Category: Competition
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Interviews from Chartres 2012 on len.eu
In case you’re interested and haven’t found them yet, there is a series of video interviews on len.eu, with medal winners from the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships. Here is Florent Manaudou, winner of the men’s 50 freestyle
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France and Hungary dominate first day of Chartres 2012
Read for instance SwimNews, Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki took down European short course championships record in the men’s 200 meter backstroke, with a time of 1:48.51 besting Stanislav Donet’s 1:48.62 from Istanbul 2009, the European record though still Arkady Vyatchanin’s 1:46.11. The host country France and Hungary lead the medal table after this first day of…
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CC photo #327: Aschwin Wildeboer at Rijeka 2008
Spain’s Aschwin Wildeboer Faber at the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. He looks happy (and I should use this camera more :-)
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Cash-strapped Greece to miss European Championships
Greece will not compete in the European short course swimming championships starting this week for the first time in 16 years due to financial problems, Hellenic Swimming Federation (KOE) president Dimitris Diathesopoulos said on Wednesday. Read for instance Yahoo! Sports and Eurosport “We had decided in the summer that we would not attend the European…
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CC photo #326: Jón, Pauli & Markus on the Ægir-podium in February
For some reason the now most popular photo in our Flickr collection, Jón Hofgaard (Suðuroyar Svimjifelag), Pauli Ø. Mohr (Havnar Svimjifelag) and Markus Joensen (Havnar Svimjifelag) on the podium at the Ægir-meet in KlaksvÃk, Faroe Islands, back in February, after what must have been the men’s 50 breaststroke.
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CC photo #325: Stanislav Donets on top of the Berlin 2012 podium
Russia’s Stanislav Donets 23.16 and winner of the men’s 50 backstroke at the FINA / Arena 2012 Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. Australia’s Robert Hurley 2nd in 23.57 and Guilherme Guideo from Brazil 3rd in 23.63, see result list here. Donets has as of 20 Nov 2012 the two top male European individual…
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CC photo #324: Pál Joensen warming up at Budapest 2010
Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen at the Budapest 2010 European Swimming Championships, warming up for the 800 freestyle the morning after winning silver in the 1500. They should change that schedule :-)
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The Chartres 2012 Provisory Entry List
In case you haven’t found it already, the Chartres 2012 Europan Short Course Swimming Championships provisory entry list can be found here on SwimRankings. See also chartres2012.com and len.eu, the competition begins on Thursday morning 22 november at 09:00 local time, and ends on Sunday 25 november.
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Muffat and Agnel set textile marks in the 200 free
On the last day of the French nationals, the two champions of Nice both threathened the world records in the 200 meter short course freestyle, Camille Muffat with a 1:51.65 and 2nd best ever (first inside 1:52 in textile) and Yannick Agnel with a 1:39.70 and also 2nd best ever (first inside 1:40 in textile).…