Tag: Danish Open 2013
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Danish Open 2013 Day 4: Pedersen beats the 200 breast European record
On this final day of the Danish Open / Trials, the big story was Rikke Møller Pedersen setting a new European record in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, clocking 2:20.53 where Yuliya Efimova’s record from the London 2012 Olympics was 2:20.92. Jeanette Ottesen made the Danish Barcelona 2013 ‘stability’ qualification time standard with 1 hundredth…
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Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:20.53 and a new European record in the 200 breaststroke
Update: The European record was not Nadja Higl’s 2:21.62 from 2009, but Yuliya Efimova’s 2:20.92 from London 2012. I shouldn’t have trusted the data on livetiming ;-) At the Danish Open 2013 today, Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen blasted her 2:21.65 Danish record in the 200 breaststroke from the London 2012 Olympics with a new European…
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Danish Open Day 3: Jeanette Ottesen Gray clocks 57.94 in the 100 fly
On the third night of the Danish Open 2013, Jeanette Ottesen managed to swim under both the Danish 2013 Barcelona ‘stability’ time standard and the harsher qualification time standard, with a time of 57.94 in the women’s 100 butterfly semifinal, second to only Sarah Sjöström’s 57.90 world leading time this year. Andreas Schiellerup won the…
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Rikke Møller Pedersen ready for Barcelona 2013
Video (in Danish) off tv2fyn.dk, to put it shortly, her world-best time of 1:06.40 in the 100 breast did the trick.
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Danish Open 2013 Day 2: Pedersen clocks quickest time in the World this year
At the Danish Open/Trials yesterday evening, Rikke Møller Pedersen managed a world’s best this year in the women’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1:06.40 ahead of Sweden’s Joline Höstman in 1:09.30. ‘Our guy’ Pál Joensen cruised to a 8:07.21 win in the men’s 800 freestyle, which according to the commenters on DR was the 10th best time…
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Danish Open 2013 Day 1: Friis and Pedersen post swift times
Lotte Friis clocked 4:06.49 in the women’s 400 freestyle at the Danish Open 2013 in Copenhagen today, 4th best in the world this year, and Rikke Møller Pedersen a swift 1:06.55 in the women’s 100 breaststroke semifinal, faster than her best time from the London 2012 Olympics. Young gun Magnus Westermann posted a new Danish…
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Barcelona and Poznan squads to be decided at this week’s Danish Open
The 2013 Danish Open will be decisive for who gets to represent Denmark at the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships in Barcelona, Spain and the LEN 2013 European Junior Swimming Championships in Poznan, Poland. See the press release (in Danish) here on svoem.org. For already qualified swimmers Rikke Møller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen, Lotte Friis, Mie…