Author: rokur
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Danish Short Course Champs 2013 – Day 4
Summary A seemingly good night with 4 more swimmers qualifying for Herning 2013 and lots of already qualified swimmers qualifying for additional events. Jeanette Ottesen clocked 23.98 in the 50 freestyle and 56.65 in the 100 fly, and ‘our guy’ Magnus Jákupsson won the 100 backstroke in impressive 51.75. These four swimmers were added to…
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Lotte Friis to stay with Bow Bowman and NBAC towards Rio 2013
Read for instance BT (in Danish) Lotte Friis will be moving permanently to the U.S. to prepare optimally for the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016 with Michael Phelps’ legendary coach, Bob Bowman. Post by Lotte Friis. A quick and dirty translation follows …
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Preview Danish SC Champs Day 4 – Sunday 17 Nov 2013
Start Lists • Live Stream • Live Timing • Live Results What to expect With only one night left of the program, I guess stress will begin to set in for those who have been just close to the Herning 2013 time limits yet. Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen will cruise to victory and…
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Danish Short Course Champs 2013 – Day 3
Summary And exciting night of racing, producing two Danish individual records and one Danish (club) relay record. Mie Ø. Nielsen broke her own 26.96 Danish record in the 50 back with a blistering 26.84, and Mathias Andersen the 50 breaststroke record with a time of 27.54 beating Kristian Outinen’s 27.55 Danish record from 2008. Mads…
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Preview Danish SC Champs Day 3 – Saturday 16 November 2013
Start Lists • Live Stream • Live Timing • Live Results What to expect A hopefully formidable fight right from the start, when Mads Glæsner and Pál Joensen meet in the men’s 1500 freestyle. Chartres 2013 European SC silver medalist Viktor B. Bromer maybe threatening Simon Sjödin’s 200 fly Nordic record of 1:52.90. Lotte Friis…
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CC photo #684: Frans and Pál at the Berlin 2012 World Cup
Frans Johannesen and Pál Joensen, in the back of Team Denmark at the FINA 2012 Swimming World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany. A complicated relationship, this Faroese and/or Danish nationality.
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Danish Short Course Champs 2013 – Day 2
Summary Magnus Jákupsson and Andreas Schiellerup both won the men’s 50 backstroke final in a new Danish record of 24.21 seconds, the now former record Schiellerup’s 24.35 from the Szczecin 2011 European SC Championships. (Schiellerup and Jákupsson joint winners in the 50 back, photo courtesy of Jákup Jacobsen) 8 swimmers were added to the 14…
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Sylvain Estadieu: Butterfly across the English Channel
“Successful butterfly crossing of the English Channel by Sylvain Estadieu on the 22-23rd of September 2013” Butterfly across the English Channel from Sylvain Estadieu on Vimeo.