Russian swim star to try out VÃ¡gur

Nov 17, 2011

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This is surreal to me, but Russian swim star Anastasia Aksenova will arrive at the airport here on the Faroe Islands this Monday evening, to try out practice at SuÃ°uroyar Svimjifelag in VÃ¡gur. Yup, the club of JÃ³n Bjarnason where PÃ¡l Joensen trains. Aksenova is the Russian 100 meter freestyle record holder (53.20), and won a silver medal in the 50 freestyle at the Russian short course championships this October (25.38, 25.19 in the semi). And an Olympian too, from Beijing 2008. If it works out well, she would like to train here with JÃ³n as coach until the London 2012 Olympics. I’m pinching myself all over here. Via SuÃ°urrÃ¡s.fo

Anastasia Aksenova

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A quick update on Aksenova's and Joensen's situation in VÃ¡gurSwimmer's Daily

November 30, 2011

[…] As mentioned before, Russian record holder and Olympian Anastasia Aksenova is currently trying out training in VÃ¡gur, here in the Faroe Islands, now almost for two weeks. She competed at a local meet last Sunday, beating our record holder in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.26 against GuÃ°run’s 26.55. And she endured our biggest storm since 1988 last Thursday, with roofs blowing off houses and stuff. […]

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Chris DeSantis on the Faroese visit in his home poolSwimmer's Daily

December 15, 2011

[…] What is the magic number? I don’t know, but if I had to guess it would probably be less than ten. Jon has every reason to be overconfident about his own coaching ability, but he had enough humility to admit that it has been a challenge toÂ add just one more international caliber swimmer to his coaching responsibilities earlier this year. […]

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