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Joensen and Bochmann strike gold again! |
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Pal Joensen and Anne Bochmann are the heroes of the first two days in Belgrade.
After the yesterday’s triumph in 400m freestyle, the boy from Faroe Islands won yet another golden medal in 1500m freestyle. Silver went to Polish Pielowski Krzysztof and bronze to French Shaw Raoul.
Anne Bochmann continued her winning string and won in 400m freestyle also. Second finished van Rouwendaal Sharon from Netherland.
But that was not all for Britons. Christopher Walker-Hebborn won gold in 100m backstroke. He swam faster than the second Artem Dubovskoy and third Vitaly Borisov from Russia.
German Marco Koch swam impressively in 200m breaststroke with the result 2:12,25. Koch will be one of the main rivals to Serbian swimmer Caba Siladji in 50m and 100m breaststroke.
Finals in 100m freestyle were extremely tense. Good finish brought a Belgian girl Sysmans Jolien. In this race, Italian girl Di Pietro Silvia won silver and Russian Viktoria Andreeva bronze.
In 200m backstroke, the fastest was Ukrainian girl Kseniya Grygorenko next Italian Valentina Lucconi (2:14,16) and then Polish Klaudia Nazieblo.
Another day ended with record breaking by French female relay in 4x100m freestyle. The second was German team and last, but not the least, the Russian team.
Seven finals shall be held on the third day.
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First day at the Tasmajdan pool in Belgrade, European Junior Swimming Championship has commenced. Around 2.000 people created a wonderful atmosphere. Finals in 6 events were held.
Ivan Lendjer won the golden medal in 50m butterfly and gave the Belgrade audience a big reason to celebrate. His time was 24,17 sec. The second was British Dolan (24,58), whilst the third place went to Turk Bicer Goksu (24,63). In semi-finals Lendjer broke the European championships record with 24,12. Ivan is one of the most talented Serbian swimmers, and he has met the ’’A’’ Olympic standard in 100m butterfly and upon the conclusion of the competition in Belgrade, he will go to Olympic Games in Beijing.
The most exciting race of the day was perhaps the finals in 400m freestyle. After the 350m Pal Joensen from Faroe Islands was leading (3: 51, 44) and even though Italian Alessio di Giorgio (3:54, 21) did his best and despite his marvellous finish, in the end he was slower than the boy from Faroe Islands. The bronze medal went to Xavier Mohammed from Great Britain (3:19, 26).
The relay in 4x100m freestyle was exiting as well. The main contest was between teams from Germany, Italy and Russia. In the end the great finish of Dimitri Colupaev brought gold to Germans and moreover the European championships record 3:19,26. Italians came second and Russians third.
In the female competition, Russia won 2 golden medals. Ekaterina Baklakova came to Belgrade with the best result 32,34. She proved her supremacy in 50m breaststroke. After her finished Zachoszcz Paulina from Poland (32,83) and Vitalina Simonova from Russia (32,85).
The surprise of the day was a golden medal for Antonina Faustova (17:06,87), in 1500m considering that she swam in a slower group in the morning session. The Dutch Marijeke Nihuis (17:07,11) was second and third was A Russan girl Alena Izosimova (17:16,87).
Bochmann Anne from Great Britain proved her dominancy in 400m medley (4:46, 58). She took the leading position just after 100m. Silver went to Russian girl Aleksandra Musienko (4:48,30), whereas the Slovenian girl Nika Karlina Petric (4:49,04) finished third.
After the first day of the competition, Russia is leading with 6 medals (2 golden, 1 silver and 3 bronze). Second day will have 7 finals. |
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We are pleased to inform you that National Television of Serbia will be broadcasting all semi finals and finals of the 35th European Junior Championship. Therefore, the competition timetable will change slightly and the semi finals and finals will begin at 5 p.m. every day.
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