Category: Competition
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CC photo #669: A World Record at Roma09
USA’s Ariana Kukors 2:06.15 in the women’s 200 meter individual medley at the FINA 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy. Here a shot of the big screen in the stadium.
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Cesar Cielo gets Furnas backing
Read SportsPro Brazilian swimmer Cesar Cielo has secured a personal sponsorship deal with Furnas, a subsidiary of state-owned electrical utilities company Eletrobras. The 26-year-old, an Olympic gold medallist, has signed a one-year contract which may be extended up to the 2016 Olympic Games in his native country.
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Natalie Coughlin’s gene pool: American as Americans get
Read San Jose Mercury News Genealogists spent months looking into the family history of Olympic swimmer Natalie Coughlin. To the surprise of no one, her bloodlines are awash in red, white and blue. Coughlin’s roots in the country go back to shortly after the arrival of the Mayflower. Mary Mettler, the research coordinator who dove…
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CC photo #668: Warm-up pool at the Rijeka 2008 Europeans
Just a photo from the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. We the Faroese were very impressed, as it was as big as one of our only three 25-meter pools in the country back home. Still is.
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CC photo #667: Olivia Smoliga on the Istanbul 2012 medal podium
USA’s Olivia Smoliga world champion in the women’s 100 meter backstroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. In red Denmark’s silver winning Mie Ø. Nielsen and in the bottom right corner bronze winner Simona Baumrtova from the Czech Republic. Also, hyperflexible elbow. See the result list here.
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Herning 2013 en route to a new record of participation for European SC with 42 nations
Read Politiken (in Danish) After a late registration from Azerbaijan, the number of registered participating countries for the LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships is now 42, which if all show up will mean that Herning 2013 will break the record of 41, held by the Istanbul 2009 Europeans. Albania, Andorra, Armenia, FYR Macedonia, Gibraltar,…
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Melani Costa | Just the way You are
“Dedicated to the greatest swimmer Melani Costa. Cos we love the way you are”
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CC photo #666: The Istanbul 2012 men’s 1500 free podium
Medal winners in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle at the FINA 2012 World Championships (25m) in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right Italy’s silver winner Gregorio Paltrinieri, Denmark’s gold medal winner Mads Glæsner and Faroe Island’s silver winning Pál Joensen. The podium places were later shuffled because of Glæsner’s doping sentence, so that Paltrinieri became…
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Aalborg 4:00.21 and a new Danish record in the 4×100 medley
Tonight at the West-Danish Regional Short Course Championships in Aarhus, Aalborg’s elite team led by Mie Østergaard Nielsen demolished the Danish (club) record in the women’s 4×100 medley, with a time of 4:00.21 replacing Swim Team Odense’s Danish record of 4:03.06 from the Danish Short Course Championships in 2009, then featuring Rikke Møller Pedersen in…