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Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new Guinness World Record today, completing a 20 minute, 10 second static breath-hold after breathing pure oxygen for 12 minutes. This was in a shark tank at the Kattegatcentret oceanarium in Greenå, Denmark. Read for instance deeperblue.com

Researchers at McMaster University in Canada believe that the body can get as much benefit from ten short but intensive bursts of exercise, as it can from hours of moderate traning. HIT or “high intensive interval training” involves running or cycling (or swimming?) at almost maximum effort for a minute and then resting for about a minute before repeating the process around 10 times.

Belgium-based Hydrofloors enable you to reuse your pool as a dryland area, by elevating the pool floor vertically, and collapsing the pool steps. The height of the pool may be elevated to any pre-selected water depth, and it even saves energy cost for heating, when fully elevated.

Danish freediver Stig Åvall Severinsen set a new world record last Saturday the 6th of March, swimming 72 meters under ice in one breath. This was in lake Knudsoe near Ry in Denmark.  The former world record was 57.5 meters, swum by Wim Hof of the Netherlands in March 2001.

Right, I have now switched content management system here, from Drupal to WordPress. All content has been migrated, except for a few spam comments, and I have tried to recreate the rest of the functionality as best as possible. With the biggest problem being, that the permalinks have changed a bit, from listing the month name as numbers instead of month short name (for instance “12” instead of “dec”).

The Russian team of Stanislav Donets, Sergey Geybel, Evgeny Korotyshkin og Daniil Isotov set a new 4×100 meter short course medley world record on Saturday, at the Salnikov Cup meet in Saint Petersburg. Their time was 3:19.16, where USA the day before swam 3:21.71. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.

On the second day of the Duel in the Pool competition between USA and Italy, Germany and Great Britain’s “E-stars”, USA’s Rebecca Soni set a new short course 100 meter breaststroke world record, with a time of 1.02.70, where Australia’s Leisel Jones’ world record was 1.03.00. USA’s Julia Smit set a new 200 individual medley world record, with a time of 2:04.60 where Hungary’s Evelyn Verraszto’s world record from the European Short Course Championships last week was 2:04.64. And USA’s men set a new 4×100 meter freestyle world record, with a time of 3:03.30, where France’s world record from last year was 3:04.98. Resulting in USA beating “E-stars” with 185 points again 78.

USA set 5 short course world records on first day of the “Duel in the Pool” meet in Manchester, with 4 world records falling in the first 3 events, against an “E-stars” team comprising swimmers from Italy, Germany and Great Britain. First USA’s women set a new 4×100 medley world record, with a time of 3:47.87 where the world record of Canada from last August was 3:49.45. Then USA’s Nick Thomas set a 100 backstroke world record in the mens 4×100 medley, with a time of 48.94 where the world record of Russian Donets and Vyatchanin from last week was 48.97. With the American men also bettering the 4×100 medley world record, with a time of 3:20.71, where Canada’s world record from last August was 3:23.33. Then USA’s Julia Smith set a 400 meters individual medley world record, with a time of 4:21.04 where South African Kathryn Meaklim’s world record from the World Cup meet in Singapore in November was 4:22.88. And then USA’s Rebecca Soni set a 200 meter breaststroke world record, with a time of 2:14.57, here Australian Leisel Jones’ world record from the World Cup meet in Berlin last November was 2:15.42. Results can be found on www.omegatiming.com.

Brazil’s César Cielo Filho set a new 50 freestyle world record this morning, at the Brazilian Long Course Championships in Sao Paolo, with a time of 20.91, where France’s Frederick Bousquet’s world record from last April was 20.94. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine

Russia’s Stanislav Donets and Arkady Vyatchanin both won gold and set a new world record in the 100 backstroke final of the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with a time of 48.97, where Vyatchanin’s world record from the day before was 49.17.