Category: Competition
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2014 Australian Swimming Championships – McEvoy & Coutts
Highlights from the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships, here Cameron McEvoy talking about the men’s 200 meter freestyle and Alicia Coutts talking about the women’s 100 butterfly.
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Melanie Schlanger in the swim despite doctor’s orders
Read Sydney Morning Herald Some sporting careers do not travel the easiest path, and so it is with Melanie Schlanger, for whom it would not seem normal if she was not battling an illness or injury in preparation for a major competition. Schlanger has defied doctor’s orders to compete in Brisbane this week at the selection trials…
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Ryan Cochrane’s career is coming down to a “lot of lasts”
Read Brandon Sun Ryan Cochrane’s illustrious swimming career, he says, has come down to a “lot of lasts.” He’ll compete at the Canadian swimming trials this weekend in Victoria to make the team for what will be his last Commonwealth Games. Next summer will mark his last world championships. The 2016 Rio Games will be…
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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.