Swimmer's Daily

  • Italy: High five

    Italy enjoyed a 5-medal haul on Day 5, with a couple of outstanding freestyle swims in the mix, courtesy of Gregorio Paltrinieri (1500m) and Luca Dotto (100m). Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom returned to the throne in the 100m fly, while Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen retained her title in the 200m breast.

    Sarah SJOESTROEM SWE Gold Medal Jeanette OTTESEN DEN Silver Medal 100m Butterfly Women Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Gabriele DETTI ITA Silver medal Gregorio PALTRINIERI ITA Gold Medal Mykhaylo ROMANCHUK UKR Bronze Medal 800m Freestyle Men London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    ITALY ITA Silver Medal Erika FERRAIOLI, Federica PELLEGRINI, Filippo MAGNINI, Luca DOTTO NETHERLANDS NED Gold Medal VERSCHUREN Sebastiaan SCHWIETERT Ben V.D. MEER Maud KROMOWIDJOJO Ranomi FRANCE Bronze Medal MIGNON Clement STRAVIUS Jeremy BONNET Charlotte SANTAMANS Anna 4x100m Mixed Freestyle Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    DOTTO Luca ITA, gold medal 100 Freestyle men London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium DOTTO Luca ITA ITALY gold medal, VERSCHUREN Sebastiaan NED silver medal, MIGNON Clement FRA bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 100m freestyle final Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium SJOESTROEM Sarah SWE gold medal, OTTESEN Jeanette DEN silver medal, BIANCHI Ilaria ITA bronze medal, London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 100m butterfly final Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Gregorio PALTRINIERI ITA Gold Medal Gabriele DETTI ITA Silver Medal 1500m Freestyle Men FINA London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Jessica VALL MONTERO ESP Silver Medal, Rikke Moeller PEDERSEN DEN Gold Medal 200m Breaststroke Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Jessica VALL MONTERO ESP Silver Rikke Moeller PEDERSEN DEN Gold Medal Hrafnhildu LUTHERSDOTTIR ISL Bronze medal 200m Breaststroke Women Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 12 20-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

    One might wonder what’s going to happen to Gregorio Paltrinieri when he will be in a really top shape. The Italian cracked the European record and went really close to the global mark over the 1500m free, then, two days later, he smashed the Championship record in the 800m and was just 1.5sec shy of his ER from Kazan. For sure, in Rio he is going to be the man to watch, even with Olympic title-holder Sun Yang (CHN) in the field.

    Italy enjoyed a glorious evening. After Gabriele Detti came second behind Paltrinieri (the 800m featured the same three medallist as the 1500m as Ukraine’s Mykhaylo Romanchuk was third again) Luca Dotto won the blue-riband event of the meet, thanks to a tremendous first lap. Dutchman Sebastiaan Verschuren chased like a fiend in the second 50m but he missed the train by 0.07 sec and had to settle for the silver. The French sprint gloire was saved by Clement Mignon who was also close but came third, a further 0.04sec adrift.

    In the women’s individual events, Denmark’s Rikke Moller Pedersen retained her title in the 200m breast with the only sub-2:22 effort in the field. Iceland’s Hrafnhildur Luthersdottir won her second medal here in London – after a silver in the 100m she earned the bronze – while Spain’s Jessica Vall Montero surprised even herself by finishing second.

    The other women’s title also travelled north as Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom won her trademark event, the 100m fly, with a huge 0.94sec gap while bettering the Championship record and nearing her WR by 0.25sec, an amazing swim at the current stage of the season. In fact she hit back now for the loss in Berlin where Jeanette Ottesen out-touched her by 0.01sec for the title – this time the Dane didn’t have a chance to stay with her arch-rival.

    Ilaria Bianchi got the bronze, and the Italians clinched their 5th medal of the day in the session-closing mixed free relay, a silver – here the Netherlands got the title with a really convincing performance. Ranomi Kromowidjojo’s 52.27sec anchor leg was a brilliant individual effort, adding a second relay gold to the Dutch tally.

    For detailed results please visit LEN’s renewed website: www.len.eu

    Direct link: http://len.eu/?p=4378

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia

  • Hungary’s best ever single-day performance: 7 medals, 4 golds

    Hungarian swimmers put together the nation’s best ever single day performance by amassing seven medals in less than two hours, winning four of the seven finals and runners-up by a finger-tip in two others. The Brits also enjoyed a fine day with five medals, including Ross Murdoch’s upsetting of the title-holder and world champion Marco Koch in the 200m breast.

    MURDOCH Ross GBR gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 200m breaststroke final Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium NIELSEN Mie Oe. EN gold medal, HOSSZU Katinka HUN silver medal, DAWSON Kathleen GBR bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 100m backstroke final Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium CSEH Laszlo HUN gold medal, BROMER Viktor B. DEN silver medal, KENDERESI Tamas HUN bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 200m butterfly final Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Team HUNGARY gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 4x200m freestyle final Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    4×200 Free Women (L to R) ESP Spain; HUN Hungary; NED Nederland 4×200 Freestyle Relay Women Podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    50 Back Men (L to R) Bohus HUN; Lacourt FRA; Tarasevich RUS 50 Backstroke Men Podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    200 Breast Men podium (L to R) Koch GER; Murdoch GBR; Pizzini ITA 200 Breaststroke men Podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    200 I.M. Women (L to R) O’Connor GBR; Hosszu HUN; Miley GBR 200 Individual Medley women Podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    800 Free Women (L to R) Carlin GBR; Kapas HUN; Oder SLO 800 freestyle women Podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 04 heats Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Boglarka KAPAS HUN Gold Medal 200m Breaststroke Women Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Camille LACOURT FRA Gold Medal 50m Backstroke Men Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    HOSSZU Katinka HUN Team HUNGARY gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 4x200m freestyle final Day 11 19-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

    Boglarka Kapas kicked off the golden run of the Hungarians by winning the 800m free with a convincing performance, went first at the 350m turn and built a 2sec lead in the remaining legs. Britain’s title-holder Jazmin Carlin chased her in vain this time, while Slovenia’s Tjasa Oder earned a surprising bronze.

    Katinka Hosszu smashed the Championship record in the 200m IM with a fine in-season time (2:07.30), way ahead of the field, with two Brits coming next, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Hannah Miley. Hosszu was back for more, arrived at the start of the 100m back from the IM event’s victory ceremony, and this time she couldn’t gear up enough to catch Mie Nielsen – in Berlin, on the same day, they shared the gold, this time the Dane was 0.21sec faster. Another Brit earned a medal, here, Kathleen Dawson, a well-deserved bronze.

    For the Hungarians, the 200m fly final was a sure bet with Laszlo Cseh enjoying perhaps the best phase of his career. His only rival was the virtual red line on the screen, showing the pace of the European record – which he set in the shiny-suit era eight years ago. Indeed Cseh raced against a 22-year-old youngster, wearing a super suit, swimming in peak form at the Beijing Olympics – and he almost beat this ‘youngster’, only 0.21 sec separated him to equal his old mark. He swam 0.57sec faster than his world title winning time in Kazan last summer, this time with three kilos extra around his belly, to be burnt for Rio and getting ready for something big. Title-holder Viktor Bromer of Denmark came second, though the other Hungarian, the 19-year-old Tamas Kenderesi almost caught him for the silver, only 0.04sec separated the two.

    And only 0.05sec were missing for Hungary’s Richard Bohus to upset the backstroke king, Camille Lacourt, in the 50m but that gold went to the French in one of the tightest dash finals in history when the gap between the winner and the last places one was only 0.26sec.

    Hungary made it four in the session-ending women’s 4x200m free relay, they were third at the halfway mark, then Boglarka Kapas, returning one and a half hour after the 800m free, pushed the team to the first place in the third leg and there was no way back for the others as Katinka Hosszu roared through the homecoming leg, delivering the gold to the Hungarians once more after 2010.

    The only final without a Magyar threat was the 200m breast final – Olympic champion Daniel Gyurta is focusing on Rio and skipped the meet… – where the hosts could cheer for a gold as Ross Murdoch upset the title-holder and world champion, German Marco Koch, in a brilliant duel. The strength of British breaststroke cannot be demonstrated better than the fact that the newly crowned European champion couldn’t make the Olympic team in the trials in this event…

    The big duel between the Hungarians and the Brits ended up with the ‘visitors’ triumph this evening: Hungary clinched 7 medals (4-3-1), the Brits had 5 (1-2-2), they stand 13-13 in overall, though regarding the titles the Magyars lead 6-3, something of a well-known result connected to these nations in football, but while the world famous game was over long ago (in 1953), here we have three more days for the medal hunters.

    For detailed results please visit our renewed website: www.len.eu

    Direct link: http://len.eu/?p=4378

    Press release from LEN, photos courtesy of Deepbluemedia

  • Paltrinieri smashes the European record

    The first European record fell on the third day of the swimming competitions as Gregorio Paltrinieri reached an amazing speed in the 1500m free. Greece clinched a surprise gold in the men’s 200m (the third ever title of the nation), while the Netherlands had mixed fortunes in the free events, winning the men’s 200m but settling for the minor spoils in the 100m. Lithuania’s Ruta Meilutyte did a unique double in the London pool, winning again four years after the Olympics in the same event, the 100m breast.

    Gabriele DETTI ITA Silver Medal Gregorio PALTRINIERI ITA Gold Medal Mykhaylo ROMANCHUK UKR Bronze Medal 1500m freestyle Final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Andrea Staccioli/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    MEILUTYTE Ruta LTU gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 100m breaststroke final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    PALTRINIERI Gregorio ITA ITALY gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 1500m freestyle final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium VERSCHUREN Sebastiaan NED Gold medal, STJEPANOVIC Velimir SRB silver medal, GUY James GBR bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 200m freestyle final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    Podium SJOESTROEM Sarah SWE gold medal, KROMOWIDJOJO Ranomi NED silver medal, HEEMSKERK Femke NED bronze medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 1500m freestyle final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    SJOESTROEM Sarah SWE gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Women’s 100m freestyle final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    VAZAIOS Andreas GRE gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 200m medley final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    VERSCHUREN Sebastiaan NED Gold medal London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming Men’s 200m freestyle final Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Perottino/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    100 Breast women podium (L to R) Hrafnhildu Luthersdottir ISL; Ruta Meilutyte LTU; Chloe Tutton GBR 100 Breaststroke women final London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 03 finals Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto
    200 I.M. men podium (L to R) Nevo Gal ISR: Andreas VAZAIOS GRE; Alexis MANAKAS SANTOS POR 200 I.M. Infdividual Medley men podium London, Queen Elizabeth II Olympic Park Pool LEN 2016 European Aquatics Elite Championships Swimming day 03 finals Day 10 18-05-2016 Photo Giorgio Scala/Deepbluemedia/Insidefoto

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  • Usely Michel, a 13-year-old who couldn’t swim, got saved last month at a Deerfield Beach pool by Angel Rivera, an 11-year-old who could. A 14-year-old in Cooper City got revived by CPR Sunday after a house pool nearly claimed his life.

    That’s why, last Wednesday, the stands surrounding Overtown’s Gibson Park Pool held 50 kids ready for the first of free swim lessons until the end of July, courtesy of the Kiwanis Club of Biscayne Bay. Drowning season’s upon us again.

    “We’re here because there’s so much water to have fun in all over South Florida,” William Reich, former Biscayne Bay Kiwanis Club president, told the kids. “Unless you have the skills you need to get in the water and be safe, you’re not going to be able to take advantage of that. That’s why you’re here today. And you’re going to be here all this week, all this month and all summer.”

    Read Miami Herald

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  • This video takes a look behind the front door of this amazing house where its two pools are the stand out feature.

    The Wall House features an indoor pool on the ground floor with the other suspended on the first floor with a glass bottom, so you can see those swimming outdoors above you.

    Designed by architects José Guedes Cruz, Marco Martinez Marinho and Cesar Marques The Wall House is located in Cascais, a coastal town in Portugal about a 40 minute drive from the capital Lisbon.

    It is described as “Like a wall in a Castle not in stone, but in concrete, glass and wood.

    See the Mirror

  • A local swimmer says he owes his life to two young lifeguards at a pool in Fort Mill.

    Scott Shull went unconscious during his routine morning swim and the girls used a defibrillator to get his heart beating again.

    “That really puts it into perspective because you never know when something can happen,” said Chynna Norman.

    See WCNC