Category: Competition
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South African National Championships interrupted by burst pipe
Read Swimming World Magazine and SwimNews, a pipe burst interrupted the South African National Championships in Port Elizabeth yesterday, making the water murky and green and forcing them to first cancel the second day of competition, before today changing the format to timed finals. One casualty of this is Cameron van der Burgh, who now…
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CC photo #473: Steadicam at Rijeka 2008
Just a photo from the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. The event apparently the men’s 100 breaststroke semifinal, the guy in front Hugues Duboscq from France.
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Wonderful footage from the 2013 Grand Prix at Mesa
See the playlist on YouTube, courtesy of USA Swimming. Now I understand why some say that swimming should be an outdoor sport :-) I’m following Danish Olympian Anders Lie Nielsen in particular – He was trying to qualify for the Barcelona 2013 World Championships, but apparently missed out, clocking 1:49.67 in the 200 free where…
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CC photo #472: Britta Steffen on top of the Roma 09 podium
As seen from the athletes stand, Germany’s Britta Steffen 2009 World Champion in the women’s 50 freestyle, with a new world record of 23.73 at the FINA 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy. See the result list here.
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Katinka Hosszu to swim all 15 women’s events at Bergen Swim Festival 2013
The Bergen Swim Festival 2013 – Alexander Dale Oen Memorial promises to be ‘the biggest and best ever’, when 450+ swimmers including 44 international will compete at Sentralbadet in Bergen, starting this Friday 19 April at 15:00 local time and ending late Sunday 21st. World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu from Hungary is on the startlist…
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CC photo #471: Køge Open 2007 Opening Ceremony
Officials lined up in front of the flags at the Køge Open 2007.
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CC photo #469: Forest of flags at Shanghai 2011
Very impressive, also because of the strong wind that day at the FINA 2011 World Swimming Championships in Shanghai, China.
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CC photo #468: Father and son at the 2011 Stockholm World Cup
Just a photo from the FINA 2011 World Cup leg in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Paul Biedermann to miss Barcelona 2013 due to illness
Read SwimNews Announcing his withdrawal from the German world-title trials and championships at the end of this month, the 26-year-old revealed that he suffered a viral infection that kept him from intense training for the past two months. “Unfortunately, an infection has allowed no optimum training during the last two months,” he said in a…