Tag: Mads Glæsner
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Preview Danish SC Champs Day 1 – Thursday 14 Nov 2013
Start Lists • Live Stream • Live Timing • Live Results What to expect Hopefully a high-level first race between Mads Glæsner and Pál Joensen in the 400 freestyle, with Frans Johannesen and Anton Ørskov Ipsen also going under 3:51.14 to secure their spot on the Herning 2013 team. A cruise victory by Rikke Møller…
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CC photo #666: The Istanbul 2012 men’s 1500 free podium
Medal winners in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Italy’s silver winner Gregorio Paltrinieri, Denmark’s gold medal winner Mads Glæsner and Faroe Island’s silver winning Pál Joensen. The podium places were later shuffled because of Glæsner’s doping sentence, so that Paltrinieri became…
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Danish former pro cyclist: Mads Glæsner got off easy
A very interesting discussion here on Danish TV2, retired Danish swimmer Jakob Andkjær, Danish former professional road racing cyclist Niki Østergaard and Danish footballer Thomas Rasmussen and others discussing the two current doping cases in Danish swimming, plus doping and doping prevention in general. It is unfortunately in Danish only, but Niki Sørensen says when…
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Paltrinieri new 1500 SC World Champion, as Glæsner loses his medal
The Danish Swimming Federation today specifies in a new press release, that Mads Glæsner will not only lose his 400 meter freestyle bronze medal from the Istanbul 2012 World Championships (25m), but also his 1500 meter freestyle gold medal. This means that the world championship honor goes to Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri, the silver medal to…
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Danish World Champion Mads Glæsner 3-month ban for doping at Istanbul 2012
The Danish Swimming Federation announced today that FINA has handed Mads Glæsner a 3-month ban for doping at the Istanbul 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m). I will try to explain the situation briefly here in the following, but read the official press release if you can, or wait for the press release from FINA. The…
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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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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…
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Wildeboer on Glæsner’s criticism: The results depend upon how the athlete decides to follow the program
Interesting interview here on SwimSwam with now former Danish head coach Paulus Wildeboer, following the criticism from Mads Glæsner, that Wildeboer should have ‘ruined his Olympics‘. Wildeboer disagrees, says Glæsner wasn’t prepared for altitude training, didn’t follow advice and therefore didn’t adapt properly. Although Glaesner was unhappy with his training leading into the Olympics Wildeboer believes…