Hanna Rosvall, Sophie Hansson, Sara Junevik and Louise Hansson knew they had a chance at the medals if everything went right. They did. The quartet leaves the Short Course European Championships with a silver in the 4 x 50 meter team event.
SportsAfter the failure of the World Championships this summer, Sweden is fielding a huge squad in the Short Course European Championships. Ten of the 29 swimmers are debutants and six are teenagers. We need to find who we are without Sarah Sjöström, says national captain Martina Aronsson.
SportsWith an eye on future Olympics, 29 swimmers will get the chance at the European Short Course Championships in Poland in December. For many of them, it will be their debut in a senior championship.
SportsLouise Hansson swam 1.4 seconds faster in the mixed team than in the World Championship fiasco on 100 meters butterfly on Sunday. Why it went so badly she does not quite know. It was one off. It happens, damn annoying that it is here, she says about Sunday's race.
SportsIn record form a month ago – eliminated already in the trials in World Championship. Robin Hanson was angry and depressed after the early exit on 200 meter freestyle. I am super disappointed, says the 24-year-old.
SportsAfter a swimming year filled with world records, the expectations are high ahead of the World Championship in Singapore. The stars, with the Canadian prodigy Summer McIntosh at the forefront, have shone unexpectedly strongly already. But one of the biggest stars is missing – the World Championship's most individual medal winner Sarah Sjöström who is pregnant. At the same time, a 12-year-old prodigy from China joins.
SportsSuperstar Sarah Sjöström is pregnant and that she would miss the summer's World Championship in swimming in Singapore was clear earlier. Now, ten blue-yellow swimmers have received clearance for the championship and the team includes names such as sisters Louise and Sophie Hansson and Victor Johansson.
SportsShe is the super talent who has already taken two European Championship medals. Now, the breaststroke swimmer Olivia Klint Ipsa, 19 years old, makes her World Championship debut. She has extremely good prerequisites to become one of the world's best swimmers, says national team captain Martina Aronsson.
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