September 10th - 12th, Parque Aquático Maria Lenk, Rio de Janeiro
In all the excitement of August's major competitions, the World Cup series seems to have been overlooked by many in the swimming world. Big mistake. The swimming world cup series always offers some quality racing. It also offers a chance for someone to break a World Record in 2010. Going to be pretty hard though.
Not sure I can mention his name on the blog any longer, but just for fun how about a Cesar Cielo, 50m & 100m Free time prediction... to get the ball rolling I'm saying 20.8 and 46.2.
The first stop on the global tour starts tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (BRA) 10 – 12 September 2010
Beijing (CHN) 12 – 13 October 2010
Singapore (SIN) 16 – 17 October 2010
Tokyo (JPN) 20 – 21 October 2010
Berlin (GER) 30 – 31 October 2010
Moscow (RUS) 2 – 3 November 2010
Stockholm (SWE) 6 – 7 November 2010
*Speed_Endurance Blog Exclusive* - Start Lists - HERE (credit where credit is due)
Participating Countries:
Argentina, Germany, Brazil, Singapore, Colombia, China, Ecuador, USA, Holland, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, Sweden
Selection of swimmers competing (dominated by Brazilians, but still a good selection of top class international swimmers):
Cesar Cielo, Kaio Almeida, Thiago Pereira, Nicholas Santos, Felipe Silva, Henrique Rodrigues, Tales Cerdeira, Tatiana Lemos Barbosa, Guilherme Guido, Fabiola Molina, Joanna Maranhao (BRA)
Steffen Deibler, Jenny Mensing, Kerstin Vogel, Marco Koch (GER)
Sakiko Nakamura, Kazuki Otsuka (JAP)
Peter Marshall, Randall Bal (USA)
Therese Alshammer, Joline Hoestman (SWE)
Hinkelein Schreuder (NED)
Arkady Vyatchanin, Nikolay Svortsov (RUS)
Omar Pinzon (COL)
Cecilia Biagioli (ARG)
Results will appear - HERE
The event will be shown on Brazilian TV Station - Canal SporTV (will look for a link to view the competition online).
Schedule of Events
Day 1 – Heats at 18:00h (06:00 pm) - Friday, 10TH September 2010
Finals at 10:00h (10:00 am) - Saturday, 11TH September 2010
800m Freestyle Women
100m Freestyle Men
200m Freestyle Women
50m Breaststroke Men
100m Breaststroke Women
400m IM Men
100m Butterfly Women
100m Backstroke Men
50m Backstroke Women
200m Butterfly Men
200m IM Women
400m Freestyle Men
50m Freestyle Women
200m Breaststroke Men
100m IM Men
200m Backstroke Women
50m Butterfly Men
Day 2 – Heats at 18:00h (06:00 pm) - Saturday, 11TH September 2010
Finals at 10:00h (10:00 am) - Sunday, 12TH September 2010
1500m Freestyle Men
100m Freestyle Women
200m Freestyle Men
50m Breaststroke Women
100m Breaststroke Men
400m IM Women
100m Butterfly Men
100m Backstroke Women
50m Backstroke Men
200m Butterfly Women
200m IM Men
400m Freestyle Women
50m Freestyle Men
200m Breaststroke Women
100m IM Women
200m Backstroke Men
50m Butterfly Women
For Cielo, I'll go with 21.1 and 46.9. We'll see where that gets me. Not sure how much training he has been doing since Pan Pacs, where his training was failing him, but he will hold up better with the extra walls - remember the NCAA days?
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to the men's backstroke - gonna be nuts! No clue what kind of shape Bal and Marshall are in - Marshall didn't even swim Nationals this year (which usually he does), and Bal didn't swim very well. I'm sure both can hold up for a 50 though. Vyatchanin has been all over the place since he missed most of the winter after eye surgery. Had a good prelim 100 back at Euros, but he tied for second Russian with Donets and got knocked out in a swim-off. He can probably take the Americans in the 100 (and definitely win the 200), but you never know with Marshall's walls.
Jessica Hardy's Twitter: "Wooooo just got my visa for Brazil expedited for just 24hrs! What a sweet miracle!!" Late entry? No other reason to go to Brazil...
ReplyDeleteYeah, Cielo's proven himself short course and has a pretty good record swimming in Brazil (20.91 LC).
ReplyDeleteNice spot on Hardy's visa, this was her reply though:-
'To answer all ur tweets, not competing in the Rio World Cup, racing in Brazilian Nationals week after next instead!'
This is definitely the leg on the circuit where you can pick up some nice points. Have to think Alshammer's got a good chance to win the overall points title for women.