Tag: Yuliya Efimova
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Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Finals
Russia rules with 4 gold medals, 1 world record and 1 championships record after the first day of competition, Efimova having clocked a couple of championships records en route to the final. Spain’s Mireia Belmonte set a new European record of 2:01.52 in the 200 fly, and Denmark won the women’s 4×50 freestyle in a…
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Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Prelims
The LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships are underway, the ‘LEN Timing System’ still a bit dodgy but improving during the first batch of preliminary heats. Yuliya Efimova set a new championships record of 29.47 in the women’s 50 breaststroke, and the world records were broken in both the men’s 4×50 medley and women’s 4×50…
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Yuliya Efimova 28.71 and new World Record in the 50 breast
Correction: Efimova’s time was 28.71, as written in the SW piece below. Not 28.17 Read SwimmingWorld and see the result list here. After a particularly rough FINA World Cup circuit during which she’s drawn disqualifications on a routine basis, Russia’s Yuliya Efimova finally had her major breakthrough as she clipped the world record in the…
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Efimova, Le Clos, Morozov shine at Swimming World Cup in Moscow
Russian swimmers Yulia Efimova and Vladimir Morozov please the home crowd as Olympic champion Chad le Clos also wins big at the Moscow leg of the short-course Swimming World Cup.
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Home Gharavi helping out Yuliya Efimova at BCN2013
Here is an interview with Dr. Dr. Homayun Gharavi, team physician and sports conditioning expert and a good pal of Faroese swimming, whom I happened to meet now at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. He has been helping out Russia’s Yuliya Efimova this week, who we all know became world champion in…