Tag: swimming
IN PICTURES: Swimming caps, quick changes and shoes full of lime powder at Children’s Triathlon
Utrecht – A water temperature of about 22 degrees and a heavy downpour at the start: dozens of children in the Leidsche Rijn district of Utrecht didn’t mind and completed…
Swimmer Sharon van Rouwendaal conquers her first world title on 10 kilometers of open water
Van Rouwendaal has already won World Cup silver three times in the open water. In 2016 she became Olympic champion in the 10 kilometers in Rio de Janeiro, last year…
Matti Mattsson will realistically fight for European Championship gold this year – Finnish swimming also has one clear problem, says the expert
The Finnish three-person team performed excellently at the World Championships in the long track. The European Championships in August are expected to be even better. Finland’s small racing team of…
“The swimming school model can only handle learning in calm water”
At DN Debatt, Helén Svensson claims that assessment of swimming ability can and should be a model for validation of every other learning in school. According to her, all human…
A new category is planned for swimming and athletics, as transgender women are wanted out of the women’s series – “Clear discrimination”, says Seta
Transnistrian Lia Thomas began competing in swimming in the women’s series and achieved overwhelming success. The International Swimming Federation then decided that transgender women would no longer be able to…
Olympic gold medalist saw the trans decision of swimming
During the World Cup in Budapest, Fina decided to exclude transgender people from competing against women as long as they did not make a gender correction before the age of…
Sadio Mané goes to Bayern Munich!
In the summary of Mondial sports: Football with the Senegalese star Sadio Mané goes German; women’s football with the Euro and the CAN looming; Rugby with a summary of the…
“Make the knowledge requirements in school as clear as the measure of swimming proficiency”
The summer holidays have begun, but not for all students. Some are currently engaged in going to law school – a few weeks of extra training during the summer holidays…
Jesse Puts with mix team Netherlands fifth in 4 x 100 meter freestyle
Puts formed a team in Budapest, Hungary, with Stan Pijnenburg, Tessa Giele and Marrit Steenbergen. They clocked a time of 3.24.24 and finished fifth. The gold went to Australia, which…
Poorer swimming skills among children after the pandemic
– If you are in the water and you do not wake up, then you drown if you can not swim, says 11-year-old Nils Sundberg, who is one of nearly…