Tag: Pál Joensen
-
CC photo #475: Faroese 2011 Youth Swimming Championships Opening Ceremony
Swimmers lined up for the Faroese 2011 Youth Swimming Championships in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands. The 2013 edition starts tonight, so we will be busy-busy with Pál at the Bergen Swim Festival and everything :-)
-
Katinka Hosszu to swim all 15 women’s events at Bergen Swim Festival 2013
The Bergen Swim Festival 2013 – Alexander Dale Oen Memorial promises to be ‘the biggest and best ever’, when 450+ swimmers including 44 international will compete at Sentralbadet in Bergen, starting this Friday 19 April at 15:00 local time and ending late Sunday 21st. World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu from Hungary is on the startlist…
-
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…
-
Danish Open 2013 Day 2: Pedersen clocks quickest time in the World this year
At the Danish Open/Trials yesterday evening, Rikke Møller Pedersen managed a world’s best this year in the women’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1:06.40 ahead of Sweden’s Joline Höstman in 1:09.30. ‘Our guy’ Pál Joensen cruised to a 8:07.21 win in the men’s 800 freestyle, which according to the commenters on DR was the 10th best time…
-
Danish Open 2013 Day 1: Friis and Pedersen post swift times
Lotte Friis clocked 4:06.49 in the women’s 400 freestyle at the Danish Open 2013 in Copenhagen today, 4th best in the world this year, and Rikke Møller Pedersen a swift 1:06.55 in the women’s 100 breaststroke semifinal, faster than her best time from the London 2012 Olympics. Young gun Magnus Westermann posted a new Danish…
-
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…
-
Swim stars flock to Bergen Swim Festival 2013 in honor of Alexander Dale Oen
In a press release last week, Bergen Swim Festival 2013 could boast a best ever field of world-class swimmers, including 4 male breaststroke finalists from the London 2012 Olympics. Also known as the Alexander Dale Oen Memorial, there is no doubt that the congregation of swim stars has a lot to do with them wanting…
-
Interview with Danish Swimming Federation: Bas Jan Stam
Danish Swimming Federation had a training camp at BISP during 12-26 Feb. 2013 Camps – British International School, Phuket is managed by Business Development & Service Department.
-
CC photo #417: Pál being interviewed at the 2012 Faroe Champs
Pál Joensen in the interview corner of the 2012 Faroese (Short Course) Championships in our capitol of Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.