Tag: Therese Alshammar
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Therese Alshammar is pregnant
Read Speed Endurance, Swedish World Champion Therese Alshammar, 35, has announced that she and her coach and partner Johan Wallberg are expecting. She will therefore not be swimming the Barcelona World Championships this summer, but still refuses to draw a line over her swimming career. “One of my greatest dreams is to continue to try…
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Sweden selects 12 women, 2 men for the Istanbul 2012 World Championships
The Swedish Swimming Federation today selected the Istanbul 2012 national squad, including Therese Alshammar, Jennie Johansson and that controversial Simon Sjödin, but not Sarah Sjöström. Sjöström has said earlier that she was unsure about her World Championships participation, and would use the Swedish short course championships this weekend to gauge her form, I guess that…
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Therese Alshammar at the Dubai 2012 World Cup press conference
Therese Alshammar is feeling good and looking forward to the forthcoming Fina Arena Swimming World Cup. Listen as she reflects on the summer of 2012 and of her recent move to Switzerland.
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London 2012 day 5 prelims: Lochte safely through towards his 200 back/IM epic double
At the London 2012 Olympic prelims this morning, China’s Yi Tang posted best time in the women’s 100 freestyle, 53.28 ahead of Melanie Schlanger (AUS) in 53.50 and Jeanette Ottesen Gray (DEN) in 53.51, notable omission Russia’s single participant Veronika Popova and non-starting Cate Campbell (AUS) and Therese Alshammar (SWE). Rebecca Soni (AUS) posted the…
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Therese Alshammar struggling with a pinched nerve on eve of Olympics
Breaking news on aftonbladet.se via simma.nu/se, at a press conference today it was confirmed that Therese Alshammar suffers from a pinched nerve in her neck, which ultimately could mean that she will miss the Olympics. These last days of camp she has found it difficult to rotate in swimming, an MRI-scan confirming that she has…
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33̬ Trofeu Ciutat de Barcelona 2012 РPromo
Part of the Mare Nostrum 2012 series, hosted by Club Natació Sant Andreu, the club of Erika Villaécija, bronze winner in the 1500 freestyle at Debrecen 2012. This weekend June 2nd and 3rd, see event details here, including start lists featuring swimmers like Rebecca Adlington, Erika Villaécija and Mireia Belmonte, Keri-Anne Payne, Kristel Kobrich, Sergey…
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4 confirmed on the Swedish Olympic team, plus the women’s 4×100 relay
The Swedish Olympic Committee today nominated Jennie Johansson and Martina Granström for the London 2012 Olympics, in addition to already qualified Sarah Sjöström and Therese Alshammar. Johansson and Granström are Olympic debutants, while Sjöström also participated in Beijing, and Alshammar at all 4 games since 1996. The Committee also nominated the women’s 4×100 freestyle, though…
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Interview with Therese Alshammar at the 2011 UAE International Swim Meet
An interview with World Champion, Olympic medalist and world record holder Therese Alshammar of Sweden, shortly after winning the 50 freestyle at the 2011 UAE International Swim Meet held at the Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Sports Complex purposefully built for the FINA Short Course Swimming World Championships in December 2010.
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Watch the WA States LIVE on Ustream, featuring Sullivan, Alshammar and others
Australia’s Swimming WA is live streaming its 2011-2012 SWA Open and Age LC Championships finals every night from January 17th to 21st 2012 starting at 5:45pm local time, featuring for instance Blair Evans, Eamon Sullivan, Matt Abood, Geoff Huegill and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar. Other news disclose that Geoff Huegill has had his training disrupted by…