaT team
France
Local time: 09:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
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agree  Heba Salah
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تفوق على نفسه


Explanation:
context

Hassan Lotfy
Egypt
Local time: 10:55
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Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish
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أقصى سرعة في السباحة - أفضل أداء في السباحة


Explanation:
The definitions:

PB (Personal Best) - This is when a swimmer goes faster than their previous fastest performance in a particular stroke over a particular distance. Each swimmer can set a PB for freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and individual medley (IM) over each available distance, such as 25M, 50M, 100M, 200M, 400M and even 1500M.
http://www.paulsadlerswimland.com/SSC/Glossary.aspx

personal best (plural personal bests)
A person's best performance at a task to date.
His personal best was a seven-minute mile.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/personal_best


[After swimming a personal-best in Beijing, Shanteau underwent successful surgery]


خضع شانتو لعملية جراحية ناجحة بعد أن سبح في بكين مسجلا أقصى سرعة / أفضل أداء في سباحته

Mohamed A. Moustafa
United States
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 8
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Asker: Thanks a lot for that thorough explanation!

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