Tag: Aleksander Hetland
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CC photo #166: Hetland looking a bit beat at Rijeka 2008
Norway’s Aleksander Hetland after the men’s 100 breaststroke semi-finals at the Rijeka 2008 European Short Course Championships. See result list here.
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‘We have to move on. Alex would have flipped if we didn’t train’
Touching article here on Bergens Tidende, where coach Sondre Solberg and teammate Aleksander Dale Hetland from Alexander Dale Oen’s club Bærumsvømmerne describe the shock they are in now. Solberg the guilt of having left a few days before Alex died (‘What if I had been close to him when it happened, maybe in his room’)…
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Alexander Dale Oen’s teammates back in Norway and on TV
The Norwegian national swimming team arrived at Gardermoen Airport in Oslo this morning, of course swarmed by local media. A sad Aleksander Hetland discloses that Dale Oen was doing fine on his last day, in no pain at all, “Now I haven’t got my training partner anymore. We had made great plans for the summer…
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Breaststroke-specific dryland training with Aleksander Hetland
Norwegian Dubai 2012 medalist Aleksander Hetland doing breaststroke-specific dryland training at altitude in Flagstaff, recently. Nice informative comments in Norwegian also, courtesy of Lars-Arne Andersen / Olympiatoppen on Facebook.
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Swim – The Pro Dual 1 by George Bovell
This video is from the Pro Dual 1 meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan back in November 2011, when 30 of the best pro swimmers divided in 2 teams to compete against each other for $$ bragging rights and glory. Featuring swimmers like Jean Basson, Darian Townsend, Barry Murphy, Wu Peng, Alex Hetland, Ian Hulme, Gard…
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Norway sends 16 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans
According to simma.nu/no, Norway will send 16 swimmers to the 2012 European Championships in Debrechen, Hungary, next month, including Ingvild Snildal but not Alexander Dale Oen. Snildal qualified for the London Olympics at the Amsterdam Swim Cup in March, while Dale Oen qualified at the Shanghai world championships last summer. They hope to have more…
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CC photo #35: Aleksander Hetland celebrates his Istanbul 2009 win
Norway’s Aleksander Hetland just after his Istanbul 2009 LEN European Short Course Championships win in the men’s 50 meter breaststroke. Hetland’s time was 26.19, ahead of Italy’s Alessandro Terrin in 26.24 and Serbia’s Caba Siladji in 26.31. Tongue-in-cheek guy is Slovenia’s Matjaz Markic, defending champion from Rijeka 2008, here 5th in 26.42. Hetland by the…
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Orange Bowl Swim Classic
Highlights from the 2012 Orange Bowl Swim Classic at Jacobs Aquatic Center in Key Largo, Florida, January 4th, 2012, courtesy of The Race Club. Featuring Norway’s Aleksander Hetland at 0:47, maybe Trinidad and Tobago’s George Bovell III at 0:54 and I think China’s Wu Peng at 1:08.
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How to do a fast breaststroke/butterfly turn
Norwegian breaststroker Aleksander Hetland explains (in English) how he does fast breaststroke turns, and then demonstrates it in the water. He won bronze at the Dubai 2010 Short Course World Championships, so listen up ! :-)