Swimmer's Daily

  • The second edition of the Cap de Creus swimrun organized by Marnaton on October 28, 2017, in and around Cadaqués.

  • Brock Turner, the former Stanford University swimmer whose three-month jail stint for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman drew national attention, is appealing his conviction.

  • The world’s best aquatics athletes of the year were honored Saturday, December 2 in the fourth edition of the FINA World Aquatics Gala “Soirée des Etoiles” 2017 held in Sanya, China.

    Swimming legends Caeleb Dressel of the U.S. and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom received the FINA Best Male/Female Swimmer 2017 award respectively, a first for both athletes, while Croatia and the USA were honored with the FINA Best Male/Female Water Polo Team 2017 recognition respectively. The U.S. female water polo team has bagged the highest FINA award for the fourth consecutive time, since the inception of the Gala in 2014.

    Great Britain’s Thomas Daley received the FINA Best Male Diver 2017 title for the first time, while Shi Tingmao (CHN) bagged the female equivalent award for the third consecutive year, since 2015.

    In artistic swimming, Russia’s Svetlana Kolesnichenko got the top honor, while two male competitors, Italy’s Giorgio Minisini and Russia’s Aleksandr Maltsev shared the prize. They took one gold apiece (mixed duet free and mixed duet technical) at the FINA World Championships in Budapest last summer.

    Marc-Antoine Olivier (FRA) and Ana Marcela Cunha (BRA) were awarded the FINA Best Male/Female Open Water Swimmer 2017, and high divers Steve LoBue (USA) and Rhiannan Iffland (AUS) completed the list of winners tonight in Sanya.

    Masters athletes Bela Banki (HUN, swimming, 97) and Maurine Kornfeld (USA, swimming 96) were also praised during the evening.

    Finally, the FINA Media Award of 2017 was awarded to Chinese newswire Xinhua News (represented by Mr. Zhou Jie).

    FINA President Julio C. Maglione said: “At the FINA World Championships, but also during our top annual events during the last months, our best athletes were able to shine for the delight of the spectators on site, but also for the millions of TV viewers that regularly follow our competitions. Their effort and commitment make Aquatics bigger and gives FINA a privileged rank in the Olympic world.”

    “We also pay a fair tribute to coaches tonight. These men and women that are able to detect a potential champion, and then guide this boy or girl to excellence, are a central piece of Aquatics’ success!”

    The “Soirée des Etoiles” (the “Evening of the Stars”) was first held in Doha (QAT), before the start of the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m). For 2015, it was organized in Budapest (HUN) on January 31, 2016. The 2016 awardees were known in Windsor (CAN) on December 4, 2016, a couple of days before the start of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).

    See FINA.org

  • 2017 USA SWIMMING WINTER NATIONALS
    The Olympic Warm UP + Race info

  • Another major step in the preparations for the 2017 LEN European Short-Course Swimming Championships to begin in a week: the competition pool has been filled with water in the Royal Arena in Copenhagen.

    More than 2 million litres of water have been filled to the two pools set up by MyrthaPools in Copenhagen (the competition pool and the warm-up pool). In a week, a meet featuring 548 athletes will start in the brand new, state-of-the-art facility in the Danish capital on the occasion of the first sport event held here.

    According to the entries, 46 nations send their swimmers to the year-ending showcase. Host Denmark will have the largest team (38), Italy (36), Hungary (32) and Russia (31) also take part with huge 30+ member strong squads.

    The short-course Europeans will take place on 13-17 December, 40 titles are up for grabs. LEN offers € 220,000 in prize money and beyond that record bonuses too for the first time, € 10,000 for the individual World Records and € 5,000 for the individual European Records.

    The Short Course Europeans will be organised by LEN (European Swimming Federation) and the Danish Swimming Federation in co-operation with their partners Sport Event Denmark and the City of Copenhagen.

    Further information at: www.euroswim2017.com and www.len.eu or via the
    Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/euroswim2017/

    Further information on the Royal Arena at: https://www.royalarena.dk/en

    Tickets for the ten sessions are available at: http://www.ticketmaster.dk/

    Press release from LEN

  • Martin County Commissioners are taking action to make our public beaches safer for swimmers.

  • Plant High Sschool swimmer ranked #1 female in the country.

  • This Yoga for Swimmers class is a practice that is suitable for beginners to more experienced yoga practitioners.

    https://youtu.be/63ZMPV__9jA