Another good weekend of racing coming up as many swimmers compete in their final competition before their national championships.
British University Championships - Feb 11-13 - (LC) - Psych Sheet - Results
British Swimming are sending the big guns to compete alongside the students.
UPDATE - Rebecca Adlington just swam 8:23.85. Moves to the top of the world rankings and just 2.6 seconds down on last year's best effort. Splits of 2:04.48 / 4:12.63 / 6:18.66 / 8:23.85 (negative split). In a mixed race Adlington beat 6 men and just finished shy of Stirling's Josh Walsh (8:23.36). Shows what a racer she is.
(Feat. Rebecca Adlington, Fran Halsall, Joanne Jackson, Elizabeth Simmonds, Gemma Spofforth, Amelia Maughan, Steph Proud, Stacey Tadd, Liam Tancock, Ross Davenport, Robert Bale, Laurent Carnol, Antony James, Joe Roebuck, Michael Jamieson, Kris Gilchrist, Chris Walker-Hebborn, Roberto Pavoni)
New South Wales State Championships - Feb 11-13 - (LC) - Result
Britain's Ellen Gandy was hugely impressive beating both Steph Rice and Therese Alshammar comfortably in the 100m Fly. Gandy's time of 58.23 vaults her to the top of the early world rankings.
(Feat. Stephanie Rice, Leisel Jones, Therese Alshammar, Marieke Guehrer, Ellen Gandy, Belinda Hocking, Megan Nay, Katie Goldman, Ryan Cochrane, Andrew Lauterstein, Ryan Napoleon, Kyle Richardson, Matt Targett, Kenneth To, James Magnussen, Thomas Fraser-Holmes, Ashley Delaney, Hayden Stoeckel)
Swedish Grand Prix - Feb 12-13 - (LC) - Start List - Results
Marleen Veldhuis (25.13) held off Ranomi Kromowidjojo (25.30) in the 50m Free. Sarah Sjöström won the 100m Fly in an impressive time of 58.47 (just shy of Gandy's time from the other side of the world).
(Feat. Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Sarah Sjöström, Marleen Veldhuis, Sharon van Rouwendaal, Jennie Johansson, Petra Granlund, Gabriella Fagundez, Stefan Nystrand, Simon Sjödin, Petter Stymne)
Meeting National Nice (LC) - Feb 11-13 - Results (Thanks to Dublincat for the tip)
(Feat. Yannick Agnel, Alain Bernard, Danila Izotov, Stanislav Donets, Boris Steimitz, Camille Muffat, Coralie Balmy, Ophelie-Cyrille Etienne, Alexandra Putra)
Incredible times from Camille Muffat (1:56.63 200m Free, 8:2655 800m Free) and Yannick Agnel (1:46.55 200m Free), strengthening their claims as serious contenders for Shanghai later this year. Also featuring a 1:04.91 100m Breast from none other than Alain Bernard... how about a switch to IM? He can swim 200m Free and 100m Breast... Just saying.
Thats hugely impressive by Becky, she swam 8.32 at a similar point last year, Decent return for an unrested Jo Jackson too.
ReplyDeleteyannick agnel went 1'46"55 in the 200 final at the nice meet .
ReplyDeletecamille muffat want 1'56"63 in the 2oo free . she broke her pb in the 800 free in a time of 8'26"55.
here is the link for the result of the nice meet
http://www.premiumwanadoo.com/provence-natation.org/evenement/20110211_meeting/resultats/p_resultats.php
Thank you! I knew there was a meet I was missing but couldn't for the life of me work out which one. This was the one!
ReplyDeleteGREAT times by Agnel and Muffat. Wow.
Ellen Gandy 2.05.90 200fly in NSW, out in 1.00.02!
ReplyDeleteAlso Camille is going to have a hell of a 400FR this year, doubt she will do it in Shanghai though, IM & 200FR, and she has always been and amazing unrested swimmer, still a great swim though!