Swimmer's Daily

  • Dane Jackson drops the 60ft La Tomata waterfall in central Veracruz, Mexico.

    GoPro: Dane Jackson's 60ft Waterfall Drop

  • See The Reporter

    When Debbie Koenig was 4, she watched her younger sister crawl and fall in a pool. She could swim, so she jumped in and pulled her out.

    Her sister choked and threw up on her, and Debbie says she knew, even then, that teaching swimming and water safety would be a lifelong mission.

    Today, the Napa native and Green Valley resident owns and operates Debbie’s Swim School, specializing in students, young children to senior adults, who harbor a fear of water.

    She and her staff also offer private lessons and teach advanced stroke mechanics and aqua aerobics, but her mission is to prevent drownings and help people achieve their swimming goals.

  • See piritaopen.blogspot.com

    Pirita OPEN 2014 WINTER SWIMMING FESTIVAL

  • Press release from FINA

    FINA OPEN WATER SWIMMING GRAND PRIX 2014

    A total 36 swimmers (14 women and 22 men) from 16 countries took the plunge in the third leg of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix 2014, organised in Cancun (MEX) on March 29.

    Powerful Angela Maurer from Germany took out the women’s race in 3h25m26s3. It is the first podium for Maurer in the Grand Prix circuit this year, who won by the slimmest of margins ahead of Anna Olasz from Hungary (3h25m27s2). Local swimmer Melissa Villasenor created a sensation, making her Grand Prix podium debut with the bronze in a time of 3h31m22s6. Argentina’s Pilar Geijo finished at the podium’s door in 3h31m48s2.

    The men’s race was won by Dutch Weertman Ferry in 3h04m06s3. Ferry bested veteran Simone Ercoli of Italy, second in 3h04m07s8 and compatriot Marcel Schouten, third in 3h05m14s6. These podium appearances are a nice boost for the three medallists, who have been regular competitors in the FINA Grand Prix circuit for several years.

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  • At the end of the Danish Open 2014 in Bellahøj tonight, the Danish swimming federation announced the 15 swimmers qualified for the LEN 2014 European Swimming Championships in Berlin.

    In another press release national coach Nick Juba commented: “I think that the trials have been efficient and successful, but also fairly predictable. Our ‘big hitters’ have raced unrested and have done as much as they have needed to do. They have still swam pretty fast, but will no doubt swim much faster when they need to.”

    • Rikke Møller Pedersen, Herning/NTC
    • Lotte Friis, Sigma Swim Allerød/USA
    • Jeanette Ottesen, Lyngby/NTC
    • Pernille Blume, Sigma Swim Birkerød/NTC
    • Mie Ø. Nielsen, Aalborg
    • Louise Dalgaard, Aalborg
    • Julie Levisen, Aalborg
    • Sarah Bro, Lyngby/NTC
    • Julie Aglund Lauridsen, Sigma Swim Allerød/NTC
    • Maj Howardsen, Sigma Swim Allerød
    • Daniel Steen Andersen, Horsens/NTC
    • Mads Glæsner, Sigma Swim Allerød/USA
    • Anton Ø. Ipsen, Sigma Swim Birkerød
    • Viktor B. Bromer, Aalborg
    • Daniel Skaaning, STT/VAT CPH/NTC

    The official squad will be announced next weekend, as Anders Lie Nielsen has been granted dispensation to try to qualify at a swim meet in USA.

  • At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Danish swimming prodigy Mie Ø. Nielsen shattered her own 28.51 Nordic record twice with first a prelim time of 28.28 in the 50 meter backstroke, and then a winning time of 27.96 in the final.

    Post by Mie Østergaard Nielsen.

  • At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Rikke Møller Pedersen gave her own 200 breaststroke world record a good go with a winning time of 2:19.94, the world record 2:19.11 and the competition back in 2:28.90 and less.

    To celebrate this, she indulged herself in a pair of winegums

    Post by Rikke Møller Pedersen.

  • At the 2014 Danish Open in Bellahøj tonight, Danish swimming darling Pernille Blume rattled the Danish record with a winning time of 53.69 to Jeanette Ottesen’s 54.07, the Danish record of Ottesen from 2009 still standing at 53.41.

    Oh, and she is good-looking too

    Post by Pernille Blume.

  • Read The Sydney Morning Herald

    Australian swim stars Cate and Bronte Campbell do not need to look far for grounding when they feel themselves caught up in ”first-world” problems. When they think things are getting too hard, their younger brother Hamish provides a timely reminder that  things are really not that bad.

    Hamish has cerebral palsy and the 15-year-old has the development of an one to three-year-old and requires around-the-clock care. But he appears perpertually happy.

    With the limited communication he possesses, whether it is a smile when he sees one of his sisters or when he delivers a well-timed noise that disrupts a family dispute, he brings joy and a sense of perspective to his parents and four sisters.

    ”Whenever we think that our lives are getting too hard, we look over at him and he can’t feed himself, he can’t clothe himself, he can’t go to the toilet by himself, he can’t tell us when he’s thirsty or he’s hungry, he can’t see and you think, ‘You know what? My life is pretty good’,” Cate says.