Month: March 2013
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Danish Open Day 3: Jeanette Ottesen Gray clocks 57.94 in the 100 fly
On the third night of the Danish Open 2013, Jeanette Ottesen managed to swim under both the Danish 2013 Barcelona ‘stability’ time standard and the harsher qualification time standard, with a time of 57.94 in the women’s 100 butterfly semifinal, second to only Sarah Sjöström’s 57.90 world leading time this year. Andreas Schiellerup won the…
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Friis’ flat in France robbed while she’s at the Danish Open
According to Lotte Friis herself on Facebook, she has just realized that her apartment in France has been robbed, while competing at the Danish Open / Trials in Copenhagen. The flat is totally raided, television though still standing, she has no idea what is missing and cannot return the next 16 days because of obligations…
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Rikke Møller Pedersen ready for Barcelona 2013
Video (in Danish) off tv2fyn.dk, to put it shortly, her world-best time of 1:06.40 in the 100 breast did the trick.
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CC photo #453: AriÂ-Pekka Liukkonen at Debrecen 2012
Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen after the men’s 50 freestyle semifinal at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was 4th in the final the day after, see the semifinal result list here.
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Danish Open 2013 Day 2: Pedersen clocks quickest time in the World this year
At the Danish Open/Trials yesterday evening, Rikke Møller Pedersen managed a world’s best this year in the women’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1:06.40 ahead of Sweden’s Joline Höstman in 1:09.30. ‘Our guy’ Pál Joensen cruised to a 8:07.21 win in the men’s 800 freestyle, which according to the commenters on DR was the 10th best time…
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CC photo #452: Istanbul 2012 Women’s 100 Free Medal Winners
The women’s 100 meter freestyle medal winners at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Megan Romano (USA, silver), Britta Steffen (Germany, gold) and Tang Yi (China, bronze). See the result list here.
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Swedish swim guru Glen Christiansen recovering from near-fatal blackout injury
A gruesome tale in Swedish here on simma.nu/se, Swedish 1980 Olympian former breaststroke world record holder now swim entrepreneur Glen Christiansen is recovering from head injuries he received at the GC International in Tenerife in February, when he blacked out and fell 2 meters down a flight of stairs. The fall apparently because of a…