On the first day of the FINA 2013 Swimming World Cup meet in Dubai, Norway was disqualified from a bronze medal in the mixed 4×50 medley because of a changeover that was 0.01 too fast. On the second day of the meet, Norway was again disqualified in the mixed 4×50 free final, because of a changeover that was 0.01 too fast. Amazing.
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On day 2 of the FINA 2013 Swimming World Cup meet in Dubai, yesterday, Japan’s relay team of Shinri Shioura, Sayaka Akase, Kenta Ito and Kanako Watanabe took
out the 4x50m mixed freestyle relay in 1:32.52, beating Russia’s world record of 1:33.01 from the World Cup meet in Moscow last Sunday. Brazil was also faster than the now former world record, with a time of 1:32.95. See the result list here and FINA press release here. See also the video on FinaTV.
Finland’s Emilia Pikkarainen readying herself for the women’s 100 meter butterfly final at the FINA 2012 Swimming World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany. She was 4th in 58.36, see the result list here.
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While many around the U.S. hold out hope that Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps will return for the 2016 Summer Games in Rio, Phelps has warmed up to retirement life and has no regrets about walking away from the pool following the 2012 London Olympics.
Phelps told WCHS News’ Bill Green at the development for his Michael Phelps Skill Center in Saco, M.E., that he is happy with his life as a retired swimmer.
“I’ve said nothing about a comeback,” Phelps told the news station. “I have said nothing about a comeback. It’s everybody else opening their mouths and saying comments that they think I’m going to do or think that I said. I’ve never said anything publicly.”
See for instance swimming.org
Olympic medallist Michael Jamieson and World Championship medallist Fran Halsall will lead the European challenge at the 2013 Duel in the Pool when the continent’s best swimmers go head-to-head with world number one swimming nation the USA.
Standing shoulder-to-shoulder with Britain will be French Olympic champions Florent Manaudou, Yannick Agnel and Fabien Gilot for the men, and double Olympic champion Ranomi Kromowidjojo of the Netherlands for the women as they combine for the 37-strong European Allstars.
But they will face a USA team that also features swimming’s elite such as double Olympic champion Ryan Lochte as well as Olympic champions Kate Ledecky, Conor Dwyer, Shannon Vreeland and Tyler Clary.
Duel in the Pool 2013 will be held at Tollcross International Swimming Centre, home to next year’s Commonwealth Games swimming, on 20-21 December and provides a unique opportunity for fans to see the world’s greatest swimmers battle for supremacy in the pool.
The 2013 Duel in the Pool will be streamed live on Sky Sports.
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Young swimmer preparing for the open water swim across the firth of Tvøroyri in the Faroe Islands on Jóansøku 2011. No English Channel rules here, we swim in proper wetsuits with hoods and boots and gloves in order to survive the 7°C (45°F) warm ocean.
Sunday 22 September during warm-up at the Horsens Cup in Horsens, Denmark, 18-year-old Kasper Vitten from the Copenhagen Swim Club discovered a swimmer in cramps on the bottom on the pool. He immediately dove down and got 15-year-old Lea Mo Føste Andersen from Randers Swim Club out of the pool, where she received CPR for a suspected heart attack.
Lea Mo Føste Andersen herself remembers nothing from the incident, except that she began feeling unwell during the warm-up. “I suddenly felt like I was suffocating, but it probably took only a few seconds until I lost consciousness,” she says to Horsens Posten.
Tuesday 15 October at a reception at the Horsens police station, Vitten received 2000 Danish Kroner (USD 365) from the police as a token of appreciation for saving young Lea’s life. “Anyone would probably act, but you did the right thing by being super fast to get Lea up to the surface and shout for help,” said Deputy Police Inspector Lars Peter Madsen.
Read for instance Horsens Folkeblad, Horsens Posten and Hovedstadens Svømmeklub, via SwimNews.dk
See swimming.org.au
Swimming Australia President John Bertrand AM and CEO Mark Anderson have today announced Jacco Verhaeren as the new National Head Coach to work under Director of High Performance Michael Scott.
Born in the Netherlands, the 44-year-old Verhaeren will officially start in the role in January ahead of the 2014 BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series in Perth, with the Australian Swim Team also set to compete at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games and Pan Pacs on the Gold Coast next year.
Having coached seven Olympic medallists, including Pieter van den Hoogenband to dual gold in Sydney 2000 and the 100m freestyle gold in Athens 2004, Verhaeren is currently the Technical Director of the Dutch Swimming Federation.
At the London Olympics Verhaeren coached Ranomi Kromowidjojo to gold in the 50m and 100m freestyle and the Dutch women to silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay behind Australia while Kromowidjojo went on to win gold in the 50m freestyle at this year’s world championships in Spain.
Swimming Australia President John Bertrand said the appointment of Verhaeren as the new National Head Coach is another step in enhancing a world’s best approach for the sport.
“To become the best in the world requires four key links in a chain. World class administration of the sport, world class technology, world class athletes – both as individuals and as a team – and world class coaching,†said Bertrand.
