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Category: Competition

  • Boyle and Batchelor down NZL marks

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    At the New Zealand Championships in Auckland tonight, US-based Lauren Boyle smashed the national record in the 400 freestyle, with a 4:07.61 nearly two seconds inside her record of 4:09.45 from the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. In the 100 butterfly, 15-year-old Sophia Batchelor became the first from her country to crack the minute, winning…

  • Seebohm collapsed after the 100 backstroke

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    Suffering from a recent bout of swine flu, Emily Seebohm collapsed today at the end of the Australian Championships women’s 100 backstroke final, managing silver in 1:00.08 inside the Shanghai cut, but then given oxygen and placed in a wheelchair. Coach Matt Brown told reporters that she had “knocked herself into the ground” and would…

  • 3 more Canadian records on 4th day of trials

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    Sinead Russell smashed through the national record in the women’s 200 backstroke, clocking 2:08.89 where Lauren Lavigna’s record from 2009 was 2:10.03. Erica Morningstar notched the Canadian record in the 200 IM, with a 2:11.23 where Julia Wilkingson’s record from August was 2:11.32. And Lauren Lavigna, Haylee Johnson, Noemie Thomas and Heather Maclean demolished the…

  • Seebohm likes to race angry

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    Alternative tactics here, “I’ve got to get angry before I get to the pool, whether it’s my boyfriend who doesn’t text me or my mum who does something to annoy me. Or it’s my coach getting angry at me. I can just draw on that anger and the outcome is a fast Seebohm.” Read Adelaide…

  • Shanghai ladies are faster than most countries

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    Wow, “In the closing 4x100m free relay, Shanghai’s Zhu Qianwei, Pang Jiaying, Lu Ying and Tang Yi clocked 3:39.18 to take the crown ahead of Liaoning, on 3:41.38, and Guangzhou, on 3:42.55. Only 12 nations in the world, including China, have a national record faster than Shanghai’s squad triumphed in today.” Source: SwimNews.com

  • One more junior record at the Danish Open

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    Andreas Schiellerup managed to improve upon his 100 backstroke junior record from yesterday, with a 57.15 compared to 57.24 then. The Danish women’s 4×100 medley relay managed to qualify for Shanghai, while Christina Munkholm and Søren Dahl qualified for the European junior championships in Belgrade in July.

  • Marina Ribi downs Swiss record in the 400 IM

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    Marina Ribi smashed her Swiss record in the women’s 400 IM today at the Swiss Long Course Championships in Geneva. Ribi clocked a 4:48.38, bettering her previous standard of 4:50.53 set in 2009. Dominik Meichtry posted a fifth-fastest time of the year yesterday in the 200 freestyle, with a 1:47.93 in the 200 freestyle. And…

  • Coutts fears drowning during the 200 freestyle

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    Alicia Coutts posted world-leading times in the 100 fly and 200 IM today, but has a fear of drowning during the 200 freestyle tomorrow. “When I was 14, I went to Australian Schools’ Nationals in Perth and on the third turn of the 200m freestyle I blacked out.” Coutts says she only blacked out for…

  • Köbrich & Ignacio set top times in Madrid

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    Kristel Köbrich set a world-leading championship record at the Spanish Open today, with a time of 16:02.01 in the 1500 meter freestyle, not so far off her Chilean and South American record 15:57.57. And in the 100 butterfly, 16-year-old Judit Ignacio set a Spanish record, with at time of 59.21, erasing Angela San Juan’s 59.60…