Swimmer's Daily

Swimmer's Daily

  • Contact
  • Ranomi Kromowidjojo 23.24 and new 50 free SC world record at the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition, World Record

    On home turf at the FINA 2013 World Cup leg in Eindhoven tonight, the Netherland’s Ranomi Kromowidjojo managed to break the women’s 50 meter freestyle short course world record, with a time of 23.24 seconds bettering compatriot Marleen Veldhuis’ 23.25 world record from the 2008 World Championships in Manchester by the slimmest of margins. See the result list here

    20130807-203428.jpg

    (Image courtesy of Michiel Jelijs, CC BY 2.0)

  • Katinka Hosszú 2:03.20 and new 200 IM SC world record at the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition, World Record

    At the 2013 FINA World Cup leg in Eindhoven tonight, Hungary’s iron lady Katinka Hosszú managed to better her already impressive 2:04.39 short course meters 200 IM world record from the prelims this morning, with a phenomenal time of 2:03.20, first ever sub-2:04 woman, and that by a big margin also. See the result list here.

  • Chad Le Clos 1:49.04 and new 200 fly SC world record at the Eindhoven 2013 World Cup

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition, World Record

    South Africa’s Chad Le Clos managed to break the men’s 200 butterfly short course meter world record this evening, with a time of 1:49.04 bettering Kaio Almeida’s (BRA) 1:49.11 world record from the Stockholm World Cup leg back in November 2009. See the result list here.

    DSC00978

  • FINA open water swimming Grand Prix Lac Memphremagog 2013

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Open Water, Wow

    FINA open water swimming Grand Prix, Traversée du lac Memphremagog 2013, August 3rd 2013

    FINA open water swimming Grand Prix Lac Memphremagog 2013 from Leandre Lapointe on Vimeo.

  • Variation of Arizona Freeze Drill and 6 kicks freestyle

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Technique

    “Learn how to improve your freestyle with 2012 Olympic Gold medalists Davis Tarwater and Alyssa Anderson!”

    Variation of Arizona Freeze Drill and 6 kicks freestyle from Fitter & Faster Swim Tour on Vimeo.

  • Cameron returns highly motivated from BCN2013 World Champs

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    VDB and Zorzi gold and bronze at BCN2013“South Africa’s world acclaimed swimmer Cameron Van Der Burgh believes that he’s regained the hunger and motivation that he was missing after winning a gold and silver medals in the 50m and 100m breaststroke respectively at the FINA World Championships. He was speaking after arriving from Barcelona this morning at the OR Tambo international airport. Van Der Burg who won a gold medal and broke the world record in the London Olympics, says this has been a difficult year for him so far clouded by injuries.”

  • U.S. Men’s 4×100 Medley Swim Team Disqualified At BCN2013 After Mistake

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Competition

    Brought to us by Andrea Feczko for ‘The Fumble’

  • CC photo #584: Pál and coach after the BCN2013 men’s 1500 free

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, Competition, Faroe Islands

    Faroe Island’s Pál Joensen and Denmark’s National Training Center head coach Shannon Rollason after the men’s 1500 freestyle final at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona, Spain. Going through split times and evaluating the race. Pál was seventh in both the 800 and the 1500, we were hoping for more but are happy with this.

    Pál and coach after the BCN2013 men's 1500 free

  • 12 of the world’s best water parks according to CNN

    Aug 7, 2013

    —

    by

    rokur
    in Fun

    See CNN

    The twelve water parks are (apparently in no particular order)

    • Aquatica (Orlando, Florida)
    • Aquaventure Waterpark (Dubai, UAE)
    • Area 47 (Innsbruck, Austria)
    • Beach Park (Fortaleza, Brazil)
    • Caribbean Bay (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea)
    • Siam Park (Tenerife, Spain)
    • Tropical Islands (Krausnick, Germany)
    • Watercube Waterpark (Beijing)
    • WaterWorld Waterpark (Ayia Napa, Cyprus)
    • Wet ‘n Wild (Orlando, Florida)
    • World Waterpark (Alberta, Canada)
    • Yas Waterworld (Abu Dhabi, UAE)

    My wife was with her pupils at the Tropical Islands waterpark in Germany (and recommends it)

    The Tropical Islands resort near Berlin, Germany

    Beach Park has Insano, the world’s tallest (135 feet/41 meters) and fastest (65 mph/104 kph) water slide.

←Previous Page
1 … 2,217 2,218 2,219 2,220 2,221 … 2,837
Next Page→
rokur Avatar

Blog Admin

Rókur í Jákupsstovu // Production engineer and certified swim coach. Full-time IT guy, spare-time aquatics aficionado. 2 sons, 2 daughters, 1 grandson & a wife. President of Faroe Islands Aquatics, Bureau Member of European Aquatics. Likes to run :-)

Trending

Toddler Drowns After Dad Falls Into Hot Tub at Florida Airbnb | CBS 12 NewsDecember 16, 2025
Australia vs The World Swimming Highlights | Wide World of SportsDecember 16, 2025
Man Drowns on Flooded Road in Washington | KING 5 SeattleDecember 17, 2025
Author Rachel Beanland celebrates the release of 'Florence Adler Swims Forever'Author Rachel Beanland celebrates the release of 'Florence Adler Swims Forever'July 7, 2020
Swim official gets 10+ years for attempting online enticement of a minorJanuary 12, 2012

Categories

  • Adapted Swimming (99)
  • Artistic Swimming (235)
  • Baby Swimming (6)
  • Beach Life (282)
  • Can you do this? (38)
  • CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 (697)
  • Charity (196)
  • Cliff Jumping (2)
  • Cold Water Swimming (1)
  • Competition (8,450)
  • Crime (276)
  • Diversity (19)
  • Diving (244)
  • Doping (353)
  • Dryland (390)
  • Entertainment (18)
  • Environment (348)
  • Equipment (520)
  • Faroe Islands (352)
  • Finswimming (2)
  • Freediving (423)
  • Fun (1,949)
  • Gossip (715)
  • Guest Post (115)
  • Health (1,211)
  • High Diving (61)
  • History (504)
  • Ice Swimming (23)
  • Inclusion (1)
  • Learn To Swim (314)
  • Life Saving (41)
  • Masters (114)
  • Mental Health (54)
  • Miscellaneous (1)
  • Nature (2,005)
  • Notice (4)
  • Nutrition (39)
  • Open Water (2,477)
  • Organization (3,204)
  • Other (7)
  • Ouch (6)
  • Para Swimming (287)
  • Politics (2)
  • Psychology (93)
  • Review (5)
  • Safeguarding (5)
  • Safety (3,609)
  • Science (243)
  • Scuba Diving (12)
  • Sea Swimming (13)
  • Sex Crime (1)
  • Special Olympics (13)
  • Sponsored Post (44)
  • Surfing (44)
  • Swimmer's Daily (47)
  • Swimming Pools (884)
  • Swimrun (15)
  • Synchronized Swimming (57)
  • Technique (630)
  • Technology (580)
  • Training (927)
  • Triathlon (182)
  • Uncategorized (59)
  • Water Parks (1)
  • Water Polo (172)
  • Wild Swimming (118)
  • Winter Swimming (445)
  • World Record (150)
  • Wow (788)
  • WTF (504)

Aquatics Sites

  • World Aquatics
  • European Aquatics
  • SwimmingWorld
  • SwimSwam
  • Swimrankings

Search This Site


See also

  • Facebook
  • X
  • YouTube
Swimmer's Daily

Swimmer's Daily

Fast Fix Blog About Swimming

c/o Rókur í Jákupsstovu
Brekkuvegur 10, FO-650 Toftir
Faroe Islands

Privacy

  • Privacy Policy
  • Background
  • Contact
Manage Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
  • Manage options
  • Manage services
  • Manage {vendor_count} vendors
  • Read more about these purposes
View preferences
  • {title}
  • {title}
  • {title}