Category: Competition
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Georgia Tech looks ready for the Duel in the Pool 2011
Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason have arrived safely in Atlanta, and been training and talking to Chris DeSantis and stuff. The duel between Europe and USA will start this Friday Dec 16 at 7 PM ET (that’s at midnight GMT), see Mutual of Omaha and USA Swimming. Here is a picture of the competition pool…
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Russia won the Szczecin 2011 Trophy, and I got the picture ! :-)
So it turned out that Germany successfully defended their top position in the European Shorts Course Championships position from 2010, with now 7 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in Szczecin 2011. Russia proved to be the best team by points, winning the Championships Trophy by a clear margin with 901 points ahead of…
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A fifth for Pál in the 1500 freestyle
I’ll give it to Sawrymovitcz that it is extremely impressive to come back like that, World Champion in 2007 and European Short Course Champion with a 14:24.54 the same year, and then pretty much nothing until he swam a 14:29.81 during prelims here in Szczecin yesterday morning. Pál chose to race for gold in the…
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Caba Siladji swimming a lap in Szczecin with a GoPro head-cam
At least that is who I think it is, Serbian swimmer Caba Siladji (or Csaba Szilágyi) of Hungarian origin, who for instance qualified for the 50 breaststroke semi-final this morning. Courtesy of the organizers of the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships.
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Szczecin 2011 interviewing Konrad Czerniak (in English)
He was surprised with his 20.88 … we were too ! :-)
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Paul Biedermann on his 400 freestyle Szczecin 2011 victory
Looks like it took a bit of effort even for ‘Der Paul’ to win the 400 :-)
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Artemyeva unhappy with not swimming below 30 seconds
An interview with Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Championships 50 meter breaststroke gold winner Artemyeva Valentina. See result list here.