Swimmer's Daily

Category: Competition

  • Canadian record for Katerine Savard

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    Katerine Savard of Quebec City broke the Canadian record in the women’s 100 butterfly on Friday at the Canadian World Trials. Savard, 17, clocked 57.97 seconds to eclipse the previous national mark of 58.67 set by Audrey Lacroix in July 2009. It was also the fifth fastest time in the world this year and she…

  • Icelandic Jakobsson sets Norwegian record at Danish Open

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    Icelandic born Sindri Þór Jakobsson set a Norwegian record at Danish Open 2011 today, with a time of 2:02.38 in the 200 butterfly. Andreas Schiellerup and Daniel Skaaning set Danish junior records, Jeanette Ottesen and Pernille Blume qualified for Shanghai 2011, and three swimmers qualified for the European junior championships in Belgrade this summer.

  • Belmonte 4:34.91 and Spanish 400 IM record

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    Mireia Belmonte García was a league apart from the field on the way to her third victory at the Spanish Open in just over 24 hours, a 4:34.91 over 400 IM taking down her own Spanish record by 1.4 seconds. Read more here on SwimNews.com, where Craig Lord rates her as one of the favourites…

  • Wilkinson sets national record and qualifies for Shanghai

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    With two days gone at the 2011 Canadian World Trials, Julia Wilkinson has set the only national record until now, with a 28.13 in the 50 backstroke on day 1. She didn’t qualify for the World Championships in that event, as Canadians don’t allow swimmers to qualify in non-Olympic events, but then qualified in 100…

  • Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities

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    Technical director for Spanish swimming, Luis Villanueva, told reporters this week that Mireia Belmonte has Phelpsian qualities. “She is a swimmer with a beastly talent, there are very few like her.” She answered by bagging two titles on the first day of the Spanish Open in Madrid, clocking a Spanish record 2:06.25 in the 200…

  • Danish Open starts with a bang

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    The Danes are testing out a for them new system this year, allowing only results from the Danish Open finals as qualification times for the World Championships in Shanghai and European Junior Championships in Belgrade this summer. It worked out well, with three swimmers qualifying for the World Championships and 10 for the European Junior…

  • Live WebCast from the Canadian Trials

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    Swimming Canada will be broadcasting live from their 2011 World Championships Trials, March 30th to April 2nd from 5h45pm PST, here on swimcanweb.tv, with listing of results here. I’ve put those links on our new LIVE page here, together with links for similar webcasts and results from other upcoming events, and a clock to help…

  • Danish Open live on LiveTiming.se and Swimmer’s Daily

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    Danish Open starts tomorrow, promising some great swims especially in the long distance events, now when the best swimmers from Denmark and neighboring countries will try to qualify for Shanghai 2011. Live timing and webcast will be available here on the by the way very brilliant www.livetiming.se, prelims from 10 AM Danish time and finals…

  • Bousquet accepts federation decision

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    Frédérick Bousquet will race for France at the world titles in Shanghai, after accepting the stance of his federation over a coaching-staff policy for world championships in Shanghai that will exclude the sprinter’s Australian coach at Auburn in the US, Brett Hawke.