Swimmer's Daily

  • 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)

    Happy Danes on the Istanbul 2012 podium

  • 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).

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  • Eoin McCarthy Deering wades into the freezing waters of Iceland in search of blissful waves.

  • Read High School OT

    High school swimmers in the breaststroke event will now be permitted to execute a single butterfly kick on the start or turn at any time prior to the first breaststroke kick.

    “It was extremely difficult for officials to observe and consistently judge the initiation of the arm stroke on the start and turns,” said Becky Oakes, NFHS director of sports and staff liaison to the Swimming and Diving Rules Committee. “The committee wanted to provide consistency for the swimmers as to when the butterfly kick is permitted and the observation by the officials across all lanes for a legal or illegal use of the butterfly kick. Swimmers may now use the butterfly kick in the location that best benefits the individual swimmer before the breaststroke kick.”

  • Read SportsNews Ireland

    McMahon had an outstanding year in 2012, winning two European medals, silver in the 50m Breaststroke at the European Long Course Swimming Championships in May and Bronze in the same event at the European Short Course Swimming Championships in December.
    The 17 year old qualified and competed at the London Olympic Games and over the year she set a total of 17 Irish Records and is now the current holder of 7 Senior and 17 Junior Irish Records.

    Sycerika McMahon (IRL) on the Debrecen 2012 Podium

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  • Read the Herald Sun

    With a new sign in Wodonga, developers have named Rice Street after Australian gold medal swimmer Stephanie Rice. […]

    “She is one of our greatest Olympians, so we were very keen to name a street after her,” development co-director Andrew Stern said.

    “We just thought the Olympic gold medal scene really suited the estate because it is very much an outdoor environment right next to the Kiewa River.”

  • Read The Swim Brief

    Now, I try not to give out too much advice in this blog, but here is one very important piece. When flying to another country, crossing six time zones, and then trying to blow right through the time change on your way to a meet, then pondering whether you could possibly inject coffee intravenously for a faster effect, you will probably find yourself battling a headache from the lack of sleep/dehydration from coffee and who knows what else. At this point, you should probably reconsider attending a meet where someone will mercilessly bang a drum not ten feet away from you for hours on end.

    Here is a taste of what is was like (and brace yourself, please)

  • Officials lined up in front of the flags at the Køge Open 2007.

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