Norway’s Ingvild Snildal set a new Norwegian national record in the women’s 200 meter butterfly prelims at the Amsterdam Swim Cup this morning, with a time of 2:12.38 where Karoline Brudvik Sanderud’s and Sara Nordenstam’s record was 2:13.45. The FINA A qualification time is 2:08.95, which she might go for in the final this evening, but Sander Smørdal speculates on TV2 Sporten that it is more realistic that she will qualify in the 100, where she earlier this year has been only 0.3 seconds from the FINA A qualifying time of 58.70.
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A look back on the 2012 British Gas Swimming Championships at the London Aquatic Centre. We hear the thoughts of Rebecca Adlington, Sascha Kindred, Michael Rock, Ellie Simmonds, Fran Halsall, Lizzie Simmonds, Amy Smith, Robbie Renwick and Hannah Miley as they prepare for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in August 2012.
Kylie Palmer managed an impressive 4:03.40 win and Australian national record in the women’s 400 freestyle at the Austrial Olympic Trials today, qualifying for the Olympics along with Bronte Barratt in 4:05.74. In the 100 butterfly, Alicia Coutts and Jessicah Schipper qualiftied in 57.59 and 57.88 respectively, and in the men’s 100 breaststroke, Christian Sprenger and Brenton Rickard qualified in 59.91 and 1:00.13 respectively. Read more here on SwimNews.
The EJSC 2012 Antwerp 2012 website can be found on www.europeanjuniors2012.be, maybe a bit 90-ies design, but with all details you need well laid out. Cool in a very kitsch way ! :-) Via Tom Vangeneugden on Twitter
Breaking news from Australian Swim Team on Facebook: “Australia’s greatest Olympian, Ian Thorpe, has clocked the 12th fastest time from the 200m freestyle semi-finals, he’ll miss the final tomorrow night but has the 100m freestyle to come…” The splits tell their telling tale 24.77 – 27.42 – 28.54 – 29.18 = 1:49.91 Courier Mail has this analysis from Thorpe himself: “I’m terribly disappointed with that, I had a really good heat swim and I thought I could swim a lot quicker,” Thorpe said. “The last 100 was a struggle, I’m not sure why. “This was slower than what I swam…
Head Coach David Marsh of SwimMAC Carolina talks about maintaining a high standard of success and also recalls a memorable coaching moment from his days at Auburn. Courtesy of USA Swimming.
Olympic superstar Ian Thorpe has made a great start in his campaign to qualify for the Olympics, clocking 1:49.16 behind Ryan Napoleon in 1.48.27, Kyle Richardson in 1:48.57, Kenrick Monk in 1:48.72, Cameron McEvoy in 1:48.89 and with David McKeon also clocking 1:49.16. Semis are in a few hours, then the final tomorrow.
Britain will host the European Championships for swimming, diving and synchronised swimming at the London Aquatics Centre in 2016 if a bid by British Swimming is rubber stamped as expected in September. Read more here on SwimNews and here on swimming.org (Image of London Aquatics Centre courtesy of Andy Wilkes, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
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