Tag: Aschwin Wildeboer Faber
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Olympic champ Mellouli to train with Pál and Danes at altitude
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason left for Denmark today, to join the Danish Olympic squad, Spain’s Aschwin Wildeboer and Tunesia’s Oussama Mellouli, in an elaborate altitude training program developed by the Dutch head coach of Denmark, Paulus Wildeboer. (Mellouli and Joensen at the 2010 Mare Nostrum meet in Canet)
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Spanish Open: Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa sets Spanish record in the 200 free
At the Spanish Open National Championships in Malaga, yesterday evening, Mireia Belmonte GarcÃa managed a 1:57.58 in the women’s 200 freestyle, besting Melanie Costa Schmid’s Spanish record of 1:57.83 from the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. Belmonte GarcÃa also managed a near-national record in the women’s 200 IM, winning in 2:10.53, and won the 800 freestyle…
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Danish Trials Day 1 Prelims: Calm before the storm
Nothing special this morning at the Danish Trials, in the men’s 100 freestyle they had favorites Daniel Skaaning and Jakob Andkjær qualifying alongside guest swimmers Andrey Grechin (RUS), Aschwin Wildeboer (ESP) and Olaf Wildeboer (NED), in the women’s 100 freestyle Jeanette Ottesen, Pernille Blume and young gun Mie Ø. Nielsen, in the men’s 100 breaststroke…
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CC photo #73: Aschwin & Paulus Wildeboer at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup
Spanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber and his Dutch father Paulus Wildeboer, head coach of the Danish national team, at the Stockholm leg of the 2010 FINA/Arena World Cup circuit. Checking split-times or whatever after prelims on November 6th, 2010.
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The Danish struck by the travel luck of Bjarnason
So, Pál Joensen is now on his first altitude camp ever, in Sierra Nevada in southern Spain, together with the Danish national team and a few other swimmers. But it was no easy trip from Copenhagen to the Sierras, as they had Pál’s coach Jón Bjarnason with them, who is notoriously unlucky when it comes…
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Paulus Wildeboer on the (former) ‘laziness’ of Jeanette Ottesen
If you can survive the sections where Jeanette speaks in Danish (or even better, understand them :-), there is an interesting interview here (in English) with Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, on how Jeanette used to be ‘lazy’, and on how she changed her attitude. What Jeanette says in return, is mostly confirmation of…
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CC photo #8: Donets and Vyatchanin double world record at Istanbul 2009
So how often does this happen? – Russia’s Stanislav Donets and Arkady Vyatchanin on the Istanbul 2009 LEN European Short Course Championships podium, after both having set a new world record of 48.97, bettering Vyatchanin’s 49.17 from the semis the day before. Donets won gold in all three backstroke events, back then, and bettered the…
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What a great night to be Nordic
Denmark and Norway did well tonight at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with Lotte Friis (DEN) winning the 800 free in a world textile best 8:07.53, Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN) winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.55, Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) taking gold in the 100 breaststroke with a 57.05, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) taking…
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Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training
Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…