Italy’s Federica Pellegrini ready for the women’s 200 freestyle prelims at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She won that event but suffered a few days later in the 400 freestyle, not advancing to finals, resulting in a series of medical test to make sure that everything is all right. In other news, she says she has only had three loves in her life, all swimmers. What on earth is that on her right elbow?
Aussie swimming icon Dawn Fraser Dawn Fraser became the first Olympic swimmer to win the same event three times when she claimed gold in the 100m freestyle final in Tokyo 1964, just seven months after suffering serious injuries in a car crash that also killed her mother. Via the17thman
My brother the geologist putting Pál Joensen and coach Jón Bjarnason on a special assignment, to find a Kaibab Limestone while visiting Crand Canyon. I understand they succeeded, only to me it still looks like just a rock. Off our Faroese site.
Amy Van Dyken talks with Olympic swimmer Brendan Hansen about earning a spot on Team USA and more. See FOX Sports.
Medal winners in men’s 400 freestyle at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, Gergo Kis, HUN (silver), Paul Biedermann, GER (gold) and Samuel Pizzetti, ITA (bronze), see result list here.
As if ordinary freediving wasn’t hard enough, in Formula Three Freediving you race each other by riding an underwater scooter through underwater gates on one breath. Via ABC News.
Here is an official video from the inventors of this sport
Swimming great Grant Hackett has been sacked from his role as ambassador for the children’s anti-violence charity the Alannah and Madeline Foundation after more damaging allegations about his marriage break-up emerged. Read The Sydney Morning Herald, official statement on amf.org.au and see The Telegraph.
On this final day of the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships, all top-four nations in the medal race took additional gold, but Hungary ended up in top with 9 gold medals, 10 silver and 7 bronze. Germany in seconds with 8 gold medals, 6 silver and 3 gold, and then Italy with 6 gold, 8 silver and 4 bronze. Germany’s relays were the most valuable when it came to winning medals – 3 gold and 1 silver – while Laszlo Cseh of Hungary was the most valuable individual with 3 gold medals and 1 silver (plus two bronze in the relays). See the complete result lists here.
In picture Sweden’s Simon Sjödin and Norways Ingvild Snildal, among Swedes cheering on Marina Granström in the women’s 200 butterfly at the Debrecen 2012 European Swimming Championships. She won the bronze medal in 2:08.22, behind Hungary’s Katarina Hosszu in 2:07.28 and Zsuzsanna Jakabos in 2:07.86. See result list here.
