Tag: Marco Koch

  • Olympian Discusses Swimming and Focus | The Social Kick

    Olympian Discusses Swimming and Focus | The Social Kick

    Marco Koch has been swimming for over 20 years and still loves the sport for the same reasons he got into it swimming and focus. Like many, he couldn’t focus, but swimming brought him clarity and allowed him to focus.

  • Marco Koch | Breaststroke Advice, ISL and the Olympics | Propulsion Swimming

    Marco Koch | Breaststroke Advice, ISL and the Olympics | Propulsion Swimming

    For the final Propulsion Swimming Podcast of 2020 we are talking with German Superstar Marco Koch!!! Marco is a former world champion and world record holder in the 200m Breaststroke! Marco talks through with us all the tips he would give Breaststrokers out there, from not perfecting one stroke but finding a nice variety that…

  • LEN Awards 2015 – Cseh and Hosszu finish atop

    LEN Awards 2015 – Cseh and Hosszu finish atop

    World champions highlight the winners’ list of the 2015 LEN Awards. European athletes were dominant at last year’s showcase in Kazan, in most disciplines it was a hard call to choose among the best performers. The winners in swimming came from the same nation: Laszlo Cseh and Katinka Hosszu both represent Hungary. Earlier only the…

  • Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 4

    Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 4

    Katinka Hosszu: the one-woman show With six gold medals already in her possession, Katinka Hosszu might even lead the medal table on her own. Hungary’s Iron Lady added two more titles to her tally on Day 4. Italians enjoyed another fine day with two more golds, one delivered by Federica Pellegrini. German Marco Koch clinched…

  • Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 2

    Netanya 2015 LEN European SC Championships – Day 2

    Laszlo Cseh celebrates his 30th birthday with a gold Legendary Hungarian swimmer Laszlo Cseh celebrated his 30th birthday by winning a gold medal at the 18th European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Netanya. Soon after the race ended, spectators, VIP guests and athletes joined in singing him “Happy birthday to you”. It was Cseh’s 17th s/c…

  • Germans get cold feet for Israeli swim competition

    Germans get cold feet for Israeli swim competition

    A majority of German swimmers are considering skipping the upcoming European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Israel due to security fears, it emerged at their national championships over the weekend. “Honestly, for me, the risk just seems too great,” said Alexandra Wenk, a world bronze medalist who competes in the women’s 100-meter butterfly. Wenk is among…

  • Berlin 2014 LEN European Swimming Championships – Summary, Day 9

    Berlin 2014 LEN European Swimming Championships – Summary, Day 9

    Hosszu and Hausding complete hat-trick – so far Hungary’s Katinka Hosszu and Germany’s Patrick Hausding were the heroes of the day in the respective pools as they both won a third gold medal here in Berlin – and they have more events ahead. The Hungarians had a fine day with five medals, the British also…

  • Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Finals

    Russia rules with 4 gold medals, 1 world record and 1 championships record after the first day of competition, Efimova having clocked a couple of championships records en route to the final. Spain’s Mireia Belmonte set a new European record of 2:01.52 in the 200 fly, and Denmark won the women’s 4×50 freestyle in a…

  • Herning 2013 Europeans Day 1 – Prelims

    The LEN 2013 European Short Course Championships are underway, the ‘LEN Timing System’ still a bit dodgy but improving during the first batch of preliminary heats. Yuliya Efimova set a new championships record of 29.47 in the women’s 50 breaststroke, and the world records were broken in both the men’s 4×50 medley and women’s 4×50…