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  • Ingvild Snildal retires

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    See nrk.no, there is a nice video interview with her also, in Norwegian. Ingvild Snildal can’t find the motivation again. Therefore, one of Norway’s best swimmers ever retires at the age of 25. ‘The last half year I have felt that I am comfortable as a normal person who isn’t an elite athlete, Ingvild Snildal…

  • ‘We have to start all over again’, says Norwegian national coach Petter Løvberg

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    Read full post on SwimmingWorld Just 18 months after the death of Norwegian swimming star Alexander Dale Oen, elite swimming in Norway is at a standstill national head coach Petter Lovberg admitted to NRK.no recently. “It’s in the cards that we now have to start all over again,” Lovberg said of the greatest challenge of his…

  • CC photo #617: Debrecen 2012 Women’s 100 Fly Podium

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    The women’s 100 meter butterfly medal podium at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. From left to right Sweden’s silver medal winner Martina Granström, Norway’s gold medal winner Ingvild Snildal and Israel’s bronze medal winner Amit Ivri. See the result list here.

  • Norwegian swimming ‘devoid of profiles’ as Ingvild Snildal takes indefinite break

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    Breaking news on TV2.no (in Norwegian) ‘Right now it is unthinkable to go into water,’ says Ingvild Snildal who is staying away indefinitely. Snildal announced already last year that she would take a sabbatical year, and now regrets having then changed her mind and soldiered on because of new surroundings in Bergen. ‘I regret it a bit.…

  • Norway picks 7 for the Chartres 2012 Europeans SC

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    Norways national head coach Petter Løvberg has selected the following 7 swimmers for the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France, 22 – 25 November 2012. Aleksander Hetland, Bærumsvømmerne Lavrans Solli, Bergens Svømme Club Ingvild Snildal, Asker SK Cecilie Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svømme Club Monica Waage Johannessen, Bergens Svømme Club Veronica Bjørlykke, Aalesund SLK…

  • CC photo #149: Sweden and Norway cheering on Granström

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    In picture Sweden’s Simon Sjödin and Norways Ingvild Snildal, among Swedes cheering on Marina Granström in the women’s 200 butterfly at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She won the bronze medal in 2:08.22, behind Hungary’s Katarina Hosszu in 2:07.28 and Zsuzsanna Jakabos in 2:07.86. See result list here.

  • Norway sends 16 swimmers to the Debrecen 2012 Europeans

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    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…

  • Norway’s Ingvild Snildal qualifies for the Olympics

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    After having improved upon the Norwegian women’s 200 butterfly record twice in the same day, Ingvild Snildal yesterday evening won the 100 butterfly at the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2012, qualifying in 58.32, ahead of home favorite Inge Dekker in 58.41 and Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak in 59.63. A bitt off her 56.96 Norwegian record from Rome…

  • Snildal sets Norwegian 200 butterfly record also in the final

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    Norway’s Ingvild Snildal set a new national 200 meter butterfly record tonight at Amsterdam Swim Cup, improving up the 2:12.38 record from the prelims this morning with a 2:12.29 in the final. Polands Otylia Jedrzejczak won gold in 2:10.30, Snildal silver and then Sweden’s Ida Marko-Varga bronze in 2:13.34, the FINA A qualifying time being…