Author: rokur
-
Herning 2013 Day 2 – The Big Danish Night or Friday the 13th?
As predicted back in November and repeated now for instance on DR.dk, tonight is supposed to be ‘the Great Danish Night’, with Jeanette Ottesen well seated in the 100 freestyle final, Mie Ø. Nielsen in the 100 backstroke final, Rikke Møller Pedersen in the 200 breaststroke final and Lotte Friis in the 800 freestyle final. But…
-
Herning 2013 Overall Rankings by Points after Day 1
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu leads the table, the women’s 200 IM and 50 breaststroke finals the big events yesterday. Sarah Sjöström the sole Scandinavian in the top-8, and Russia’s Vladimir Morozov the only male. Katinka Hosszu (HUN) 2:04.33 in the 200 IM final (1006 pts) Yuliya Efimova (RUS) 29.04 in the 50 breast final (975 pts)…
-
Herning 2013 Europeans Day 2 – Prelims
No big surprises this morning, and no championships or world records either. The home crowd definitely looking forward to the duel between Yuliya Efimova and Rikke Møller Pedersen in the women’s 200 breaststroke, the women’s 100 backstroke where youngster Mie Ø. Nielsen is the favorite, and to the 100 freestyle where Jeanette Ottesen will have…
-
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…
-
Florent Manaudou withdraws from Herning 2013 because of shoulder injury
Press release from LEN After missing the 50m free World Record established by his compatriot Amaury Leveaux (44.94) by just 0.08 sec at the French nationals in Dijon, Florent Manaudou had to cancel his participation at the 17th European Short Course Swimming Championships due to a shoulder injury. The younger brother of the now retired…
-
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…
-
Waters of Gold – The official Herning 2013 European SC Champs song now in English
“The official song for the LEN European Short Course Championships 2013 – in the City of Herning – Denmark. Now translated into english to give our listeners outside Denmark a chance to understand the words and sing-a-long Have fun”
-
GB swimmers ‘taken out of comfort zone’ to improve medal success
Read BBC GB suffered a 14.9%, or £4m, funding cut after missing their London 2012 medal target of five to seven medals. As a result Furniss has overseen a drastic cut in the number of funded swimmers and has insisted on more regular competition. “We’re taking some out of their comfort zone but we’ll benefit,” he said. “It’s not a choice…