At the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships today, Camille Muffat (FRA) won the women’s 400 meter freestyle in 4:54.85, demolishing Laure Manaudou’s (FRA) championships record of 3:56.09 from Helsinki 2006, and Joanne Jackson’s (GBR) European and World record of 3:54.92 from the supersuited days of Leeds 2009. Splits 26.84 – 29.40 – 29.67 – 30.04 – 29.99 – 30.07 – 29.71 – 29.13. See result list here
Denmark had a great day at the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships, with Lotte Friis taking the 800 freestyle crown, Jeanette Ottesen the 50 butterfly and Rikke Møller Pedersen the 200 breaststroke, see for instance the report on SwimNews. The Russians are also in the race now, but France and Hungary though still ahead after two days.
Not even a year ago, Russia’s then national head coach Andrei Vorontsov with the Szczecin 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships trophy, in the team hotel lobby in Szczecin, Poland. Now national coach of Sweden :-)
The Swedish Swimming Federation presented their new and impressive national team coaching trio in Helsingborg today, Ulrika Sandmark will be the coach in charge, team manager or ‘federation captain’ as they say in Sweden, with Sarah Sjöströms British coach Carl Jenner and former Russian national head coach Andrei Vorontsov as coaches also. See for instance simma.nu/se and the official press release
Already heroes in my book, The University of Sunderland Swim Squad attended their first BUCS National Championships on November 4th, with Sportsbyte’s Aquatics Correspondent, Andy Sixsmith telling the story.
They even had a swim review panel show afterwards. Awesome
In case you’re interested and haven’t found them yet, there is a series of video interviews on len.eu, with medal winners from the Chartres 2012 European Short Course Championships.
Here is Florent Manaudou, winner of the men’s 50 freestyle
Texas-Ex and Olympic gold medalist Ian Crocker shares his wisdom and swimming experience as a volunteer assistant coach with Carol Capitani’s Texas Women’s Swimming program.
Read for instance SwimNews, Poland’s Radoslaw Kawecki took down European short course championships record in the men’s 200 meter backstroke, with a time of 1:48.51 besting Stanislav Donet’s 1:48.62 from Istanbul 2009, the European record though still Arkady Vyatchanin’s 1:46.11. The host country France and Hungary lead the medal table after this first day of competition, with Denmark in third :-)
