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Mark Foster talks swimming with SportsvibeTV
Mark Foster talks to SportsvibeTV about everyday exercise and swimming, the Olympic legacy, the state of British swimming and the ‘SwimBritain’ initiative headed up by British Gas.
Six-time World Champion Mark Foster is calling on people to get out of their seats and into the pool, after a new survey found that 23% of people in Britain spend at least an average of 2.4 days of their working week sitting down. This equates to 2,760 hours or 115 days a year.
Foster launched the report, commissioned by the British Gas ‘SwimBritain’ campaign, on Tuesday alongside four-time Paralympic champion Ellie Simmonds.
British Gas wants to help create a healthier nation and get more people swimming regularly by 2015. ‘SwimBritain’ is a fun swimming relay challenge for teams of four, in the pool or open water.
Visit swimbritain.co.uk to find out more and register your interest.
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Barcelona 2013 Open Water Circuits – Moll de la Fusta
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FINA Centenary 1908-2008
100 Years Celebration video
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Danish Open 2013 Day 4: Pedersen beats the 200 breast European record
On this final day of the Danish Open / Trials, the big story was Rikke Møller Pedersen setting a new European record in the women’s 200 meter breaststroke, clocking 2:20.53 where Yuliya Efimova’s record from the London 2012 Olympics was 2:20.92. Jeanette Ottesen made the Danish Barcelona 2013 ‘stability’ qualification time standard with 1 hundredth of a second, winning the women’s 50 freestyle in 25.21, ahead of Mie Ø. Nielsen (25.48) and Pernille Blume (25.50) and Danish junior record-setting Julie Levinsen in 25.63. Magnus Westermann won the men’s 50 freestyle in a new Danish junior record of 23.07, Erik Persson from Sweden the men’s 200 breaststroke in 2:14.55.
(Rikke powering to her 200 breast European Record. Photo courtesy of Dan Hjelm)
Faroe born Magnus Jákupsson won the men’s 200 backstroke in 2:03.98, Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir the women’s 200 backstroke in 2:11.43. Viktor B. Bromer won the men’s 100 butterfly in 53.94, and Christina Munkholm the women’s 100 butterfly in 1:00.43. The expected high-level 1500 swims sort of fizzled out with Lotte Friis not participating in the women’s event, Mads Glæsner scratching the men’s event due to shoulder problems and Pál Joensen also canceling because of some kind of sickness that I understand that several swimmers had been struggling with. The gold in the women’s 1500 freestyle therefore going to Anina Nicole Lund in 17:15.55 and the gold in the men’s 1500 freestyle to Anton Ørskov Ipsen in 15:41.38, Faroese young gun Alvi Hjelm substituting for Pál with a 16:11.88 and bronze in the men’s event.
(Danish Open 2013 men’s 1500 free medal podium. Photo courtesy of Alvi’s dad, Dan Hjelm)
See alt results from tonight’s session at the Danish Open here on LiveTiming
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CC photo #454: The Roma 09 men’s 50 breast medal podium
The men’s 50 breaststroke medal winners at the FINA 2009 World Swimming Championships in Rome, Italy. Gold winner Cameron van der Burgh from South Africa looks happy, silver winner Felipe Franca Silva from Brazil a bit sentimental, and Mark Gangloff from USA a bit sceptical. See the result list here
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Rikke Møller Pedersen 2:20.53 and a new European record in the 200 breaststroke
Update: The European record was not Nadja Higl’s 2:21.62 from 2009, but Yuliya Efimova’s 2:20.92 from London 2012. I shouldn’t have trusted the data on livetiming ;-)
At the Danish Open 2013 today, Denmark’s Rikke Møller Pedersen blasted her 2:21.65 Danish record in the 200 breaststroke from the London 2012 Olympics with a new European record of 2:20.53, beating Russia’s Yuliya Efimova’s 2:20.92 record from the London 2012 Olympics. Easily the best time in the World this year. Awesome! See the result list here.
(Rikke at the Danish Open/Trials 2013. Photo courtesy of Dan Hjelm)
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Behold the Virginia Tech Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish jellobot
I guess it could be used for all kinds of things, like (as planned) ocean monitoring, sea-sickening underwater footage, or just to make us pee even more in the pool. See Engadget
Virginia Tech: Autonomous Robotic Jellyfish from virginiatech on Vimeo.
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Danish Open Day 3: Jeanette Ottesen Gray clocks 57.94 in the 100 fly
On the third night of the Danish Open 2013, Jeanette Ottesen managed to swim under both the Danish 2013 Barcelona ‘stability’ time standard and the harsher qualification time standard, with a time of 57.94 in the women’s 100 butterfly semifinal, second to only Sarah Sjöström’s 57.90 world leading time this year. Andreas Schiellerup won the men’s 100 backstroke in 56.33, Iceland’s Eygló Ósk Gústafsdóttir the women’s 100 backstroke in a new Icelandic record of 1:01.08. Faroe born Frans Johannesen the men’s 200 freestyle in 1:49.79, Mie Ø. Nielsen the women’s 200 freestyle in 2:01.90. Viktor B. Bromer the men’s 400 IM in 4:25.44 and Katrine Holm Sørensen the women’s 400 IM in 4:47.40. Joachim Mortensen the men’s 50 breaststroke in 28.86, and Rikke Møller Pedersen the women’s 50 breaststroke in 31.05, two hundredths of a second from her Danish record. See all results from the 3rd night of finals here.
(Faroese club Ægir and Ottesen at the Danish Open 2013. Photo courtesy of Dan Hjelm)