USA’s Matt Grevers gold winner in the men’s 100 meter backstroke at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. USA’s silver winner David Plummer also in picture, while French bronze winner Jeremy Stravius is hidden behind Grevers. See the result list here.
See Nothing To Do With Arbroath
Dozens of swimmers braved murky waters on Sunday as an 18-year-old woman smashed the world record time for bog snorkelling. The 28th World Bog Snorkelling Championships saw 130 competitors from around the world, some in fancy dress, descend on Waen Rhydd Bog on the outskirts of Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys, mid Wales.
See also the official results on Green Events. Maguire’s record is apparently ‘men and women’.
The current World Champion is 18 year old Dineka Maguire from Northern Ireland in a time of 1 minute 23.13 seconds, which is a new World Record beating the previous record time held by Andrew Holmes of 1 minute 24.22 seconds by over a second.
An obsolete word they say. An awesome word I say! :-)
See Jamieson’s Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Online (1841), volume III, page 299
See ydetroitswims.org, “In the city of Detroit, 7 out of 10 children cannot swim, putting our children at an unacceptable risk of drowning. No child should fear the water. To teach a child to swim, we need to raise $100 per child. In addition, many children do not have suitable swimwear, so we also need donations of new and slightly used swimwear.”
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Courtesy of Toronto Swim Club
Read The Telegraph
Charlie Cobb, had to undergo open heart surgery just hours after being born and surgeons warned he might not pull through.
Even after the op he suffered a huge heart attack – underwent two more operations – and was hospitalised countless times to fight off infections.
But ever since mothrer Louise Bushby, 26, first took him to the pool a year ago, the one-year-old has flourished.
Miss Bushby, a nursery practioneer from Brighton, said: “He just seems to thrive in the water and it seems to have helped him since day one.
“I’m no doctor but I certainly believe it has helped him so much with his recovery and we go every week.
(Not directly related image courtesy of Petras Gagilas, CC BY-SA 2.0)
“A demonstration of how a combined underwater and land-based motion capture system can be used to analyse movements of swimmers. In this video, we’re analysing swimmers in Sweden’s national swim team, studying the start, dive and the first 15 meters underwater. Shot in BorÃ¥s Swimming Arena, Sweden.”
“Florida Swim Network interviews World Jr Men’s Head Coach Paul Yetter.”
See for instance Hamilton Spectator and ABC
Police have recovered the body of a man who attempted to swim across a crocodile-infested river in the Australian Outback as well as the carcass of a crocodile that was shot by authorities, officials said Monday.
Sean Cole, 26, was snatched by a crocodile and dragged under the water Saturday as he and a friend were swimming in the Mary River during a birthday party.
