Category: Competition
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 12
Italy: High five Italy enjoyed a 5-medal haul on Day 5, with a couple of outstanding freestyle swims in the mix, courtesy of Gregorio Paltrinieri (1500m) and Luca Dotto (100m). Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom returned to the throne in the 100m fly, while Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen retained her title in the 200m breast. One might…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 11
Hungary’s best ever single-day performance: 7 medals, 4 golds Hungarian swimmers put together the nation’s best ever single day performance by amassing seven medals in less than two hours, winning four of the seven finals and runners-up by a finger-tip in two others. The Brits also enjoyed a fine day with five medals, including Ross…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 10
Paltrinieri smashes the European record The first European record fell on the third day of the swimming competitions as Gregorio Paltrinieri reached an amazing speed in the 1500m free. Greece clinched a surprise gold in the men’s 200m (the third ever title of the nation), while the Netherlands had mixed fortunes in the free events,…
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CCSU swimmer beats the odds to swim to Olympic trials
On most college campuses right now students are packing up to go home for summer or starting summer classes. But CCSUsophomore Maddy Garber is headed to the pool. The sophomore Blue Devil is one of the top breast stroke swimmers in the country. And she’s made it a long way: last summer she qualified for the 100-meter breast stroke for the Olympic…
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Ghana’s fastest swimmer seeks funds to realize Olympics dream
Twenty-year-old Ophelia Swayne, Ghana’s fastest swimmer, is trying to raise funds to achieve her dream of becoming Ghana’s first woman swimmer to make it to the Olympics. The freestyle and butterfly specialist needs to shave just a second off her time to qualify for this year’s Olympics in Rio, Brazil. She has however indicated that…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 8
Italy, Hungary open strong, three medals apiece Italy and Hungary got a flying start on the opening day of the swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in the London Aquatics Centre by clinching three medals apiece. Gabriele Detti (ITA) and Katinka Hosszu (HUN) captured the individual golds on offer, and both nations got two…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 7
Daley close to perfection, Cagnotto makes it 20 Tom Daley’s outstanding performance highlighted the last day of diving action in the London Aquatics Centre. The Briton won the 10m platform with a 570-point overall score, which is higher than what was required here to clinch the Olympic title four years ago. Italy’s Tania Cagnotto added…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships – Day 6
Queen of Europe, Tania Cagnotto captures 19th gold Italy’s Tania Cagnotto took a 28-27 ‘lead’ on the all-time medal table at the Europeans over Germany’s Patrick Hausding by clinching the 3m title with ease on Saturday. Ukraine added another gold to their impressive tally in diving (3-2-3) by winning the mixed 10m synchro ahead of…
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London 2016 LEN European Championships Day 5
Russia, Ukraine on the roll, happy end for the Brits Russia finished the synchro events with eight gold medals. They earned them in as many starts, the remaining one went to the Ukrainians in the team free event which the Russians skipped this time. Ukraine had a fine evening in the diving pool as well…