Tag: Liam Tancock
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Swimming tips for the Speedo centre snorkle
Swimming workout using a centre snorkle with GB coach Ben Titley and world champion Liam Tancock. Via the17thman.
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The British Olympics competition preparation plan announced
With the London Olympics less than 100 days away, British swimmers are preparing to race on the international circuit, including the Europeans in Debrecen in May, the Mare Nostrum Series in June, the OW Marathon qualifier in Setúbal in June and the Santa Clara International Grand Prix in May/June, before the last chance to book…
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Loughborough: Britain’s secret success factory
Scarcely anyone outside the East Midlands can point to Loughborough on a map, but if the Loughborough University were a country, with past and present students its citizens, it would have come fifth at the last Commonwealth Games – ahead of South Africa – in terms of its 44 medals won. Loughborough Swimming head coach…
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CC photo #68: Liam Tancock 50 backstroke world champ at Rome 2009
Great Britain’s Liam Tancock on the Rome 2009 World Aquatics Championships podium, after having won the 50 meter backstroke in 24.04. I sat right next to Team GB (and his girlfriend), which probably explains why he turned this way :-)
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4 more on Britain’s Olympic roster, Renwick now twice
Robbie Renwick secured himself another spot on Britain’s Olympic roster, winning the 200 freestyle in 1:47.33. Gemma Spofforth and Georgia Davies qualified in the 100 backstroke, with a 1:00.19 and 1:00.21 respectively. Liam Tancock qualified also in the 100 backstroke, with a now top-ranked time in the world of 53.16, and Kate Haywood qualified in…
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Titley had Tancock & co push a car up a hill (with Titley in it)
Fun story told by Liam Tancock here on The Telegraph “We were up at the crack of dawn throwing medicine balls around the camp site. Everyone was washing their pots and pans, looking at us as if we were crazy. “Then Ben Titley, our coach, got his car out and got us pushing it up…
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Liam Tancock is FAST at putting on a swim cap
We’ve seen others do it before, but now it is Tancock ! :-)
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The World Swimming Time Zone is now GMT+8 hours
All the best swimmers in the world are now flocking along the China Standard Time zone, waking up at approximately 7 AM in Shanghai, midnight in London, 7 PM the day before in New York and 4 PM the day before in San Francisco. The Brits are in Osaka, the Americans at the Gold Coast…
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Jack Marriott aiming for London 2012
Following his win at the British Gas Championships in Manchester three months ago, 20-year-old Jack Marriott was invited to Loughborough University’s intensive training centre by Ben Titley who coaches Liam Tancock and Fran Halsall, while his college gave him a year out of from his engineering degree. All to pursue the Olympic dream, that Marriott…