Swimmer's Daily

  • All the individual medallists of the Australian swim team spoke to the media about how they were able to handle the pressure of an olympic games. Kyle Chalmers, Emma McKeon, Mack Horton, Maddie Groves, Mitch Larkin and coach Jacco Verhaeren.

    Swimming medallists react to rollercoaster week.

  • It’s not a bellyflop competition, it’s called dødsing which kinda translates do “deathing”. The idea is that you spread out as you would for a bellyflop, but tuck into a sort of folded-in-half-dive right before hitting the water. The contestants are scored based on style and how long they wait before tucking in. I’m pretty sure a full-blown bellyflop from that height (10m) is potentially very harmfull. As the name implies it’s about narrowly avoiding death.

    See Reddit via Neatorama

    https://youtu.be/0T0OLR4MzrM

  • La Rochelle, France, the fourth stop of the 2016 Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, saw a huge crowd of 70,000 fans gather at the harbour as the world’s elite male divers battled it out from 27 metres in the Bay of Biscay. Watch the clip and relive the top dives from Jonathan Paredes, Kris Kolanus and the world’s most difficult dive from Gary Hunt: a front 3 somersaults with 4 ½ twists free.

  • In July 2016, I broke my longstanding (5.5 years!) record in the purest freediving discipline, Constant Weight No Fins, by swimming to 102 meters (334 feet) and back on a single breath of air, and with no propulsive assistance. The dive was televised to breakfast TV in NZ, and sponsored by Steinlager Pure.

    Featured in the video are safety divers Jonathan Sunnex, Dean Chaouche and Sofia Gomez, announcer Shiv Madhu, medics Tom Ardavany and Jani Valdivia, and AIDA judges Carla-Sue Hanson and Rob King.

    Steinlager CNF World Record Freedive 102m

  • Synchronized swimmers often use a type of gelatine in their hair, but why?

    The Secrets to Synchronized Swimming | Olympic Insider

  • Former Team GB swimmers Rebecca Turner and Lewis Coleman have a dream job – testing Speedo swimwear and feeding back on the development process to our Aqualab in Nottingham. 

    Meet the swimmers who product test Speedo Fastskin