Tag: Jeanette Ottesen
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Danish Open starts with a bang
The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…
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Dekker wins 50 free and 100 butterfly back-to-back
Netherland’s Inge Dekker clocked 24.87 for a dominant victory in the 50 freestyle at Championnats de France, ahead of Angéla Tavernier on 25.91 and 15-year-old Béryl Gastaldello on 25.99, before still breathless clocking 58.70 to win the 100 butterfly ahead of Aurore Mongel on 59.33 and Diane Bui Duyet on 59.43. See results here and…
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Strasbourg is the place to be this week
SwimNews.com describes the upcoming French nationals and World championship trials as “a firepower in men’s freestyle events that is hard to find just about anywhere else in the world”, with Alain Bernard, Amaury Leveaux, Fred Bousquet, Fabien Gilot, William Meynard and Yannick Agnel in the short to middle distances, and Sebastien Rouault, Anthony Pannier, Xavier…
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Danish Open 2011 Start List
The Danish Open 2011 start list is ready, promising quite a few high quality races, especially in the long distance events. In the women’s 1500 freestyle, we have Norway’s Elin Slaatmo trying to take on European champion and World silver medalist Lotte Friis, and in the men’s 1500 freestyle, Faroe Islands’ European silver medalist Pál…
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Is Dancing With The Stars bigger than an Olympic medal ?
Jan Jeppesen executive editor of Amager Bladet lunges out against the his fellow Danish press in today’s editorial, stating that even though Jeanette Ottesen won an European silver medal last summer and a World bronce this winter, she only gets DKK 10.000 (appr. USD 1867) a month from Team Danmark and struggles with finding additional…