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Russian swim star to try out Vágur

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This is surreal to me, but Russian swim star Anastasia Aksenova will arrive at the airport here on the Faroe Islands this Monday evening, to try out practice at Suðuroyar Svimjifelag in Vágur. Yup, the club of Jón Bjarnason where Pál Joensen trains. Aksenova is the Russian 100 meter freestyle record holder (53.20), and won a silver medal in the 50 freestyle at the Russian short course championships this October (25.38, 25.19 in the semi). And an Olympian too, from Beijing 2008. If it works out well, she would like to train here with Jón as coach until the London 2012 Olympics. I’m pinching myself all over here. Via Suðurrás.fo

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2 responses to “Russian swim star to try out Vágur”

  1. A quick update on Aksenova's and Joensen's situation in VágurSwimmer's Daily

    […] As mentioned before, Russian record holder and Olympian Anastasia Aksenova is currently trying out training in Vágur, here in the Faroe Islands, now almost for two weeks. She competed at a local meet last Sunday, beating our record holder in the 50 freestyle with a time of 26.26 against Guðrun’s 26.55. And she endured our biggest storm since 1988 last Thursday, with roofs blowing off houses and stuff. […]

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  2. Chris DeSantis on the Faroese visit in his home poolSwimmer's Daily

    […] What is the magic number? I don’t know, but if I had to guess it would probably be less than ten. Jon has every reason to be overconfident about his own coaching ability, but he had enough humility to admit that it has been a challenge to add just one more international caliber swimmer to his coaching responsibilities earlier this year. […]

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