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.
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Former Tiger swimming great and 15-time All-American Tyler McGill has been named the newest assistant coach for the Auburn men’s swimming and diving team as announced by head coach Brett Hawke earlier this week.
“I’m excited to make the transition from being in the water every day to being on deck and helping out,” McGill said. “This is a place that I know and love. To be able to represent Auburn as a coach now is an honor. It’s certainly a challenge that I’m looking forward to, but I couldn’t be happier to be representing my alma mater and a great university.”
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This week in Vienna, 150 children from Turkey, Austria, Armenia, Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Switzerland and the European Union Youth Orchestra met in Vienna to form a Sistema Europe orchestra. They had to scout around for somewhere to rehearse. Then they found this… an empty swimming pool at the Augarten Palace, residence of the Vienna Boys’ Choir.
