Category: Competition
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“Small Town Kid” Julia Wilkinson preparing for the London Olympics
“Small Town Kid†Swimmer Julia Wilkinson grew up in Stratford, Ont., with a population of just over 30,000, competing in a four-lane, 25m pool. See Swimming Canada on Facebook.
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CC photo #174: Gyurta and Koch dueling at Debrecen 2012
Hungary’s Daniel Gyurta and Germany’s Marco Koch head to head in the men’s 200 meter breaststroke final at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. Gyurta won with a new championship record of 2:08.60, Koch second in 2:09.26. See result list here.
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2012 ASA Nationals: Lloyd, Walker-Hebborn and Loughran make team
At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships today, Chris Walker-Hebborn (1:57.17) and Marco Loughran (1:58.34) qualified for the London 2012 Games in the men’s 200 backstroke, while Ieuan Lloyd beat David Carry in the men’s 200 freestyle, 1:47.55 to 1:47.86. Others were close, read more here on swimming.org and see all results here.
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CC photo #173: Debrecen 2012 Men’s 200 freestyle medal podium
From left to right silver medal winner Amaury Leveaux (FRA), European champion Paul Biedermann (GER) and bronze medal winner Dominik Kozma (HUN). See result list here.
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FINA invites four Finnish swimmers to the Olympics
The Finnish swimming federation announces here that FINA has invited Ari-Pekka Liukkonen, Matti Mattsson, Emilia Pikkarainen and Hanna-Maria Seppälä for the London 2012 Games, in addition to 1500m swimmer Matias Koski who qualified in early April. Sports director Ippe Natunen comments: ‘This is truly a wonderful thing! We aimed to have five swimmers at the…
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2012 ASA Nationals: Carry qualifies, Carlin misses out
At the British Gas ASA National Swimming Championships 2012 today, David Carry booked a spot at his third Olympic Games, overhauling Ieuan Lloyd on the final 50m in the men’s 400 freestyle to set a lifetime best of 3:46.86, old PB being 3:47.17 from Beijing 2008. An impressive comeback after the Trials in March when…
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The Weather Channel interviewing Rowdy Gaines
Olympic gold medal winner Rowdy Gaines stops by to talk about the upcoming London games and breaking a Guinness World Record for the largest swimming lesson.
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Federica Pellegrini – a presentation
A slideboom presentation, courtesy of ToniaC. FEDERICA PELLEGRINI View more presentations or Upload your own.
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London Games ‘scare off other tourists’
The 2012 Games were predicted to be a big money-spinner attracting hordes of holidaymakers to the UK, but bookings for many attractions, hotels and tours are down around 33% and show no sign of picking up, as high prices keep visitors away. And what’s more, tourism chiefs fear London will become a ghost town the…