China’s Sun Yang on top of the medal podium at the 15th FINA World Championships, after winning gold in the men’s 1500 meter freestyle. Also in picture Canada’s silver winner Ryan Cohrane, and behind Sun a glimpse of Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri. See the result list here.
Spain’s Mireia Belmonte today managed to break the women’s short course meter world record in the 400 meter freestyle also, clocking 3:54.52 at the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany where Camille Muffat’s world record from the Chartres Europeans in November 2012 was 3:54.85. That is two world records in two days, both the 400 and the 800 freestyle. See the result list here.
Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set yet another world record this afternoon, when she at the FINA 2013 World Cup meet in Berlin, Germany clocked 4:20.85. The old record Julia Smit’s 4:21.04 from the Dual in the Pool between Europe and USA back in December 2009. Hosszú has now set 6 world records in 5 days, including all short course meter medley events. See the result list here.
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Seven-year-old Sophia Martinez from Alamo, TX went diving with her dad at Isla Mujeres off the coast of Mexico. It wasn’t your average dip in the ocean. Sophia went swimming with sharks. Big sharks. 20-ton whale sharks to be specific. And manta rays.
At around 09:59 local time in Germany this morning, Hungary’s Katinka Hosszú set yet another world record, clocking 57.45 at the FINA 2013 World Cup leg in Berlin, where her world record from Eindhoven Thursday was 57.50. This is her fifth world record this week, and she has finals again this evening. See the result list here.
Tonight at the FINA 2013 World Cup leg in Berlin, Germany, Spain’s Mireia Belmonte broke the women’s 800 meter freestyle World record, clocking 7:59.34 to become the first woman ever under 8 minutes in the 800 free. Old record was Camille Muffat’s 8:01.06 from November 2012. See the result list here.
A photo I took yesterday, the ‘Pál pool’ taking shape in Vágur, Faroe Islands, which will be our first 50 meter pool ever. See www.svimjihollin.com
Upon arrival to the Faroes again, my dear brother Bartal points out an interesting systematic variation in the split times from the FINA 2013 World Swimming Championships, that Danish Eurosport commentators pointed out and he then dug into analytically. That there seems to have been a rotating current in the Barcelona pool, that made swimmers in the outer lanes swim every other length fast or slow, depending on which way they swum, with mirrored results on the other side of the pool. Interesting also because people in the Faroe camp noticed and discussed exactly the same phenomena from observing our swimmer Pál Joensen, with about the same conclusion as the guys on Eurosport, without knowing anything about the discussion there. And because a similar ‘swirling current’ theory is being described now here on the blog AstuteCrunch, as mentioned on SwimVortex. Plus here on SwimmingWorld, with specialists from the Counsilman Center on Indiana University as scientific backup.
Courtesy of Freddy Wong and The Slow Mo Guys
