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  • Denmark extends its contract with coach Wildeboer

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    The Danish Swimming Federation announced yesterday that they have made a new 4-year agreement with national coach Paulus Wildeboer, to be head coach of the National Training Center (NTC) in Bellahøj, Copenhagen up until and including the Rio 2016 Olympics. His former job as national head coach will on his request be split in two,…

  • 9News segment from the Danish Olympic squad in Leadville

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    Nice, a video here on 9News featuring Lotte Friis and coach Paulus Wildeboer, with glimpses of the rest of the squad at altitude in Leadville, Colorado, including Pál Joensen and the Tunesian Olympic champion Oussama Mellouli. Read more here on 9News

  • Paulus Wildeboer coach of the year in Denmark

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    The Danish newspaper B.T. has elected Paulus Wildeboer, head coach of the national swim team, as the 2011 Coach of the Year, across all sports, for his accomplishments with Danish swimmers at the World Championships in Shanghai and the European Short Course Championships in Szczecin. Sports Editor Jacob Staehelin commented “You have lifted Danish swimming…

  • CC photo #73: Aschwin & Paulus Wildeboer at the Stockholm 2010 World Cup

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    Spanish swimmer Aschwin Wildeboer Faber and his Dutch father Paulus Wildeboer, head coach of the Danish national team, at the Stockholm leg of the 2010 FINA/Arena World Cup circuit. Checking split-times or whatever after prelims on November 6th, 2010.

  • Paulus Wildeboer on the (former) ‘laziness’ of Jeanette Ottesen

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    If you can survive the sections where Jeanette speaks in Danish (or even better, understand them :-), there is an interesting interview here (in English) with Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, on how Jeanette used to be ‘lazy’, and on how she changed her attitude. What Jeanette says in return, is mostly confirmation of…

  • What a great night to be Nordic

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    Denmark and Norway did well tonight at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with Lotte Friis (DEN) winning the 800 free in a world textile best 8:07.53, Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN) winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.55, Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) taking gold in the 100 breaststroke with a 57.05, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) taking…

  • Paulus Wildeboer on elite swimming training

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    Paulus Wildeboer, national coach of Denmark, describes here to local folks in high altitude Leadville how his Olympic swimmers train. That the old myth in his view is wrong, that ‘the harder you work, the better you become’. That it instead should be ‘the better you work, the better you become’, which doesn’t necessarily mean…

  • Danish Olympians hope to find gold in Colorado

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    For the third time in less than two years, Danish national coach Paulus Wildeboer has brought his team of European swimmers back to the high elevation water of the Lake County Aquatics Center in Leadville, Colorado. “The are only pools in the world at this elevation. It’s very rare to find something like that,” Wildeboer…