Tag: Matti Mattsson

  • European Aquatics Championships, Budapest (HUN) – Day 11, Summary

    European Aquatics Championships, Budapest (HUN) – Day 11, Summary

    New stars on the rise: Seemanova, Glinta, Gonzalez make a splash New faces smiled to the cameras while posing with the respective gold medals: Czech Barbara Seemanova earned a stunning win in the women’s 200m free, followed by Romania’s Robert-Andrei Glinta in the men’s 100m back and Spain’s Hugo Gonzalez in the 200m IM. There…

  • FINA invites four Finnish swimmers to the Olympics

    The Finnish swimming federation announces here that FINA has invited Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Matti Mattsson, Emilia Pikkarainen and Hanna-Maria Seppälä for the London 2012 Games, in addition to 1500m swimmer Matias Koski who qualified in early April. Sports director Ippe Natunen comments: ‘This is truly a wonderful thing! We aimed to have five swimmers at the…