Category: Competition
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Swimming still on Alicia Coutts’ mind
Read ninemsn For someone who has contemplated retirement, Alicia Coutts can’t seem to stop thinking about swimming. Even when the five-time London Olympic medallist sat down to plan her 2015 wedding the sport seemed to creep into her subconscious. Coutts, 26, has adopted a year-by-year approach despite being inspired by a post-2012 Olympic chat with…
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Magnussen in zone for world record at Games trials
Read globalpost New coach Jacco Verhaeren says a world 100-metre freestyle record is possible for James Magnussen in this week’s Australian Commonwealth Games swimming trials in Brisbane. Brazilian Cesar Cielo holds the world record at 46.91 seconds from the 2009 Rome world championships, but Dutchman Verhaeren says Magnussen is at a “fantastic level” ahead of…
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15 Danish swimmers qualified for Berlin 2014 Europeans
At the end of the Danish Open 2014 in Bellahøj tonight, the Danish swimming federation announced the 15 swimmers qualified for the LEN 2014 European Swimming Championships in Berlin. In another press release national coach Nick Juba commented: “I think that the trials have been efficient and successful, but also fairly predictable. Our ‘big hitters’…
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Mie Ø. Nielsen clocks two 50 back Nordic records in one day
At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Danish swimming prodigy Mie Ø. Nielsen shattered her own 28.51 Nordic record twice with first a prelim time of 28.28 in the 50 meter backstroke, and then a winning time of 27.96 in the final. Post by Mie Østergaard Nielsen.
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Rikke Møller Pedersen chases 200 breast world record with a time of 2:19.94
At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Rikke Møller Pedersen gave her own 200 breaststroke world record a good go with a winning time of 2:19.94, the world record 2:19.11 and the competition back in 2:28.90 and less. To celebrate this, she indulged herself in a pair of winegums Post by Rikke Møller Pedersen.
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Pernille Blume rattles Danish record in the 100 free
At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Danish swimming darling Pernille Blume rattled the Danish record with a winning time of 53.69 to Jeanette Ottesen’s 54.07, the Danish record of Ottesen from 2009 still standing at 53.41. Oh, and she is good-looking too Post by Pernille Blume.
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Swimming stars Bronte and Cate Campbell find inspiration close to home
Read The Sydney Morning Herald Australian swim stars Cate and Bronte Campbell do not need to look far for grounding when they feel themselves caught up in ”first-world” problems. When they think things are getting too hard, their younger brother Hamish provides a timely reminder that things are really not that bad. Hamish has cerebral…
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James Magnussen, Cate Campbell and Emily Seebohm plan to set record straight at last
Read The Australian James Magnussen, Cate Campbell and Emily Seebohm are Australia’s “virtual world record holders’’. They are three fastest swimmers the world has seen, they just don’t have the official title to prove it. World 100m freestyle champions Magnussen and Campbell, and Brisbane backstroker Seebohm are the fastest swimmers ever in textile suits and…
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New Aussie coach Jacco Verhaeren wants an Australian swimmer in every Olympic final
Read Sydney Morning Herald The Australian swim team would have a finalist in every Olympic race by the 2020 Games in Tokyo, if not by 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, new head coach Jacco Verhaeren has declared. Verhaeren, the former coach of Dutch Olympic champions Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn, was recruited…