Swimmer's Daily

  • A promo for the “Swim The Island” event in Italy on 22 September 2012. Tempted?

    Swim the Island from Alessandro Beltrame on Vimeo.

  • Last month 9-year-old Jordan Freer made the 1.5-mile swim from just off the shore of Alcatraz Island to Crissy Beach as part of the Orca Alcatraz Swim Challenge. Jordan is thought to be the youngest ever female to brave the chilly waters. Read Auburn Journal.

    “It was cold and it was really, really choppy,” Freer said. “Sometimes it was hard to breathe because we were swimming freestyle and you turn your head to breathe and sometimes if you turned it at the wrong time then you would just get a mouth full of water.”

  • At the Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome today, South Africa’s Cameron Van Der Burgh set a new meet record in the men’s 100 breaststroke, clocking 1.00.39 well under the Olympic qualifying standard of 1:00.79. Italy’s Federica Pellegrini won a tight tussle against Denmark’s Lotte Friis in the women’s 400 freestyle, 4:06.03 to 4:06.15, and the women’s 50 freestyle had 5 swimmers under the Olympic qualifying standard of 25.27. See all results here.

    Top 3 finishers today plus Nordic finalists

    Women’s 400 free – Olympic Qualifying Time 4:09.35 (Olympic Invitation Time 4:18.07)

    1. Federica Pellegrini (ITA) 4:06.03
    2. Lotte Friis (DEN) 4.06.15
    3. Martina de Memme (ITA) 4:09.55
    4. Pernille Blume (DEN) 4:22.71

    Men’s 400 free – OQT 3:48.92 (OST 3:54.13)

    1. Gabriele Detti (ITA) 3:49.27
    2. Andrea Mitchell D’Arrigo (ITA) 3:51.72
    3. Oussama Mellouli (TUN) 3:51.73
    4. Mads Glæsner (DEN) 3:51.88
    5. Anders Lie (DEN) 3:55.95

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  • The Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences presents “The Egg”, a video short from the 2011 BIOS Explorer program’s “Water Moves” series. For more information about why the egg behaves like it does, as well as further videos in the series, visit www.bios.edu

    BIOS-Water Moves: The Egg!

  • The Danish Swimming Federation states here that this weekend’s Seven Hills Trophy meet in Rome is the final chance for Danish swimmers to be selected for the London Olympics, possible additional swimmers Katrine Holm Sørensen (200 IM), Jakob Andkjær (50 free) and Chris Christensen (400 IM). Most of the already selected team will use this star-studded meet as training, Mie Ø. Nielsen and Pál Joensen though having gone straight home from altitude in Flagstaff to finish some exams and whatever. Rai Sport 2 is broadcasting, but their webcast seams to be limited to Italy only.

    Arianna Barbieri – Trofeo Sette Colli 2011 – 100 Dorso

  • Wow, The 3D display on the Mutual of Omaha Home Office to celebrate the 2012 US Swim Trials and our sponsorship of USA Swimming. Via SwimmingWorld on Twitter.

  • A nice tribute to Alexander Dale Oen and Norway, Sara Nordenstam pointing to the Norwegian flag on her cap after winning the Debrecen 2012 women’s 200 breaststroke, as Alex did when winning the 100 breaststroke in Shanghai 2011. See result list here.

    Nordenstam pointing to her Norwegian flag

  • Commonwealth gold medallist Ross Davenport explains what to look out for in the best swimmers at the London 2012 Olympic Games.

    Ross Davenport's five things to watch at Olympic swimming

    Here is another Davenport video courtesy of British Swimming.

    Ross Davenport: A Day in the Life of an Olympic Swimmer

  • Italian swimmer Filippo Magnini, boyfriend of Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, has revealed he will refrain from sex during the London Games. Read The Herald Sun.

    “There are athletes who even have sex the evening before (a race), but I’m more prudent,” double 100m freestyle world champion Magnini told “A” magazine.

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