Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • Pereira and Alshammar lead the World Cup

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    Brazil’s Thiago Pereira and Sweden’s Therese Alshammar lead the World Cup competition by a mile, now after the first 4 of 7 meets, with 88 and 88 point ahead of runners-up 43 and 50 respectively, and $20.000 and $16.500 in earned prize money. See score and prize money tally here on www.scsom.se.

  • Marshall videotapes his races

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    American backstroker Peter Marshall videotaped his 50 and 100 meter races at the World Cup 2010 event in Beijing, using a GoPro videocamera. Here’s the 100 backstroke … Beijing Race from Peter Marshall on Vimeo.

  • Russia Sets 4×100 Medley WR

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    The Russian team of Stanislav Donets, Sergey Geybel, Evgeny Korotyshkin og Daniil Isotov set a new 4×100 meter short course medley world record on Saturday, at the Salnikov Cup meet in Saint Petersburg. Their time was 3:19.16, where USA the day before swam 3:21.71. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine.

  • 3 WRs On 2nd Day Of Duel

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    On the second day of the Duel in the Pool competition between USA and Italy, Germany and Great Britain’s “E-stars”, USA’s Rebecca Soni set a new short course 100 meter breaststroke world record, with a time of 1.02.70, where Australia’s Leisel Jones’ world record was 1.03.00. USA’s Julia Smit set a new 200 individual medley…

  • 5 WRs On 1st Day Of Duel

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    USA set 5 short course world records on first day of the “Duel in the Pool” meet in Manchester, with 4 world records falling in the first 3 events, against an “E-stars” team comprising swimmers from Italy, Germany and Great Britain. First USA’s women set a new 4×100 medley world record, with a time of…

  • César Cielo Sets 50 Freestyle World Record

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    Brazil’s César Cielo Filho set a new 50 freestyle world record this morning, at the Brazilian Long Course Championships in Sao Paolo, with a time of 20.91, where France’s Frederick Bousquet’s world record from last April was 20.94. Read SwimmingWorld Magazine

  • Donets AND Vyatchanin Set 100 Backstroke WR

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    Russia’s Stanislav Donets and Arkady Vyatchanin both won gold and set a new world record in the 100 backstroke final of the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with a time of 48.97, where Vyatchanin’s world record from the day before was 49.17.

  • Pellegrini Sets 200 Freestyle World Record

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    Italy’s Federica Pellegrini improved upon her short course 200 freestyle world record, with a time of 1:51.17 at the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, where her world record from the European Championships in Rijeka last year was 1:51.85.

  • Gyurta Sets 200 Breaststroke World Record

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    Hungary’s Daniel Guyrta crushed the 200 meter short course breaststroke world record, on the 4th day of the 2009 European Short Course Championships in Istanbul, with a time of 2:00.67, where Australia’s Christian Sprenger’s world record was 2:01.98.