World Transplant Games 2013 Ambassador, Chad le Clos, shares a message with WTG2013 participants and looks forward to meeting them in Durban.
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South African National Championships interrupted by burst pipe
Read Swimming World Magazine and SwimNews, a pipe burst interrupted the South African National Championships in Port Elizabeth yesterday, making the water murky and green and forcing them to first cancel the second day of competition, before today changing the format to timed finals. One casualty of this is Cameron van der Burgh, who now will miss the 100 breaststroke final because of leaving for the Alexander Dale Oen Memorial in Norway, Swimming South Africa though ensuring everybody that “He will be considered for [Worlds] selection”
First photo of the SA trials swimming pool. Trials start tomorrow twitter.com/Rolandschoeman…
— Roland Schoeman (@Rolandschoeman) April 14, 2013
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CC photo #473: Steadicam at Rijeka 2008
Just a photo from the LEN 2008 European Short Course Championships in Rijeka, Croatia. The event apparently the men’s 100 breaststroke semifinal, the guy in front Hugues Duboscq from France.
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Lotte Friis has (re)found happiness in Nice
After a disappointing London 2012 Olympics, Lotte Friis almost retired her swimming career. But instead she chose to move to Nice in France to start anew. Here is part 1 of Danish sports media On-Sport‘s visit in Nice. Most of the talk is in Danish, except when coach Fabrice Pellerin describes her in English.
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Wonderful footage from the 2013 Grand Prix at Mesa
See the playlist on YouTube, courtesy of USA Swimming. Now I understand why some say that swimming should be an outdoor sport :-)
I’m following Danish Olympian Anders Lie Nielsen in particular – He was trying to qualify for the Barcelona 2013 World Championships, but apparently missed out, clocking 1:49.67 in the 200 free where the Danish qualification time is 1:48.23, and 3:54.09 where the qualification time is 3:49.55.
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CC photo #472: Britta Steffen on top of the Roma 09 podium
As seen from the athletes stand, Germany’s Britta Steffen 2009 World Champion in the women’s 50 freestyle, with a new world record of 23.73 at the FINA 2009 World Championships in Rome, Italy. See the result list here.
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Help Glen Christiansen recover from his near-fatal accident
See the Friends of Glen fundraiser on GiveForwardIn February Glen had an unfortunate accident and got severly injured. He has had a remarkable recovery since then, and is making progress every day. But the road to full recovery is long, and due to the fractures in his head, he will have to give the healing process time. […]
Glen considers himself to be a very lucky man who got a second chance to life, but right now he is struggeling not only to recover, but also financially. One way to support him, would be if we can raise the money to pay for his medical bills and rehabilitation. If you have the possibility, it would be appreciated if you contribute. And spread the word.
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Increased financial support for Danish Swimming towards Rio 2016
The Danish Swimming Federation is set to receive a little over DKK 7 million (USD 1.22 million) this year from Danish government-funded elite organization Team Danmark, which is a raise of about DKK 200.000 (USD 35.000), in appreciation of their good results since 2009.
Team Danmark CEO Michael Andersen:
– The swimmers have produced really good results at both the European and World Championships from 2009 until 2012, and I think they had a good Olympics.
– We would have liked a medal, but when you look at how many finals they got into, it was a great Olympics, says Michael Anderson.
Read Jyllands-Posten (in Danish)
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Katinka Hosszu to swim all 15 women’s events at Bergen Swim Festival 2013
The Bergen Swim Festival 2013 – Alexander Dale Oen Memorial promises to be ‘the biggest and best ever’, when 450+ swimmers including 44 international will compete at Sentralbadet in Bergen, starting this Friday 19 April at 15:00 local time and ending late Sunday 21st. World Cup winner Katinka Hosszu from Hungary is on the startlist of every single of the 15 women’s events, while in the men’s 100 breaststroke, you will need to elbow with the likes of Dani Gyurta (HUN), Cameron van der Burgh (RSA), Martti Aljand (EST), Michael Jamieson (GBR) and Andrew Willis (GBR), to be among the 7 in the final. Other major names are Rikke Møller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen Gray and Mie Ø. Nielsen from Denmark, plus our guy Pál Joensen from the Faroe Islands. The total sum of prize money to be won is NOK 250.000 (USD 43440), see the press release here on bsf.no (in Norwegian).
