Tag: Christian Sprenger

Christian Sprenger has world swim record in sights

Apr 27, 2013

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See ninemsn The 27-year-old Queenslander was denied Olympic gold by Cameron van der Burgh despite replays showing the South African had performed an illegal underwater butterfly kick off the start. However, Sprenger could only see a bright future from the London Olympic podium – especially after booking a world titles spot by claiming his second…
2013 EnergyAustralia Swimming Championships Pre-Meet Media Conference

Apr 26, 2013

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in Competition, Organization

Featuring Jame Magnussen, Cate Campbell, Bronte Campbell and Christian Sprenger.
Sprenger calls on Hackett to mentor the Australian swim team

Apr 25, 2013

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Read The Age London Olympic silver medallist Christian Sprenger has called for former champion Grant Hackett to return to the Australian swim team as a mentor, to help fill the leadership gap and develop a new team captain. […] ”I have a lot of respect for [Hackett] and so did the team members back then,”…
Australian Swimming working on bringing back team spirit

Mar 17, 2013

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A Bethany Larsen story, featuring Christian Sprenger Bethany Larsen-Australian Swimming News Story from Bethany Larsen on Vimeo.
Be the Influence: Tackling Binge Drinking video

Feb 15, 2013

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in Health

This video is part of the Australian Government’s National Binge Drinking Strategy managed by the Australian National Preventive Health Agency. Featuring among others Christian Sprenger. http://youtu.be/NxAwGrlX_9I See also this video from November featuring Geoff Huegill
London 2012 day 2 finals: Vollmer and Van Der Burgh post World records

Jul 30, 2012

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At the London 2012 Olympic swimming finals yesterday evening, the French men upset everyone by taking back the 4×100 freestyle Olympic gold medal that they lost in 2008, clocking 3:09.93 with USA in 3:10.38 and 2nd and Russia in 3:11.41 and 3rd, the Aussie ‘weapons of mass destruction’ backfiring to a 3:11.63 and 4th. USA’s…
London 2012 day 1 prelims: Vollmer posts OR, lots of shocks in other races

Jul 28, 2012

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In the men’s 400 IM, medal favorite Laszlo Cseh missed the final with 7/100 of a second, Michael Phelps just scraping by in 8th spot. In the women’s 100 butterfly, USA’s Dana Vollmer posted an Olympic Record of 56.25. In the men’s 400 freestyle, Tae-hwan Park posted a confident time of 3:46.68 but was disqualified,…
Kylie Palmer sets Australian record on 2nd night of Australian Trials

Mar 16, 2012

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Kylie Palmer managed an impressive 4:03.40 win and Australian national record in the women’s 400 freestyle at the Austrial Olympic Trials today, qualifying for the Olympics along with Bronte Barratt in 4:05.74. In the 100 butterfly, Alicia Coutts and Jessicah Schipper qualiftied in 57.59 and 57.88 respectively, and in the men’s 100 breaststroke, Christian Sprenger…