In 2009, Sarah Sjöström made her mark by winning the 100m butterfly at the World Championships in Rome when she was just 15. Ten years later, in Gwangju, she was defeated in her favourite distance by Canadian Margaret Macneil. “I was happy enough to win a new medal,” she explained. “I was even surprisingly happy to finish second. But I wasn’t able to beat the younger generation. I need to get used to it; I was already the oldest in the final in Budapest two years ago.”
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Millfield Upper Sixth pupil Rachel has made history as the first female swimmer from the school to be selected to compete for Team GB at the FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest.
We caught up with her at the pool before she left, and asked her how Millfield supports her with her academic work and her swimming, and what advice she has for young swimmers hoping to follow in her footsteps.
Millfield School is one of the UK’s leading independent boarding and day schools for boys and girls, aged 13-18, providing a fully rounded education to pupils from over 70 nationalities.
The school is contemporary and outward looking, applying a visionary and innovative lens to all domains of learning. This is supported by notable facilities in teaching, art, drama, music and sport.
Ben and his crew have found on average three floating debris per minute across the pacific ocean….
THE VORTEX SWIM
Ben and the crew collected samples for scientific institutes, to help researchers learn more about the effects of plastic pollution on marine life and human health. Combined with data collected on their previous voyage from Japan to Hawaii, it is the first Trans-Pacific data set of floating debris, microplastics and plastic microfibers. Through daily encounters with a wide range of marine life, Ben and the crew witnessed the various ways plastic impacts wildlife. This included seeing sperm whales swim through a smog of waterborne microplastics, a fish trapped inside a plastic bottle and a fragment of plastic inside the stomach of a fish.
An astonishing atmosphere, wonderful performances, and new champions. This was Day 1 at #FINAJuniors in Budapest. Watch every action from the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2019 live on https://www.finatv.live
The Blount county mother charged with abuse after leaving her children in the bathtub unattended is heading to prison.
Dr Zeina Alsharkas from our Department of Economics swam across English Channel to highlight the plight of refugees fleeing her war-torn home country of Syria.
Read more here:Â essex.ac.uk/news/2019/08/13/syrian-lecturer-successfully-completes-english-channel-swim
Hear from Keynotes Avi Larin and Daniel Lee on some of what to expect on last day of this ground-breaking event for SwimSchoolers from around the World. Includes a short piece on the Conference Hotel – situated perfectly at Clarke Quay.
See also the event page
