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Danish swimmer Jeanette Ottesen is preparing for her fifth Olympic competition as trials for Tokyo begin to heat up. The 2016 medalist is ready to hop back into the pool after a brief break to start a family with her husband and coach, Marco Loughran.

We sat down with Jeanette to discuss how her experience has changed her swimming, how she’s changed her preparation, and a few secret keys to success that she’s relied on over her 16 year international swimming career.

You’ve been in four Olympics so far and hold over 50 medals from international competitions, what’s inspiring you to make this comeback?

​Firstly, the timing of my pregnancy meant that I couldn’t finish my international career when I wanted to. I still felt like I had more to give and more to experience. Secondly, and most importantly, was that I wanted to be able to prove to the Danish Swimming community that being a mum doesn’t hinder or halt your sporting dreams, goals and aspirations. If anything, they can help fuel them.

Obviously, having a child has a dramatic effect on your body. How is your training and preparation different now from your last Olympics?

​My coach, who is also my husband, has put a big importance on making this comeback journey enjoyable and fun. I have a different perspective now when it comes to training and competing, which I view as a positive. By having a child you begin to realize that there’s more to just swimming, and you start to enjoy the little things about the sport. I definitely don’t train the nine times a week that I used to, but the sessions that I do now all have key focuses, without all the fluff. We are trying to approach the 2020 Games with the view of doing things that others haven’t done yet, as to keep my interest at its peak.

If you make the Olympics in 2020 it will be 16 years after you first qualified at the age of 16. Do you feel like the de facto leader of the Danish swimming team because of that experience? Is there an obligation to be a role model and leader to the other swimmers because of your experience?

​I don’t particularly see myself as a leader of the Danish team, but if anyone would like to vent or ask for advice, I’m always available. I’ve seen the highs and lows that the sport has to offer so my view can cover a broad spectrum of questions. I perceive my role in Danish Swimming as that of someone who wants to prove the doubters wrong, and to inspire the swimmers, especially the girls, that age is experience and motherhood is a blessing.

How do you make sure you’re ready for a race? Any superstitions, rituals, or anything like that that make a difference for you?

​Before a race I usually have my rituals of how I stretch and shake my legs off. Also, on the blocks when I’m about to get into the ‘take your marks’ position I have a little arm swing, which comforts me. I used to have a pair of lucky socks, which I’ve used for years, but they are super worn now and have holes for my toes to stick out from.

In the past you’ve had some issues with goggles, how have you adjusted your equipment to be confident it is best serving you?

​It’s always difficult to find goggles that feel comfortable and you can ‘trust’ in them. Once you find a pair that fits your face and feels great you tend to believe that some sort of ‘confidence’ comes from them. The sense of reliability is what I believe is most important. I have that kind of confidence in TheMagic5 goggles, which is what led me to switch to them for this Olympic cycle.

What are you looking for in a pair of goggles? What makes them more or less likely to be successful for you?

​I always love having a pair of goggles that look cool and mean business. It adds a boost to your confidence when you feel that you look like you’re there to race fast and look the part. TheMagic5 does that easily, but like I said comfort is the most important. As long as they feel like they fit my face then I’m a very happy swimmer. Having custom fit goggles thanks to TheMagic5 manages to check off every one of these boxes.

When you’re in the water, ultimately the race comes down to your individual performance. What do you think makes or breaks an individual as they’re swimming?

​I think that in a race, the make or break point comes when a swimmer feels that the impossible is out of reach. If the race moves on, don’t be scared to move with them. Don’t back down from a challenge and never feel like you’re not enough.

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2019 WORLD PARA SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• September 9-15, 2019
• London Aquatics Centre, London, England
• Prelims 10 a.m. local time/finals 6 p.m.
• Full results

After leading the race at the 50-meter mark, Great Britain’s Stephen Clegg took second in the men’s S12 100 fly to Dzmitry Salei, of Belarus, Tuesday. Salei won in 57.28, just ahead of Clegg’s 57.36. Clegg took his race out .18 seconds faster than Salei, but closed .26 slower.

Ukrainian Yaroslav Denysenko was third in 57.70.

“Hopefully I’ll get the touch next time,” the 2016 Paralympian Clegg told SwimSwam. “I was scared, a little bit, when I got to 25 to go, because they always catch up to me – my back end’s not my strong element.”

Clegg, 23, also finished seventh in the 100 free, fourth in the 100 back, and fifth in the 50 free. Salei, 29, took third in the 50 free and fourth in the 100.

Check out the rest of Clegg’s interview below:

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Read the full story on SwimSwam: S12 Stephen Clegg Breaks Down Nail-Biter 100 Fly Result at Worlds

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The International Swimming League (ISL) recently published its technical information, breaking down event schedules, scoring, lineups and more for the new competitive concept’s inaugural season. With that in mind, let’s take stock of each of the eight teams’ rosters as we know them to stand today, taking into account updates since most of the non-American-based teams’ lineups were revealed back in April and the American-based teams were made known in June.

• Click here for the 2019 ISL Season Schedule.

For instance, World Championships multi-gold medalist and newly-minted 100m fly World Record holder Caeleb Dressel was originally absent from all ISL rosters but has since joined the Cali Condors.

On the flip side, both Italy’s Ilaria Cusinato and France’s Laura Grangeon were originally members of ISL teams, but the swimmers have since voluntarily removed themselves from the inaugural ISL season.

Cusinato relinquished her spot on the Aqua Centurions roster in order to better adjust to her new training regimen under Shane Tusup.

As for Grangeon, the once-New York Breaker has now opted out of the league to focus on open water training leading up to the Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo next year.

Two swimmers, Gabriel Santos and Shayna Jack, were suspended after registering positive doping control tests. Santos is now permanently ineligible, while Jack’s status is pending the conclusion of anti-doping proceedings in Australia.

American Simone Manuel remains the biggest name that has still yet to announce a team affiliation for the first season of the ISL.

By Karl Ortegon on SwimSwam

We’ll be previewing the top 12 men’s and women’s programs for the 2019-2020 season – stay tuned to our College Swimming Previews channel to catch all 24. Can’t get enough college swimming news? Check out the College Preview issue of SwimSwam Magazine for more in-depth college swimming coverage, including a bird’s-eye view of the flood of coaching changes and our ever-popular rankings of the top 50 individual swimmers in college swimming.

#6 TEXAS LONGHORNS

Key Losses: Joanna Evans (1 NCAA point, 1 NCAA relay), Remedy Rule (2 NCAA relays), Anelise Diener (2 NCAA relays), Quinn Carrozza (1 NCAA relay)

Key Additions: Kelly Pash(IN – multi), Mary Smutny(FL – free/fly), Miranda Heckman(CA – free), Bridget Semenuk(CT – sprint free), Kyla Leibel(Canada – sprint free/fly)

GRADING CRITERIA

We’re unveiling a new, more data-based grading criteria in this year’s series. Our grades this year are based on ‘projected returning points’, a stat of our own making. We started with our already-compiled “no senior returning points” (see here and here), which is effectively a rescoring of 2019 NCAAs with seniors removed and underclassmen moved up to fill those gaps. In addition, we manually filtered out points from known redshirts and swimmers turning pro early, while manually adjusting points for outgoing and incoming transfers and adding in projected points for incoming freshmen with NCAA scoring times, as well as athletes returning from injury or redshirts who are very likely NCAA scorers.

Since we only profile the top 12 teams in this format, our grades are designed with that range in mind. In the grand scheme of college swimming and compared to all other college programs, top 12 NCAA programs would pretty much all grade well across the board. But in the interest of making these previews informative, our grading scale is tough – designed to show the tiers between the good stroke groups, the great ones, and the 2015 Texas fly group types.

• 5 star (★★★★★) – a rare, elite NCAA group projected to score 25+ points per event
• 4 star (★★★★) – a very, very good NCAA group projected to score 15-24 points per event
• 3 star (★★★) – a good NCAA group projected to score 5-14 points per event
• 2 star (★★) – a solid NCAA group projected to score 1-4 points per event
• 1 star (★) –  an NCAA group that is projected to score no points per event, though that doesn’t mean it’s without potential scorers – they’ll just need to leapfrog some swimmers ahead of them to do it

We’ll grade each event discipline: sprint free (which we define to include all the relay-distance freestyle events, so 50, 100 and 200), distance free, IM, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly and diving. Bear in mind that our grades and painstaking scoring formula attempts to take into account all factors, but is still unable to perfectly predict the future. Use these grades as a jumping-off point for discussion, rather than a reason to be angry.

2018-2019 LOOKBACK

The Texas women combined for a fifth-place finish last season at NCAAs. Despite only a handful of individual performances (and the 800 free relay) going season bests at NCAAs, Texas relied on a three-pronged point-scoring formula: score all five relays, bring a couple strong individuals (Evie Pfeifer and Claire Adams combined for 29 points on their own swims), and dominate the diving boards.

Their diving group was led by Murphy Bromberg, the 2019 platform NCAA champ, and between her, Alison Gibson, Sofia Rauzi, and Meghan O’Brien, Longhorn divers racked up a whopping 60 points, nearly a third of Texas’s total points haul. Plus, the Texas free relays were great, with the 400 and 800 relays going 4th and 5th, respectively, and all the other relays scoring, too.

The Texas women were lethal in dual meet season last year. They went undefeated, starting the fall semester by thumping ranked opponents Florida and Indiana in a tri-meet and then rival Texas A&M. Texas’s match-up with Stanford was smoked out by California wildfires, but they were able to swim, and beat, Cal in Berkeley to close out the 2018 dual meet season. On the back half, the Longhorns downed Auburn and Georgia, wiped the floor with Arizona, and overpowered NC State before cruising into championship season.

While the top three was pretty locked down ahead of the rest of the country, Texas could’ve been far more competitive with fourth-place Louisville if they peaked at NCAAs. Most of the team’s season-bests came from mid-season or Big 12’s, including all but the 800 free relay. If the Longhorns are going to move from a top 4-6 team to a top 1-3 team, they will need to be better when it counts.

SPRINT FREE: ★★★

With Grace Ariola, Julia Cook, and Claire Adams all returning, the sprint core of this group is very much intact despite all of the graduation losses. Ariola’s mid-season 21.73 held up as the 11th-best time of the whole season, and she’s on the cusp of getting into 47-second territory in the 100. Only a sophomore, she and Cook (also a sophomore) could continue to develop here. Ariola made the B final in the 50 free at NCAAs but wasn’t able to break 22 seconds, while Cook was top 30 in both sprint free races.

Grace Ariola (photo: Jack Spitser)

The senior Adams was 47.91 in the 100 free B final to place 11th, and with four of eight A finalists last year graduated, she is looking at an upgrade to the A final. Anelise Diener was the fourth relay leg on the sprint relays and graduated, but the Longhorns have five fantastic freestylers incoming.

The 200 free strength is going to be phenomenal in Austin this year. On the 800 free relay last year at NCAAs, Adams and Evie Pfeifer return after splitting 1:43-high’s. Despite losing Joanna Evans and Quinn Carrozza, the freshman class is going to give them a ton of options here. Kelly Pash has been 1:45.25, followed by Mary Smutny (1:45.36), Miranda Heckman (1:46.22), Bridget Semenuk (1:46.93), and Kyla Leibel (1:59.58 LCM). Yep; the entire freshman class will be in competition for this relay, with Pash and Smutny already looking like leading candidates and potential individual scorers with some improvement.

The sprintiest out of the newcomers are Semenuk (22.4/49.1), Pash (22.7/48.5), and the Canadian Leibel (25.4/55.3 LCM). That should keep the relays afloat, at the very least, and Semenuk in the 50 and Pash in the 100 aren’t terribly far out of NCAA scoring range right now (Pash is closer).

DISTANCE FREE: ★★★

EviePfeifer is the big returner here with Evans graduated, and she’s a heavy hitter. Pfeifer has made the 500 free A final in both her freshman and sophomore seasons, and she scored in the mile both years, too, at 12th in 2018 and 13th in 2019.

Evie Pfeifer (photo: Jack Spitser)

For scoring options past Pfeifer, the Longhorns might have a couple in the freshman class, but more so in the 500 than the mile. Heckman leads the newcomer group at 4:41.53, with Smutny (4:42.45) and Pash (4:44.78) right there, too. It takes under 4:40 to score at NCAAs these days, but these three will definitely add some spark to the distance group.

As far as the mile goes, most of the freshman class doesn’t have the range up to the mile, though if anyone is going to go for the event as a primary focus, it’s Heckman. Her lifetime best isn’t shabby at 16:28.51, but it’s from 2016 when she was 14.

BACKSTROKE: ★★★

The three main players here are also the aforementioned three top sprint freestylers: senior Claire Adamsand sophomores Grace Ariola and Julia Cook. With Carrozza graduated, the speed is really only there in the 100 back.

Julia Cook (photo: Jack Spitser)

Adams dropped a 50.95 in the 100 back at mid-season but was unable to repeat that at NCAAs. Had she done so, she’d have made the A final. Still, she swam to 10th there (51.43, 51.22 in prelims), with Cook also making the B final, clocking a 51.98. Ariola was 52.44 at NCAAs, a half-second out of scoring.

This is another story where the Longhorns could’ve picked up several points more simply by matching their mid-season times. Had they done so, Adams would’ve been in the A final and Ariola would’ve joined Cook in the B.

Regardless, this is a great backstroke group, and their sprint focus is hugely important for the medley relays.

BREASTSTROKE: ★

The breaststroke group isn’t bad– you can’t knock a team with a 59 and a 1:00 returning– but there is really only one person with scoring potential right now: Kennedy Lohman. She was 59.86 mid-season and 59.96 at NCAAs, just a half-second from scoring there. She’s more of a sprint breaststroker, and if Texas is going to score in a breaststroke event, it’ll probably be Lohman in the 100.

Holly Jansen returns after going 1:00.66 at Big 12’s, a lifetime best, and her 2:10.86 in the 200 from 2017 suggests she could come around in the longer event, too. She couldn’t match her high school best last year, though, and Lohman’s 2:12.02 at NCAAs was a season best but only placed 48th. Her 2:09.71 from 2018 is cusp scoring level, though.

BUTTERFLY: ★

With Remedy Rule graduated, Texas loses its medley butterflier and the closest person to scoring for them in either butterfly event last year. She placed 17th in the 100 fly, a tenth out of scoring, and was then DQ’d in the 200 fly despite having shown she can score in the top 8 (as a sophomore she made the A final but was DQ’d in the final).

Lauren Case was 52.0/1:53.4 as a freshman in 2017, taking sixth overall in the 200 fly at NCAAs. She was 17th in prelims of the 200 fly as a sophomore, though, and wasn’t top 30 in either fly event this past season. She’s a senior now with scoring potential depending on her form this season.

Kelly Pash (photo: Mike Lewis)

Adams (52.4) and Ariola (52.6) were decent in the 100 fly last season, and while they likely won’t focus on the event individually, they could be medley relay options.

Freshman Kelly Pash could be very key here. She brings a 52.8/1:57.1 combo in yards, but this past summer dropped big swims at 58.7/2:10.6 in long course. 

By Jared Anderson on SwimSwam

It’s September, and that means the start of the college swimming season.

We’ve spent the past few weeks dissecting every possible aspect of the coming NCAA season. You can check out any coverage you missed here, with links back to all of our preseason coverage, plus a few hints at what’s still to come.

TEAM-BY-TEAM COLLEGE SWIMMING PREVIEWS

As we do every year, we previewed each of the top 12 men’s and women’s teams in the nation in-depth. You can find all our previews here, or on our College Swimming Previews channel.

RANKING THE NCAA RECRUITING CLASSES

We also ranked out the incoming freshman classes, pulling out the 12 best recruiting classes nationwide for both men and women:

• Women’s classes #9-12
• Women’s classes #5-8
• Women’s classes #1-4
• Men’s classes #9-12
• Men’s classes #5-8
• Men’s classes #1-4
• Individual recruit rankings – Girls final rankings (June 2019)
• Individual recruit rankings – Boys final rankings (June 2019)

COMING SOON:

In addition, we’ll be rounding out our preseason coverage with two more series: our first-edition SwimSwam Power Rankings and our event-by-event preseason picks. Stay tuned to our College channel as we finalize those series.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: SwimSwam’s Comprehensive 2019-2020 College Swimming Preview Index

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FINA World Women’s Junior Water Polo Championships

• Sept. 9-15, 2019
• Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal
• Venue: Funchal Olympic Pools Complex
• Competitors: 16 teams
• Live Scoring

The four-time champion United States is out of the running for the 2019 World Women’s Junior Water Polo title after falling to Italy 9-8 in the first quarterfinal match on Friday.

In addition to Italy, the Netherlands, 2017 champion Russia and Greece advanced to Saturday’s semifinals with quarterfinal wins on Friday.

Russia has won two previous titles (2009, 2017), while Greece won in 1997 and the Netherlands claimed the inaugural crown in 1995. Italy will be looking for its best ever finish, having never reached the podium in 12 previous editions.

The Americans, meanwhile, drop into the fifth through eighth place seeding matches alongside China, Hungary and Spain.

In other action, Canada and Australia won in ninth through 12th place seeding matches on Friday and will meet on Saturday. Japan claimed 13th place and Kazakhstan snagged 15th place with wins on Friday.

Friday’s Results

Friday’s Top Scorers

Quarterfinals

Italy trailed the United States 8-7 heading into the final quarter, but the Italians got goals from Agnese Cocchiere and Dafne Bettini, while holding the Americans scoreless in the final eight minutes to clinch the 9-8 win and a spot in the semifinals. Cocchiere notched a hat trick for Italy, while Jewel Roemer managed four goals for the USA.

The Netherlands led 5-2 after three quarters, giving the team enough cushion to withstand being outscored 4-3 by China in the final period en route to an 8-6 win. Maxine Schaap put in four goals to pace the Dutch, while Xhen Xiao scored twice for China.

The result was never in doubt for Russia as the team poured on 16 goals over the first three periods to just seven for Hungary. The Hungarians rallied with a 4-2 edge in the final stanza, but came up short in the 18-11 decision. Daria Chagochkina led the way for Russia with four goals, while Elizaveta Zaplatina and Anastasiia Diachenko each added hat tricks. Vanda Valyi put in four goals for Hungary, while Eszter Lara Kiss notched a hat trick.

Greece jumped out to a 6-1 advantage in the opening quarter vs. Spain, but the Spaniards were within one with eight minutes to play (9-8) after putting in four goals in the second stanza and outscoring Greece 3-0 in the third. An action shot by Eleni Elliniadi made it 10-8 Greece with 6:44 to play. Greece took five more shots, missing two, seeing two saved and one blocked. Spain also had five tries, hitting the post once, missing once and having three saved. Elliniadi scored a game-high four goals, while Maria Myriokefalitaki added three. Paula Arrones notched three goals for Spain.

9th through 12th place Seedings

Canada and Australia will meet on Saturday with ninth place on the line after each won in seeding matches on Friday.

Canada snapped a 5-all tie after three quarters with a four-goal final stanza, while allowing Brazil just two en route to the 9-7 victory. Four different players accounted for the fourth-quarter goals for Canada, including Daphne Guevremont, who finished off a hat trick. Ana Alice Amaral matched Guevremont with three goals for Brazil.

Australia piled up nine goals over the first two periods and tacked on six more in the final stanza to close out a 16-5 win over South Africa. Ruby Swadling netted six goals for the Aussies, while Abby Andrews added a hat trick. Jordan Wedderburn led South Africa with two goals.

13th Place – Japan 13, New Zealand 10

A five-goal second quarter gave Japan an 8-5 halftime lead and the advantage it needed to take the 13-10 victory as each team scored five goals down the stretch. Fuka Nishiyama put in four goals to pace Japan, while Emmerson Houghton countered with four for New Zealand. Elizabeth Alsemgeest also added a hat trick for the Kiwis.

15th Place – Kazakhstan 13, Portugal 6

Kazakhstan outscored Portugal 9-2 in the second half to claim a 13-6 victory and 15th place in the tournament. Anastassiya M. led the way with four goals, while Viktoriya K. and Anna Novikova each added hat tricks. Madalena Lousa put in three goals to lead Portugal.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Italy, Netherlands, Russia, Greece Move on to WP World Junior Semifinals

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2019 WORLD PARA SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• September 9-15, 2019
• London Aquatics Centre, London, England
• Prelims 10 a.m. local time/finals 6 p.m.
• Full results

American Paralympian Becca Meyers hit her second world record of the 2019 World Para Swimming World Championships Friday, then 10 minutes later, followed it up with an American record.

Meyers swim up in the S13 class in the women’s 200 IM, earning the silver medal in 2:24.56, a new S12 world record. Italy’s Carlotta Gilli (S13) won the race in 2:24.46, and Russia’s Daria Lukyanenko (S12) took third in 2:27.91. Then, less than 30 minutes later, Meyers returned to the block for the S12 100 free and took bronze in 1:00.72, a new American record.

Meyers also broke the world record in the S12 400 free earlier in the meet.

Directly after Meyers’ second race, Australian Cameron Leslie broke the men’s S4 world record in the 50 free, winning in 37.14. Japan’s Takayuki Suzuki took second in 37.56 and Russia’s Roman Zhadanov third in 39.14.

Great Britain set the final world record of the night in the women’s 34-point 4×100 medley relay, beating the second-place American team by 22 seconds. Great Britain’s Alice Tai (S8), Brock Whiston (S9), Toni Shaw (S8) and Stephanie Millward (S9) combined for a 4:36.31.

Additional continental records broken on night 5:

• Australia’s Braeden Jason hit an Oceania record in prelims of the men’s S12 100 free, going 54.05. He then took sixth in the final in a new record of 53.86.
• Lakeisha Patterson, also of Australia, set an Oceania record in winning the S9 women’s 400 free final. She went 4:38.29, five seconds ahead of the second-place finisher Toni Shaw (4:43.20).

Medal table after night 5 – Top 5

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CAMPIONATI DEL MONDO NUOTO PARALIMPICO 2019

• 9-15 Settembre 2019
• London Aquatics Centre
• Vasca Lunga 50 Metri
• Federazione Italiana Nuoto Paralimpico
• Diretta Streaming
• Risultati

Ai Mondiali di Nuoto Paralimpico, l’Italia sale a quota 36 dopo cinque giorni di gare.

Nelle finali di ieri sera sono state sette le medaglie conquistate dagli azzurri della Nazionale.

Due ori e cinque argenti portano gli azzurri al secondo posto del medagliere, superati dalla formazione ucraina che ora svetta in cima con 40 medaglie.

I due ori portano la firma di Carlotta Gilli ed Arjola Trimi.

Nella finale dei 200m misti SM13, Carlotta Gilli conquista il titolo iridato con il tempo di 2:24.46, nuovo Record dei Campionati.

E’ la terza medaglia d’oro in questa rassegna per l’atleta Rari Nantes Torino/Fiamme Oro, dopo quella nei 100m dorso e 100m stile libero. Ai tre ori si aggiunge il bronzo conquistato nei 400m stile libero.

Per Arjola Trimi un oro che vale una stagione.

Dopo essersi lussata la spalla nel mattino, la Trimi supera se stessa e porta a casa non solo il titolo di campionessa del Mondo nei 50m stile libero S4, ma il tempo di 42.41 le vale anche il pass per le Paralimpiadi di Tokyo 2020.

Record Europeo per Antonio Fantin.

Nelle finale dei 50 metri stie libero S6, Fantin ferma il tempo a 29.92, conquistando l’argento e siglando il nuovo Record Europeo.

MEDAGLIE 13 SETTEMBRE

1. Stefano Raimondi argento 100m farfalla S10 – 55.31
2. Staffetta 4x100m mista maschile 34pts argento 4:09.10
3. Antonio Fantin, argento 50m stile libero S6 – 29.92 Record Europeo
4. Alessia Scortechini argento 100m farfalla S10 – 1:07.46
5. Carlotta Gilli, oro 200m misti SM13 2:24.46 Record dei Campionati
6. Arjola Trimi oro 50m stile libero S4 42.41
7. Angela Procida argento 50m dorso S2 1:13.98

DIRETTA STREAMING

NAZIONALE ITALIANANUOTO PARALIMPICO

UOMINI

1. BARLAAM Simone, Polha Varese
2. BICELLI Federico, Polisportiva bresciana no Frontiere
3. BOCCIARDO Francesco, G.S. FF.OO/Nuotatori Genovesi
4. BONI Vincenzo, G.S. FF.OO/Caravaggio Sporting Village
5. CIULLI Simone, Circolo Canottieri Aniene
6. FANTIN Antonio, G.S. FF.OO/ Aspea Padova
7. MENCIOTTI Riccardo, Circolo Canottieri Aniene
8. MORELLI Efrem,  G.S. FF.OO/ Asd Sea Sub Modena
9. MORLACCHI Federico, Polha Varese
10. RAIMONDI Stefano, Verona Swimming Team
11. SOTTILE Fabrizio, Polha Varese
12. URSO Salvatore, Noived Napoli

DONNE

1. BERRA Alessia, Polha Varese
2. BOGGIONI Monica, AICS Pavia Nuoto
3. GHIRETTI Giulia, G.S. FF.OO/ Ego Nuoto
4. GILLI Carlotta, G.S. FF.OO/Rari Nantes Torino
5. PALAZZO Xenia Francesca, Verona Swimming Team
6. PROCIDA Angela, Nuotatori Campani
7. SCORTECHINI Alessia, Circolo Canottieri Aniene
8. TALAMONA Arianna, Polha Varese
9. TERZI Giulia, Polha Varese
10. TRIMI Arjola, Polha Varese

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Mondiali Nuoto Paralimpico-Italia A Quota 36-Trimi Oro E Pass Tokyo 2020

By Karl Ortegon on SwimSwam

The next updates to the Olympic Darkhorse series are here, with episodes 7 and 8. In between episodes, Ilaria Cusinatoannounced her withdrawal from the International Swimming League, where she had initially joined the Rome-based team the Aqua Centurions.

In Episode 7, we see more action from the pool as Cusinato and Zsombor Bujdoso continue their workouts. A lot of the footage is of the two swimmers and Tusup in the indoor pool working on start technique and body entry into the water. They also head out to the outdoor pool, pushing through more grueling sets and doing some swims for times. At the end of the video, Tusup tells Cusinato that he wants her to break the World Record, not just win gold, though it’s unclear which event he’s referring to (probably the 400 IM, which has felt like their focus, and which is arguably Cusinato’s best event). They high five at the end of the set and video after Tusup calls her performance in the set she had just done a ‘breakthrough.’

EPISODE 7

Episode 8 has a lot more gym footage of the swimmers training and lifting. It’s week three, and Tusup notes their soreness and how broken down they are. He says they’ll curb the weights a bit so they can let the muscles recover and focus a little more on work in the pool.

EPISODE 8

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USA Swimming has announced a list of officials who will work the 2020 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials from June 21st-28th, 2020 at the CHI Health Center in Omaha, Nebraska. In total, 23 officials will work the meet, including 2 who will cover the underwater review cameras that can be used to overturn disqualifications called by on-deck officials.

The officials were chosen after a process that included recommendations from their peers, officiating history at the local and national level, and “commitment to the sport.

An additional group of officials will be invited to complete the list of deck officials for Olympic Trials and those will be announced by the end of October.

Among the leadership roles announced are Don Hougardy as Team Lead Chief Judge, Clark Hammond as Meet Referee, and Denice Wepasnick as head starter. Hammond, notably, is the Chair of the USA Swimmiing Rules and Regulations Committee, while Hougardy serves on the USA Swimming Audit Committee.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: USA Swimming Names First 23 Officials for 2020 US Olympic Trials

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2019 JAPAN NATIONAL SPORTS FESTIVAL

• Saturday, September 14th – Monday, September 16th
• Ibaraki Swimming Arena
• LCM
• SwimSwam Meet Preview
• Start Lists/Results (in Japanese)

Day 1 Highlights

Day 1 of the swimming portion of the 2019 Japan National Sports Festival saw 25-year-old Olympic champion Kosuke Hagino in the water in his 2nd race since coming back after a break from competition.

After a several-month-long hiatus to tend to physical and mental health, Hagino returned to the pool at the FINA World Cup stop in Tokyo, collecting 200m IM bronze in a time of 2:00.03. Since that meet in early August, Hagino’s impending marriage to Japanese singer/songwriter miwa has been revealed, along with the couple’s announcement they are expecting their first child together this winter.

Hagino contested the men’s 200m IM once again tonight at the Ibaraki Swimming Arena, getting under the 2-minute barrier in a time of 1:59.76. That garnered a silver medal result behind winner Keita Sunama who touched the wall in 1:58.39 for the decisive win.

For Sunama, his outing tonight outperforms his previous best of 2019, which rested at the 1:58.70 notched for gold at the Japan Open this past May. As for Hagino, the man is used to hitting marks in the 1:57-range, but his improvement from his World Cup performance is a step in the right direction for the Bridgestone star.

The women’s 200m IM saw World Championships medalist Yui Ohashi put up a solid effort of 2:09.00, a time that crushed the previous meet record mark of 2:10.31. Ohashi’s time tonight would have placed the 23-year-old 5th in this year’s World Championships final, a race in which Ohashi found herself disqualified.

Ohashi was back in the water to race the women’s 100m fly tonight as well, beating the field once again to take a 2nd gold. Splitting 27.86/30.60, Ohashi managed to edge out Suzuka Hasegawa who hit the timepad just .11 later in a final mark of 58.55. Also making it close was Ai Soma who collected bronze in 58.62.

Last weekend at the Japanese Student Swimming Championships, Shinnosuke Ishikawa blasted a new 100m fly lifetime best of 51.11 to come within .11 of the Japanese National Record in the vent that’s been on the books since 2009. He wasn’t quite as electric tonight but still got the job done for gold in 52.16.

Teammate Yuki Kobori was also under 53 seconds with a silver medal-worthy time of 52.48. Kobori is the reigning Asian Games bronze medalist in this event.

Two-time World University Games gold medalist Waka Kobori made her mark on the women’s 400m freestyle race, clocking a winning time of 4:09.68. That not only represented the only time under the 4:10 threshold, but also the 4:11 mark in tonight’s final.

Kobori’s time tonight checks-in as the fastest of her 2019 season, beating out the 4:10.52 she logged last week for Japanese Student Swimming Championships gold, as well as the 4:11.16 notched at this year’s Japan Swim. Kobori is the reigning Asian Games bronze medalist in the women’s 1500m freestyle from Jakarta.

More recently at the aformetnioned WUGs in Naples, Kobori took golds across the women’s 800m and 1500m freestyle events.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Sunama Tops Hagino, Ohashi Gets Double Gold On Night 1 Of JPN Sports Festival

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Russian teenager Andrei Minakov is withdrawing the International Swimming League to preserve his NCAA eligibility, Swimming World Magazinereported Saturday.

Minakov, 17, was slated to swim for the star-studded Energy Standard team. ISL teams pay their athletes and the league features hefty prize payouts as one of its central tenets. NCAA athletes must be amateurs, meaning they cannot accept money for their performances (which the exception of Olympic medal money from their home nation).

“First of all, I would like to thank Energy Standard for this marvelous opportunity,” Minakov told Swimming World. “And good luck to the team during the meets! I cheer for you guys!”

“This decision was made by several reasons, but the main for them is that I want to save eligibility for my future NCAA career, he continued. “As I always say, life isn’t just about swimming.”

“I hope my withdraw won’t affect the team’s success.”

Minakov added that he intends to enroll at an American University after the 2020 Olympics. He spent stints in 2018 training with the Terrapins Swim Team in Concord, California. There, he trained with Maldovan Alexei Sancov, now a sophomore at USC, who did his last two years of high school in the States.

Minakov has spent most of 2019 training in Russia, according to Swimming World. He’ll continue to travel in the upcoming year, which he’ll take off from school, but hopes to spend “at least a month” in the U.S.

Sancov will be a huge addition to any NCAA program. He took second at the 2019 FINA World Championships over the summer in the 100 fly, going 50.83 to become the 14th-fastest performer in history. He also won six gold medals at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in the fall of 2018.

Minakov is the fourth swimmer to withdraw from the ISL recently. The others include Italians Ilaria Cusinato and Gabriele Detti, as well as France’s Lara Grangeon.

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Según informó el medio mexicano El Universal, México se podría enfrentar a una sanción tras hacer uso de gorros que no reunían los criterios establecidos por la FINA y el Comité Olímpico Internacional (COI).

Los gorros llevaban la abreviatura “FMN”, tras Federación Mexicana de Natación, en vez de usar la abreviatura oficial de México (MEX).

El presidente del Comité Olímpico Mexicano (COM), Carlos Padilla Becerra, indicó que los gorros habrían sido fabricados por Arena en vez de Li-Ning, la cual estaba a cargo de fabricar el uniforme de la delegación mexicana en los Juegos Panamericanos de Lima 2019.

“El gorro no debería haber tenido las siglas de la Federación de Natación”, confirmó Padilla a El Universal. “Se va a analizar ese asunto en la próxima reunión del Comité Ejecutivo del Comité Olímpico Mexicano, que se realizará a principios de septiembre. Especialmente para saber qué medidas se tomarán contra la Federación de Natación”.

La FMN ahora se enfrenta a una sanción por presuntamente autopromocionar a la propia federación al incluir las iniciales de la federación en lugar de la abreviatura oficial de México. Para recapitular, la federación se ha visto envuelta en diversas disputas involucrando a distintas personalidades políticas a lo largo de estos últimos meses.

El pasado mes de julio informábamos de que la federación se encontraba en una carrera contrarreloj para llegar a un acuerdo con el diputado federal Ernesto D’Alessio en vísperas de los Juegos Olímpicos del año que viene.

La federación mexicana se ha topado con varias polémicas bajo el mandato de Todorov, incluyendo la falsificación de los tiempos de inscripción para el mundial de 2015, una suspensión de la FINA por echar marcha atrás en la organización del mundial de 2017, y el reemplazamiento de todo el cuerpo técnico del país a principios de este año a raíz de unas disputas que tuvieron lugar a finales de 2018.

A raíz de sendos desacuerdos, México estuvo bajo riesgo de ser vetado del mundial de Gwangju que tuvo lugar el pasado mes de julio en la localidad coreana, así como los Juegos Olímpicos de Tokio 2020.

La polémica surgió después de que Ernesto D’Alessio, presidente de la Comisión

del Deporte en la Cámara de Diputados, intentara intervenir en los criterios de selección expuestos por la Federación Mexicana de Natación. D’Alessio cuestionó los criterios de selección para las pruebas de saltos de cara al mundial de Gwangju.

Por consiguiente, FINA envió un comunicado solicitando que ambos llegaran a un acuerdo mutuo.

Días después, Todorov exhortaba a D’Alessio a no involucrar a los deportistas mexicanos en asuntos políticos.

En respuesta, el Diputado D’Alessio envió un tuit pidiendo a Todorov “que deje de hacer vídeos y póngase a trabajar.” D’Alessio además publicó un hilo de tuits acusando a Todorov de corrupción.

La federación Mexicana de Natación ahora se encuentra en una carrera contrarreloj para mostrarse obedientes con el Comité Olímpico Mexicano en vísperas de los Juegos Olímpicos y Paralímpicos del próximo año.

Read the full story on SwimSwam: México Podría Ser Sancionado Debido A Los Gorros Usados En Lima

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17-year-old Regan Smith of Riptide was honored with the Phillips 66 Performance of the Year Award on Saturday during the USA Swimming House of Delegates meeting at the 2019 United States Aquatic Sports Convention in St. Louis, Missouri. Smith earned the award for her World Record-breaking performance in 200-meter backstroke at the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Having lowered her own World Junior Record in heats of the women’s 200 back in the morning with 2:06.01, Smith fired off a 2:03.35 in the final to break Missy Franklin’s 2012 world mark by .71. Smith now holds the World Record, World Junior Record, American Record, and 17-18 NAG for Americans in the event.

Three awards were handed out in open water swimming on Saturday. Hayley Anderson (Trojan Swim Club) and Jordan Wilimovsky (Team Santa Monica) repeated their 2018 honors of Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year and Fran Crippen Memorial Open Water Male Swimmer of the Year, respectively. Sid Cassidy, Aquatic Director and head coach at Saint Andrew’s School, won the Open Water Achievement Award.

The Adolph Kiefer Safety Commendation Award went to Dr. Danny Mistry, a USA Swimming National Team Physician and Chair of the Concussion Task Force for USA Swimming. The recipient of the Kenneth J. Pettigrew Award, chosen by the Officials’ Committee, was Melissa Hellervik-Bing who served as the official chair for Florida Swimming, where she supervised the training and certification of more than 350 officials.

Robin Heller, head coach of SeaStars, won Disabled Swimming Service Award. Ron Aitken, head coach of Sandpipers of Nevada, was named Development Coach of the Year Award.

Chicago Park District was recognized with the Diversion, Equity and Inclusion Award. Claire Letendre earned the Van Donkersgoed Athlete Distinguished Service Award. John Ingram of the Colorado Springs Police Department won the Safe Sport Impact Award. And Travis Tygart, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, took home the Athletes’ Appreciation Award.

Complete List of Award Winners:

• Phillips 66 Performance of the Year Award: Regan Smith
• Safe Sport Impact Award: John Ingram
• Open Water Achievement Award: Sid Cassidy
• Female Open Water Swimmer of the Year: Haley Anderson
• Fran Crippen Memorial Open Water Male Swimmer of the Year: Jordan Wilimovsky
• Adolph Kiefer Safety Commendation Award: Dr. Danny Mistry
• Disabled Swimming Service Award: Robin Heller, head coach of SeaStars
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award: Chicago Park District
• Kenneth J. Pettigrew Award: Melissa Hellervik-Bing
• Development Coach of the Year Award: Ron Aitken, head coach of Sandpipers of Nevada
• Van Donkersgoed Athlete Distinguished Service Award: Claire Letendre
• Athletes’ Appreciation Award: Travis Tygart, CEO of the United States Anti-Doping Agency

Read the full story on SwimSwam: Regan Smith Honored with 2019 Phillips 66 Performance of the Year Award

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2019 WORLD PARA SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• September 9-15, 2019
• London Aquatics Centre, London, England
• Prelims 10 a.m. local time/finals 6 p.m.
• Full results

Australian veteran Lakeisha Patterson, who nabbed a world title in the women’s S9 400 free Friday in London, caught up with SwimSwam after her race to break down her strategy and talk about her impairment.

“I can’t control what anybody else is doing, so I’ve got t0 just zone in, focus on myself during the race, and not really focus on what  everyone else is doing,” Patterson said. “When I breathe to the left, I can kind of see them a little bit behind me, so that does drive me to keep it going.”

She goes on to explain her impairment. Patterson, 20, was recently classed up from S8 to S9; she earned six S8 medals (including two gold) at the 2016 Paralympics. She went 4:38.29 in the 400 Friday, winning by five seconds and setting a new Oceania record. The world record, set by Natalie Du Toit in 2008, sits at 4:23.81.

Patterson went on to discuss how her impairment affects her swimming.

“I have cerebral palsy left hemiplegia, which means the left side of my body – my arm, trunk and left leg is all impaired – leaving me with loss of coordination, balance and some other issues, so in the water, I’m really just powering home on the right side of my body, which can be quite hard to balance, so I’ve got to really work on my core and move through the water as fast as I can.”

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2019 WORLD PARA SWIMMING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

• September 9-15, 2019
• London Aquatics Centre, London, England
• Prelims 10 a.m. local time/finals 6 p.m.
• Full results
  

A pair of long-standing world records fell on night six of the 2019 World Para Swimming World Championships.

Russia’s Roman Zhdanov absolutely obliterated an 11-year-old world record in the men’s S4 200 free, winning in 2:53.06. Japan’s Takayuki Suzuki was second in 2:53.22, also well under the old record of 2:53.22, which belonged to Richard Oribe from the 2008 Paralympics. Australia’s Cameron Leslie, in fourth, set a new Oceania record at 3:00.79.

Great Britain’s Brock Whiston broke a seven-year-old world record, going 2:35.30 to win the women’s S8 200 IM ahead of Jessica Long (2:40.26), the former record holder. Russia’s Viktoriia Ishchiulova, just 14 years old, took third in 2:45.17. The gold was Whiston’s first individual medal of the meet.

The first world record of night six went to China’s Lichao Wang in the men’s S5 50 back, where he won in 32.59. The Ukraine’s Yaroslav Semenenko was second in 34.72, a new European record.

Japan’s Dai Tokairin shaved over half a second off a four-year-old world record in the men’s SM14 200 IM, winning in 2:08.16. Great Britain’s Reece Dunnset a new European record – and was also under the previous world record – taking second in 2:08.70.

Yuyan Jiang, of China, scored the final individual world record of the day, winning the men’s S6 50 fly in 34.86.

Additional continental records broken on night six:

• Australia’s Ahmed Kelly set a new Oceania record in the men’s SM3 150 IM at 3:03.71.
• Uzbekistan’s Shokhsanamkhon Toshpulatova went an Asian record in the women’s S13 100 fly, going 1:03.89.
• American Robert Griswold went an Americas record in the men’s SM8 200 IM, going 2:22.72.

Medal table after night 6 – top 5:

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The University of Cincinnati has gained two new commitments from Baylor Swim Club’s (Chattanooga) Jewel Gordon and York and York County YMCA’s Brina Uhlin from Pennsylvania for their class of 2024. Gordon specializes in the rare combo of sprint free and breaststroke while Uhlin is a butterflier and excels at the longer backstroke and IM events. Gordon was the 2019 TISCA Tennessee State Championship meet bronze medalist in the 50-yard freestyle (23.46) and took 6^th place in the 100-yard breaststroke (1:04.80). At the 2019 YMCA Long Course National Championships, Uhlin took 22^nd place in the 100 LCM butterfly (1:04.57) and 15^th place in the 200 LCM butterfly (2:24.83).

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Best Times for Jewel in Yards:

• 100 breast – 1:03.13
• 200 breast – 2:21.68
• 50 free – 23.46
• 100 free – 51.97

Best Times for Uhlin in Yards:

• 100 fly – 55.76
• 200 fly – 2:03.32
• 200 back – 2:05.66
• 400 IM – 4:30.76

Gordon will join the Bearcats with the 2^nd fastest 100-yard breaststroke time behind now-junior Victoria Hunt and Uhlin would have qualified 14^th in both the 100 and 200-yard butterfly races at the 2019 American Athletic Conference Championships. They will join IMers Kennedy Grotjohn and Liz Jantausch as members of the Cincinnati class of 2024.

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Read the full story on SwimSwam: Cincinnati Gains A Pair Of Commitments in Jewel Gordon and Brina Uhlin For 2020

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Erin Ritz of Victor Senior High School and Victor Swim Club in Victor, New York, has announced her plans to swim for Xavier University in the fall of 2020. Primarily a distance freestyler, Ritz currently has career-best times in the 500-yard freestyle and 100-yard butterfly that would have placed her within the top at the 2019 Big East Conference Championship meet.

Last season Ritz took 7^th place in the 100-yard butterfly (56.94) and 16^th place in the 500-yard freestyle (5:03.41) at the New York Girls Federation Championship meet. At the Speedo Champions Series – North – Ithaca back in March, Ritz took 19^th place in the 500-yard freestyle (5:02.19), 12^th in the 1,000-yard freestyle (10:15.96), and 16^th place in the 1,650-yard freestyle (17:27.97).

Best Times in Yards:

• 100 fly – 55.95
• 200 free – 1:53.04
• 500 free – 4:58.83
• 1650 free – 17:25.03
• 1650 free – 17:25.03

Ritz will be joining an Xavier team that is fresh off a Big East Championships runner up campaign. Her career-best time in the 500-yard freestyle would have been second fastest on the team behind graduated senior Katie Kerr and her 100-yard butterfly best time would have been 4^th fastest on the team, but numbers one and three milers in Caroline Gaertner and Anne Marie Cummins have exhausted their eligibility. Ritz is the first confirmed commitment of the class of 2024 for the Musketeers.

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Read the full story on SwimSwam: Distance Freestyler Erin Ritz Commits To Xavier For 2020

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Ilaria Cusinato sta spingendo oltre i suoi limiti.

Gli ultimi episodi della serie “Olympic Darkhorse” di Shane Tusup su YouTube sono stati caricati pochi giorni fa.

La serie sta seguendo l’allenamento e la preparazione atletica che Tusup sta svolgendo qui in Italia.

Protagonista la vice campionessa europea Ilaria Cusinato e l’adolescente ungherese Zsombor Bujdoso.

L’obiettivo è condurre la Cusinato verso la conquista della medaglia alla sua prima Olimpiade, l’anno prossimo.

Tra un episodio e l’altro, Ilaria Cusinatoha annunciato il suo ritiro dalla International Swimming League. Era inizialmente parte della squadra Aqua Centurions.

L’episodio 8 ha molte riprese in palestra.

È la terza settimana, e Tusup nota il loro dolore.

L’allenatore afferma che limiteranno un po’ i pesi in modo che possano far recuperare i muscoli e concentrarsi un po’ di più sul lavoro in piscina.

EPISODIO 8

EPISODIO 7

Nell’Episodio 7, ci sono molte riprese in piscina.

Si lavora sulla tecnica di partenza e sull’entrata del corpo in acqua. Si dirigono anche verso la piscina all’aperto, dove li aspettano set estenuanti.

Alla fine del video, Tusup dice ad Ilaria Cusinato che vuole che lei infranga il record del mondo, non solo vincere l’oro. Non è chiaro se si riferisca ai 400 misti, che appare essere la gara sulla quale si stiano concentrando di più.

EPISODIO 6

Nell’episodio 6, siamo tornati alle riprese dell’ allenamento.

Dopo aver visto Ilaria Cusinato spingere oltre i suoi limiti in acqua, la ritroviamo in palestra.

Qui Ilaria inizia a sentire i primi dolori muscolari legati all’allenamento. Nonostante il dolore, non si ferma, volendo oltrepassare i propri limiti di resistenza.

ALTRI EPISODI

EPISODIO 2

L’episodio due è un rapido riassunto della prima giornata di allenamento del trio a Cittadella, della durata di sette minuti.

Ilaria Cusinatoè una nuotatrice d’élite che ha dato prova della sua versatilità affrontando tante tipologie di gare.

Tusup menziona più volte i 400 metri misti, suggerendo che quella gara sarà l’obiettivo principale dei prossimi mesi.

“Sto cercando di imparare dove si trova il tuo punto di rottura”.

Queste le parole di Tusup alla Cusinato, che continua:

“Non voglio romperti, ma voglio anche che tu vada al di là di dove sei abituata”.

I 400 metri misti sono una delle gare più estenuanti di questo sport. Non sorprende che, per essere un campione in quella distanza, bisogna anche affrontare un allenamento estenuante per prepararsi al grande momento.

Tusup poi continua:

“Quando si conquista la medaglia d’oro olimpica….. che posso quasi garantirvi, ne varrà ogni secondo”.

“Insegnerai al tuo corpo a uccidersi durante la finale olimpica”

• leggi qui l’intervista ad Ilaria Cusinato
• clicca qui per l’articolo sull’ingaggio di Tusup

EPISODIO 3

L’episodio 3 è un altro riassunto della sessione di allenamento, con Cusinato, Bujdoso e Tusup di nuovo in piscina a Cittadella.

Bujdoso dice alla telecamera (in ungherese) che è felice di tornare ad allenarsi con Tusup dopo aver lavorato con lui in precedenza.

Dichiara inoltre di essere contento di avere una compagna come Ilaria Cusinato con la quale si motivano molto a vicenda.

Bujdoso spiega poi che i metodi di allenamento di Tusup, gli consentono di sapere sempre su cosa concentrarsi. Questo tipo di insegnamenti, continua, lo aiutano non solo nelle gare, ma anche nella vita.

I nuotatori concludono poi la sessione con un po’ di sano divertimento in piscina con alcuni gonfiabili.

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