Facebook Twitter Instagram
    Swimmer's Daily
    • Home
    • Blog
    • Timeline
    • Tags
    • Sitemap
    • About
    • Contact
    Facebook Twitter YouTube Tumblr
    Swimmer's Daily
    Home»Competition»Danish squad for Herning 2013 to be decided at SC Champs this week
    Competition

    Danish squad for Herning 2013 to be decided at SC Champs this week

    rokurBy rokurNovember 13, 2013Updated:November 13, 2013No Comments5 Mins Read
    Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
    Share
    Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Email

    From this Thursday 14 November until Sunday 17 November, Gladsaxe will host the Danish Short Course Championships 2013, that will decide the Danish squads for the Herning 2013 European Short Course Championships, and the 2013 Nordic Championships / Nordic Junior Championships in Tórshavn, Faroe Islands.

    DML2013-Magnus -Shilerup-Shannon-Juba-elaluera-200rygg-1

    (NTC head coach Shannon Rollason and national coach Nick Juba evaluating the Danish Long Course Champs men’s 200 backstroke with swimmers Andreas Schiellerup and Magnus Jákupsson. Rollason’s gesture says is all. Photo courtesy of Jákup Jacobsen)

    The Danes have relaxed their selection criteria, but also limited the qualification period to only these Championships, which should account for 4 very exciting days in Gladsaxe. A total of 579 swimmers are registered for the meet, of which Danish Swimming’s high performance manager Mikkel von Seelen expects about 35 to qualify for Herning 2013, plus an unspecified number for the Nordic Champs.

    dmk2013-livestream

    (Alternative Live Stream Link)

    All 4 final sessions will be live streamed here on dr.dk, with live results here on livetiming.dk. The competition program is quite similar to the one at Herning 2013, but without semifinals, addition of the 800 for men and 1500 for women, and with a bit of reordering of events within each individual finals session, I guess to better accommodate swimmers who do multiple events.

    The Danish Federation has prepared selection criteria for the Herning 2013 Europeans that they expect will be reached by record number of swimmers, as generally all medalists will qualify who also make a minimum time requirement of 780 FINA points in the event. The exception is the 800 and 1500 freestyle, where only the 2 fastest with 780 FINA points will be selected, and where the Federation has also decided to protect those swimmers who by 1 Oct 2013 were ranked 6th or better in Europe in the women’s 800 free or men’s 1500 free. There is still a requirement that the distance swimmers take part in the event, if not sick.

    According to SwimRankings, Lotte Friis is now ranked 2nd in Europe in the women’s 800 freestyle, and Mads Glæsner 7th in the men’s 1500 freestyle. I don’t have the tools nor the energy to check out the status per October 1st, but both swimmers are present in Gladsaxe, and clear favorites who should easily make 780+ FINA points.

    The FINA point scale in use is the 2012 SCM version, frozen per August 2013. See the specific time standards here.

    A maybe simpler explanation

    • LEN allows each country to enter up to 4 swimmers in each individual event but 800 and 1500
    • Danes select up to 3 swimmers, if they medal and make a certain time standard in the final
    • In case 4 (or more?) swimmers medal in an event (because of equal) times, 4 will be selected
    • A swimmer can qualify by making the time standard in the prelims, if not 3 do in the final
    • LEN allows only 2 swimmer to be entered from each country in the 800 and 1500, therefore the
      Danes will select only the 2 fastest in the 800/1500, and only if they make the time standard
    • Pre-selected are 800 and 1500 meter swimmers who ranked 6th or better in Europe by Oct 1st

    The qualified swimmers will be allowed to enter in extra events also, and the Federation might select also additional swimmers for relays, the squad to be announced immediately after these championships. The European SC relay events are 4×50 free, 4×50 medley, 4×50 free mixed and 4×50 medley mixed, and the Danes plan to man them all.

    The Danish selection criteria for Nordic Juniors and Nordic Champs are a bit more complicated, and difficult to determine now per event at the Danish SC Champs, so I think I’ll just skip that part until the squads are announced after the meet. But to describe it shortly, the Juniors are age limited to girls 1998-1999 and boys 1996-1997 and the Champs to ‘pre-seniors’ aged girls 1995-1997 and boys 1993-1995. The Juniors will be selected based on a combination of events (for instance 100 and 200 breaststroke), with only one selected per those ‘categories’, while the squad for the Nordic Champs will be the 4 girls and 4 boys who reach the highest FINA points in the Danish SC finals.

    The Danes generally demand the time standards to be reached in the finals, but will allow qualification in prelims also, as long as all qualifying spots in that event are not filled in the final (no matter if the prelim time is better than those qualifying in the final). For Herning, it will thus be possible for a swimmer to qualify who makes the time standard in the prelims but not in the final, as long as the swimmer there medals. If two swimmers win bronze, they will both be selected. And in the 800 and 1500, the demand is as mentioned silver or better, with a time now at the Danish champs over 780 FINA points.

    I will try to prepare a preview for each day, these following 4 days, plus of course a summary afterwards.

     

    Danish SC Champs 2013 Magnus Jákupsson Mikkel von Seelen Nick Juba Shannon Rollason
    Share. Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email
    rokur
    • Website

    Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT consultant, spare-time swimming aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters and a wife. President of the Faroe Islands Aquatics Federation. Likes to run :-)

    Related Posts

    Swimmers Take First Dive of Season at Pool Opening | WKBN27

    June 5, 2023

    Child Rushed to Hospital After Incident at Swimming Pool | WVTM 13 News

    June 5, 2023

    Bedford Teen Continues to Rise Among Best Swimmers in the US | WTAJ News

    May 31, 2023

    Leave A Reply Cancel Reply

    This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

    Sponsor
    Top Posts
    • 10 Worst Shark Attacks Ever Recorded
      10 Worst Shark Attacks Ever Recorded
    • How Long After Adding Stabilizer Can I Swim?
      How Long After Adding Stabilizer Can I Swim?
    • Shark Attack Kills Cape Cod Swimmer in His 20s: 'It Was Like Right Out of Jaws,' Says Witness
      Shark Attack Kills Cape Cod Swimmer in His 20s: 'It Was Like Right Out of Jaws,' Says Witness
    • Underwater Record Gets Examined On 'Outrageous Acts Of Science'
      Underwater Record Gets Examined On 'Outrageous Acts Of Science'
    • Until Fairly Recently, The YMCA Actually Required Swimmers To Be Nude
      Until Fairly Recently, The YMCA Actually Required Swimmers To Be Nude
    • The Brain-Eating Amoebas of Kerosene Creek
      The Brain-Eating Amoebas of Kerosene Creek
    • Jennifer Lawrence to star as Audrey Mestre in true freediving drama 'The Dive'
      Jennifer Lawrence to star as Audrey Mestre in true freediving drama 'The Dive'
    • Carla underwater swimming with mom like Mermaids
      Carla underwater swimming with mom like Mermaids
    • Story Of Encounter With The Candiru "The Fish That Can Swim Up Inside The Penis"
      Story Of Encounter With The Candiru "The Fish That Can Swim Up Inside The Penis"
    • Man Jumps From Plummeting Plane Into The Middle Of The Sea | I Shouldn't Be Alive | Wonder
      Man Jumps From Plummeting Plane Into The Middle Of The Sea | I Shouldn't Be Alive | Wonder
    Countdown to Fukuoka 2023July 14, 2023
    33 days to go.
    Categories
    Buffer Overflow
    Tweets by swimmersdaily
    • RSS - Posts
    • RSS - Comments
    Search

     Subscribe in a reader

     Subscribe to comments

    Contact Info & Hours
    Swimmer's Daily
    c/o Rókur í Jákupsstovu
    Brekkuvegur 10
    FO-650 Toftir
    Faroe Islands
    Mobile +298 219754
    [email protected]
    09:00-21:00 UTC/GMT
    Subscribe to Blog via Email

    Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

    Join 176 other subscribers
    Meta
    • Log in
    • Entries feed
    • Comments feed
    • WordPress.org
    Facebook Twitter YouTube Tumblr
    © 2023 ThemeSphere. Designed by ThemeSphere.

    Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.