Tag: Ari-Pekka Liukkonen
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Marko Malvela, 5x Finnish Olympic Swim Coach, Talks Body Types, Sixth Sense, & Over Training | Inside with Brett Hawke
Marko Malvela is a 5x Olympic Swimming Coach from Finland. He currently coaches 3 of the 5 Finnish swimmers that competed in Tokyo. This includes Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (been together for 16 years), Mimosa Jallow, and Fanny Teijonsalo (who has been a guest on Dive Inside LIVE). Marko’s group also includes Finnish National teamers Teemu Vuroela…
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European Aquatics Championships, Budapest (HUN) – Day 14, Summary
GB tops the medal chart, Italy claims the Team Trophy Team GB was really a team here in Budapest, by adding two more relay titles – clinched 7 in 9 events – they finished atop in the medal charts with 11 golds. Italy earned the most medals, 27, and also claimed the Team Trophy –…
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Vikings Test Form at North Sea Swim Meet 2014
The Stavanger Swim Hall in Norway will this weekend 7-9 November 2014 be venue of the 42nd North Sea Swim Meet, featuring the Danish ‘Viking’ team including Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (FIN), Pál Joensen (FAR), Marco Loughran (GBR), swimmers from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and of course the best Norwegian…
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Finnish Olympian Swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen Comes Out As Gay
Read Advocate and YLE Finnish Olympic swimmer Ari-Pekka Liukkonen has come out of the closet as a gay man, reports YLE. The winner of the bronze medal in the 4x50m mixed freestyle relay at the 2012 European Championships, Liukkonen said he chose to publicly reveal his own sexuality in hopes of raising awareness of the antigay legislation…
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CC photo #453: AriÂ-Pekka Liukkonen at Debrecen 2012
Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen after the men’s 50 freestyle semifinal at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was 4th in the final the day after, see the semifinal result list here.
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FINA invites four Finnish swimmers to the Olympics
The Finnish swimming federation announces here that FINA has invited Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Matti Mattsson, Emilia Pikkarainen and Hanna-Maria Seppälä for the London 2012 Games, in addition to 1500m swimmer Matias Koski who qualified in early April. Sports director Ippe Natunen comments: ‘This is truly a wonderful thing! We aimed to have five swimmers at the…