Swimmer's Daily

  • Great job by these guards! They work together to get control of a difficult situation.

    Lifeguards Rescue Difficult Guest

  • First boys recovered from Thailand cave after soccer team and coach become trapped.

    Former Navy SEAL combat swimmer talks Thailand cave rescue

  • Russia dominates, Kolesnikov, Kesely with 8 medals apiece, Milak wins two in 12mins

    With five more titles on the closing day, Russia cemented its top position at the LEN European Junior Swimming Championships โ€“ a trend lasting since 2012. Kliment Kolesnikov is the man of the meet with 8 medals (6 golds, 2 silvers), while Hungaryโ€™s Ajna Kesely also amassed 8 among the women (5-1-2). She earned 4 individual titles, just like teammate Kristof Milak, the most in the field, who added two on Sunday by winning the 200m free and 100m fly in a span of 12 minutes.

    Podium STUPIN Maksim RUS Gold Medel PAPASTAMOS Apostolos GRE Silver Medal DEAN Thomas GBR Bronze Medal 400 Medley Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium VASKINA Daria RUS Gold Medel AVDEEVA Anastasia RUS Silver Medal D’INNOCENZO Giulia ITA Bronze Medal 100 Backstroke Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium GERASIMENKO Vladislav RUS Gold Medel FUSCO Alessandro ITA Silver Medal KALUSOWSKI Jan POL Bronze Medal 100 Breaststroke Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium TETEREVKOVA Kotryna LTU Gold Medel MAKAROVA Anastasia R. RUS Silver Medal ELENDT Anna GER Bronze Medal 100 Breaststroke Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium MILAK Kristof Gold Medel LOKTEV Denis ISR Silver Medal HANSON Robin SWE Bronze Medal 200 Freestyle Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium SOROKINA Anastasiia RUS Gold Medel CIRCI Roberta ITA Silver Medal KESELY Ajna HUN Bronze Medal 200 Medley Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium MILAK Kristof HUN Gold Medel MINAKOV Andrei RUS Silver Medal Burdisso Federico ITA Bronze Medal 100 Butterfly Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium SHKURDAI Anastasiya BLR Gold Medel TOBEHN Maya GER Silver Medal OZKAN Aleyna TUR Bronze Medal 50 Butterfly Women Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium SEELIGER Bjoern SWE Gold Medel KOLESNIKOV Kliment RUS Silver Medal BURRAS Lewis GBR Bronze Medal 50 Freestyle Men Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium Team Hungary HUN Gold Medel Team Germany GER Silver Medal Russian Federation Bronze Medal 4X200 Freestyle Women Relay Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium Russian Federation RUS Gold Medel Team Germany GER Silver Medal Team Italy GBR Bronze Medal 4X100 Medley Men Relay Finals LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Russian Federation RUS win the LEN Trophy LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Russian Federation RUS win the LEN Trophy LEN 45th European Junior Swimming Championships Helsinki, Finland Mร‚ล kelร‚ล nrinne Swimming Centre Day05 08-07-2018 Photo Andrea Masini/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

    The last day saw some outstanding swimmers adding golds to their respective collections. Among the men, Russiaโ€™s Vladislav Gerasimenko completed the 50-100m breaststroke double, compatriot Daria Vaskina did the same in the womenโ€™s backstroke โ€“ she completed the Russian swept of all six backstroke titles โ€“, and Belarusโ€™s Anastasia Shkurdai paired the 50-100m crowns in butterfly.

    Hungaryโ€™s Kristof Milak did something truly outstanding: he clinched the 200m free and the 100m fly golds in a span of 12 minutes. He won the 400m free and the 200m fly earlier, regarding individual titles he tops the ranks.

    The two remaining medley titles on offer went to Russia. Maksim Stupin came first in the menโ€™s 400m IM (he had a silver in the 200m) while Anastasiia Sorokina conquered the 200m IM among the women. Bjoern Seeliger delivered the first title here for Sweden, while Kotryna Teterevkova won the 100m breast and the first gold for Lithuania.

    The Hungarian girls won a tremendous battle over Germany in the 4x200m free, Ajna Kesely avenged her 200m individual loss to Isabelle Maria Gose by out-touching her rival by 0.14sec โ€“ it was the Magyar teamโ€™s 12th gold, their best-ever performance in the history of the junior Europeans.

    As expected, the Russians landed the last title in the menโ€™s medley relay. This was their 5th relay win (out of 8) and those medals rocketed their best swimmers to the top of the individual ranks: Kliment Kolesnikov piled 8 (6-2-0), Andrei Minakov had 7 (5-2-0) and Vladislav Gerasimenko finished with 4 golds.

    Among the women Anna Kesely compiled another brilliant tally of 8 medals (5-1-2), her career total stands at 19 (15-2-2), probably the best ever in the history of the junior Europeans.

    Russia maintained its dominance both in the medal standings and the Team Trophy, a trend lasting since 2012. While Hungary came second in the medal ranks, the trophy saw Great Britain finishing runner-up and Italy coming third โ€“ the Italians collected an amazing 11 bronze medals besides 4 silvers though no titles this time. The Germans also made the top 5, they left Helsinki with 11 silver medals.

    The junior Europeans were a great hit once again, next year Kazan (RUS) will welcome the continentโ€™s best age-group swimmers.

    Champions, Day 5

    Men
    50m free: Bjoern Seeliger (SWE) 22.27
    200m free: Kristof Milak (HUN) 1:47.19
    100m breast: Vladislav Gerasimenko (RUS) 1:01.36
    100m fly: Kristof Milak (HUN) 51.78
    400m IM: Maksim Stupin (RUS) 4:16.79
    4x100m medley: Russia 3:35.58
    (Kliment Kolesnikov, Vladislav Gerasimenko, Andrei Minakov, Daniil Markov)

    Women
    100m back: Daria Vaskina (RUS) 59.90
    100m breast: Kotryna Teterevkova (LTU) 1:08.03
    50m fly: Anastasiya Shkurdai (BLR) 26.44
    200m IM: Anastasiia Sorokina (RUS) 2:14.38
    4x200m free: Hungary 8:02.24
    (Fanni Fabian, Petra Barocsai, Blana Berecz, Anna Kesely)

    Medal standings

    RUS 18 12 4 34
    HUN 12 2 5 19
    GBR 6 3 4 13
    ISR 2 1 0 3
    BLR 2 0 0 2
    GER 1 11 4 16
    ROU 1 1 0 2
    LTU 1 0 1 2
    SWE 1 0 1 2
    ITA 0 4 11 15
    POL 0 1 2 3
    DEN 0 1 0 1
    GRE 0 1 0 1
    FRA 0 1 0 1
    LAT 0 1 0 1
    NOR 0 1 0 1
    NED 0 0 2 2
    SUI 0 0 2 2
    TUR 0 0 2 2
    AUT 0 0 1 1
    MLD 0 0 1 1
    SLO 0 0 1 1
    UKR 0 0 1 1

     

    Team Trophy โ€“ top 6

    1. Russia 1445
    2. Great Britain 956
    3. Italy 924
    4. Hungary 908
    5. Germany 711
    6. France 515

    For detailed results and free live streaming please visit www.len.eu

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia/Andrea Masini

  • Working as a lifeguard is a traditional summer job for many teens. But the job pool is changing, thanks to some older applicants. CBS News correspondent Carter Evans has the story.

    Older swimmers jump in as younger people pass up lifeguard jobs

  • Popular swimming spots are coming up with creative solutions to combat a regional shortage of lifeguards.

    โ€œItโ€™s a good little beach to go to,” Ronald McClendon, who went to Lake Ontario beach to spend time with his kids, said. “The people are good, theyโ€™ve got playgrounds around her, picnic areas, and houses, itโ€™s nice.โ€

    Thatโ€™s why he and others we talked to were concerned to hear about the shortage.

    โ€œI think its important that there are people trained for those situations, in case there’s an emergency,” Beachgoer Brittany Distefano said. “I would hate to see a child drown, or hear about it in the news, just because thereโ€™s a shortage of life guards.โ€

    Itโ€™s a trend Monroe Countyโ€™s Director of Parks Larry Staub says they started noticing last year.

    โ€œIn this competitive job market, youโ€™re looking at students in college who tend to do more internships than things thatโ€™d be considered to be summer employment.โ€ Staub said.

    So Staub says they got creative, and got two of his employees certified to train lifeguards in house.

    โ€œWe now can do the testing ourselves, and the training, so it makes it easier for us to do.โ€ Staub said.

    And theyโ€™re not alone. The Y.M.C.A is also having trouble recruiting.

    โ€œWe have so many pools and water facilities throughout the Y, that we need to make sure every patron here is safe.โ€ Y.M.C.A Aquatics Director Phil Baretela said.

    Thatโ€™s why theyโ€™re now offering free lifeguard certification classes that can normally be as expensive as $200.

    See Spectrum News Rochester

    Lifeguard shortage forces some pools to close

    City pool temporarily closed due to lifeguard shortage

    Lifeguard shortage at several state beaches

    YMCA seeks more lifeguards so pools won't have to close

  • Deputies say a 17-year-old drowned while trying to swim across a river in West Virginia.

    Teen Drowns While Trying To Swim Across W.Va. River

  • Rescuers said it may take up to four days for the entire team to reach safety, depending on conditions inside the cave

    Elite divers have rescued the first two of 12 young soccer players and their coach who have been trapped in a flooded cave complex in northern Thailand for more than two weeks, according to Kyodo news agency quoting Thai media reports.

    The boys separately emerged from Tham Luang Nang Non cave in Chiang Rai province between 5:30pm and 6pm local time, Kyodo said.

    The boys, two of the โ€œWild Boarsโ€ team that has been stuck in a cramped chamber several kilometres inside the Tham Luang cave complex since June 23, emerged Sunday night after a dangerous mission to extract the group began earlier in the day.

    Read South China Morning Post

  • A white sharkย swims in close to the shoreline off New Brighton State Beach, Monterey Bay as swimmers look on.

    White Shark Cruising Near Swimmers

  • Jonathan, Todd and Zach explain some of the technical issues regarding the soccer team stranded in a cave in Thailand, and answer some viewer questions about the situation.

    https://youtu.be/CIRC68Cv6eM