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  • Alshammar and Le Clos overall winners of the FINA World Cup

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    It’s official, Therese Alshammar (SWE) and Chad Le Clos (RSA) are the overall winners of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2011, each receiving US$ 100,000 in prize money in addition to their thousands won in individual races. For Alshammer it is her second time in a row, winning in 2006, 2007 and 2010, and taking…

  • The Stockholm 2011 World Cup startlist is ready

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    Exciting stuff, our guy Pál Joensen will be competing against Paul Biedermann in the 400 free, and is the favorite in the 1500. Other interesting names are for instance Geoff Huegill and Eamon Sullivan from Australia, Therese Alshammar and Stefan Nystrand from Sweden, Ingvild Snildal and Alexander Dale Oen from Norway, David Verraszto and Zjuzsanna…

  • USA Today projects Friis to win 800 free at London 2012

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    USA Today has this interesting “Olympic Medal Tracker” on their site, where they use an algorithm to project the winners in each medal event for the 2012 London Olympics, based on an athlete’s results in events such as world championships and World Cup. With emphasis that it doesn’t predict how the medals will play out…

  • Alshammar has a “Diva” tattoo to remind her not to be a diva

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    Interesting detail about Sweden’s Therese Alshammar, 33-year-old World Cup winner 2010 and Dubai 2010 World champion in the 50 butterfly. Source SwimNews.com: “I lived in London for a number of years, so it’s like my second home. I really, really like the city so it would be nice to have a little bit of ‘homeground’…

  • Pereira and Alshammar lead the World Cup

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    Brazil’s Thiago Pereira and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar lead the World Cup competition by a mile, now after the first 4 of 7 meets, with 88 and 88 point ahead of runners-up 43 and 50 respectively, and $20.000 and $16.500 in earned prize money. See score and prize money tally here on www.scsom.se.

  • Alshammar Sets 50 Butterfly World Record

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    Sweden’s Therese Alshammar improved upon her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record today, with a time of 24.38 at the FINA World Cup 2009 meet in Singapore, where her world record from the Stockholm leg was 24.46. See results

  • Alshammar Sets 50 Butterfly World Record

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    Sweden’s Therese Alshammar improved upon her own 50 meter short course butterfly world record this evening, with a time of 24.46 at the World Cup meet in Stockholm, where her world record from the World Cup meet in Durban last October was 24.75. See results

  • Alshammar Sets 2nd WR On 2nd Day Of World Cup

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    Sweden’s Therese Alshammar withdrew from the 100 meter IM final at the FINA World Cup meet in Durban today, even though she set a new world record in the event during prelims this morning. Instead, she focused totally on the 50 butterfly, and managed to set a new world record also in this event, with…

  • Alshammar Sets 100 Meter IM World Record

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    Sweden’s Therese Alshammar set a new 100 meter individual medley world record this morning, at the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup 2009 meet in Durban, South Africa. The new world record time is 58.51, where Australia’s Emily Seebohm’s world record from last August was 58.54. Read swimmingworldmagazine.com