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Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
July 08-13, 2008
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Serbian
National Selection at the Monterrey 2008
The complete photo and report documentation
exclusively for Swim Star 2000 Agency arranged by Mr.B.Avramovic
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| July
13, 2008 |
Day-6
Caba Siladji - Silver Medal in 50 Breast - 28.38... |
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Caba Siladji |
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Milica Ostojic |
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| Evening
Finals... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - The last session 12 of the 2nd World Junior Championships in Monterrey
concluded tonight in Mexico. Many fans, supporters and adorers of Caba
Siladji (1990), not only from Serbia but also the wider Region of this
part of Europe, expected the final score in the men's 50-m breaststroke.
As he was entered with the best seed time (new World Junior Record 28.42)
from the Semi Finals, Gold medal was very near his hand. And Caba Siladji,
the best junior breastroker of Serbia ever captured Silver with the time
of 28.38, just 1/100 behind the winner. Serbia brings 4 medals from Mexico.
Click here for the Final
Results |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - The last day of the 2nd World Junior Championships Monterrey 2008,
started in the morning successfully for the 3 members of the Serbian team.
Ivan
Kopas (SC Novi Sad) swam out 200 back with the time of 2:06.51 (LBT)
and was ranked 20th of 45 competitors. In the women's 200 Breastroke,
Jovana
Bogdanovic (SC Beograd) touched 16th of 28 participants with the time
of 2:38.91... At the end, Milica Ostojic (SC Beograd) who set the
new absolute national standard in 400-m free (2 days ago), this morning
in 200 free touched the wall as 10th of 52 competitors with the time of
2:03.64 (new NREC). The Serbian Squad is now waiting for the Siladji's
50 Breast final this evening... Click here over the next link On-Line
Results to find out the complete official report of the Session
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Sparkles from the Nuevo Leon
Aquatic Center on the last day of the Monterrey 2008...
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Caba Siladji (lane 5) at the
start block of the 50 breast semi-final
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Siladji by the podium
of 50 breastroke -confirmed a world vice-champion title
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Coaches & friends: S.Filipovic
(SRB), Vojko Race (GRE) and D.Pejinovic (SRB)
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(Photo by S.Filipovic) |
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| July
12, 2008 |
| Day-5
Lendjer Silver in 50 Fly - Siladji new WJR in 50 Breast... |
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Ivan Lendjer |
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| T.Vukanovic & C.Siladji |
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| Evening
Events... |
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happiness has arrived the Serbian squad in Monterrey on Saturday (Day-5)
of the FINA World Junior Championships in Monterrey. In the men's 50 Fly
Final, Ivan Lendjer repeated (just one hundred better then in the
yesterday's semis) and touched the wall as the 2nd with the time of 23.97
(behind Daniel Bell from New Zealand -23.61 WJR and in front of Belarus
Pavel Sankovich - 24.26)...That is Lendjer's second silver medal in Monterrey
and the new European Junior Record. Caba Siladji in the men's
50 Breast semis, touched 1st with the new World Junior Champs Record (28.42)
while he earned the central lane 4 for the tomorrow's final. Women's
Relay (Petrovic, Vukanovic, Bogdanovic, Ostojic) in 4x 100 free touched
12th of 18 teams with the time of 3:58.94. Click here to find out On-Line
Results |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - Day-5 of the World Junior Championships Monterrey 2008, started
in the morning successfully for the 3 members of the Serbian team... Firstly,
Tijana
Vukanovic (SC Proleter) swam out in 100 Fly with the time of 1:03.46
(LBT) and was ranked the 24th of 45 participants. Andjelka Petrovic
(SC Valis) the women's 50 Free swam out worthy with the time of 27.14 and
was ranked 22nd of 59 swimmers... However, the "cream on cake" put down
Caba
Siladji (world junior breaststroke vice-champion) who swam out 50 breast
with the time of 28.69 (3rd time of 50 athletes) and assured the place
in the evening Semi Finals... |
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Greatest Serbian achievements
on the Day-5 at the Monterrey 2008...
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Ivan Lendjer - second silver
in Monterrey
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Women's 4x100 free relay - new
NREC
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Caba Siladji - new WJRec
in 50 Breast
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(Photo by S.Filipovic) |
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| July
11, 2008 |
| Day-4
Ivan Lendjer - as a 2nd in SF, earned 50 Fly Final... |
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Ivan Lendjer |
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| Evening
Eventss... |
| In the evening,
the only one swimmer from Serbia took part in the men's 50 Fly semi finals
- Ivan Lendjer who swam it out as 2nd with the time of 23.98
and caught a central lane for tomorrow's Final.. Daniel Bell (NZL) broke
the Lendjer's morning WJR with the time of 23.77. After Day-4, the champs
team standing is as follows: 1/ United States (387.5 pts.); 2/ Russia (256
pts.); 3/Japan (240 pts.)... On-Line
Results |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - On the Day-4 of the Junior Championships Monterrey 2008, Serbian
Junior record holder, the World vice-champion (in 100 fly), Ivan Lendjer
succeeded
this morning in the men's 50 fly to overcome all best junior times in this
discipline ever and set a new World Champs Rec with the time of 0:24.12.
In the same time he also captured the place for the SF. Milica Ostojic
in the 400 free set NREC (4:24.51) and was ranked 20th of 43 participants...
Caba
Siladji was ranked 19th of 45 athletes in 200 Breast (2:22.93)... |
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Sparkles from the Day-4
Semi Finals in the 50 Fly...
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Ivan lendjer in the body warming...
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On the way to the start of the
50 Fly SF
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Ivan with his concurrence in
50 Fly SF
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| July
10, 2008 |
| Day-3
Ivan Lendjer - Silver Medal in 100 Fly (0:52.62)... |
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Ivan Lendjer |
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| Vukanovic & Bogdanovic |
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| Evening
Finals... |
| Highly expected,
this evening of the Day-3 of the World Junior Championships in Monterrey,
brought many happiness not only to the Serbian team by the pool deck of
the Nuevo Leon Aquatic Center, but also to the swim adorers round the Western
Balkans and especially the town of Zrenjanin, Serbia. Two years later,
since he has won the Gold medal in 'his' 100 Fly discipline in the previous
FINA Junior Champs - Rio 2006, the best Serbian junior swimmer ever Ivan
Lendjer (SC Proleter) succeeded to repeat the top world swimming level.
This evening Ivan captured the Silver Medal in 100 Fly (52.62) better then
the old CR. This time is better then the "A" Olympic Standard for Beijing
2008.. More new CRs have been set this evening in Monterrey: two Italians
Silvia Di Pietro in 50 Fly (26.83) and Luca Leonardi in 50 Free (22.66);
Zuzana Mazurek (POL) in 200 back (2:12.56); Herdeen Herman (RSA) in 800
free (8:01.77), etc. |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - On the Day-3 of the World Junior Championships in Monterrey, three
swimmers of the Serbian squad took part in the events. In the women's 50
Fly qualification rounds, Tijana Vukanovic (1992) swam out her LBT
(0:28.93) and was ranked 22nd of 53 participants. In this event Silvia
Di Pietro (ITA) set the new CR with the time of 0:26.99. In the men's 50
Back, Ivan Kopas (1990) was ranked 32nd of 61 competitors with the
time of 0:28.04 (equaled his LBT)... In the women's 100 Breast Jovana
Bogdanovic (1992) swam out her LBT with the time of 1:14.55 and
was ranked 22nd of 37 paricipants. In this event, Australia's Samantha
Marshall set the new CR (1:09.20).... |
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Sparkles from the Nuevo
Leon Aquatic Center in Monterrey...
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Mexican beauties at the opening
ceremony
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Unforgettable pool and other
facilities
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Coach Pejinovic with his trio
in Monterrey..
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| July
09, 2008 |
| Day-2
C.Siladji 3rd in 100 Breast, I.Lendjer in 100 Fly Final... |
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| Caba Siladji, 1990, SRB |
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| Ivan Lendjer, 1990, SRB |
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| Evening
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| The Day-2
in the evening Semis and Finals, Serbian team as well as the complete swim
audience in the nation, expected with the highest interest... And the top
men's Serbian couple, the pearls of Prof. Dejan Pejinovic, really
showed their best. In 100m Breast Final Caba Siladji swam
out to the 3rd position with the LBT of 1:02.57. In
the 100 Fly Semi Finals Ivan Lendjer
succeeded to repeat the achievement
from the morning heats, now he was ranked 3rd of 16 participants with the
time of 0:53.33 which will provide him to start from the lane 3 in tomorrow's
final... On-Line
Results |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - Day-2 of the World Junior Championship Monterrey 2008 brought more
new happiness to the SRB swim squad. In the morning heats Ivan Lendjer
(SC
Proleter) in the men's 100m Fly, succeeded to catch the Semi Finals
touching the wall as 2nd (of 51 athletes) with the time of 53.92...
Andjelka
Petrovic (SC Valis) in the women's 100m Free set her LBT (life
best time) - 57.89 and was ranked 18th of 57 participants overall. Tijana
Vukanovic (SC Proleter) in the women's 200 Fly ranked 21st (of 32 participants)
with the time of 2:20.24.. Few Champs records are set in the morning heats... |
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The sparkles from the Day-2 at
the Nuevo Leon Aquatic Center and around...
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| July
08, 2008 |
| Day-1
Caba Siladji reached his first Final in 100 Breast... |
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| Caba Siladji, 1990, SRB |
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| Afternoon
events.. |
| Caba Siladji has got into
finals... In 100-m Breast SF he was ranked 7th with the time of 1:03.29.
After the marvelous Opening ceremony (588 competitors from 69 countries),
Semi Finals and Finals brought new CRs: Danila Izotov (RUS) in 400 Free
(3:51.81); Daniel Bell (NZL) in 100 Back (54.99), Amanda Reason (CAN) in
50 Breast (31.25), etc. On-Line
Results |
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| Morning
Heats... |
| (Monterrey,
MEX) - Day-1 of the World Swim Junior Championships started on the Tuesday
morning in Monterrey with the first qualifications. From the athletes of
Serbia,
Caba Siladji in the men's 100-m Breast succeeded to catch
the first Semi Final touching the wall as 5th (of 53 participants) with
the time of 1:03.10... Ivan Kopas in the men's 100-m Back set his
LBT (life best time) - 58.72 and was ranked 30th of 65 participants...
In spite she was announced, Jovana Bogdanovic canceled the women's 50-m
Breast saving the power for 'her' 100 and 200 Breaststroke (for the third
day of the competition)... |
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| July
08, 2008 |
| First qualifying
rounds & the Opening ceremony - announced... |
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| (Monterrey,
MEX) - As the time difference (BEG-MEX) is 7 hours, according to the SE
time, the qualifying rounds of the Day-1 will be held on 16:30 Tuesday...
In the afternoon local time 17:00 an Opening of the Championships will
be inaugurated by the Aquatic Olympic Center of the UANL University, with
the presence of the governor of the NL State, José Nativity González
Even, the rector of UANL, José Antonio González, the executive
heads of the local and the national sport. Besides them, the president
of the FINA Mustapha Larfaoui with Javier Careaga, president of the Mexican
Swimming will be presented. |
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| While seeing the last evening training,
Javier
Careaga president of the Mexican Swimming Federation expressed again
the hopes of himself and the nation for entering a few finals of
the domestic athletes Ramiro Ramírez and Lourdes Villaseñor.
The Head coach of the Italian selection - the team
winner of the previous Champs in RIO 2008, Walter Bolognani and
the coach of the Spanish selection Yordi Purple, marked the
team of the United States as the rival with the best chance to conquer
the 2nd World Junior Championships, as well as the teams of Australia and
China. |
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| Fantastic
Colorado
Timing System with the latest electronic technologies of the score
board and wall displays were already installed at the Aquatic Center of
the UANL. For the pleasant media activities, the center of press was established
in which the accredited journalists, photo and broadcast reporters will
cover the 6-day events in full professional environment, using more then
30 computer stations completely equipped with on-line Internet, telephone,
fax and other services, etc. |
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| July
07, 2008 |
| Acclimatization
in Mexico & the first training... |
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| (Monterrey,
MEX) - The first report upon arrival of the Serbian team to the marvelous
city of Monterrey at the north-eastern part of the Mexico in the Nuevo
Leon region, shows that all our athletes are coming into the warming-up
activities... In spite the long journey from Belgrade via London and some
fatigue fillings after the day one are behind of them, the moral of our
team is at the highest level... See the first pictures from the pool... |
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| According to latest FINA info, tomorrow
the 2nd FINA World Junior Swimming Championships 2008 commence in Monterrey
will gathered the 588 young stars from 69 countries. This is a marked increase
from the attendees at the first edition of the FINA Junior championships
(held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - August, 2006), where 480 youth athletes
from 61 countries took part in the events. |
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The sparkles from the Aquatic
Center of the Universuty of Nuevo Leon...
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Ivan Lendjer, Ivan Kopas
and Caba Siladji, the Serbian men's squad
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Aquatic Center (50m) at
the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey
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Tijana Vukanovic, Jovana
Bogdanovic, Milica Ostojic and Andjelka Petrovic - girls team
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| July
07, 2008 |
| Ivan Lendjer
- Serbian Hope for Two Medals... |
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| (Monterrey,
MEX) - Serbian delegation already landed Mexico and these days, prior to
the start of the meet are used for introducing the 'climate' as well
as the pool and other sports facilities dedicated to the participants
of the World Champs.. The greatest expectations of almost all domestic
swim fans are seeing from the top SRB Junior Ivan Lendjer, the Euro
Junior record holder in 100 Fly, the World Junior Champion (Rio 2006) and
the SRB record holder. Ivan will take part in the men's 50 and 100 Fly,
while his special task will be turned to reaching a chance to fulfill the
Olympic 'A' standard in 100 Fly... |
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| From other Serbian competitors,
Caba
Siladji, the World and Euro Junior vice-champion and the comfirmed
candidate for the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 in the breastroke disciplines,
the hopes exist in 50 and 100 breast... |
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The sparkles from the picturesque
Mexican City of Monterrey...
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Monterrey, downtown -
the heart of the City
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Howard Johnson Macroplaza
Hotel
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Obispado, Monterrey - the National
Museum
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Fundidora Parque for car
and moto racing
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The Aquatic Center is
opened for trainings
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| July
06, 2008 |
| The Press
Conference - 650 participants from 70 countries... |
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| (Monterrey,
MEX) - Prior to the start of FINA World Junior Swimming Championship the
press conference was opened by the President of the Mexican Swimming Federation
Javier
Careaga and Melody Falco, the Director of the Sports and Physical Culture
State Institute of Nuevo Leon. Javier Careaga explained: "This kind of
the event is not easy to organize, we thank Nuevo Leon’s government, the
Sports and Physical Culture State Institute and the Iniversity for making
this come true and for helping us work in the strategy for the new Olympic
Cycle”. |
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| Although the
registration period for the champs is over, Careaga said that the
US team had an extension because at this moment they are having their classification
competition (the US trials) for the Olympic Games. “Including the US we
have a total of 650 swimmers registered from 70 different countries” |
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| July
05, 2008 |
| Serbian
team for the Monterrey 2008 - presented... |
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| (Belgrade,
SRB) - The official press conference of the PSS has been held today in
the Serbia's capital... The Serbian national selection for the 2nd World
FINA Junior Championships was presented to the audience and the swim fans.
The Serb squad will be consisted of the next competitors: Ivan Lendjer
(SC Proleter), Caba Siladji (SC Novi Sad), Tijana Vukanovic (SC Proleter),
Andjelka Petrovic (SC Valis), Milica Ostojic & Jovana Bogdanovic (SC
Beograd), Ivan Kopas (SC Novi Sad),.. Coaches of the national team: Dejan
Pejinovic and Srdjan Filipovic. |
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Ivan Lendjer
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Caba Siladji
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Milica Ostojic
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Jovana Bogdanovic
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Dejan Pejinovic,prof.
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Ivan Kopas
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Andjelka Petrovic
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Tijana Vukanovic
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Srdjan Filipovic,adv.trainer
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Serbian Swim Association
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