Category: Competition
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Doha Swimming World Cup 2013 LIVE stream on FinaTV
The next round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 meets starts today in Doha, Qatar, with live streaming on FinaTV. The competition times for the Doha leg are as follows: Sunday, 20 October: Start Time: 14:30 to 17:30 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 15:00 GMT) Monday, 21 October Start Time: 14:30 to…
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CC photo #657: Meilutyte and Hardy racing at Istanbul 2012
Lithuania’s RÅ«ta MeilutytÄ— and USA’s Jessica Hardy head-to-head at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey, here I think in the preliminary heats. Meilutyte ended up winning the final in a new championships record of 1:03.52, see the result list here.
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Coach Bob Bowman on Yannick Agnel, Michael Phelps … and himself
Read AFP Swimming coach Bob Bowman, who guided Michael Phelps to 18 gold, two silver and two bronze medals over four Olympic Games, is now working with France’s promising young champion Yannick Agnel. Before an afternoon training session, and just back from the dentist’s chair, he fielded a few questions from AFP, punctuating his responses…
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Reaction from Dubai 2013 winners Hosszu, Le Clos, Kromowidjojo
“Reaction from some of the winners on the first day of the Swimming World Cup in Dubai on Thursday.” http://youtu.be/sTx2apcgSaI
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Dubai 2013: Norway changeover 0.01 sec too fast. Twice.
On the first day of the FINA 2013 Swimming World Cup meet in Dubai, Norway was disqualified from a bronze medal in the mixed 4×50 medley because of a changeover that was 0.01 too fast. On the second day of the meet, Norway was again disqualified in the mixed 4×50 free final, because of a…
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Japan 1:32.52 and new world record in the mixed 4×50 free
On day 2 of the FINA 2013 Swimming World Cup meet in Dubai, yesterday, Japan’s relay team of Shinri Shioura, Sayaka Akase, Kenta Ito and Kanako Watanabe took out the 4x50m mixed freestyle relay in 1:32.52, beating Russia’s world record of 1:33.01 from the World Cup meet in Moscow last Sunday. Brazil was also faster…
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CC photo #656: Emilia Pikkarainen at the Berlin 2012 World Cup meet
Finland’s Emilia Pikkarainen readying herself for the women’s 100 meter butterfly final at the FINA 2012 Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. She was 4th in 58.36, see the result list here.
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Europe vs USA 2013 Duel in the Pool teams revealed
See for instance swimming.org Olympic medallist Michael Jamieson and World Championship medallist Fran Halsall will lead the European challenge at the 2013 Duel in the Pool when the continent’s best swimmers go head-to-head with world number one swimming nation the USA. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Britain will be French Olympic champions Florent Manaudou, Yannick Agnel and Fabien…
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Quick reacting Kasper Vitten saves fellow swimmer’s life at Danish swim meet
Sunday 22 September during warm-up at the Horsens Cup in Horsens, Denmark, 18-year-old Kasper Vitten from the Copenhagen Swim Club discovered a swimmer in cramps on the bottom on the pool. He immediately dove down and got 15-year-old Lea Mo Føste Andersen from Randers Swim Club out of the pool, where she received CPR for…