Swimmer's Daily

  • Montenegrin miracle in the last 74 seconds

    Another 8-8 was the highlight of the daily actions: this time Montenegro and Spain earned a point apiece after the Montenegrins had came back from 6-8 in the last 74 seconds. Serbia and Croatia netted 20 goals apiece, while the Netherlands stopped at 25, the Russians scored 21 among the women. Here the top game saw Hungary upending Greece 9-6.

    4 REIS Catarina POR; 12 GRINEVA Anna RUS POR – RUS women Portugal (white cap) Vs. Russia (blue Cap) LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day03 12-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    12 LUCAS Thomas NED SVK (White caps) Vs. Netherlands (Blue caps) men SVK – NED LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day03 12-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Serbia SRB (White) Vs Malta MLT (Blue) Men 7 NIKIC Slobodan SRB Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day03 12-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Montenegro MNE (White) Vs Spain ESP (Blue) Men 10 FERNANDEZ Francisco ESP 7 JANOVIC Mladan MNE Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day03 12-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Greece GRE (White) Vs Hungary HUN (Blue) Women 11 PLEVRITOU Eleftheria GRE 7 ILLES Anna Krisztina HUN Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day03 12-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia

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  • Swimmerix Ltd announces the launch of a revolutionary device that will transform pool sessions for swimmers at all levels — from absolute beginners to Olympic champions.

    If you like the idea, we are ready to bring it to life. In February, we’ll start crowdfunding Swimmerix on Kickstarter. The very first 500 Swimmerix kits will be sold at a reduced price of 99 USD.

    See swimmerix.com

  • Sahal Hussein, from Somalia, is a sophomore at Lafayette High School

  • If the Christmas excess still isn’t budging and you’re thinking about getting round to some exercise – how’s this for motivation? In a few weeks, Ben Hooper, a former policeman, will try to become first person to swim the Atlantic Ocean – more than one thousand, eight hundred miles of it. But it’s not only the huge distance he’ll have to overcome – there are sharks and jellyfish too. Simon Vigar went to see him in training.

  • Watch our waterside video interview with Team Speedo USA swim star and Olympic gold medallist, Jessica Hardy. We chat Disney movies, sport and people watching with the 11-time world record holder.

  • The victory of the Hungarian capital to host the event, which carries a whopping HUF 49bn price tag, was announced in May 2015. Two of the competition venues will be located in Margaret Island: a brand-new indoor swimming pool complex for swimming, diving and synchronized swimming, and the existing Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium for water polo. Open water swimming and high diving events will he held at Lake Balaton. A total of 5 billion viewers are expected to tune in to the event at some point of the two-week championship.

    See Hungary Today

    https://youtu.be/C0JTGlo26_w

  • Excitements arrived to the Kombank Arena on the second day of the championships: in the men’s competition Hungary and Greece produced a thriller, ending in the first tie of the event (8-8), while the Serbian women offered their best against Germany but finally they lost 13-14.

    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Croatia CRO (White) Vs Spain ESP (Blue) Women 13 HERRERA Patricia ESP Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G. Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Germany GER (White) Vs Italy ITA (Blue) Men 11 RESTOVIC Marin GER 1 Stefano Tempesti ITA GK C Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Serbia SRB (White) Vs Germany GER (Blue) Women 10 VUKOVIC Jelena SRB Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Hungary HUN (White) Vs Greece GRE (Blue) Men 7 AFROUDAKIS Christos C GRE Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo P. Mesiano/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia
    (L to R) 3 GARIBOTTI Arianna ITA; 6 MAHIEU Geraldine FRA ITA (white cap) Vs. FRA (Blue Cap) Croatia – Serbia Women LEN European Water Polo Championships 2016 Kombank Arena, Belgrade, Serbia Day02 11-01-2016 Photo G.Scala/Insidefoto/Deepbluemedia

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  • Badger Swim Club is one of the most successful clubs in the United States, training many of the worlds greatest swimmers and coaches. World Sport sat down with head coach John Collins and Puerto Rican Swim Team member, Eric Culver, as they discuss the perfect backstroke.