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Ohrid Swimming Marathon
The Ohrid Swimming Marathon ( Macedonian: Охридски Пливачки Маратон, ''Ohridski Plivački Maraton'') is an international Open water swimming competition, established in always taking place in the waters of the Ohrid Lake, Republic of North Macedonia. The swimmers are supposed to swim 30 km from Sveti Naum to the Ohrid harbor. The 2008 Marathon The 2008 competition was the 22nd edition of the Ohrid Swimming Marathon. Prior to the event the Swimming Federation o of Macedonia announced that in 2008 there will be about 25 competitors, of which six are from the Republic of Macedonia itself and several other swimmers from other countries including Argentina, Bulgaria or Slovenia. The winner of the marathon was Bulgarian swimmer Petar Stoychev Petar Stoychev ( bg, Петър Стойчев; born 24 October 1976 in Momchilgrad) is a Bulgarian swimmer who is one of the most successful long distance marathon swimmers in history. He is one of the greatest marat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macedonian Language
Macedonian (; , , ) is an Eastern South Slavic language. It is part of the Indo-European language family, and is one of the Slavic languages, which are part of a larger Balto-Slavic branch. Spoken as a first language by around two million people, it serves as the official language of North Macedonia. Most speakers can be found in the country and its diaspora, with a smaller number of speakers throughout the transnational region of Macedonia. Macedonian is also a recognized minority language in parts of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania, and Serbia and it is spoken by emigrant communities predominantly in Australia, Canada and the United States. Macedonian developed out of the western dialects of the East South Slavic dialect continuum, whose earliest recorded form is Old Church Slavonic. During much of its history, this dialect continuum was called "Bulgarian", although in the 19th century, its western dialects came to be known separately as "Macedonian". Stan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Fernandez (swimmer)
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Camilla Frediani
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Stefanie Biller
Stefanie Bircher (née Biller, born 30 October 1985) is a long-distance swimmer from Germany. She has twice won medals at the European Championships, whereas her best achievements at the world championships were fourth place in 2004 and fifth place in 2006 in 25 km. She previously trained at the University of Bath where she studied for a Foundation Degree in Sports Performance. She shared the same coach (Andrei Vorontsov) as her Bath team mate, British distance swimmer Alan Bircher Alan Bircher (born 21 September 1981) is a British former long-distance swimmer. After finishing a long international career he entered into coaching, following successful coaching posts at West Suffolk where he coached his wife Stefanie Bircher ... whom she later married in 2011. References External links * 1985 births Living people German female swimmers German female long-distance swimmers Sportspeople from Augsburg 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Ger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esther Nuñez Morera
Esther is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. In the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, is deposed for disobeying him. Hadassah, a Jewess who goes by the name of Esther, is chosen to fulfill this role due to her beauty. Ahasuerus' grand vizier, Haman, is offended by Esther's cousin and guardian, Mordecai, due to his refusal to prostrate himself before Haman. Consequently, Haman plots to have all the Jewish subjects of Persia killed, and convinces Ahasuerus to permit him to do so. However, Esther foils the plan by revealing Haman's eradication plans to Ahasuerus, who then has Haman executed and grants permission to the Jews to kill their enemies instead, as royal edicts (including the order for eradication issued by Haman) cannot be revoked under Persian law. Her story provides the traditional explanation for the Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrated on the date given in the story for when Haman's order was to go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darja Pop
Maghrebi Arabic (, Western Arabic; as opposed to Eastern or Mashriqi Arabic) is a vernacular Arabic dialect continuum spoken in the Maghreb region, in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Western Sahara, and Mauritania. It includes Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Libyan, and Hassaniya Arabic. It is known locally as Darja, Derdja, Derja, Derija or Darija, depending on the region's dialect ( ar, الدارجة; meaning "common or everyday dialect"). This serves to differentiate the spoken vernacular from Standard Arabic. Maghrebi Arabic has a predominantly Semitic and Arabic vocabulary, although it contains a few Berber loanwords which represent 2 to 3% of the vocabulary of Libyan Arabic, 8 to 9% of Algerian and Tunisian Arabic, and 10 to 15% of Moroccan Arabic. The Maltese language is believed to be derived from Siculo-Arabic and ultimately from Tunisian Arabic, as it contains some typical Maghrebi Arabic areal characteristics. Name ''Darija'', ''Derija'' or ''Delja'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilles Rondy
Gilles Rondy (born 4 September 1981 in Brest, France) is an Olympic and European Champion swimmer from France. He swam for France at the 2008 Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Nati ..., and won the 2006 European Championships in the 25 km open water event. He has also swum the English Channel on 9 September 2004 in a time of 7 h 54 mins. from www.doverlife.co.uk; retrieved 2009-08-15. He was a member of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Maurer
Angela Maurer (born 27 July 1975) is a German long-distance swimmer. Career Angela Maurer lives in Wiesbaden, where she was born. She swims for the ''SSV Undine 08 e.V. Mainz'' swimming club, and trains together with Dimitri Colupaev and Marc-Oliver Stein under Nikolai Evseev in Mainz. She has been studying at police technical college since 1 September 2007, and is a member of the Rhineland-Palatinate's state elite sports training programme. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she achieved 4th place in the 10 km marathon swim, only a fraction of a second behind the bronze medallist Cassie Patten. In 2009, she won the 10 km open-water race at the German national swimming championships in Lindau with a time of 2:01:31.43, ensuring her place at the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in Rome. Achievements * Qualifying for the 2008 Olympics at the 5th World Open Water Championships in Seville * 8 German national titles in 5 km, 10 km und 25 km open-wate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Van Dijk
Edith van Dijk (born 6 April 1973 in Haastrecht) is a Dutch swimmer and 6-fold world champion. She is Holland's most successful open water swimmer and long distance swimmer, whose career started in 1990 taking part in the Dutch IJsselmeermarathon. Biography She starts out at Gouda's swimming club DONK, the swimming portion of the soccer team of the same name. At DONK teammates gave her the nickname Piaf, due to her having the same first name as Edith Piaf. She was invested as a Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau and was awarded a Doctorate in Economy from Erasmus University in Rotterdam. In the years following the 1990 IJsselmeermarathon she finds her place between the world's top. Her definitive breakthrough is during the European championships of 1995 in Vienna, where she wins the silver medal on the longest distance in open water swimming, that of 25 kilometer. The next high is reached in less than three years in Perth, where she wins two medals at the world champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Majcen
Igor Majcen (born August 24, 1969 in Ljubljana) is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Slovenia. He is a three-time Olympian, making his debut in 1988 for FR Yugoslavia. His best Olympic result was finishing in sixth place in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci .... He was named Slovenian Sportsman of the Year in 1993, after having won the bronze medal in the men's 1500 m freestyle event at the 1993 European LC Championships in Sheffield. References * 1969 births Living people Slovenian male freestyle swimmers Olympic swimmers for Slovenia Olympic swimmers for Yugoslavia Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksey Akatyev
Aleksey Akatyev (born 7 August 1974) is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Russia, who competed for his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Later on he started a career in open water swimming, winning several medals in international tournaments. he went to won Open water swimming in 5 km and 25 km in 1998 World Aquatics Championships The 8th FINA World Championships or the 1998 World Aquatics Championships were held from 8 to 17 January 1998 in Perth, Western Australia. The championships features competition in all five of FINA's disciplines: Swimming, Diving, Water Polo, S ... References * External links * 1974 births Living people Russian male freestyle swimmers Male long-distance swimmers Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for Russia World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming 20th-century Russian people 21st-century Russian people {{Russia-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Büchse
Peggy Büchse (born 9 September 1972 in Rostock) is a former long-distance swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ... from Germany, who won her first international title at the 1987 European Junior Championships (400 m freestyle). In the early 1990s she switched to open water swimming, winning several international titles. Büchse retired in 2002. References *Short Profile 1972 births Living people German female freestyle swimmers German female long-distance swimmers German female swimmers Sportspeople from Rostock World Aquatics Championships medalists in open water swimming 20th-century German women 21st-century German women {{Germany-swimming-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
