Swimmer's Daily

  • Crews recovered the body of an 18-year-old who went missing after trying to swim across the Youghiogheny River.

  • Robbie Eckert ended his life last year, he was a swimmer, a great student and had lots of friends. Just days after his death, his parents started Robbie’s Hope, a foundation guided by teens.

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  • FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2019 take place from 20th to 25th August in Budapest. On day 2 of the competition, we spoke to Mitch Dalton, Team Manager of USA. Dalton knows, that all athletes are highly intrinsically motivated and the competitions during the upcoming days will very be tough.

  • Watch all the best dives from the fifth stop of Red Bull Cliff Diving 2019.

    Reigning champions Gary Hunt (GBR) and Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) continue to dominate with commanding wins in Lebanon debut of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series from the Raouché.

    Gary Hunt scored the perfect dive in his 77th appearance and became the first man ever to be awarded all tens from the judges since the introduction of the World Series in 2009. The Brit was at his brilliant best in a brand new off-the-cliff competition in Lebanon, with a wide-margin victory ahead of second-placed David Colturi of America, and Romanian wildcard Catalin Preda in third.

    It was also a record breaking competition in the women’s as Rhiannan Iffland powered past Mexico’s Adriana Jimenez by more than 54 points to remain unbeaten in 2019, while Belarusian Yana Nestsiaravacompleted the podium in third. 12,000 spectators watched on as the World Series hit new grounds and set new standards off the coast of Beirut’s neighbourhood of Raouché.

  • In this video, coach Mike will teach us about straightening yourself in water to prevent your legs from sinking. This way you will minimize the resistance against water and will be able to swim faster and for longer distances.

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  • 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.