Tag: Pál Joensen
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Sun Yang afraid of losing to me, Gregorio Paltrinieri says
Gregorio Paltrinieri won’t be surprised again by Sun Yang. The Italian swimmer recovered from his initial shock over his Chinese rival’s last-minute no-show to win the longest race in the pool at this year’s World Championships. For next year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Paltrinieri is already considering the possibility that Sun won’t enter the 1500m…
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Danes launch Olympic Hopefuls program ahead of Rio 2016
At the Danish nationals in Copenhagen this week, national head coach Nick Juba announced a new program called Olympic Hopefuls, aimed at those ‘genuine Olympic contenders’ that have made the Danish qualification times for Rio 2016, or are very close to making them. See the qualifying time standards here on svoem.org. Swimmers representing Denmark (or…
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The Pal Effect: Rod Gilmour’s book about Pál Joensen to be released on August 1
So there we are, Rod Gilmour’s “lyrical account of how one man beat the odds and galvanised a nation” will be out on 1 August 2015. Pre-order here on Chequered Flag Publishing or here on Amazon, and read the introduction here. See also Tumblr and Facebook.
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Pál clears all Faroese breaststroke LC records in one race
This morning during the Bergen Swim Festival prelims, Pál Joensen set a new Faroe Islands national record in the 200 meter breaststroke, qualifying for the final in 2:21.71. But that is not all – en route to that he broke the Faroese records also in the 50 and 100 meter breaststroke. A consequence of being…
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MOM Meet Marseilles 2015 live on Dailymotion
Friday 6th to Sunday 8th March 2015, the 4th Meeting Open Méditerranée will be held in Marseilles, France, featuring world class swimmers like Katinka Hosszú (HUN), Florent Manaudou (FRA), Mireia Belmonte (ESP), Michael Jamieson (GBR), Inge Dekker (NED), Nathan Adrian (USA), Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Fabio Scozzolli (ITA), Sarah Sjöström (SWE) and our guy Pál…
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Dánjal Martin Hofgaard is World Champion in Indoor Rowing
Yesterday at the CRASH-B Sprint World Indoor Rowing Championships in Boston, USA, Faroe Island’s Dánjal Martin Hofgaard won the men’s open lightweight discipline. The Men’s Open Lwt was won by Danjal Martin Hofgaard in 6:16.7 – first ever Open gold medal for the Faroe Islands. #crashb — Concept2 (@concept2) March 1, 2015 Get this, Dánjal…
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Vikings Test Form at North Sea Swim Meet 2014
The Stavanger Swim Hall in Norway will this weekend 7-9 November 2014 be venue of the 42nd North Sea Swim Meet, featuring the Danish ‘Viking’ team including Jeanette Ottesen and Rikke Møller Pedersen (DEN), Ari-Pekka Liukkonen (FIN), Pál Joensen (FAR), Marco Loughran (GBR), swimmers from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and of course the best Norwegian…
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Berlin 2014 LEN European Swimming Championships – Summary, Day 10
Peaty breaks WR, Italy and Denmark clinch two titles apiece Adam Peaty’s new World record in the 50m breast was the highlight of the evening session at the 32nd European Championships in Berlin. Since 2008 the Brit is the first to bring down an individual WR at the long-course Europeans. Italy and Denmark earned two…
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Berlin 2014 LEN European Swimming Championships – Summary, Day 8
Paltrinieri cracks ER, Cseh wins 12th career title Two great individual efforts highlighted the third day of swimming action at the 32nd European Championships in Berlin. Italy’s Gregorio Paltrinieri crashed the European record in the 1500m free, while veteran Laszlo Cseh earned his 12th gold medal at the Europeans while winning his 5th straight crown…