Category: Competition
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CC photo #455: Team Faroe running across a street in Hafnarfjörður, back in 2010
Very organized, eh, this sprint across a street in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, during the Small States 2010 competition. At least I (the photographer) was in safety.
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Danish Open 2013 Day 4: Pedersen beats the 200 breast European record
On this final day of the Danish Open / Trials, the big story was Rikke Møller Pedersen setting a new European record in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, clocking 2:20.53 where Yuliya Efimova’s record from the London 2012 Olympics was 2:20.92. Jeanette Ottesen made the Danish Barcelona 2013 ‘stability’ qualification time standard with 1 hundredth…
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CC photo #454: The Roma 09 men’s 50 breast medal podium
The men’s 50 breaststroke medal winners at the FINA 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy. Gold winner Cameron van der Burgh from South Africa looks happy, silver winner Felipe Franca Silva from Brazil a bit sentimental, and Mark Gangloff from USA a bit sceptical. See the result list here
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Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:20.53 and a new European record in the 200 breaststroke
Update: The European record was not Nadja Higl’s 2:21.62 from 2009, but Yuliya Efimova’s 2:20.92 from London 2012. I shouldn’t have trusted the data on livetiming ;-) At the Danish Open 2013 today, Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen blasted her 2:21.65 Danish record in the 200 breaststroke from the London 2012 Olympics with a new European…
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Danish Open Day 3: Jeanette Ottesen Gray clocks 57.94 in the 100 fly
On the third night of the Danish Open 2013, Jeanette Ottesen managed to swim under both the Danish 2013 Barcelona ‘stability’ time standard and the harsher qualification time standard, with a time of 57.94 in the women’s 100 butterfly semifinal, second to only Sarah Sjöström’s 57.90 world leading time this year. Andreas Schiellerup won the…
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Rikke Møller Pedersen ready for Barcelona 2013
Video (in Danish) off tv2fyn.dk, to put it shortly, her world-best time of 1:06.40 in the 100 breast did the trick.
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CC photo #453: AriÂ-Pekka Liukkonen at Debrecen 2012
Finland’s Ari-Pekka Liukkonen after the men’s 50 freestyle semifinal at the LEN 2012 European Swimming Championships in Debrecen, Hungary. He was 4th in the final the day after, see the semifinal result list here.