Swimmer's Daily

  • See Express & Star and annawardley

    37-year-old Anna Wardley from Gosport in Hampshire has become the first person in nearly 30 years to swim solo, non-stop, around Isle of Wight. She completed the challenge in 26 hours, 33 minutes and 28 seconds – more than three hours ahead of schedule – and completed then also her two-year Five Island Swim Challenge, to swim around Dragonera (Mallorca, Spain), Portsea (Hampshire, UK), Jersey (Channel Islands), Tiree (Inner Hebrides, Scotland) and the Isle of Wight (Solent, UK), raising funds for the Samaritans, the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust and Sail Africa. She completed the challenge under the rules of the British Long Distance Swimming Association wearing just a standard swimming costume, goggles and a swimming cap.

    Post by Five Island Swim Challenge.
    Here is a nice video from when she completed the swim around Portsea Island http://youtu.be/XAnuQ5-OCKk

  • Brett Hawke, the head swimming coach at Auburn, talks about a special swimming fundraiser to help raise money to treat people with multiple sclerosis. With his wife suffering from the disease, it’s a cause very close to him. He also talks about the two new coaches on deck with him, and the goals for this season.

  • Dedication

  • At about 9:50am local time, Sylvain Estadieu started his attempt to swim across the English channel using only the butterfly stroke

    He is now crossing the shipping lane, some 4 hours into the swim

    Follow the live tweets here on Twitter


  • Read SwimVortex

    Alexis Pannier, the French coach and father to national team member Anthony Pannier, has been jailed for eight years for the rape and sexual assault of a former swimmer and pupil, a minor at the time and also his step-daughter.

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  • Tomorrow at 9:30am, Swedish-based frenchman Sylvain ‘Sylle’ Estadieu plans to try to swim across the English Channel, only using the butterfly stroke. Awesome. You can support by texting him on first Irish number 00353-87-66-81-369 on the English side and then 0033-67-43-71-374 on the French side, or cheer him on here on Facebook. Go Sylle!

    Post by Sylle's English Channel Butterfly Swim.

  • See SwimmingWorld (in English) and svoem.dk (in Danish)

    Danish superstar Rikke Moller Pedersen has signed a one-year deal to move her training base to the Herning Swim Club this year ahead of Denmark hosting the European Short Course Championships in Herning later this year. [… ]

    “Rikke is a great acquisition for the Herning team,” Danish National Head Coach Nick Juba said. “After breaking the world 200m breaststroke record at the World Championships in Barcelona, she went on to lower European short course standards in the World Cups that followed. With the European short course Championships being staged at Herning in December, the timing could not have been better for the club and the city.”

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    (Herning chairman John Axel Hansen, Rikke Møller Pedersen and Herning head coach Jens Bertelsen)

    Quotes off the svoem.dk story, translated by me (as best I can, now in a hurry):

    Chairman of the Herning Swim Club board John Axel Hansen says, “The Herning Swim Club board is unanimous behind this decision, and it has been important to our club that the project surrounding Rikke is fully funded by sponsorship contracts, separately negotiated for this particular project.”

    Head coach of Herning Swim Club Jens Bertelsen says, ‘I look forward to Rikke becoming a part of Herning Swim Club and Swim Team Mid-Jutland. I believe that our swimmers can learn a lot from Rikke’s positive and serious approach to daily training and competition. Rikke sets a high standard in her approach to both training and competition, which will be an example for everyone in the club. I am sure that Rikke will be a fantastic ambassador for the sport of swimming in Herning, which will inspire many of our young swimmers to become even better.’

    Rikke Møller Pedersen herself says, ‘I look very much forward to start in Herning Swim Club. It is a good and positive club with a great team and club environment. They have many plans which hopefully will lead to a lot of progress and development, and I would like to be a part of that. It is a huge help that Herning Swim Club can also contribute to my life as a swimmer in the world elite to be a little easier. I look forward to the European Championships in Herning and can now say that I am going to compete in a sort of ultimate home ground, and that is great.’

  • See INCNow

    The most decorated Olympian of all time, Michael Phelps, visited Fort Wayne Thursday.

    The legendary Olympic swimmer’s ‘Michael Phelps Signature Swim Spa’ is manufactured in Fort Wayne at Master Spas. Thursday he toured their facility, and 21 Alive had the opportunity to sit down with him and talk about his future.

  • Proof is in the pool