An interview with Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships 50 meter breaststroke gold winner Artemyeva Valentina. See result list here.
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Yesterday evening, tough as nails Mireira Belmonte GarcÃa won the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships 200 medley and 200 butterfly back-to-back, in 2:07.06 and 2:03.37, respectively. As she did at the Dubai 2010 World Short Course Championships. Wow.
LEN General Secretary Sven Egil Folvik on the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships participation numbers, and on his own expectations.
Denmark and Norway did well tonight at the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships, with Lotte Friis (DEN) winning the 800 free in a world textile best 8:07.53, Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN) winning the 200 breaststroke in 2:19.55, Alexander Dale Oen (NOR) taking gold in the 100 breaststroke with a 57.05, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) taking silver in the 100 freestyle with a 52.05, young Mie Ø. Nielsen (DEN) taking bronze in the 100 backstroke with a new Danish record 57.57, Jeanette Ottesen (DEN) winning the 50 butterfly in a new championship record of 24.92, and Denmark taking silver in the…
Since this is Pál’s day off before the 1500 tomorrow, he spends part of it training aerobically, so that he’ll be able to swim fast also at the Duel in the Pool in Atlanta next weekend. 20K today, I heard his coach say, and we don’t bother finding another pool to train in. Pál himself grumbled a moment ago that it took him 1 hour 15 minutes to swim just 4500 meters. But at least we’re sure that it won’t be anaerobic ! :-)
Yeah, that is pretty much how it looks, only not so much backwards! :-)
Short and sweet, maybe a bit shorter here on video, than yesterday :-)
So while a lot of us are in Szczecin, the Nordic Junior Swimming Championships and inaugural Nordic Swimming Championships started today, in ReykjavÃk, Iceland. And here it is possible to follow the event LIVE, both with live results in Hy-Tek-style on keflavik.is, and LIVE broadcast in high definition on SportTV.is. Prelims are from 09:30 and finals from 17:30 GMT/UTC. See also event landing page.
An interview with German long distance swimmer Christian Kubusch, courtesy of the organizers of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships.
She did okay today, Norway’s Katharina Stiberg, first qualifying this morning for the 50 breaststroke Szczecin 2011 semi-final in 31.13, and then this afternoon for the final in 30.94, before ending up fourth in the final with a 30.80. But hey, when she was supposed to leave Evenes in Norway, yesterday morning, it turned out that the pilots had overslept, making her miss the connected flight to Szczecin. So she had to find a new flight to Berlin rather than Szczecin, and take a bus from there to Szczecin, arriving here at the hotel yesterday evening, after a 15 hour…