Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • 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…

  • Arnarson 1:51.56 and European junior champion back in 1999

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    Iceland’s Örn Arnarson wins gold here in the 200 freestyle at the European Junior Championships in Moscow 1999. His time 1:51.56 was almost a second off his then personal best time 1:50.63 from when he won silver at the European junior championships in Antwerpen the previous year, but still good enough to place him on…

  • Popova sets Russian records in 100 and 200 free

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    Last Tuesday April 19, Veronika Popova crushed the Russian record in the women’s 100 freestyle with a winning time of 54.22, clearing Anastasia Aksenova’s 54.70 from the World Championships in Rome 2009. And then yesterday April 22, she again improved greatly upon the 200 freestyle Russian record, with a 1:56.94 clearing the 1:57.96 set by…

  • Mack Horton, 14 and 15:37.71 in the 1500 free

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    At the Australian age group nationals in Adelaide yesterday, 14-year-old Mack Horton set an impressive Australian age group record, clocking 15:37.71 in the 1500 long course freestyle. This wiped 10 seconds of his previous age group record in the age-group 14 and below. In comparison, Grant Hackett in 1996 clocked a very impressive 15:30.63 a…