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Category: Competition

  • Payne posts fastest ever 10K swim

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    Keri-anne Payne used her tried-and-tested tactic of leading the race from the start, when she won the LEN Open Water Cup in Eilat, Israel today, in her fastest ever time of 1:52.12. This qualified her for Shanghai 2011 open water competition, in addition to already having secured a place in the 4×200 relay team. Via…

  • Agnel to miss 400 free at Shanghai 2011

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    French swimmer Yannick Agnel has been struck down by a lung infection, forcing him to change his event schedule at the World Championships this summer. “Antibiotics, a big week in bed and we’re back six weeks back, ” stated the coach Fabrice Pellerin according to L’Équipe. The plan now is to race in the 200…

  • Arena presents César Cielo

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    Great video here by ArenaNatation, where César Cielo amongst other things reveals that the most important medal in his collection is not the 50 freestyle Olympic gold medal from Beijing 2008, but rather the 100 freestyle bronze medal.

  • Phelps talks to ESPN about the road ahead

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    Fourteen-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps is gearing up for the World Championships in Shanghai this summer, obviously an important meet and also a critical gauge of his form on the way to what would be his fourth Olympic Summer Games next year. He plans to race in four individual events and three relays…

  • Phelps tries the altitude tents too

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    Michael Phelps was recently beaten in his signature race 200 meter butterfly, when he at the 2011 Eric Namesnik Michigan Grand Prix swam 1:57.79, behind China’s Wu Peng in 1:56.62, Poland’s Marcin CieÅ›lak in 1:57.13 and USA’s Tyler Clary in 1:57.56. Maybe therefore he now tries sleeping in an altitude tent, to see if it…

  • Team Arena: Ranomi Kromowidjojo

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    Arena presenting Dutch sprint champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo. Sweet.

  • Sigsgaard swam 125 K in 48 hours

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    German Wasserwacht Spremberg arranged a 48 hour swim just recently, inviting amongst others Danish (real) long distance swimmer Grith Sigsgaard. She won and set a 125 kilometer world record, which is about 2.6 kilometers an hour, every hour for two days. If anyone is interested, they will be arranging a 24 hour (sprint?) swim on…

  • Swimmer delays brain surgery to help team

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    Ouch, Brea Olinda’s Alec Boliver has delayed his brain surgery until Friday, so he could swim in Wednesday’s meet against Villa Park. Read ocvarsity.com. Even the most in-shape swimmers feel pain during races, but Boliver encounters more than sore muscles. He has cysts in the central part of his brain. The cysts, and the pressure…

  • FINA cancels Mexico OW race on health grounds

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    The FINA Executives have decided to cancel the Sumidero Canyon Event part of the FINA Open Water Swimming GP Series scheduled to be held on the 7 May 2011. The decision has been reached following the recommendation of the FINA Sports Medicine Committee on the Water Quality in order to ensure the Health and Safety…