Medal winners in the women’s 50 meter backstroke at the FINA 2012 World Swimming Championships in Istanbul, Turkey. From left to right USA’s silver winner Olivia Smoliga, China’s gold winner Jing Zhao and Poland’s bronze winner Aleksandra Urbanczyk. See the result list here.
Breaking news – Today on a single breath of air, Stig Severinsen sets a new official Guinness World Record by swimming 250 feet (76.2m) below the ice in a frozen lake in East Greenland. The previous Guinness World Record for the same stunt was 236 feet (set by Stig March 2010).
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The former president of a Grandview youth swim program and his wife, accused of embezzling from the team, pleaded guilty Monday in Yakima County Superior Court.
Paul and Yvonne Renee VanPelt were charged in December with first-degree theft after Grandview investigators accused them of using more than $8,000 of Grandview Neptunes swim team funds for personal purchases at places such as Wal-Mart, Hotels.com and Victoria’s Secret.
Yvonne Renee VanPelt, 41, pleaded guilty to second-degree theft, a Class C felony, and was sentenced to 10 days of electronic home monitoring, also known as home detention.
Paul VanPelt, 36, pleaded guilty to third-degree theft, a gross misdemeanor. He, too, was sentenced to 10 days of electronic home monitoring.
The next round of FINA Swimming World Cup 2013 meets starts tomorrow in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with live streaming on FinaTV. The competition times for the Dubai leg are as follows:
Thursday, 17 October:
Start Time: 13:30 to 16:30 GMT Main TX Day 1 session 1 (PGM start 14:00
GMT)
Friday, 18 October
Start Time: 13:30 to 16:40 GMT Main TX Day 2 (PGM start 14:00 GMT)
The detailed competition schedules can be found here on fina.org, live timing on omegatiming.com.
Stu Kahn from Davis Aquatic Masters describes the differences between the propeller freestyle stoke and the paddle freestyle stroke, as featured in the May/June issue of SWIMMER Magazine.
Amid the tales of devastation caused by cyclone Phailin is a story of a miraculous survival. 18 fishermen who were stranded in deep sea off the coast of Paradeep when cyclone Phailin struck swam their way against the tide and survived.
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Olympic and World Championship Swimmer Dave McKeon
How to mix up your swim fitness workout with Karen Pickering.
French swimmer Yannick Agnel mighty happy after winning the men’s 200 meter freestyle final at the FINA 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. See the result list here.
