Year: 2013
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Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Finals
Russia rules with 4 gold medals, 1 world record and 1 championships record after the first day of competition, Efimova having clocked a couple of championships records en route to the final. Spain’s Mireia Belmonte set a new European record of 2:01.52 in the 200 fly, and Denmark won the women’s 4×50 freestyle in a…
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Florent Manaudou withdraws from Herning 2013 because of shoulder injury
Press release from LEN After missing the 50m free World Record established by his compatriot Amaury Leveaux (44.94) by just 0.08 sec at the French nationals in Dijon, Florent Manaudou had to cancel his participation at the 17th European Short Course Swimming Championships due to a shoulder injury. The younger brother of the now retired…
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Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Prelims
The LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships are underway, the ‘LEN Timing System’ still a bit dodgy but improving during the first batch of preliminary heats. Yuliya Efimova set a new championships record of 29.47 in the women’s 50 breaststroke, and the world records were broken in both the men’s 4×50 medley and women’s 4×50…
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Waters of Gold – The official Herning 2013 European SC Champs song now in English
“The official song for the LEN European Short Course Championships 2013 – in the City of Herning – Denmark. Now translated into english to give our listeners outside Denmark a chance to understand the words and sing-a-long Have fun”
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GB swimmers ‘taken out of comfort zone’ to improve medal success
Read BBC GB suffered a 14.9%, or £4m, funding cut after missing their London 2012 medal target of five to seven medals. As a result Furniss has overseen a drastic cut in the number of funded swimmers and has insisted on more regular competition. “We’re taking some out of their comfort zone but we’ll benefit,” he said. “It’s not a choice…
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First woman to swim English channel to have Manchester street named after her
Read Manchester Evening News A Manchester swimmer is to be immortalised in the name of the city’s newest road. Sunny Lowry – the first woman to swim the channel – will be celebrated as part of major regeneration work taking place around Eastlands. The Longsight -born athlete was chosen after a Dragons Den-style clash between…
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LEN to host own live timing system on len.eu
See len.eu, the European Swimming League (LEN) has switched from Omega and the online live timing solution that we have gotten used to on omegatiming.com, to their own ‘LEN Timing System’, apparently partnered with Alge Timing. The live timing for the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships can be found here.
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From ‘Box’ to Swim Stadium in 45 seconds
Timelapse of the construction on the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships venue.