Author: rokur
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Students learn to swim for safety
Grade three students across Ontario can add water safety to the list of what they learned in school. It’s part of the provincial swim to survive program, started by the life saving society of Ontario. Students learn to swim for safety from QNet News on Vimeo.
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CC photo #329: Gregorio Paltrinieri on the Debrecen 2012 podium
Young gun Gregorio Paltrinieri from Italy on the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships podium, showing his medals to the photographers after winning the men’s 1500 freestyle in a new championships record of 14:48.92. See result list here. So I guess he’s the complete European champion now, having won the 1500 meter freestyle both long course…
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Danes looking for a new national coach
The Danish Swimming Federation released this job advertisement today, searching for a national coach to ‘ensure the continued development of Danish elite swimming to the highest possible international level’. The specific goal to achieve medals at the Olympics, World Championships and European Championships, and the primary focus on international long course championships. The former job…
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Camille Muffat 3:54.85 and a new World Record in the 400 meter SC freestyle
At the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships today, Camille Muffat (FRA) won the women’s 400 meter freestyle in 4:54.85, demolishing Laure Manaudou’s (FRA) championships record of 3:56.09 from Helsinki 2006, and Joanne Jackson’s (GBR) European and World record of 3:54.92 from the supersuited days of Leeds 2009. Splits 26.84 – 29.40 – 29.67 –…
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France still leads the Chartres 2012 medal race, but the Danes closing in
Denmark had a great day at the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships, with Lotte Friis taking the 800 freestyle crown, Jeanette Ottesen the 50 butterfly and Rikke Møller Pedersen the 200 breaststroke, see for instance the report on SwimNews. The Russians are also in the race now, but France and Hungary though still…
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CC photo #328: Vorontsov with the Szczecin 2011 trophy
Not even a year ago, Russia’s then national head coach Andrei Vorontsov with the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships trophy, in the team hotel lobby in Szczecin, Poland. Now national coach of Sweden :-)
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Sweden names Sandmark, Jenner and Vorontsov as national coaches
The Swedish Swimming Federation presented their new and impressive national team coaching trio in Helsingborg today, Ulrika Sandmark will be the coach in charge, team manager or ‘federation captain’ as they say in Sweden, with Sarah Sjöströms British coach Carl Jenner and former Russian national head coach Andrei Vorontsov as coaches also. See for instance…
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BUCS Short Course Championships – University of Sunderland Swim Story
Already heroes in my book, The University of Sunderland Swim Squad attended their first BUCS National Championships on November 4th, with Sportsbyte’s Aquatics Correspondent, Andy Sixsmith telling the story. They even had a swim review panel show afterwards. Awesome
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Interviews from Chartres 2012 on len.eu
In case you’re interested and haven’t found them yet, there is a series of video interviews on len.eu, with medal winners from the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships. Here is Florent Manaudou, winner of the men’s 50 freestyle