(Sarajevo.
BIH) - Organized by the H2O club, the new AG meet "New year
H2O
Meet 2011" is going to be held this upcoming weekend in Sarajevo,
BIH.
Place of the event: Otoka swim pool (25-m distance). Up to Thursday,
more
then 570 competitors from 23 clubs all age categories, (from SRB and
BIH)
are entered for this event. The full official start list as well as the
complete online results with the statistics, etc. can be found at the
plivanje.info...
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Otoka swim center in Sarajevo, a place of the meeting.
(Sofia, BUL)
-
This past weekend in Sofia (Municipality Sport palace), the National
Winter
Championships (25-m distances) has been held. 13 new records in the
different
age categories were set. The queen of the champs was Nina Rangelova,
who succeeded to break two NRs: in the W 50 fly (27.94), while in the W
200 IM in 2:15.80... Aleksandar Nikolov set new NR in M 50 free
(22.60), while in the M 200 IM took gold in 2:07.08... See the wide
report
from the BUL Nationals at the www.bgswim.info
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N.Rangelova, new European women's swimming star...
(Atlanta,
USA) - Now as a traditional, match between USA and Europe
continues
this time in Atlanta (Georgia) at the Mutual of Omaha Duel in the
Pool
2011... Women's team of USA in the W 4x100 medley relay,
set
the new WR (3:45.56). Elizabeth Simmonds(GBR) ranked 2nd set
new
ER in the women's 200 back (2:00.83). Also 5 American records were
broken;
N.Caughlin
in
the W 50 back (26.98) and in 100 back (55.97), as wel as in W 200 fly,
W 4x100 free, and M 200 fly... See the official results of this event.
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N.Caughlin, USA - strongest steps towards London '12.
(Maribor,
SLO) - Organized by the Branik swimming club, the new edition of
the international meet Maribor 2011 is going to be held this
upcoming
weekend. Place of the event: 50 m Olympic pool Pristan in Maribor. 34
clubs
with 270 competitors (BIH, GER, HUN, CRO, SRB & SLO) are entered
for
this event. Coming from Serbia, SC Proleter will be presented
with
6 swimmers. Click up the title to find out the full official results of
this meeting...
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Pristan swim pool, a place of the Maribor 2011 meet...
(Tallin,EST)
- As it was done for all LEN events since 2006, the famous Prof.Rein
Haljand now issues the analyses of the races at the recently
concluded
European Short Course Championships Szczecin 2011. Click a link
bellow to be redirected to the men's 50 breast final where the top SRB
breastroker and the national record holder Caba
Siladji ranked 5th (26.72), or over the next link for the men's
200 fly final with V.Stjepanovic,
ranked 5th (1:52.09)...
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Prof.Rein Haljand, Swimming expert from Estonia....
(Szczecin,
POL) -European SC Champs concluded. On the last day, new
champions
became: in the W 400 IM Mireia G.Belonte ESP (4:24.55 1) CR;
in the M 200 breaststroke D.Gyurta HUN (2:02.37); in the W 200
free
S.Lippok
GER (1:54.08); in M 100 IM P.Mankoc SLO (52.70); in the W
100 fly J.Ottesen DEN (56.22); in the M 200 freestyle P.Biedermann
GER (1:42.92); in the W 100 breaststroke V.Artemyeva RUS
(1:05.19);
in the M 100 backstroke R.Kawecki POL (50.43); in the W 200
back
D.
Zevina UKR (2:02.25)CR;
in the W 50 free B.Steffen GER (24.01); in the M 4x50 free ITA
(1:24.82). From SRB M.Najdanovski in the W 50 free SFs, placed
15th
(25.13). See all results.
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M.Garcia Belmonte, ESP, the Queen of Szczecin 2011.
(Szczecin,
POL) - Day-2 of the Euro Champs in Szczecicn brought new ER set
by Jeanette Ottesen DEN in W 50 fly (24.92).. Beside her,
new
Euro champions are: in the W 800 free L.Friis DEN (8:07.53); in
the M 400 Im L.Cseh HUN (4:01.68); in the W 200 breast R.M.Pedersen
DEN (2:19.55); in the M 100 breast A.D.Oen NOR (57.05); in the
W
100 free B.Steffen GER (51.94); in the W 100 back D.Zevina
UKR (56.96); in the M 100 fly K.Czerniak POL (49.62); in the M
50
back A.Wildeboer ESP (23.43).. In the evening S.Finals in the M
100 free Radovan Siljevski SRB ranked 19th (48.81).. See full
results...
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L.Cseh, HUN, earned 2nd gold at the Szczecin'11 on the Day-2.
(Szczecin,
POL) - Day-1 of the Euro Champs in the evening brought 7 new
continental
champions: in the M 400 free P.Biedermann GER (3:38.65); in the
M 200 back R.Kawecki POL (1:49.15); in the W 200 IM M.
Belmonte
ESP (2:07.06), also in the W 200 fly (2:03.37); in the M 200 fly L.Cseh
HUN (1:53.43); in the M 50 free K.Czerniak POL (20.88); in W 50
breast V.Artemyeva RUS (30.06) and in the M 4x50 medley, ITA
squad (1:33.18)... From the SRB team, C.Siladji ranked 14th
in the M 100 breast SF (59.34), M.Najdanovski placed 19th in
the
W 100 free (54.61), while SRB 4x50 medley relay placed 9th in
final
(1:36.73)... See the full official results.
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R.Kawecki, POL - backstroker, top star on the Day-1.
(Thessaloniki,
GRE) - Organized by the Swimming District Committee of
Macedonia,
Greece, the new edition of the traditional international meet Alexadria
Grand Prix 2011 started Saturday in Thessaloniki. Almost all
domestic
candidates for the Olympics take part in this event as well as few top
Bulgarians and Slovenians. On the Day-1 representing Serbia Milica
Ostojic
picked
up silver medal in the women's 200 free (2:06.48)... Click up the title
to open up the full official results of the both day of prelims
and
finals (XLS format)... .
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Posidonio Olympic pool, a traditional place of the Alexadria GP...
(Zenica, BIH)
- Organized by the SC Zenica-Zeljezara and GKVS Celik, the new edition
of the traditional age group swim meet Orka 2011 is going to be
held this weekend in the town of Zenica. More then 260 competitors from
19 clubs (SRB and BIH) would take part in two days events. Place of the
event: Municipality pool 25 m (6 lanes). Click up the title to open up
the full start lists as well as to follow up the on-line results via
plivanje.info...
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Pool in Zenica, BIH, a place of the Orka 2011 meeting.
December
01, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------- Serbian
stars, this week-end at the Euro Meets...
(Belgrade,
SRB) - Four Serbian swimmers will take part in the upcoming
Europen
meets, this week-end. Milorad Cavic and Ivan Lendjer
are
entered for the Dutch
Open Championship 2011 (NED), while Milica Ostojic
and
Janko
Radmanovic (members of the Swim Club BPK) will start at the
19th
Alexandria 2011 meet in Thessaloniki (GRE).. Click up the
links
above to find out the lists of entered athletes. Both meets are
official
trials for London 2012..
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After Berlin, M.Cavic goes back to pool in Eindhoven..
(Atlanta,
USA) - All best in the nation will be gathered this weekend in
Atlanta,
Georgia, for the 2011 AT & T Winter National Championships.
Place of the event:Georgia Tech. Ryan Lochte is on the cusp of
becoming
the biggest swim star on the planet... Rebecca Soni rarely
gets
a chance to race anyone in the 200 m breaststroke... Since she won
three
Golden Goggle Awards two weeks ago Missy Franklin now waits
for
two golds in her 100 and 200 back. Brendan Hansen retired after
Beijing now is trying to find a ticket for London. Follow up the
on-line
results from Atlanta...
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Venue at the Georgia Tech Institute.. (Ph by
I.Rasula).
(Tuzla, BIH)
- Organized by SC Zmaj-Alpamm, the 16th edition of the Samir Cirak
Ciro
2011 meeting, concluded successfully at the 25 m pool of the Hotel
Tuzla.. Overall 195 competitors from 18 clubs (CRO, SRB and BIH) took
part
in the events. Top meet performances in all groups have been set by Ivana
Ninkovic (SC Leotar) in the women's 50 breast (33.50), while on
the
men's side by Dario Tunjic (SC Sloboda) in the M 50 breast
(30.54).
See the complete official results issued by the plivanje.info...
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Competition pool in Tuzla, a place of the Ciro 2011..
(Resita, ROU)
- The Romanian National Championships 2011 (LC pool) for the categories
Y 10-13 concluded successfully this past weekend in the town of
Resita.
More then 500 competitors from 48 clubs took part in 3-day events. One
new NR is set for the swimmers born in 2001 by Ioan Popescu in
the
M 50 fly (32.68). Few worth times were swum, too. Click up the title to
see the full official results taken from the Romanian Swimming data
base...
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Competition pool in Resita, a place of the ROU champ.
(Skopje, Fyrom)
- Organized by the SWC Dolphin, the 7th edition of the International AG
meet NEMO Cup 2011 is going to start on Saturday in Skopje.
Place
of the event: Center pool (50 m). Due to the list of entered athletes,
more then 500 competitors 48 clubs (BUL, SRB, GRE, NED, TUR, ALB,
Prishtina
& FYROM) take part in 2-day events.. Click up the title to see the
official start lists as well as to follow up the On Line Results from
Skopje
meeting..
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Center pool in Skopje, a place of the Nemo Cup 2011..
(Kranj, SLO)
- Organized by the SC Triglav, the traditional Spela & Vesna
Memorial
(also the Slovenian Open Champ 2011) started Thursday morning.
Place
of the event: Kranj municipality pool (25m). All best in the nation
(more
then 320 athletes from 20 clubs) including one swimmer from ISR, take
part
in 4-day competition. Click up the title to follow up the On Line
Results
issued by the pzstiming.net
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A.Klinar, on the Day-1 finals in the 400 free (4:06.68)..
(Viareggio,
ITA) -35th Trofeo Mussi-Lombardi-Femiano - the Italian
Grand
Prix (SC pool) concluded successfully in Viareggio. Great names have
appeared
in this event. Few times have to be mentioned. In the W 200 free Pellegrini
ITA (1:55.32); in the M 100 free Fesikov RUS (47.96); in the M
50
free MarcoOrsi ITA (21.80); in the M 50 fly KorotyshkinRUS
(23.81); in the W 50 back Zueva RUS (27.41); in the M 200 free
Magnini
ITA (1:45.07); in the W 50 fly Di Pietro ITA (27.12).
See
the full official results
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Competition pool in Viareggio, a place of the GP Italy.
November
19, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------- 39th
Mladost Meet 2011, CRO...(On
Line Results)
(Zagreb, CRO)
- Organized by the SC HAPK Mladost, the 39th edition of the
international
meet Mladost 2011 will be held this weekend in Croatia. Many
stars
would take part in 2-day events such as Bal Randall (USA), Peter
Makoc and Emil Tahirovic (SLO), Evgeniy Lagunov
(RUS),
Evelyn
Verrasztó (HUN), etc... Serbia's squad is consisted of six
swimmers
I.Lendjer,
C.Siladji,
B.Stojanovic,
J.Nikolovski,
T.Vukanovic,
J.Bogdanovic.
M.Ostojic (BPK) will also be in Zagreb. Follow up the full On Line
Results
at SWEVID.
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Competition pool in Zagreb, a place of the Mladost '11.
(Texas, USA)
- From the pen of Mr. Besmir Hoxha, well known Albanian swimmer (now
settled
down in Houston, USA), leader of the new Albanian swimming vision and
the
head of the Illyrian Swim Association (illyrianswim.org), short review
on the Albanian swim activities in the last decade, as well as the
plans
for future is arranged in our special promo PDF. This may also be an
invitation
for all swim officials from Tirana & other towns, to present their
meetings, tournaments and the swimming achievements.
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B.Hoxha, leader of the Illyrian Swimming Association.
(Tokyo, JPN)
- The last leg of the Fina World Cup 2011 in the Japan's
capital
marked the end of the series in this year. South Africa’s rising talent
Chad
Le Clos and veteran swimmer Therese Alshammar (SWE) are the
overall winners each receiving US$ 100,000 in prize money. Le
Clos
obtains the first World Cup crown of his career after collecting 31
medals
from the 2011 series and a total 176 points. Japan’s Hidemasa Sano
places second, while German Marco Koch finished in third with
65
points. More..
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Chad Le Clos - new world swim power, coming from RSA...
(Sofia, BUL)
- Organized by the Levski swim club, another issue of the popular
competition
in Bulgaria concluded successfully in Sofia. More then 300 competitors
from Fyrom, GRE, SRB and BUL took part in 2-day events. Top meet
performances:
Georgia
Kadoglu (SC Galata) in the women's 200 IM (2:29.83 - 596 pts.),
while
among the boys, Mihail Yordanov (SC Iris) in the M 100 fly
(58.57
- 615 pts.) See the official results of this worthy AG meet.
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G.Kadoglu (98)- new BUL swim power (Ph by
E.Cekov)
(Tokyo, JPN)
- The last leg of the present Fina / Arena World Cup 2011
started
today in the Japan's capital with the Tokyo 2011 meet... In te morning
prelims, few worth times were swum. In the M 100 free Ito JPN
(48.09).
In the M 50 breast, Okajima JPN (27.03). In the W 200 free Ueda
JPN (1:56.24). in the W 100 breast Watanabe JPN (1:06.58), etc.
Click up the title to follow up the complete on-line results from the
Tokyo
2011 meeting...
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I.Thorpe AUS, 'just 12th' in the M 100 free (49.45)..
(Minneapolis,
USA) - This weekend in the USA, the City of Minneapolis
will
host the season premiere of what will be the most exciting swimming
season
we’ve seen in years. The USA Grand Prix series 2011-2012 kicks
off
with the explosion of the world swim stars that would appear in the
pool
of the Univ.of Minnesota Aquatic Center.. M.Phelps, R.Lochte, Torres,
Franklin,
Vanderkaay, Hansen, Hoff, Hardy, Soni, etc. (all from USA),
but also Spofforth (GBR), Muffat, Agnel, Bousquet (FRA), Oussama
Mellouli
(TUN), Wu Peng and Zhang Lin (CHN).. Click up the title to be
redirected
to the site where you can follow up all results, live video, and find
the
news from this event....
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D.Torres in her age of 45, still at the world swim top...
(Beijing,CHN)
-Chad Le Clos RSA and Therese Alshammar SWE were the
best
performers of the sixth meet of the FINA World Cup 2011, held in the
“Water
Cube” in Beijing (CHN) on Nov 8-9. Le Clos picked up 7 medals,
including
6 victories in the men’s 200 free, 100 and 200 fly and the 3 medley
events
(and a silver medal in the 100 free)... Therese Alshammar was the best
in the 50 and 100 fly, getting the most valuable performance in Beijing
with her win in the longer distance (55.76, 962 pts). Read more.
(Zrenjanin,
SRB) - The far top meet in Serbia in the course of 2011 will be
held this upcoming weekend in the town of Zrenjanin. More then 440
athletes
from 50 clubs/teams (CRO, SLO, HUN, ROU, FYROM, ITA, SUI, GER, MNE, BIH
and SRB) will take part in 3-day events. World stars are entered, such
as: Duje Draganja (CRO), Nadja Higl (SRB), Mario Todorovic (CRO),
Federico
Colbertaldo (ITA), Anja Trisic and Tjasa Vozel (SLO), Ivan Lendjer,
Caba
Siladji, Miroslava Najdanovski, Marica Strazmester, etc. (all from
SRB)...
Click up the title to see the official start lists...
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D.Draganja (CRO) -the star of the Zrenjanin Cup 2011.
(Beijing,
CHN) - 6th stop of the present Fina/Arena World Cup 2011
started today in the China's capital... On the Day-1, few worth results
were set: Kyle Richardson AUS in the M 100 free (47.38); Chad
le Clos RSA in the M 200 fly (1:51.74), in the M 400 IM (4:07.35)
and
in the M 100 IM (52.89); Therese Alshammar SWE in the women's
100
fly (55.76); Marco Koch GER in the M 200 back (2:04.72)...
Click
up the title to follow up the full official results
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T.Alshammar, SWE - few steps towards Fina WC crown.
(Bolzano,
ITA) - The 15th edition of the traditional int'l meet Citta
di
Bolzano 2011, started Saturday... This year, many world stars
compete
in this popular swim event. Few MRs were set. Also respectable times
have
appeared: Natalie Coughlin USA in the W 100 free (52.94); Marco
Orsi ITA in the M 100 free (48.92); Fabio Scozzoli ITA in
the
M 50 breast (26.68); Steffen Diebler GER in the W 50 fly
(23.76).
See Day-1 results and follow up the next one.
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N.Caughlin USA, world swim star at Bolzano's meeting.
(Singapore,
SIN) - The 5th stop of the Fina/Arena World Cup started
yesterday
at the Sigapore 2011 event. On the Day-2 few great times were
swum
- Blair Evans AUS in the W 400 free (4:01.15); Emma McKeon
AUS in the W 100 free (52.41), Rachel Goh AUS in the W 100 back
(57.30), Chad Le Clos RSA in the men's 100 fly (50.63), Jeremy
Stravius FRA in the M 50 back (23.76), etc... Ian Thorpe,
AUS
- nothing serious... See the full official results.
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C.LeClos,RSA - on the way to the Fina WC 2011's top.
(Singapore,
SIN) - Organized by the Singapore Swimming Association, the
upcoming
week-end, the next 5th leg of the Fina/Arena World Cup 2011 is
going
to be held in Asia... The competitors from 22 countries are entered for
this event. Top world stars: Ian Thorpe (AUS), Therese Alshammar (SWE),
Chad Le Clos (RSA), Jason Dunford (KEN),etc. Click up the title to be
redirected
to the official web site of the Singapore 2011...
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I.Thorpe, AUS - on the way to glory and London 2011.
(Rijeka, CRO)-
Organized by the Swimming Club Primorje, the international meet Victoria
Primorje 2011 concluded successfully this past weekend in Rijeka,
Croatia.
More then 300 competitors from ITA, AUT, BUL, SLO, BIH and CRO took
part
in 2-day events. Few best performances: Dinko Jukic (AUT) in
the
M 100 IM (54.22 - 894 pts); Matijaz Markic (SLO) in the M 50
breast
(27.96 - 857 pts); Mario Todorovic (CRO) in the M 50 fly (24.15
- 840 pts.); etc.. See the official results at the Swevid live data
bank.
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D.Jukic (AUT), top performances towards Scecin 2011.
(Sarajevo,
BIH)- The first edition of the
Bajram Meet 2011 concluded
Saturday at the Otoka Olympic pool (SC pool race). More then 430
competitors
from 20 clubs (SRB and BIH) took part in the events. Two NRs were set
in
relays and 10 new AG records. Final team rank: 1/SC Bosna (605 pts); 2/
SC GKVS (470); 3/ 22 April (405). Meet best performances: Emina
Sejdinovic
(SC
Galeb) in the W 100 IM (1:10.00 - 622 pts), while among men Zlatko
Alic
(SC Bosna) - in the M 100 fly (55.67 - 733 pts).. See results.
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Otoka swim pool, a place of the Bajram 2011 meeting.
(Kranj, SLO)
- Ogranized by the Swimming Club Triglav, the traditional int'l meeting
Spela
& Vesna Memorial 2011 is going to be held in the town of Kranj,
SLO. This event will also be the SLO 2011 Open national SC champ. Date:
Nov. 24-27. Place of the event: Kranj Natatorium Centre (25m ). Age
categories:
Open. Click up the title for the full proposition and program. Info: klub@pklub-triglav.si
(Sofia, BUL)
- Ogranized by the Swimming Club Damini LV, the first tournament
dedicated
to the younger competitors is going to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Date:
Nov.29. Place of the event: Diana 25 m pool, Sofia. Age groups in the
meet
program: B/G - (1999, 2000, 2001/2002). Click up the title to see the
full
program and schedule (issued by the bulswim.info). Add info: pklv140@hotmail.com
(Zagreb, CRO)-
Issued by the CRO Swimming Federation, the new headcoach of the
Croatian
national selection will be Milos Milosevic. One of the best CRO
swimmers ever, former world record butterfly holder (SC pool) and chief
of the coach staff of the Primorje SC Rijeka, Milosevic might be seen
as
a new power towards London Olympic Games 2012... See the full article
in
the
novilist.hr on-line issue.
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M.Milosevic - new headcoach of the CRO Swimming...
(Berlin, GER)
- Day-1 of the Fina/Arena World Cup-Berlin 2011 brought new WR
in
the women's 200 back - Missy Franklin USA with the time of
2:00.03.
New WC is set by Allison Schmitt USA in the W200 free(1:52.08).
Also were great - Phelps in M 400 IM (4:01.49) and in M 100 IM
(51.65),
Alshammar
SWE in W 50 free (23.67) and in W 100 fly (55.62).... From Serbia, Stefan
Sorak picked up the bronze medal in the M400 free (3:45.04), Mike
Cavic placed 7th in M 50 fly (23.34), while
Velimir Stjepanovic
ranked
8th in M 200 fly (1:56.11). See the full results...
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M.Franklin (USA) - 16-year-old new world record holder.
(Berlin, GER)
- The 4th leg of the present Fina/Arena World Cup - Berlin 2011
started Saturday in the German capital... In the morning prelims Day-1,
Serbian stars earned three evening finals: Milorad Cavic in the
M 50 fly (23.61), Stefan Sorak in the M 400 free (3:47.14) and Velimir
Stjepanovic in the M 200 fly (1:56.80). Miroslava Najdanovski
placed 16th in the W 50 free (25.35). See the full official results
from
Berlin (omegatiming.com)..
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M.Cavic - worthy achievements towards London 2012..
(Moscow, RUS)
- The 3rd leg of the present Fina/Arena World Cup started today
with the Day-1 Moscow 2011's events. Great names are in
Moscow:
Phelps, Sullivan, Le Clos, T.Alshammar, etc. From Serbia, 4 swim stars
have appeared. M.Cavic earned the bronze medal in M 50 fly
(23.28),
V.Stjepanovic
ranked
6th in M 200 fly (1:57.06) NR,S.Sorak
placed 5th in M 400 free (3:46.54) NR,
while
M.Najdanovski
was 7th in W50 free (25.21). See results.
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M.Phelps - interview for sportbox.ru by the Moscow's pool deck..
(Sydney,
AUS) -The 29-year-old AUS swimmer Ian Thorpe will return
to competition for the first time in more than 5 years at Singapore
Fina World Cup 2011 (Nov 4-5). With the aim to try to claim a
spot on the Australia's London Olympics team, the world has got a
chance
to enjoy in the "beauty of the swimming sport"... The five time Olympic
champion will compete also in the World Cup meet in the Beijing
(Nov
8-9) and the Tokyo (Nov 12-13) round. Read the full article issued in
the
latest
Sydney Morning Herald....
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I.Thorpe - last turn to media in Switzerland in spring...
(Rijeka,CRO)
-Organized by Swimming Club Primorje, the 4th edition of the
International
meet Victoria-Primorje 2011 is going to be held on Oct 29-30 in
the town of Rijeka, Croatia. Place of the event: Kantrida pool (25 m
distance
10 lanes). Age groups in the meet program: Males-(92 & older; 93
&
younger); Females-(93 & older; 94 & younger). Deadline for the
entries: Oct. 25.. More info on this swim event: dubravko.sever@ri.t-com.hr
(Lausanne,
SUI) - The last leg of the FIina 10k Marathon Swimming World Cup
concluded in Hong Kong (HKG) on Oct 2. The event welcomed 60 athletes
(40
men and 20 women) from 16 countries. On the men's side, Thomas Lurz
(GER) won with the time of 1:58:15,70, while among girls, the best was
Emily
Brunemann USA in 2:10:59,95. Thomas Lurz (GER) and Angela Maurer
(GER)
are the overall winners of the World Cup 10 K Series for 2011... Click
up the title to see the Fina official report...
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Lurz & Maurer, GER pair, winners of the 10 K for 2011.
(Banjaluka,
Rep.Srpska) - Organized by the 22 of April swimming club, the
2nd
edition of the Swim by Heart 2011 concluded successfully
on
Saturday in Banjaluka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. More then 410
competitors
from 20 clubs (CRO, SRB, SLO and BiH ) took part in the events.
Top
meet performances are made by Tanja Smid (SLO) for the W 200
free
(2:02.65 -804 pts), while among the boys by Zlatko Alic (SC
Bosna)
for the men's 100 fly (55.67 - 733 pts.). See the full official
results.
(Riccione,
ITA) - Kindly invited by Mr.Walter Bolognani, Headcoach
of
the Italian junior teams, we're in the position to recommend the Italian
Open Winter Nationals 2011, being held on Dec 16-17... Place of the
event: Riccione Olympic pool (50m 10 lanes). The standards for this
meeting
exist. The organizer (FIN Italy) ensures the cheapest costs you can
imagine
for your accomodation in Riccione, usual seat of the Italian Champs and
the World Master Champs 2013... Click up the title for the official
information.
Add info: direzione.sportiva@federnuoto.it
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W.Bolognani invites you to ITA Open Winter Nationals.
(Shantou,
CHN) - Thomas Lurz (GER) reinforced his lead by winning
the
6th stop of the FINA 10km Marathon Swim World Cup 2011 taking
place
in Shantou, CHN yesterday. The reigning 5K world champion won in
1:54:22,95.
On the women side, Emily Brunemann (USA) obtained her first
podium
appearance of the season, touching finish line in 2:04:52,41. In all,
28
men and 15 women from ten countries took part in the event. Read the
full
report...
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T.Lurz, GER -new/old winner of the Shantou Marathon.
(Hajdúszoboszló,
HUN) -Organized by the Árpád S.E., the first
edition
of the "Hungarospa Cup Swim Meet" will be held in the town of
Hajdúszoboszló,
Hungary. Date of the meet: Oct. 29-30. Place of the event:
Árpád
Swimming Pool (50 m). Age groups: M/F (93 & older; 94; 95; 96; 97;
98; 99; 00; 01; 02). Click up the title to see the official invitation
with the program, schedule, etc. Deadline for the entries: Oct 26...Add
info should be available via: László Ludmány, Meet
Directorarpad.se@gmail.com
(Zagreb, CRO)
- Organized by the ZPK (Zagreb swimming club), the new edition of the
international
AG meeting "Vidra 2011" is going to be held on Oct 15 in the
Croatian
capital. Place of the event - Utrine Olympic pool (25 m distance). It
is
expected more then 650 competitors from the Region of the SE Europe.
Click
up the title to find out more info on this event, or send request at vidra@zpk.hr
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Great conditions at the Utrine swim center in Zagreb..
(Montichiari,
ITA)
- On Oct 30, the head of the SwimMac Carolina Charlotte, NC., coach of
Auburn Univ., coach of Kirsty Coventry and one of the
greatest
American swim coaches ever David Marsh will have a clinic in
Italy.
Place of the event: L’Aquatic Center Montichiari, Via Marconi 33, 25018
Montichiari (BS)... Two main themes are at the program: "Preparing
youth
for swimming at the highest level" and "The preparation of Kirsty
Coventry".
In the afternoon, special video "On the pooldeck with David Marsh" will
be presented... Deadline for the entry and registration: Oct 06. More
info:
agonismo@sogeis.it
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D.Marsh - one of the greatest world swim coaches...
(Porec, CRO)
- The traditional Porec Dolphin Marathon, for the 12th time concluded
successfully
last weekend in the town of Porec, Histria (CRO). 118 competitors from
HUN, SLO, SRB, ITA, ROU, SVK and CRO participated.. At the distance of
5,000 m Slovenian star Rok Kerin went first through the finish
line
in a 59.04 in front of R.Copac CRO - 1:00.22 and J.SoldoCRO
(1:00.23). Best among girls was Anja Trisic (CRO) with the time
of 1:02.48 in front of Nika Kozamernik (SLO) 1:07.23...
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From
Serbia,
Gordan Bilbija
(SC Spartak, Subotica) placed 35th (1:22.07) while Ervin Birman
(SC Spartak) placed 63rd (1:32.64).Click up the title for the full
results
issued by porecswimmimg.hr
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R.Kerin, SLO OWS super star (Ph by
porecswimming.hr)
(Sofia, BUL)
- From the pen of Mr.Rumen Atanasov, BUL and European swim
statistician,
the list of the Top-15 results over the Balkan peninsula in the course
of 2011 are presented at the bulswim.info web site. In
addition,
the Age Group 2011 rankings are presented. Click up the title to see
and
download the complete official PDF files...
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FBSS, one of the worthiest swim sites in the Balkans...
(Yalta, Kiev,
UKR) - From Sep 05-10 in Yalta and Kiev the 13th European
Masters
Championships 2011 (in Diving, Open Water, Synchro and Swimming)
will
be held. The Ukraina's Swimming Federation will host more then 4,000
competitors
from almost all European LEN members. The swimming competition will be
organized at the Yalta Intourist Olympic pool in the period from Set
05-09.
Clcik up the title to see the official Entry Lists in all age groups
and
categories. Click over this link yaltamasters2011.org
for more additioanal informations, schedule, results etc..
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The officiall logo of the Euro Masters Championships
(Ohrid, FYROM)
- The last leg of the Fina OWS Grand Prix 2011 concluded with the
traditional
swimming marathon in the FYR of Macedonia. The 25th edition of the Ohrid
2011 concluded Sunday. At the distance of 30 km, Bulgarian legend Petar
Stoychev went through the finish line the first with the time of
5h35min.
The 2nd & 3rd were T.Stefanovski and E.Pop Acev
(domestic
competitors). In expecting the official Fina report, the very first
info
on this event (in the Bulgarian Cyrillic) could be found
at
the most popular BUL swim media www.bulswim.info
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P.Stoychev - gold medalist in 25 k at Shanghai 2011..
(Lima, PER)
- The Organizing Board of the 3rd Fina World Junior Championships Lima
2011 issued the full Entry List. Two days prior to the start of the
competition, all athletes can analyze their provisional positions. From
the Serbian swim squad, Igor Terzic has nice chances in the
men's
breastroke events (50 and 200) as well as the 400 IM to be found in the
Top-16 in the world. Click up the title to find out the full list at
the
official web site...
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The official flyer of the World Junior Champ Lima 2011
(Shenzhen,
CHN) - At the present World University Games Shenzhen 2011,
the swimming compeition started yesterday. On the Day-1 new CR is set
by
the Australia's quartet in the women's 4x100 Free Relay (3:44.50).
Other
worth results and gold medals were earned by Laszlo Cseh (HUN) in the M
200 fly (1:55.87); Ying Liu (CHN) in the W 50 fly (25.98); Irie Ryosuke
(JPN) in the M 200 back (1:56.01); Glenn Snyders (NZL) in the M 200
breast
(2:10.85), etc.. See the full official results..
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The official flyer of the Universide Shezhen 2011...
(Palo Alto,
USA) - At the Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., the 2011
National Junior Championship of the USA is helding from Aug 08 to
12.
Age categories in this event: Boys (1992-1996) and Girls (1993-1997).
In
the first half of the championships few great results were set such as:
in the M 400 free Adam Hinshaw (3:56.27); in the W 400 free Katheleen
Ledecky (4:10.39); in the M 100 fly Renny Richmond (53.88);
in the W 100 free Simone Manuel (55.221).. Follow up the
on-line
results at Omegatiming.
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Start of the women's 400 m freestyle heat 7 race...
(Zagreb, CRO)
- Boris Loncaric, one of the best athletes of the Medvescak
swimming
club, Zagreb has been caught for using illegal medicament Methylhexaneanine
informed yesterday HZTA (Croatian Wada service). Boris was one of the
stars
of the Texas A&M University men's swimming team in last 4
seasons.
In the previous year he shared Big 12 Conference Swimmer of the Year
honors.
He also posted four Top-20 finishes in the NCAA Champs with three relay
swims and one individual swim. In the last International Meet "Golden
Bear
2011" in Zagreb, he earned a bronze medal in the 100 fly (53.76) and
there
was a place where he dropped down. Read the full article.
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B.Loncaric, the second best butterflyer of Croatia...
(Calif.,USA)-
Long course 2011 National Championships of the USA started
Tuesday
- Palo Alto in California (Aug 02-06). Day 1 and 2 brought few worthy
times
from the next participants: Melissa Franklin in the W 100 back
(59.18);
Allison
Schmitt in the W 200 free (1:57.94); Peter Vanderkaay in
the
M 200 free (1:46.45); Dana Vollmer in the W 100 fly (57.26);
Robert
Margalis in the M 400 IM (4:15.62), etc... See the full official
results..
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D.Vollmer (USA) continued with triumph after Shanghai.
(Shanghai,
CHN)-- The 2011 World Champs in Shanghai concluded successfully on
Sunday.
Last 7 finals held. Yang Sun (CHN) set the new
WR in the M 1500 free (14:34.14). New world champions are: in
the
W 50 breast J.Hardy USA (30.19); in the M 400 IM R.Lochte
USA (4:07.13), in the W 50 free T.Alshammar SWE (24.14); in the
M 50 back L.Tancock GBR (24.50); in the W 400 IM E.Beisel
USA (4:31.78); in the M 4x100 m medley relay Team USA
(3:32.06).
Find out more in our Special
Web Blog...
(Shanghai,
CHN) - Thomas Lurz (GER) has won the men's 5-K race by 56:16.6
seconds
in front of Spyros Gianniotis (GRE) 56:17.4. and Evgeny
Drattsev
of
Russia who took bronze in 56:18.5... On the women's side, Switzerland's
Swann
Oberson in front of France's Aurelie Muller by 0.4, while
Ashley
Twichell (USA), took bronze, 0.1 seconds behind Muller. See the
full
reports...
(Shanghai,
CHN) - A trio of OWS from the United States captured the first gold
medal
for their country at the FINA Worlds in the 5km Team Event today at
Jinshan
Beach, Shanghai. Americans Andrew Gemmell, Sean Ryan,
and
Ashley
Twichell finished in 57:00.6, just 1.2 seconds faster than the
Team
of Australia.The team from Germany placed third, more than 43 seconds
after
the Americans..
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USA OWS team at the victor ceremony (Ph
by G.Scala)
(Belgrade,
SRB) - Signalized by G.Cristiano, head of the nuoto.it, we are in the
position
to present you the full lecture of Raul Arellano & Rocio
Domingues-Castells (from the Faculty of Sport Sciences Granada,
Spain),
that has been presented for the LEN Coach Swim Clinic at the recently
concluded
EJC
Belgrade 2011. The title of the lecture "Muscular Power and it's
Application in Swimming Training". Click up the title to open the
PDF
(35.78 MB) or better use your browser to download the full article...
(Shanghai,
CHI) - The Open Water event at the 14th Fina World Swimming
Championships
continued with the 10 K race for men... Spyros Gianniotis of
Greece
won men's 10 km race by 1 hour 54 minutes 24.7. Thomas Lurz of
Germany
took silver by 1 hour 54 minutes 27.2 seconds. Bolshakov of
Russia
ranked third by 1 hour 54 minutes 31.8 seconds. See the full official
report
from Shanghai.
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Men's OWS 10K podium in Shanghai (Ph by
M.Ralston).
(Shanghai,
CHI) - The Open Water event at the 14th Fina World Swimming
Championships
started with the 10 K race... Keri-Anne Payne (Great Britain)
as
the defending champion won the gold medal in women's 10-kilometer race,
within 2:01:58,1. Martina Grimaldi of Italy ranked the second,
1.8
seconds behind. Marianna Lymperta of Greece the third with
another
3.7 seconds behind. "It’s an amazing feeling. There is a massive sense
of relief because now I can just concentrate on training to make sure
I’m
at my absolute peak in London" said Payne after the victor ceremony.
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K.A.Payne (GBR) - back to the world OWS 10 K top...
(Sofia, BUL)
- As its done for the highest previous World and European
championships,
Bulgarian swim experts Ivan Tsanov and Roumen Atanassov
prior
to Shanghai's start issued the Lists of the top ten times (2 swimmers
per
country) as a valid Psych Sheet. The bulswim.info also arranged the
spectacular
analyze of the chances for the best world swimmers. Click up the title
to see the Men's Top 10 times prior to Shanghai, also here over the
next
link for the Women's
Top 10 times (More - bulswim.info).
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M.Cavic, the only Serb in the swimming world top six...
(Belgrade,
SRB) - Day-1 of the EJC Belgrade 2011 concluded.. Five finals and five
semis were on the evening program. New Euro champions are: in the M 400
free Scheruebl Christian (AUT) 3:51.75; M 50 fly Vukic
Mihael (Croatia) 23.90; W 50 breast Mc Mahon Sycerika
(Ireland)
32.00; W 800 free Kilijanska Donata (Poland) 8:40.48; in
the
men's 4x100 free medley relay Italy (3:23.13)... From Serbia, Igor
Terzic in the M 200 breast ranked 10th (2:18.81 NJR).
See more info in our Special Web Blog...
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M.Gustavo(POR), V.Stjepanovic (SRB) and T.Horn (GER) in the men's 400
free
prelims (Ph by Swim Star 2000)....
(Kamnik, SLO)
- Welcome to the jubilee of the Kamnik swimming club. The 10th edition
of the international AG meeting Veronika 2011 is going to be
held
on July 16 in the town of Kamnik, SLO... Place of the event: 50-m
Olympic
pool (outdoor). Age categories in the program: M-(1996 & older;
97/98;
99 & younger); W-(1998 & older; 99/00, 01 & younger).
Deadline
for the entries: July 11. For more info, please call: info@plavalniklub-kamnik.si
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The pool in Kamnik, a place of the Veronika Meet.....
(Radovljica,
SLO) - The traditional international meeting "Mobitel 2011" and
the SLO Open Championships 2011, concluded successfully in the town of
Radovljica, SLO (outdoor 50m pool). Few worth times were set. Meet top
performances: Aliaksandra Herasimenia (BLR) in the 50 back
(28.40
- 958 pts.) and in 100 free (54.68 - 933 pts). Among men, best time is
set by Matjaz Markic (SLO)in the 50 breast (28.71 -
871
pts). Click up the title to see the full official results issued by the
www.pzstiming.net
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A.Herasimenia - great step in front of Shanghai 2011.
(Sofia, BUL)
- Organized by the Bulgarian swimming federation the National
Summer
Championships 2011 concluded Sunday in Sofia. Place of the event:
Spartak
50m pool. Nikolay Dimitrov (SC Mladost'91) succeeded to break
NJR
in the men's 200 fly with the time of 2:08.16. Final team ranking: 1/
SC
Mladost'91;
2/ NSA; 3/Damini. Click up the title to find out the
full
official results...
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Sparkle from the Spartak pool... (Ph by
bulswim.info).
(Trebinje,
BIH) - Organized by the Leotar SC, the BIH Summer Championships
2011
for
cadets, pioneers and younger pioneers concluded in the town of Trebinje
(BIH). Overall 255 competitors from 20 clubs took part in two days
events.
Top performances: Muhamed Starcevic (SC Sloboda) in the M 100
free
(1:00.21 - 493 pts.) & Negra Ahmetspahic (SC GKVS Sarajevo)
in the W 100 free (1:03.56 - 595 pts.).. Find out the full official
results...
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Marvelous pool in the town of Trebinje (Rep.of Srpska).
(Zagreb, CRO)
- The traditional international meet Golden Bear 2011 started
Friday
in Zagreb at the Salata outdoor Olympic pool. More then 330 competitors
gathered at this event. On Saturday, in the morning prelims, members of
the SRB national team earned 7 positions for the finals. M.Strazmester
in
the W 50 back (31.44 (2nd); In the M 200 free R.Siljevski
ranked
3rd (1:54.97), while V.Paskas 5th (1:56.74). L.Bogdanovskiranked
2nd in the M 200 back (2:06.36). In the W 50 free, J.Nikolovski
placed 3rd (27.35) and R.Repman 4th (27.39). See On Line Results
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L.Bogdanovski, among the best in the Serbian squad..
(Debrecen,
HUN) - Organized by the Hungarian Swimming Federation, this weeked
(June
22-25), the Hungarian Summer Championships 2011 is
organizining
in the town of Debrecen... Allmoat all the best in the nation is there:
László Cseh, Gyurta Dániel, Jakabos Zsuzsanna,
Éva
Risztov and others. Click up the title to see the Day 1+2 achievements,
as well as to follow up the on-line results...
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Competition venue in Debrecen, a place of HUN 2011.
(Lausanne,
SUI) - The Fina issued the official results of the two OWS events held
this past week-end in Europe. On June 18, the third leg of the 10km
Marathon
Swimming World Cup was held in Setubal (POR) while Italy
hosted,
on the 19th, the Capri-Napoli 36km race, the sixth stage of the
Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. The winners in Portugal were Spyridon
Gianniotis (GRE) in a time of 1:40:29 and Angela Maurer
(GER)
in 1:48:41, while in Italy Czech Rotislav Vitek in
7:05:49
and Pilar Geijo (ARG) touching first in 7:34:21... Read the
full
report...
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S.Gianniotis (GRE) - new OWS world star from
Greece..
(Santa Clara,
USA) - The traditionl int'l Californian meet Santa Clara 2011
started
Friday at the George F. Haines International Swim Center. Greatest US
swim
names are entered in this competition... On the Day-1 Rebecca Soni
set a meet-record in 200 breast (2:23.38). Michael Phelps
returned
in the 100 fly with a victorious effort of 52.41.. Korea's Tae Hwan
Park captured the men's 100 free title (48.92). Click up the title
to follow up the on line results
(Rome, ITA)
- The traditionl 48th edition of the Trophy Settecolli meeting, started
Friday in Rome. On the Day-1 few worthy results were set. Serbian top
swimmer
Mike
Cavic, represented ADN Swim Project, took gold medal in the men's
100
fly (52.40) in front of Conrad Czerniak POL (52.86) and Jason Dunford
KEN
(52.94)... In the morning prelims, Cavic ranked second (53.08)... Click
up the title to see other rankings from the Day-1 also to follow up the
full on-line results of this respectable event...
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The official flyer of the 7 Colli 2011 meeting in Rome..
(Montecarlo,
MON) - Third leg of the Mare Nostrum 2011 (3-meet) competition
concluded
Sunday in Monaco. Worh results were swam, among men: Y.Agnel FRA
in 200 free (1:47.44), T.Fujii JPN in 100 fly (52.28), I.Ryosuke
JPN in 200 back (1:54.34), L.Cseh HUN in 400 IM (4:13.27),
while
among females, C.Muffat FRA in 100 free (55.08), A.Zueva
RUS in 100 back (59.37)... See full results...
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One of the starts at the 24th EME meet in Montecarlo..
(Trebinje,
BIH) - Organized by the Leotar swimming club, the 7th edition of the
International
AG meet "Srdjan & Maksim 2011" is going to be held on
Saturday
& Sunday in the town of Trebinje, BIH. Place of the meet - Outdoor
50m Olympic pool. More then 240 competitors from 12 clubs (from BIH,
MNE
and SRB) would take part in 2-day events. Click up the title to see the
start lists as well as to follow up the on line results (via
www.plivanje.info)
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Municipality pool in Trebinje, a place of the meeting..
(Zagreb, CRO)
- Organized by the Medvescak swimming club, the 26th edition of the
traditional
international meet Golden Bear 2011 (also the CRO Open Champs
2011)
is going to be held on July 01-03 in the Croatian Capital. Place of the
event: Salata Olympic (outdoor) 50m pool in Zagreb. No age groups
exist.
Worthy awards are provided. Click up the title to see the full program,
schedule as well as the full propositions. Deadline for the entries:
June
25. Add info: medvescak@medvescak.hr
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Salata pool - traditional place of the Golden Bear swim meets....
(Canet, FRA)
- The second leg of the traditional Mare Nostrum 2011 series
(three-meet
swimming tournament), started today in France. It is also the 24th
edition
of the traditional international Arena Meet in Canet EnRoussillon. More
then 450 competitors continue to fulfill their goals as well as to
reach
worthy money awards (the total fund of 50,000 EUR is available for the
best). Many world stars are entered for this event from 5 continents.
Click
up the title to follow up the full official on-line results...
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The official flyer of the Mare Nostrum - Canet Meeting.
(Barcelona,
ESP) - Organized by the Saint Andreu swim club and the Catalan Swimming
Association, the 32nd edition of the Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011
leg started by the Pere Serrat pool in Barcelona.. 486
competitors
from 5 continents take part in the events.. Many world swim stars are
entered.
Click up the title to follow up the full official on line results of
this
great swim competition...
(Kranj, SLO)
- Traditionally organized by the Triglav Swim club, the new edition of
the Kranj Open Championship and the 2011 Open Championships of
Slovenia,
are going to be held this upcoming weekend (June 02-04). Until today,
about
300 competitors from 34 clubs/teams (from AUT, BLR, CRO, ISR, LAT, LTH
and SLO) are entered to take part in 4-day events. Click up the title
to
find out the full official results of this Champs... (via
pzstiming.net)
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50m pool in the town of Kranj, a place of the event...
(Bratislava,
SVK) - Organized by the Slovak Swimming Federation, the traditional
meet
Grad
Prix Slovaka 2011 (49th edition)concluded this past
weekend
in Bratislava. More then 600 competitors from the Region of Central
Europe
(SLO, AUT, CZE, HUN, LTU, SRB and SVK), took part in 3-day events. Few
great times were swam as well as MRs and NRs. Coming from Serbia, SC
Banat
(Kikinda) took part, leaded by Stefan Sorak who has earned a
"ticket"
to the World Champs Shanghai 2011 (gold in 200 free 1:52.68 - 811 pts
and
gold in 400 free 3:57.45 - 825 pts.).. See the full official results of
the GP Slovakia 2011
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E.Risztov, HUN - back to the world elite positions...
(Irvine, USA)
- Organized by the Southern California Swimming, this weekend in Irvine
(California), the new edition of the Speedo Grand Challenge 2011
concluded by the William Woollett Aquatic Centre. Many world stars took
part in this event. Aslo worth times were swam. Katinka Hosszu
HUN
won in the women’s 200m IM in A Final with a sterling time of 2:11.76.Julia
Smit was placed second 2:11.79... The Austrian champion, Markus
Rogan, claimed the gold medal in the men's 200 IM clocking a time
of
2:01.12. In the women's 50 free Jessica Hardy took the gold
medal
by overwhelming her following swimmers, Julia Smit, Jane Trepp and
Marie
Pier Ratelle in 25.18.. See full official results of this swim meet.
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J.Hardy, USA, on the way to the Shanghai 2011's top.
(London, GBR)
- Marc Spackman, former UK Olympian, now Great Britain
International
Coach and part of the England Talent Development Coaching
Team,
showed his interest to be presented at the Swim Star Web Portal.
His "One to One Swim Development" strategy is something we have also
tried
to apply at our club in the last decade. Marc won two World Champ
Silver
Medals and was finalist of the 200m Free Relay at the 2000 Sydney
Olympics.
In that event, Marc and his Great Britain Team smashed the British
Record
and were ranked 5th... Click up the title to be redirected to
Spackman's
web site for more details...
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M.Spackman, coach - leader of the new swim strategy.
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - Organized by the SLO Swimming Club Ljubljana, the 36th edition
of
the Pokal/Trophy of the City of Ljubljana 2011 is going to be
held
this weekend (by the Kodeljevo pool). More then 400 competitors from
HUN,
ITA, AUT, TUR, ISR, SRB and SLO would take part in 2-day events. Coming
from Serbia SC Vracar is entered. Click up the title to find
out
the full official results of this meet..
(Skoje, FYROM)
- Organized by the Dolphin Swim & Water Polo club, the 7th edition
of the International Swim Meet Dolphin/Delfin Cup 2011 is going
to be held on May 21-22. Place of the event: Center Olympic indoor pool
in the City of Skopje. About 300 competitors from BUL, SRB, ALB,
Prishtina
and FYROM will take part in 2-day events.. Click up the title to find
out
the full start list review and to follow up the complete on line
results...
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The Center 50m pool in Skopje, a place of the event.
May 16,
2011 ------------------------------------------------------- International
AG Meet 'Sisak 2011' - concluded...
(Sisak, CRO)
- The 13th edition of the International AG meet Sisak 2011
concluded
successfully this past weekend in the town of Sisak, Croatia. 259
athletes
from BiH, AUT and CRO took part in the events. Few worthy times were
set:
Dominik
Straga (CRO) in the men's 100 fly (54.58), Mihael Vukic in
the
men's 50 fly (25.21). Among girls (B cat) Branka Vranjes (SC 22
April, BIH) earned 5 medals, while the top meet achievement is set by Katarina
Rados (SC Mladost, CRO) in the women's 100 fly (1:03.18).. See the
official Part-1;
Part-2
and Part-3
results of the meet.
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B.Vranjes (SC 22 April) - new swim star from BIH...
May 14,
2011 ------------------------------------------------------- LEN has
announced the Events in 2012...
(Reykjavik,
ICL) - The LEN head board at its Congress in Reykjavik, Island been
held
this weekend announced the main swim events in the course of 2012. On
May
16-27 Antwerp (BEL) and Eindhoven (NED) will host the European
Swim,
Diving and Syncho Swimming Championships. Antwerp (BEL) will host
the
European
Junior Swimming Championship (July 04-08), while the Chates (FRA)
will
host the European SC Championships (Nov 22-25)... Find out more
info at the LEN official web site (www.len.eu)...
-----------------------------
N.Kruchten, LEN President with part of the national federation's
delegates
of the Congress in Reykjavik....
(Ptuj, SLO)
- Organized by the Therme Ptuj Swim Club, this weekend in the town of
Ptuj,
the 7th edition of the int'l meetig Tophy of the Therme Ptuj 2011
will be held. Place of the event: outdoor Olympic pool in Ptuj. Due to
the list of entered participants, more then 520 athletes from CRO, GER,
HUN and SLO (27 swim clubs) would take part in the events. Click up the
title to find out and download the complete official
results
of this respectable meeting...
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Aquatic complex in Ptuj, a place of the Ptuj'11 meeting.
(Charlotte,
USA) - Organized by the SwimMAC Carolina, the sixth stop of the USA
Swimming
Grand Prix Series - 2011 Charlotte UltraSwim Grand Prix is
going
to be held this weekend, May 12-15, in Charlotte, N.C. Due to the list
of entered swimmers, many interesting duels and battles should be seen:
Jessica Hardy and Rebecca Soni in the women's 100 breast. Vollmer vs.
Schmitt
in the women's 200 free, Gangloff vs. Shanteau in the men's 100 breast,
etc.. There will also be Michael Phelps, Cullen Jones, Peng Wu, Amanda
Weir, Natalie Caughlin and other world stars.
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Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center - meet host pool..
(Athens, GRE)
- Organized by the Hellenic Swimming Federation the traditional
international
swimming meeting Acropolis Cup 2011 came near the end (Friday
through
Sunday). More then 300 competitors from ALB, AZE, ISR, UKR, ROU, SVK,
CYP,
TUN, CAN and GRE, took part in 3-day events. Few worthy times were swam
on the Day-2 finals. Click up the title to find out the official
results,
fully issued by the swim-news.gr (in XLS format)...
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The Alimos pool at the traditional Acropolis Cup 2011..
May 08,
2011 ------------------------------------------------------- Swim Festival
2011 in Zagreb, CRO...(Full
Results)
(Zagreb,CRO)
- Organized by the Dubrava swim club, the 8th edition of the Swim
Festival
2011 took place at the Utrine 50m pool in Zagreb. More then 430
athletes
from BIH, SRB and CRO took part in this event. Few worthy times are
swam.
K.Komlenic
(CRO) set MR in the M 100 free (A.cat) in 56.44 - 598 pts. A.Crevar
(SC
Dinamo, SRB) ranked 4th in the W 100 free (B cat.) in 1:04.50 - 569
pts.
See the complete Part-1
and Part-2
results...
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Utrine pool in Zagreb, a place of the Swim Fest 2011...
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - Organized by the Ilirija Swim Club, the 31st edition of the
International
Meet Ilirija 2011 is going to be held in Ljubljana, this
weekend
by the outdoor swim pool Ilirija, 50 m distance. According to the
issued
start list, more then 230 competitors from 22 clubs (AUT, ITA, BIH,
CRO,
SRB, SVK and SLO) would take part in 2-day competition. Coming from
Serbia,
N.Celic and D.Salma (SCProleter - Zrenajnin) are
entered.
Click up the title to see the start lists and to follow up the full
on-line
results.
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Swim pool Ilirija, a place of the Ilirija 2011 meet....
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - Organized by the Swim Club Stari Grad, the 1st edition of the
new
int'l age group meet Bembasa 2011 is going to be held this
upcoming
weekend (May 07). Place of the event: Otoka Olympic pool in
Sarajevo.
Due the present list of entered athletes, more then 230 competitors
from
11 clubs (BUL and BIH) would take part in the events. Click up the
title
to be redirected to the official timekeeper's data base for the on-line
results...
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Otoka swim pool, a place of the Bembasa 2011 meet.
(Cancun, MEX)
- The 2nd leg of the Fina 10 Km Marathon Swimming World Cup Series
concuded in Mexico, this past weekend. 36 athletes from 14 countries
competed.
The race unfolded smoothly as surface conditions were calm. The water
temp
was 27.8°C. Andreas Waschburger (GER) won with a time of
1:53:58
in front of his teammate Thomas Lurz (1:53:59). Taking third
was
Alex
Meyer USA (1:54:12). Sergiy Fesenko (AZE) went head-to-head
for the touch with the BUL star Petar Stoychev with a time of
1:54:21.
Among females ranked 1st was Poliana Okimoto (BRA) in a
2:01:58.
Read the full Fina report.
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A.Waschburger - new GER OWS star (Ph by
focus.de)...
(Banjaluka,BIH)
- The Balkan Junior Championships 2011 concluded successfully
in
Banjaluka, BIH... On the Day-2 (part-4), new Balkan JR is set by Panagiotis
Samilidis in the M 50 breast (28.00 - 939 pts.). Tatiana
Cishca,
MDA pick up gold in W 50 breast (32.76 - 820pts.). In this event 3 NJRs
were set (Draganov, BUL, Nikovic, BIH and Ilie,
ROU).
Sarikaya
Hazal, TUR earned the gold in W 100 back (1:03.37-815 pts). SRB
took
more 2 medals: Dejan Perisic took silver in M 50 breast (29.53
-
801 pts), while Men's 4x100 free relay earned bronze (3:33.48
NJR).
Final team rankings: 1/Greece (456); 2/Romania (349); 3/Serbia
(223). Click up the title for the official statistics..
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P.Samilidis, GRE - new Balkan Jun Rec in M 50 breast
(Banjaluka,BIH)
- Within the morning session III (part-3) of the Balkan Junior
Championships
2011 more new worthy results were swum by the Greak swimmers (the
top
Balkan swimming nation): A.Vazaios in M 200 free (1:52.70), P.Samilidis
in M 100 breast (1:03.09), etc.... Also new NJRs of SRB, ROU and BIH
were
set. Moldova has got the first Balkan Champion ever (Tatiana Cishca
in the W 100 breast - 1:12.55). SRB team earned two bronze
medals.
Dejan
Perisic in the M 100 breast (1:05.50) and the men 4x100 Medley
relay
team (3:57.14 - NJR). Click up the title to watch out the full
official
on-line results..
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P.Samilidis, GRE (1:03.09)- gold and D. Perisic, SRB (1:05.50) - at the
podium of the men's 100 breast.
(Sofia, BUL)
- At the Assembly of the Bulgarian Swimming Federation that has
been held on April 27 in Sofia, the delegates from 53 swimming
clubs-members
elected the old-new chives of their association. In the next 5-year
mandate
period Georgi Avramchev (1959) will be the BUL Swimming
President,
while Tanya Bogomilova will continue her activities as the
Secretary
General. Click up the title to read the official info at the most
polupar
Bulgarian aquatic site bulswim.info (issued in the BUL Cyrillic only)..
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G.Avramchev & T.Bogomilova at the BUL Swimming Assembly (Ph
by Trud)
(Lausanne,
SUI) - Informed in its Release 26, Fina has announced that the event
within
the 2011 Open Water Swimming Grand Prix - Sumidero Canyon (MEX)
is finally canceled. This leg is planned to be held on May 7. The
decision has been reached following the recommendation of the FINA
Medicine
Committee, stating that: “Given the importance of the health and safety
of the open water swimmers and in light of the official documentation
on
water quality provided by the Mexican Swim Federation, it is evident
that
FINA should not expose its swimmers to these unsafe conditions.” Next
leg:
Capri-Napoli (ITA)..
(Banjaluka,BIH)
- The Balkan Junior Championships 2011 is going to be held the
upcoming
week-end in the town of Banja Luka, Republic of Srpska (BIH). Up to
Monday,
more then 200 athletes from 10 Balkan countries are entered (ALB,
FYROM,
BUL, ROU, SRB, CYP, GRE, MNE, TUR and BIH). Serbian
national team is consisted of 12 males and 9 females - swimmers
(and 5 delegates). Click up the title to be redirected to the Official
Time Keeper's web page plivanje.info where the all entry lists
and
full on-line results could be found in the next couple of days...
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Aquana the far best swimming complex over the Balkan peninsula, a place
of the Balkan Junior Champs 2011..
(Modena, ITA)
- Organized by the ASD Modena Nuoto and the Municipality of Region
Emiglia
Romagna, the 38th edition of the Trophy of the City of Modena 2011
is going to be held on June 04-05. Place of the event: the Dogali
outdoor
50 m pool in Modena. Age groups in the meet program: Ragazzi (M
95-96-97 F 97-98), Junior (M 93-94 F 95-96), Absolute
(M
92 and older, F 94 and older)... Deadline for the entries: May 21.
Click
here for the official Entry
Form (XLS). Click up the title to see or download the
official
invitation with the regulation and full schedule (in Italian only). Add
info:meeting@modenanuoto.it
(Banjaluka,
BiH) - Organized by the Swimming Federation of the Republic of Srpska,
the next edition of the 2011 Balkan Junior Swim Championships
will
be held in the town of Banja Luka, BIH. Place of the event - new indoor
Olympic pool in the Aquana complex. Click over the next link to
download
the official
invitation or up the title for the full program and technical
issues.
For all add info please call Mr.Mladen Ceko via plivackisavez.rs@gmail.com
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Aquana - GOB Municipality Olympic pool - a place of the Balkan Junior
Champs
2011...
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - Organized by the Swim Club Stari Grad, the first edition of the
new meeting Bembasa 2011 is going to be held on May 07. Place
of
the event: Otoka Olympic pool in Sarajevo. Age groups in the program: M
- 92 & older; 93/94; 95/96; 97/98; 99/00; 01 & younger; W - 94
& older; 95/06; 97/98; 99/00; 01/02; 03 & younger. Dedaline for
the entries: May 03. Click up the title to open up the full official
invitation
with the program, proposition and schedule. Add info: info@pkstarigrad.ba
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Otoka swim pool, a place of the Bembasa 2011 meet.
(Kavala, GRE)
- Kindly called by the Kavala's Water Sports Club, we would like to
invite
you to take part in the new edition of the International AG meet Kavala
2011. Place of the event: Minicipality indoor 50-m swim pool. Date
of the event: June 18-19, Age categories in the program: M/W (92 &
older; 93/94; 95/96; 97-98-99). Deadline for the entries: June 13.
Click
up the title to download the official invitation. More info is
available
at kavala57@yahoo.gr
(Santos, BRA)
- The first stop of the present Fina 10K Marathon Swimming World
CupSeries
finished this past weekend in Santos, Brazil. 92 open water swimmers
(43
women and 49 men) took part in this event. Thomas Lurz (GER)
won
in 2:06:05 and was closely followed by Greek Spyridon Gianniotis
(2:06:08). Spain’s Francisco Jose Hervas was placed 3rd in
2:06:13.
Among women, ARG 26-year-old Cecilia Biagoli set the best time
in
2:12:33. Read the full Fina report on this great OWS 10 K event.
(Sofia, BUL)
- Organized by the ABS (Association of the Bulgarien Swimmers), the 3rd
edition of the Bulgarian Masters Fest 2011, concluded
successfully
in the BUL capital. Spectacular swimming could be seen. More then 150
swimmers
from 14 domestic clubs took part in the events. The oldest competitor
was
Atanas Chorbadziyev (from Burgas) - age of 85. Click up the title to
see
the official results. Also visit the Official
Report issued by the popular FBSS site (www.bulswim.info) in
BUL
Cyrillic only.
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From the BUL Masters Fest 2011 (Ph by
N.Dimitrov)..
(Bratislava,
SVK) - The traditional international meet Orca Cup 2011,
concluded
successfully this past week-end in Bratislava (Pasienky 50 m pool).. 61
clubs with more then 400 athletes (ROU, AUT, SLO, KEN, SRB, SWE, MLT,
TUR,
CZE, SVK) took part in 3-day events. Coming from Serbia SC Banat
and SC Proleter paricipated. In the men's 50 fly Ivan
Lendjer
SRB star ranked 2nd (24.22) while in the 100 fly he also placed 2nd in
53.08... Click up the title to see the full official results from this
Slovakian meeting.
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I.Lenjder, SRB star, two silver medals in Bratislava...
(Limassol,
CYP) - The Multinations Youth Meet, organized by the Cyprus Swimming
Association,
conculuded Sunday in the town of Limassol. 11 countries took par in
this
event (SUI, POL, GRE, BRA, SLO, POR, ISR, UKR, DAN, FIN and CYP). Age
groups
in the program: Boys 14-15-16 and Girls 12-13-14... SLO swimer
Nastja
Govejsek swam out great in the women's 200 free (2:07.32). Also Polish
swimmer Jerzy Twarowski in 200 fly (2:04.98). Click up the title to see
all official results of the 4 sessions of this meeting...
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Sparkle from the Limassol Olympic Swimming Pool...
(Maribor,
SLO) - The 5th edition of the international youth meet Pomlad 2011
concluded successfully in the town of Maribor. Place of the event:
Pristan
pool 50m. More then 210 competitors from HUN, SRB and SLO (19 clubs)
took
part in the events. Top meet achievements were set by Kaja Perkovic
(SC
Branik) in the women's 50 fly (29.57 - 669 pts.) and Matej Kozelj
(SC Neptun) in the men's 50 breast (32.50 -601 pts.). Coming from
Serbia
SC
Dinamo (Pancevo) with 3 athletes participated. See the full
official
results of this interesting swim competition...
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Sparkle from the Pristan pool in Maribor at the Pomlad 11 meet.
(Thessaloniki,
GRE) - The 29th edition of the int'l meet NIOVEIA 2011
started
Saturday in Thessaloniki. More then 350 competitors from ISR, CYP,
FYROM,
BUL, ALB, Prishtina and GRE take part in this meet. On the Day-1 few
worthy
times were set by the new perspective Israel's stars Gal Nevo,
Amit
Ivry and Jose Jonatan Kopelev, also Bulgarian Dinko
Geshev
and Lachezar Shumkov, as well as the dometic swimmers
Grigoriadis,
Georgiu,
etc. Click up the title to open up the full official meet results (in
XLS
format) issued by the popular swim-news.gr
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Sparkle from the Posidonion pool at the Nioveia meet.
(Pitesti,
ROU) - Started Apr.13, the Romanian LC Champ 2011 is organizing
by the Pitesti Swim Complex, ROU... Absolute and Junior categories take
part in this event. On the Day-1, Dragos Agache (SC Farul,
Constanca),
senior of the University of Iowa (USA) succeeded to break NR in
the men's 200 breast (2:14.73). The old one (textile rec) was set by
Valentin
Preda (2:15.20) in the course of 2005. Click up the title to see the
Day-1
official results. Follow up the full champs results at the www.swimming.ro/index.php
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - Organized by the Swimming Club 'Novi Grad' and the BIH Swimming
Federation, an International Swim Coach Seminar is going to be
held
on April 23-24 at the Otoka Olympic pool in Sarajevo, BIH. Lecturers in
the sessions: Bane Dinic (ITA) and Federico Colbertaldo
ITA
(demonstrator), Branislav Kostic (SRB), Igor Velickovic
(SLO),
Milan
Misljenovic (SRB), Besalet Kazazovic (BiH).. Click up the
title
to read the official invitation. Add info is available via Orhan
Beganovic
pknovigradsa@gmail.com
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F.Colbertaldo,
Euro star - swim demonstrator in BIH (Photo
by
I.Rasula).
(Banja Luka,
BiH) - Organized by the Swimming Club '22 April' the new edition of theInternational
meet "22 April 2011" is going to be held this upcoming week-end.
Place
of the event: Municipality Olympic pool in Banja Luka, BiH. Up to
Thursday,
267 competitors form 22 clubs (from SLO, CRO, SRB and BIH) are already
entered. Top stars are coming from Slovenia: Matjaz Markic and Anja
Klinar. Most crowded teams are: Olymp SC, BIH (50), Dubrava SC, CRO
(34), Fortuna SC, BIH (30)... From SRB, 3 clubs participate: SC
Novi
Sad, SCDinamo and SCSpartak.
Follow up
the results of this meet via plivanje.info.
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A.Klinar, Slovenian swim super star. (Photo
by
I.Rasula).
(Riccione,
ITA) - From Wednesday through Sunday in the town of Riccione, the 2011
Italian LC Championship is organizing at the Stadio del Nuoto. On
the
Day-1, few worthy times were swam out. Federica Pellegrini in
the
women's 400 free set a strongest time of 4:03.49. In the men's 800 free
Samuel
Pizzetti finished in a 7:49.79 (world second best time in the
moment).
Mattie
Pesce ranked 1st in the men's 50 breast (27.87).
Luca Dotto
won the men's 100 free (48.58). Follow up the official results of the
ITA
champs via the FIN web data base...
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The official flyer of the present Italian Nationals 2011.
(Sofia, SLO)
- From the pen of Yancho Stoychev, ex-BUL swimmer and now coach of the
SC Briz, an abs. Bulgarian swim rankings for the previous year (25 amd
50 m pool) are presented by the FBSS (First Bulgarian Swimming Site).
Considering the Balkan swim issues and the once in the wider region of
this part of the continent, it will be useful also for evaluting the
progress
of the national swimming programs. Four PDFs present the Top-10 women's
and men's rankings (25m & 50m) in the course of 2010...
(Hamamatsu,
JPN) - At the Japanese international Meet, trial for the upcoming world
events, Naoya Tomita one of the best JPN breastrokers, beat out
textile best time with a 2:08.25 in the men's 200 breast (2:08.36 is
previously
set by Kitajima in 2010), while Yuka Katou broke JPN
national
record in the women's 100 fly with a triumphant time of 57.80.. The
meet
was held in the LC pool. Also were great: Takuro Fujii in the
men's
100 fly (51.84), Satomi Suzuki iin the women's 200 breast
(2:24.36)...
See the full official results at the Seiko web site.
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N.Tomita, upsets Kosuke Kitajima in the 200 breast...
(Spittal,
AUT) - Again spectacularly organized by the swim club Spittal AUT, the
29th edition of the International Swim Meet Spittal 2011
concluded
successfully this past weekend at the Drautalperle pool. More then 450
athletes from BUL, GRE, ITA, CRO, SLO, HUN and AUT took part in the
events.
Due to the point scores, top meet athletes and winners of the Emblem
Bowls
are Anja Carman SLO (2595 pts) and Mate Hunor AUT
(2576 pts.).
Click up the title to see the full official results of the Spittal
meeting.
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A.Carman & M.Hunor - the Spittal 2011's top athletes.
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - Organized by the Bosna Swimming Club, the international Age
Group
meet "To Sarajevo with love 2011" concluded successfully by the
Otoka Olympic pool in Sarajevo. More then 760 participants from 35
clubs
(CRO, MNE and BiH) took part in this great swim event. Due to the piont
scores (from 2 races), the meet best athletes are: Nina Zarkovic (SC
Leotar) - 1239 pts and Zlatko Alic (SC Bosna) - 1331 pts. Clcik
up the title to find out the full official results and statistics (via
plivanje.info)...
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Nina Zarkovic (Leotar Swim Club)- far best women's swimmer in
BIH....
(Osijek, CRO)
- Organized by the Osijek-Zito SC, 10th edition of the international
meet
McDonalds
Lima 2011 ended Saturday at the Municipality 25-m pool. 16 clubs
from
SRB, FYROM and CRO took part in this worthy event. 9 SRB clubs
participated.
Great achievements within the categories were set by
Danica Gazdic (SC
POolet) in 50 fly (37.94) & 50 back (40.34) 2 medals and Milos
Mihajlovic
(SC Dinamo) in 50 fly (35.22) and 50 back (39.53) also 2 medals. Few
other
worthy times were set by SRB athletes. See the full official results of
the McDonalds Lima 2011..
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The municipality pool in the town of Osijek, a place of Lima 2011.
(Celje, SLO)
- Organized by the Neptun SC, the 16th edition of the int'l meet Velikonocni
Miting 2011 is going to be held this upcoming weekend in SLO. More
then 340 competitors from 19 clubs (CRO and SLO) would take part in
this
event. Place of the event: Golovec 25 m pool. Click over the next link
to see the full Start
List, as well as the upper title for the OnLine Results (issued
by pzstiming.net)
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Golovec competition pool in Celje, a place of Celje 2011 meeting....
(Sofia, BUL)
- The Bulgarian Winter Championships 2011 concluded
successfully
this past weekend at the Sports Palace in Sofia (25m pool). In total
228
competitors from 26 domestic clubs took part in 3-day events. Ekaterina
Avramova, set two NRs - in the W 50 back (27.94) and in W 100 back
(59.31). Few other worth results were swam. See the official results
issued
at the BUL swim web site..
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E.Avramova, BUL hope for London'12 (Ph by
Angysport)
(Madrid, ESP)
- Organized by the RFEN, the XII Open Championships of Spain is
organizing at the 50m pool of the Center M86 in Madrid. Worthy times
were
swam. Judit Ignacio (ESP) set the NR in the W 100 fly (59.21).
Other
great times on the Day-3: Boggiato (ITA) in the 50 breast (32.57),
Czerniak
(POL) in M 100 fly (52.99), etc. Marica Strazmester (SRB),
went
great in the W 50 back on the Day-1 in qualifications (29.96) - ranked
second, while in the SF she went in a 30.14... See the full official
results...
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M.Strazmester, SRB record holder - on the way to Shaghai and London...
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - Organized by the Ljubljana swimming club, the 24th edition of
the
Jezek
Trophy 2011 will be held this weekend in Ljubljana by the Tivoli
25m
pool. In total, 534 participants from 30 clubs (BiH, ITA, CRO, SRB and
SLO) take part in this traditional meet. Age groups in the program M/F
(2000, 2001 and 2002 and younger)... Coming from Serbia, the SC Novi
Sad and SC Vracar are entered for this meet. Follow up the
on-line
results...
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Tivoli swim pool, a place of the Jezek 2011 Meeting...
(Banjaluka,
BiH) - The 4th International Championships Banja Luka Open 2011
is going to be held on 28th-29th of May in the city of Banja Luka, BIH.
As the LEN event this competition is also the Qualifying meet for
the 14th FINA World Champs Shanghai 2011 and London 2012 Olympic Games.
Many world stars confirmed their participations such as Cavic
(SRB),
Korotishkyn (RUS), Fesikov (RUS), Aljand (EST), Mankoc (SLO), Dunford
(KEN),
Nalesso (ITA), Verlinden (HOL), Najdanovski (SRB); Czech Junior
Team,
Nadja Higl (SRB), Emil Tahirovic (SLO), etc. Click up the title for the
full official invitation. Add info: olymp2002@gmail.com
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Municipality pool in Banjaluka, a place of the event...
(Wien, AUT)
- The World Sports Festival is a unique sports event for young
people.
In the last 3 years more than 15,000 athletes from 30 nations took part
in the competitions under the patronage of UNESCO. In eleven
tournaments
(sports) for 4 days the participants will prove their sports skills.
They
will create an unforgettable atmosphere in Vienna, Austria and
celebrate
together a great sports festival. Date of the festival: June 23-26. All
info and registration can be done on-line. Click up the title to find
out
more info about the swimming tournament...
(Sofia, BUL)
- Organized by the Bulgarian Swimming Federation, in Sofia at the Sport
Palace (25-m pool), the Bulgarian Winter Championships (Cadet &
Junior) 2011 concluded this past week-end. More then 300
competitors
from 29 clubs took part in 3-day events. At the final team standings
swim
club Mladost '91 led all rankings. Click up the title to see the full
official
results of this event...
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Sparke from the Sport Palace pool (Ph by bulswim.info).
(Athens, GRE)
- Would you like to train all year round - in Greece, or making your
swimming
more conformable, or to be coached by Adrea Di Nino - so, just visit
the
Masters
Dream Camp. Leaded by Apostolos Tsagkarakis GRE swim star
and
Andrea
Di Nino top Italian coach of the world elite swimmers, two swimming
camps are defined: April 08-14 and May 20-26. See the complete offers
considering
the swim facility, accommodation and other possibility for the time of
staying in Athens. On line registration is available.
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A.Tsagkarakis, GRE legend now head of MDC, Athens...
(Banjaluka,
BIH) - The Winter Championshps of Bosnia & Herzegovina 2011
concluded successfully in Banjaluka. About 240 competitors (in all
categories)
from 19 clubs, participated in 3-part events. 4 new NRs in absolute
were
set by: Arnel Dudic (GKVSS) in M 50 free (22.96), Zlatko
Alic
(BOS) in M 200 back (2:09.454), Marko Djukic (22Ap) in M 200
breast
(2:27.80) and Branka Vranjes (22Ap) in W 400 IM (5:15.74). More
then 20 records were set in the younger categories. See the full
results
via plivanje.info.
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Zlatko Alic (member of the SC Bosna) another great result in BIH....
(Minneapolis,
USA) - This week-end within the American College Swimming, the
traditional
NCAA
Div 1 men's swim & dive championship is organizing in Minnesota
at the Univ. of Minnesota Aquatic Center.. After the second day, the
team
ranking is as follows: California leads with 453 points, Texas
is at a second-place (440.5). Stanford (385), Florida
(277)
and Arizona (274) held the top five heading into the final day.
SRB star (Minnesota Un.), Ivan Gutesa in the 100yd breast
finals
ranked 8th (53.40), while as part of the 4x50yd medlay relay touched
11th
(B final) in 1:26.42. See the full official results from USA...
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Minnesota Aquatic center - a place of the NCAA '11 championships.
(Split, CRO)
- Croatian Winter Championhips 2011 started Friday in Split.
Day-2
brought new NR in the W 4x200 free relay (Trisic, Bolanca,
Bencic,
Dragojevic)
with the time of 8:20.61... From others, worthy times were set by Mario
Todorovic ZPK in 100 fly (52.66),
Ante Krizan ZPK in 50 breast
(28.01), Ana Radic DUB in 50 breast (31.96) while in 100 IM
(1:03.48)
she overcame S.Jovanovic, national backstroke pearl.
Sasa Impric
MLA ranked first in the M 100 IM (55.07) in which he beats Duje
Draganja..
Click up the title to follow up the full official on line results.
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S.Impric (MLA), CRO champion in the men's 100 IM...
(Riccione,
ITA) - The 40th edition of the Italian National Youth Championships
2011, started in the town of Riccione, ITA. Age categories in the
program:
M-(Ragazzi 95-96-97; Junior 93-94; Cadetti 91-92); W-(Ragazze 97-98;
Junior
95-96; Cadette 93-94). In total 1923 competitors (867 girls and 1056
boys)
are enterd for the 5188 races. This event is also trial for the ITA
candidates
for the Comen Cup 2011 (Amman, June 18-19) and the EYOF 2011 (Trabzon
July
25-29). After the first day (girls side), the regional ranking is as
follows:
1/ Lombardia; 2/ Toscana; 3/ Veneto. Click up the title to follow up
the
full official championship results at the FIN data base...
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The Italiani Giovanili Champs 2011's official flyer...
(Ravne na
Koroskem, SLO) - Organized by the Fuzinar swim club, the new edition of
the popular Bobercek 2011 international AG meet is going to be
held
on June 25 in the town of Ravne, SLO. Place of the event: Municipality
Olympic pool... Age categories: M-(97; 98; 99; 00 & Younger); W-
(99;
00; 01; 02 & younger). Deadline for sending the entries: June 22.
Add
info: info@pkfuzinar.si
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Municipality pool in Ravne, a place of the Bobercek'11.
(Strasbourg,
FRA) - The French state championships (LC pool) started yestedrday in
Strasbourg.
This event is also FRA trial for the world championships. On the Day-1
few worthy times were swum. Yannick Agnel broke the national
and
his own record in the men's 400 free with a 3:43.85. Lotte
Friis
(DEN) took the women's 800 free (8:24.52). Fred Bousquet won in
the men's 100 fly (53.43). In the 100 back Camille Lacourt
finished
1st with a winning time of 52.44 that is the fastest time of the year.
Results...
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Y. Agnel - the new world super star... (Ph by
I.Rasula)
(Ravne, SLO)
- Organized by the Fuzinar swimming club, the 38th edition of the Ravne
2011 international meet is going to be held this upcoming week-end
in the town of Ravne na Koroskem. Place of the event: Municipality 50m
pool (under baloon)... Due to the lists of the entered participants,
more
then 220 competitors from ITA, AUT, FYROM and SLO would take part in
2-day
events... Click up the title to follow up the full official On Line
Results
(St.Petersburg,
RUS) - Organized by the All Russian Swim Federation, from March 17 to
20
in St. Petersburg, the International Meet for prizes of the Russian
Swimming started Thursday. Few worthy results were swam out on the
Day-1. V.Artemyeva in 50 breast (31.84), N.Bulakov in
400
free (3:55.57), A.Vyatchanin in 200 back (2:01.83), A.Papusha
in 100 back (1:02.55), V.Popova in 200 IM (2:14.63), D.Izotov
in 50 free (22.81). See full results.
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D.Izotov, Russia's and the world super swimming star.
(Sarajevo.
BiH) - The first edition of the Cantonal Swim Championships
of
Sarajevo 2011 (25 m pool) concluded successfully last week in the
BIH
capital. 10 clubs members with more then 380 competitors of all ages
took
part in 2-day events... New abs NR is set by Zlatko Alic (SC
Bosna)
in the men's 50 back (26.34 - 707 pts.). That was the top
performance
in the men's concurrence, while on the women's side in the 100 free, Iman
Emso swum out in a 1:02.14 - 600 pts as the meet best. Click up the
title to see the full official results issued at plivanje.info
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Z.Alic (SC Bosna), top competitor in Sarajevo Canton...
(Manchester,
GBR) - The Day-3 of the 2011 British Gas Swim Championships
brought new NR and the world top time... Keri-Anne Payne broke
the
British record in the women's 1500 free with a 16:06.67 (the previous
one
was in hands of Rebecca Cooke - 16:14.70, set back in 2003). Liam
Tancock
in the men's 100 back set the present world best time (53.44) better
then
53.54 been set by Camille Lacourt (FRA) in January. Also was great Gemma
Spofforth in the W 100 back (1:00.52). Click up the title to see
the
full On Line Results as well as the TV Champs broadcast...
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Keri-Anne Payne, GBR - new NR in the W 1500 free....
(Thessaloniki,
GRE) - Informed by Maria Touraki–Vasiou, Gen.Secretary of PTA of the
YMCA
Swimming Team, the 29th edition of the international meet Niobeia
2011
is going to be held on April 16-17. Organized by the YMCA club, the
competition
will take place at the Posidonion 50 m pool, Thessaloniki... Age
categories
in the program: M - YoB 1998 and older; W - YoB 1999 and older.
Deadline
for sending the meet entries: April 11. Click up the title to see the
official
program, schedule and propositions. Add info can be reached via pekkdm@pekkdm.gr
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Posidonion pool, a place of the Niobeia 2011 meeting..
(Indy, USA)
- The fourth stop on USA Swimming's Grand Prix Series, GP
Indianapolis
is organizing this weekend at the Indiana University Natatorium on the
campus of IUPUI.. Michael Phelps is back in the waters this
weekend
after some pause, as well as Ryan Lochte as his "rival", then Ousama
Mellouli, Kouske Kitajima, Mike Alexandrov, Kai
de
Almeida, Jessica Hardy, Julia Smit, and other
American
and the world swim stars... Click up the title for the On Line Results
or over here for the full Psych
Sheet.
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Two "rivals" are turning back to the competitions...
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - Organized by the Swim Club Ljubljana, the 36th LEN international
meet "Pokal mesta Ljubljane 2011" (Ljubljana Cup 2011), will be
held on May 21-22 by the out-door Olympic pool Kodeljevo in Ljubljana,
SLO. This event has got the FINA certification as a meet where the
Shanghai
2011 standards could be cut. The age categories: M-(92 & older,
93/94,
95/96, 97 & younger); W-(94 & older; 95/96, 97/98, 99 &
younger).
An Invitation
to the SRB teams is sent to many addresses. Deadline for the
entries:
May 16...Add info: Gregor Ales: pkl@siol.net
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Kodeljevo competition pool in the City of Ljubljana,SLO
(Wels, AUT)-
Kindly invited by Mario Peneder, Director, all Serbian
swim clubs are called to take part in the upcoming 39th LEN
Speedo
International Swim Meet 2011 in the town of Wels, Austria. Date of
the events: June 12-13. Place of the event: Welldorado outdoor Olympic
pool. Age categories in the program: M/F (94 & older; 95/96; 97/98;
children 99-00-01-02 and younger). Deadline for the entries: June 03.
Add
info:
mario.peneder@liwest.at
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Sparkles from the previous Speedo Meet in Wels, AUT..
(Tokyo, JPN)
- Three new National records were set on the Day-1 of the Japan
National
Short Course Champs 2011 at the Tatsumi Pool Tokyo. In the men's
400
IM,
Daiya Seto set the first NR with a
4:04.28... In the men's 200
back,
Irie Ryosuke took down his own NR with a
1:49.78... In the
men's 100 breast,
Kosuke Kitajima downed the third
national record
with a 57.34. Also were great: Hanae Ito in the W 200 free (1:56.59);
Shiho
Sakai in the W 50 back (26.81); Junya Koga in the men's 50 back
(23.58),
etc. Follow up the full official results of the JPN nationals....
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Ryosuke Irie - one of the best world backstrokers...
(Federal Way,
USA) - The last week of February, within the USA College Swimming, the
Women's Conference Champs are organizing throughout the nation. Many
top
world swim stars - students are taking part in the 'crucial' season's
event
prior to the NCAA championships (three divisions exist with more then
660
college teams). One of the most interesting Swim & Dive conferences
is PAC -10 being held in Washington where, after Day-1, the Stanford
University
leads a pack in front of CAL Berkeley and USC... Click up the title to
follow up the full official PAC-10 Results...
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - Organized by the Bosna Swimming Club, the new edition of the
international
Age Group meet "To Sarajevo with love 2011" is going to be held
on April 09. Place of the event: Otoka Olympic pool in Sarajevo.. Age
categories:
M-(92 & older; 93/94; 95/96; 97/98; 99 & younger); W-(94 &
older; 95/96; 97/98; 99/00; 01 & younger). Deadline for the
entries:
Apr. 02. Additional info on this event is available via: pkbosna@yahoo.com
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Great condition for the top achievements - Otoka pool..
(Columbia,
USA) - The 2011 Missouri Grand Prix has been held in Columbia,
from
18 to 21 of February (LC pool). Great names appeared in this event:
Torres,
Soni, Hardy (USA), Mellouli (TUN), Rogan (AUT), Pereira (BRA), Dunford
(KEN), Bousquet (FRA), etc. Few worthy times are swum out. On Sunday,
Chloe
Sutton won her third event of the meet, taking the W 800m free with a
time
of 8:34.55. Whitney Myers held off Rebecca Soni in the final 50 m
of the W 200m IM, out-touching her at the wall 2:17.42 to 2:17.92 Click
up the title to see the full official results... Click also over here
for
the small Photo
Gallery ...
(Viareggio,
ITA) - Organized by the ASSO Nuoto, one of the oldest international AG
meet Coppa Carnevale 2011 (34th edition) dedicated to the
younger
category athletes started today by the Viareggio City Pool (25m). More
then 400 swimmers (from USA, SVK, SUI, HUN, SLO, LTU, CZE and ITA) take
part in 3-day events in the period of the Carnival of Viareggio.
Click over the next links to see the Day-1Morning
Results and Evening
Results (of all ages). Follow up the full official results at
the
www.assonuoto.it
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Sparkle from the streets for the Viareggio Carnival ITA.
(Spittal,
AUT) - Kindly invited by Mr.Ferdinand Kendi, Director, we would
like to recommend the new edition of the Trophy of Spittal 2011,
that is going to be held on April 9-10 in Austria. This short course
event
is one of the most respectable meets in this part of the continent.
Place
of the event: Drautalperle 25-m pool. The AG categories: 94 &
older;
95/96; 97/98; 99/00; 01 & younger. Click up the title to see the
full
official invitation, schedule and program of the meeting. The deadline
for the entries: March 31... Add info: f.kendi@hotmail.com
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The marvelous conditions for the top times - Drautalperle pool
(Banja Luka,
RS, BiH) - 2nd edition of the international meet "22 of April"
is
going to be held on April 16-17. Organized by the SC 22 April, this
event
will take place at the Aquana Olympic city pool (50-m 10 lanes). The
age
categories: M-(92 & older; 93/94; 95/96; 97/98; 99/00); W-(94 &
older; 95/96; 97/98; 99/00; 01/02). The full propositions, program,
schedule
and other info on the meeting can be reached in the invitation.
Deadline
for the entries: April 14. More info: akademskipkbl@gmail.com
(Parana, ARG)
- Impressive endurance were on display in the longest race of the FINA
OWS Grand Prix 2011, a demanding 88km, which took place in Argentina at
the famous Hernandarias-Parana Marathon. 21 swimmers, local and from
Macedonia,
Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Canada and Brazil commenced the race,
five
of which withdrew. The men’s event was comfortably won by Italian giant
Andrea
Volpini in 9:06:05. Argentina’s rising talent Guillermo Bertola,
only 22 year old, produced his best performance so far, claiming silver
in a time of 9:11:35. The bronze that day was reserved for compatriot
Luciano
Sales Rubio after a 9:26:02 effort. Read the full Report...
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A.Volpini, ITA marathon giant. (Photo by
UNO/M.Oviedo)
(Sarajevo,
BiH) - The International AG Meet "Sarajevo Aquatics 2011"
concluded
Sunday by the Otoka Olympic pool in the BiH capital. Organized by the
GVS
Sarajevo SC, this event gathered athletes from SLO, CRO, MNE, SRB and
BiH.
Top SRB competitors: R.Asceric in the M 400 IM (4:59.46) - silver; M..
Basic in the W 800 free (10:04.81) bronze; V.Paskas in the M 400 free
(4:21.32)
- 4th, etc. Click up the title to download Day-1 and Day-2 results
reports
of this event (issued at the gksarajevo.ba)...
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Otoka swim pool, a place of the Sarajevo Aquatics 2011 meeting..
(Sydney, AUS)
- Yesterday in Sydney, the New South Wales Open Championships 2011
started successfully. No records have appeared, while few worthy races
brought happiness. Therese Alshammar (SWE) went bellow 26s in
the
women's 50 fly (25.88), the best in the world LC in the moment. In the
same event, Stephanie Rice placed 4th (27.023). Leisel Jones
(AUS) topped the women's 100 breast with a 1:06.68... Ashley Delaney
hit the wall in 25.44 to win the men's 50 back. Ryan Cochrane
(CAN),
snatched the men's 400 free title in 3:50.79. See results.
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T.Alshammar, serious road towards the London 2011...
(Kranj, SLO)
- Organized by the Plavalno Drustvo Zvezda, the new edition of the
international
swim meet STAR 2011 is going to be held this weekend in Kranj,
SLO.
More then 320 competitors from 37 clubs (from AUT, ITA, ISR, CRO, SRB,
SUI and SLO) will take part in 2-day events. Coming from Serbia, SC
Novi Sad, SC Dinamo and SC Sv.Nikola are entered
for
this event. Click up the title to follow up the on line results of the
meeting. The complete official Start
List is available by the pzstiming.net
(Sofia, BUL)
- One of the few greatest web swim sites over the Balkan Region, at the
article passed off on Feb 07, discusses about the Serbian
Swim Strategy 2011-2019 that is proclaimed last week in
Belgrade
at the Chief Board of the Serbian Swimming Association. From the pen of
its Editor-in-Chief, well known swim expert Dr.Ivan Tsanov, few
facts were analyzed. Also some domestic needs for the similar actions
re.
the BUL swimming sport are mentioned. Click up the title to be
redirected
to the FBSS web site were the text in BUL cyrillic letter can be easily
read...
(Viedma, ARG)
- 47 competitors from 15 countries, many belonging to the OWS global
elite,
entered the 3rd stage of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, the
12km
“La Patagones Viedma”, the southern most open water swimming
race
in the world (by the cities of Viedma and Carmen de Patagones,
Argentina)...
Evgeny
Drattsev (RUS) took out the men’s field in 2:33.07. Second was his
teammate Sergey Bolshakov (2:33.10) and third Alex Meyer USA (2:33.14).
Best among females is Eva Fabian (USA) in 2:53.44. Read the
full
report from this event.
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E.Drattsev, OWS world vice-champion, the best in ARG.
(Essen, GER)
- Duel in the poll between Germany and Great Britain, started
Saturday
in Essen, GER.. Germany leads after the first day, 105-84. Few nice
battles
were held. Hannah Miley (GBR) claimed the women's 400 IM title
in
4:38.47, beating Julia Smit's previous world pacesetter of 4:38.83 set
at the Austin Grand Prix. Aimee Wilmott (GBR) earned second in
4:43.92,
while Britain's Sophie Smith finished third in 4:46.73. German
200
free W relay Dorothea Brandt, Silke Lippok, Lisa
Vitting
and Daniela Schreiber led off the first session with a 1:41.52
to
1:43.39 victory. See the complete meet results...
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Aimee Wilmott, GBR - UK's hope for the London 2012..
(Ljubljana,
SLO) -The Winter Championships of Slovenia2011 is
organizing
this week-end (Feb 03-06). More then 400 competitors from 26 clubs take
part in 4-day events (the most number of athletes came from SC Triglav,
SC Ilirija and SC Olimpia). Day-1 of the champs brought few worthy
times.
Among females - Tjasa Oder in 400 free (4:10.35 - 880 pts.),
while
among males Emil Tahirovic in 100 breast (1:01.08 - 848 pts.).
W
realy of SC Radovljica set NR in 4x100 free (3:47.58). Click up
the title to follow up the on-line results issued by the
pzstiming.net...
(Coronda,
ARG) - The second stage of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix
2011
welcomed 25 participants to brave the 57km race between Santa Fe and
Coronda,
in Argentina. Some big names in the world of open water prevailed in
the
hard-fought race with close but clean finishes. After the 4th place a
week
ago in Rosario, Petar Stoychev (BUL), emerged triumphant after
an
intense 8:14:41. Andrea Volpini (ITA) finished second in
8:14:43
while teammate
Rodolfo Valenti (ITA) crossed the finish
line two
seconds later, clocking 8:14:45. Best among females was Cecilia
Biagioli
(ARG), finishing in 8:15:27...
(Sydney, AUS)
- The inaugural competition 'Summer Swim Series' is Swimming
Australia’s
answer to Twenty Twenty cricket. Fast paced sprint actions featuring
four
Australian teams (Yellow, Pink, Green & Blue) held this past
weekend
at the iconic North Sydney Pool. Really, this was interesting event,
with
a total of 68 races in which swimmers such as Geoff Huegill competed 12
times... Great swim names appeared in the disciplines among others
Klim,
Huegill, Seebohm, Jones, etc., who were all the swim promoters. Click
up
the title to be redirected to the official AUS Swimming meet data base
to see the full official results.
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AUS stars - Sullivan, Seebohm, Coutts and
Huegill,...
(Kranj, SLO)
- The 13th edition of the LEN age group meeting Dr. Fig 2011
started
this morning in the town of Kranj, Slovenia. Organized by the SC
Triglav,
this event gathered more then 300 competitors from CRO, SRB, BiH and
SLO.
Coming from Serbia, Swimming Club Proleter (Zrenjanin) takes part in
2-day
events. Click up the title to see the all start lists or to follow up
the
complete on-line results of this competition (via thepzstiming.net)...
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Municipality pool in Kranj, a place of the Dr.Fig 2011...
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - At the general assembly of the PZS held on Wednesday in
Ljubljana,
ex Vice-President of the PZS and the chief of the SC Fuzinar (Ravne na
Koroskem), Mr. Miran Kos is elected for the position of the new
President of the Slovenian Swimming Association (PZS). In his short
note
for media, Kos said: "First of all we have to establish a new technical
administration of the PZS, also to provide more funds dedicated to the
development of the younger categories". New Vice-President is Danilo
Salamon (from SC Branik) while the members of the PZS chief bord
will
be Silvo Hajdinjak, Anja Klinar and Maja Sovinek....
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Mr.M.Kos
- new President of the Slovenian Swimming..
(Rosario,
ARG) - 35 open water swimmers overall from 11 countries took to the
water
for a 15km effort in Rosario (Argerntina), the first race of the 2011
FINA
Open Water Swimming Grand Prix. The men’s event was won by Francisco
Hervas (ESP) in 2:02:55, a newcomer to the FINA podium club, while
on the women's side, Cecilia Biagioli (ARG) repeated her
brilliant
performance from the last year, touching first in 2:04:41. See the full
results...
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The sparkle from the OWS GP race (Ph by
Fina.org)...
January
23, 2011 ------------------------------------------------------ Amsterdam
Swim Cup 2011, NED...(Invitation)
(Amsterdam,
NED) - Invited by Oene Rusticus, AMS meet manager and the Zwemkroniek
editor,
Swim Star Web Portal is in the position to issue the official
invitation
for the upcoming edition of the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2011. Place
of
the event: Sloterparkbad 50m pool. Date of the competition: March
11-13.
Organized by the National Swimming Institute of Amsterdam (E.ON-NZA)
this
event is the Qualifying Tournament for the World Championships
Shanghai
2011 for all Dutch swimmers. So the best swimmers of Holland will
compete
in the Amsterdam Swim Cup 2011 along with competitors from other
countries.
Click up the title to open up the official invitation. For more info,
please
call: info@amsterdamswimcup.nl
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M.Cavic set two Meet Records at the AMS
Cup 2009 (in the 50 fly - 23.25 and in 100 fly - 51.73)...
(Photo by I.Rasula)
(Lausanne,
SUI) - Fina has announced the start of the 2011 OWS GP series.
For
the 4th consecutive year, the Grand Prix attracts world-class open
water
swimmers to race some of the world’s most incredible waterways in
distances
ranging from 15km to 88km. The first leg of the annual circuit takes
place
in Rosario (ARG) on Jan 23. 22 men and 16 women will enter the 15km
race,
counting the Bulgarian giant Petar Stoychev, uncontested
dominator
of the four Grand Prix seasons, local hero Damian Blaum,
runner-up
of the 2010 series and Rodolfo Valenti (ITA), bronze medallist
last
year. Read more....
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Evgenij Pop Acev - OWS power from Skopje (FYROM)...
(Austin, Tx,
USA) - The Austin Grand Prix 2011, the three-day meet, which
took
place at the University of Texas at Austin, was the second stop of the
7-meet USA Swimming Grand Prix Series. National Team swimmer Missy
Franklin
turned in the top performance of the last day of the meet, taking home
three gold medals in the women’s 200m IM, 200m back and the 100m
free...
Ryan
Lochte won the face-off against Michael Phelps in the men’s 200m IM
race. Tyler Clary earned his third gold medal in Austin
in
the men’s 200m back...
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The USA Swimming
Grand Prix Series continues February, 18-21 with the Missouri GP in
Columbia.
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R.Lochte and M.Phelps prior to the men's 200 IM final.. (Photo
by R.Vujosevic)...
(Sarajevo,
BiH)- Founded in March 2010, a new swimming club Novi Grad SC
gathered
more then 30 swimmers from the capital of BIH. New modern approcah in
the
work with the swim talents, great conditions by the Olympic pool Otoka,
and the professional relationships are the strong fundament for the
future...
The first international meet Novi Grad Cup2010 (held on Dec.12)
joined more then 570 competitors from SRB, BUL & BiH. Click up the
title to see the club's presentation and the gallery from that meet...
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Official logo of the Swimming Club Novi Grad, Sarajevo.
(Austin, USA)-
The USA Swimming Austin Grand Prix 2011 helds this weekend in
Texas...
On the Day-1, few great times were set. Julia Smit won in
400 IM with the time of 4:38.83, while among males, Ryan
Lochte
in 200 free (1:53.81) and Michael Phelps in 100 fly (52.55)...
Also
were good Elaine Breeden in the women's 100 fly winning
with
a 59.22 and Katie Hoff in the women's 200 free (1:58.69).
Follow
up official on-line results of this event...
(Osijek, CRO)-
Organized by the Osijek Zito Swimming Club, the 10th edition of the
int'l
meet McDonaldsLima 2011 is going to be held in the
town
of Osijek, CRO. Place of the event: municipality 25-m pool (6 lanes).
Date
of the meeting: April 09. Age categories: M/F (1998; 1999; 2000; 2001
&
younger). Click here for the Entry
Form, or up the title for the full official invitation... More info
on the event can be avaliable via gabrijela.prsa@mail.inet.hr
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Competition
pool in Osijek, a place of the Lima 2011..
(Maribor,
SLO)- Organized by the Plavalno Drustvo Maribor, this past weekend in
Slovenia,
the first edition of the new AG meet "Winter 2011" concluded
successfully,
by the municipality pool (25-m)... 14 clubs with about 200 competitors
from RUS, HUN and SLO took part in the meet events. Few worth times
were
swum by: Nastja Govejsek (1997) who set the new NCR in the 50
free
(26.64). Nina Drolc (1992) set the best meet time in 50 free
(26.42),
while among the men Martin Bau (SC Branik) in 200 free
(1:56.80)...
See the full official results at pzstiming.net
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Maribor municipality pool - a place of the Winter 2011..
(Lausanne,
SUI) - Following an initiative launched by the FINA Executive and the
“FINA
Aquatics World Magazine”, the FINA elected the Best Athletes of 2010 in
all aquatic disciplines: Swimming, Water Polo, Diving, Synchronised
Swimming
and Open Water Swimming. Within the swim sport, top placed are: Men – Ryan
Lochte (USA): winner of 7 medals at the FINA World Swimming
Championships
(25m) in Dubai (UAE), while among Women – Therese Alshammar
(SWE):
overall winner of the FINA Swimming World Cup, also the two times
medalist
at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), in Dubai (UAE)...
(St.Petersburg,
RUS) - The 4th edition of the int'l swim tournament "Salnikov Cup
2010"
started today in the City of St.Petersburg, Russia. 350 athletes from
15
countries take part in this event. On the Day-1 few great times were
swum:
Lobintsev,
RUS in 100 free (47.15); Popova, RUS in W 200 free (1:55.99); Pedersen,
DEN in W 100 breast (1:06.84); Tihonov, RUS in 400 IM
(4:08.89);
Dekker,
NED in W 100 fly (57.55); Bal, USA in 100 back (51.67)...
Coming
from Serbia, M.Najdanovski placed 12th in the women's 50 free
(25.92
-721 pts)... Click up the title to see the Day-1 Finals or here for the
Day-1
Prelims...
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Herasimenia, BLR, the best achievement of the Day-1.
(Dubai, UAE)
- At the FINA Bureau session that has been held in Dubai (UAE) in the
time
of the World Short Course Championships, Prof. Jan-Anders Mansonpresented
the the Report from the FINA Swimwear Approval Commission (SAC).
The report comprised the three main chapters: 1/Background to the
FINA-SAC’s objectives; 2/the Report from Swimwear Approval Commission
and
3/Assessment of today's position. Click up the title to read the
complete
review, where many interesting facts might be found...
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Diagram of WRs lowering (W 100 free 2000 - 2010)...
(Dubai, UAE)
- The curtain of the 10th World Swim Champ Dubai 2010 is drooped down.
On the Day-5, 12 finals were held. 10 new CRs were set. The
Dubai
gold medalists are: in M 100 free Cesar Cielo, BRA (45.74
- CR); in the W 50 back, Jing Zhao, CHN (26.27 - CR) ; in M 200
back, Ryan Lochte, USA (1:50.25 -CR); in the W 200 breast Rebecca
Soni, USA (2:18.66 - CR); in M 100 Ind.medley, Ryan Lochte
(50.86);
in W 100 fly, Felicity Galvez, AUS (55.43 - CR); in M 50 breast,Felipe
Silva (25.95 - CR); in the W 50 free, Ranomi Kromowidjojo,
NED
(23.37); in M 200 fly, Chad Le Clos, RSA (1:51.56); in M 1500
free,
Oussama
Mellouli, TUN (14:29.52); in W 200 free Camille Muffat, FRA
(1:52.29 - CR); in the M 4x100 medley relay, USA team (3:20.99
-CR).
See
more in our Specual Web Blog...
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New swimming kids in Dubai - first steps for the future...
(Dubai, UAE)
- Day-4, within the evening SFs and finals brought new CRs in
almost
all disciplines. 5 finals and 6 semis were held. In the W 100 breast
finals,
Rebecca
Soni, USA caught a gold medal (1:03.98 - CR) in front of Jones, AUS
(1:04.26) and Ji, CHN (1:04.79). In the M 50 back finals, Stanislav
Donets, RUS again set a new CR (22.93). In other finals, in the M
50
fly finals,
Albert Subirats, VEN earned gold medal
with the time
of 22.40 - CR. In the W 200 Ind.medley, Mireia Belmonte ESP set
the new CR in 2:05.73 and earned gold medal in front of Ye, CHN
(2:05.94)
and Kukors, USA (2:06.09). In the last event this evening W 4x 100 free
relay finals, NED suad won in 3:28.54 - CR... Find out details
in
our Web Blog...
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C.Cielo, BRA - the fastest man in the world in 50 free.
(Dubai, UAE)
- Day-3 within the semi finals and finals - more new Records of
the Championships could be seen. 3 Sfs and 10 finals were held this
afternoon.
In the M 200 IM finals, Ryan Lochte, USA, earned his 3rd gold
medal
in 1:50.08 new WR,
followed by Rogan AUT (1:52.90) and Clary, USA (1:53.90). New CRs were
set by Kromowidjojo, NED in 100 free (51.45); Deibler,
GER
in 50 fly (22.57); Tomita, JPN in 200 breast (2:03.12); Alshammar
SWE
in 50 fly (24.87); Soni, USA in 100 breast (1:04.17); Hoff,
USA in 400 free (3:57.07); Cielo BRA in 50 free (20.81) and CHN
in W 4x100 med.relay (3:48.24).
(Dubai, UAE)
-Day-2 for the Semi Finals and Finals at the Rashid
swimming
complex in Dubai, brought this evening 2 WRs and 8 new CRs. Earning his
second Gold medal, Ryan Lochte USA, in the M 400 Ind.medley
Final
set new WR (3:55.50)... In the last evening event, in the men's 4x200
free
relay,
RUS team (Lobintsev, Izvotov, Lagunov
& Sukhorukov)
set new WR (6:49.04), in front of USA (6:49.58) and FRA (6:56.05). Read
more in our Web Blog...
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R.Lochte, second Gold medal in Dubai on the day-2... (Ph
by WN).
(Dubai, UAE)
- After the delighted opening ceremony, the competition continued with
the evening semi finals and finals... 5 final races and 6 SFs have been
held. This evening one WR and 6 CRs were set. In the M
200
free Ryan Lochte, USA set again CR with the time of 1:41.08. In
the W 200 fly Mireia Belmonte, ESP earned gold medal in 2:03.59
CR also in the W 400 IM (4:24.21). In the women's 4x200 free China
(Chen, Tang, Liu & Zhu) took gold medal and set WR in 7:35.94,
almost
3 sec. faster than the Netherland’s record of 7:38.90. Read more...
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M.Belmonte, ESP super star and WCh SC rec holder...
(Dubai, UAE)
- The 10th Fina World Champs Dubai 2010 started this morning at
the Rashid Swim Complex. Just at the beginning, within the morning
heats,
the new three champs records were set by Ryan Lochte, USA in
the
M 200 free (1:42.38), in the M 100 breast by Fabio Scozzoli,
ITA
with the time of 57.60 and by the Russia's squad in the M 4x100
free relay (3:07.78)... Serbian competitors didn't succeed to
catch
the SFs. In the men's 100 breast Caba Siladji was DISQ, Ivan
Lendjer in the men's 100 fly placed 17th (51.54), while Velimir
Stjepanovic ranked 39th (53.09) of 88 athletes. Read more in our Web
Blog.
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Great conditions and a fast pool of the Rashid Center..
(Ljubljana,
SLO) - More then 500 competitors from BiH, AUT, CRO, HUN, SVK, SRB, ITA
took part in the 2-day events for the 19th international AG meeting "Miklavz
2010" that concluded Sunday in Ljubljana, SLO. Three teams from
Serbia,
PSV,
SC
Vojvodina and SC Kikinda participated. Great swimming and
many
medals have been earned. Click here to see the Day-1
or Day-2
results...
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Tivoli swim pool - a place of the Miklavz 2010 meet...
(Banjaluka,
BiH) - Organized by the Swimming Association of Banjaluka, the first
edition
of the new international meet Aquana Swim 2010 is going to be
held
on Dec. 18. Place of the competition: Municipality Olympic pool. Age
categories
in the program: M-(92 & oled, 93/94, 95/96, 97/98, 99 & up);
W-(94
& older, 95/96, 97/98, 99/00, 01 & up). Deadline for the
entries,
Dec.14. The schedule and other info are available via:plivacki_savez_bl@yahoo.com
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Aquana pool - a place of the new meet in Banjaluka...
(Columbus,
USA) - At the Ohio State University, USA, on Thursday evening, the 2010
USA Short Course National Championships, started at the McCorkle
Aquatic
Pavilion. First 4 disciplines concluded with the prelims. Worthy times
were set by Matt Grevers in 50 yd. free (19.23); Jessica
Hardy
also in the 50 yd. free (22.09). Austria's Markus Rogan beats
Rian
Lochte in 200 yd. IM with the time of 1:44.58... Hungarian Katlin
Hosszu
earned the best position in the women's 200
yd. IM (1:56.05)...
Follow up the On Line Results of the USA SCY Championships
(Lausanne,
SUI) - FINA has rescheduled its 10K Marathon Swim World Cup in 2011,
which
will have its first race in April (in Santos, BRA), in order to provide
the necessary time for the FINA Task Force in charge of investigating
the
circumstances of the tragic loss of open water swimmer Fran Crippen
(USA),
on Oct. in UAE. The 2011 OWS season will start on January 23, with the
initial race of the Grand Prix in Rosario (ARG, 15 km). This circuit
will
have 11 stops in three continents and includes only races above 10km
(in
which each swimmer has an escort boat). Click up the title to read the
Calendars of both OWS events.
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Otoka swim center in Sarajevo, a place of the meeting.
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