Swimmer's Daily

  • Tudor has shared footage of its “Dare To Dive” challenge with David Beckham and world free diving champion Morgan Bourc’his.

    The challenge became Beckham’s first ever free diving experience and, wearing the Pelagos watch, he aimed to conquer his fear of open water.

    Beckham commented: “These are the moments when you are born to dare. It is about putting yourself in situations where you face challenge, which I like. Most of the time these situations bring out the best in me.”

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  • We’ve reached the halfway stage of the British Swimming Championships 2019 – catch day three’s heats racing from 10am. #BSC19

    Events:

    • W 50 Freestyle
    • M 400 Individual Medley
    • W 200 Butterfly
    • M 100 Freestyle
    • M 1500 Freestyle

  • Day two is set to a busy night of British Swimming Championships action with 19 races on the bill – tune in from 6pm for all the build with Deep End Live and racing from 6:30 pm. #BSC19

    Events:

    • W 800 Freestyle – Fastest Heat
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Junior
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Transition
    • M 50 Breaststroke – Open
    • W 50 Butterfly – Junior
    • W 50 Butterfly – Transition
    • W 50 Butterfly – Open
    • M 200 Butterfly – Junior
    • M 200 Butterfly – Transition
    • M 200 Butterfly – Open
    • W 100 Backstroke – Junior
    • W 100 Backstroke – Transition
    • W 100 Backstroke – Open
    • M 100 Backstroke – Junior
    • M 100 Backstroke – Transition
    • M 100 Backstroke – Open
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Junior
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Transition
    • W 200 Breaststroke – Open

  • A dog found swimming more than 220 kilometers (135 miles) from shore by workers on an oil rig crew in the Gulf of Thailand has been returned safely to land.

    A worker on the rig belonging to Chevron Thailand Exploration and Production, Vitisak Payalaw, said on his Facebook page that they saw the dog swimming toward the platform last Friday. He said they were lucky to spot it because if there had been waves it probably would not have been visible.

    The dog made it to the platform, clinging to the support structure below deck without barking or whimpering, Vitisak wrote.

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  • Swimming SA (SSA) is looking into why so few of the nation’s swimmers based in the US are failing to convert to elite level‚ national coach Graham Hill said on Monday.

    Nine swimmers qualified for the world championships during the national trials in Durban last week.

    The good news is that four of them were women‚ and every single one is trained locally — not one of the American females made the cut-off to get to the international showpiece in Gwangju‚ South Korea.

    Of the five male qualifiers‚ three are in the US.

    “We are looking at how many swimmers we’ve got in America‚ and when they left us what condition they were in‚” said Hill.

    “When they come back they’re not stepping up to the next level and that doesn’t add up for me.”

    Olympic medallists Penny Heyns and Marianne Kriel were among the last batch of US-based women to qualify for the Olympics.

    The SA women who qualified for Beijing 2008 and London 2012 were all trained locally (no women qualified in 2004 and 2016).

    Roland Schoeman‚ Ryk Neethling and Lyndon Ferns‚ all medallists at Athens 2004‚ were the last US-based men to win silverware for SA.

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  • 14 year-old Haven Shepherd (United States of America) survived a suicide bombing when she was a baby. Now she is a Paralympic hopeful, with her sights set on competing in Para swimming at the Tokyo 2020 or Paris 2024 Paralympics. This is her story.

  • Join me in Richmond, Virginia as I get ready to race in the 3rd Pro Series of 2019! A bit of a travel vlog, ending with everything I take to a swim meet with me.

  • Fitch’s John Marcolina is The Day’s All-Area Boys’ Swimmer of the Year.