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Swimming At The 2013 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 4 × 100 Metre Freestyle Relay
The women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event in swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships took place on 28 July at the Palau Sant Jordi in Barcelona, Spain. Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and championship records were: Results Heats The heats were held at 12:10. Final The final was held at 19:17. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships - Women's 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay Freestyle 4x100 metre, women's World Aquatics Championships The World Aquatics Championships, formerly the FINA World Championships, are the World Championships for six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo. The championships are st ... 2013 in women's swimming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palau Sant Jordi
Palau Sant Jordi (, ) is an indoor arena, indoor sporting arena and multi-purpose installation that is part of the Anella Olímpica, Olympic Ring complex located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, it was opened in 1990. The maximum seating capacity of the arena is 17,960. Since the inauguration, is the List of indoor arenas in Europe, largest indoor arena by capacity in Spain. The Palau Sant Jordi was one of the main venues of the 1992 Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics hosting the Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics, artistic gymnastics, Handball at the 1992 Summer Olympics, handball, and Volleyball at the 1992 Summer Olympics, volleyball events. Today, it is used for a variety of indoor sport events as well as for concerts and other cultural activities, due to its great flexibility. Sporting events The arena was the venue of the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships, IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics. It was the ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2013 World Aquatics Championships
The swimming events of the 15th FINA World Aquatics Championships were held July 28 – August 4, 2013, in Barcelona, Spain. The competition was held in a long course pool inside the Palau Sant Jordi. It featured 40 LCM events, split evenly between males and females. Swimming was one of the five aquatic disciplines at the championships. The United States won the overall medal count, led by Missy Franklin who claimed a record-setting six gold medals. China's Sun Yang won three gold medals en route to "male swimmer of the meet". Katie Ledecky, from the United States, was named "female swimmer of the meet" after setting two world records and winning four gold medals. Four other women's world records were broken during the competition, all four in the women's breaststroke events. Qualifying criteria If a nation entered one competitor in an event then they only have to meet the B standard, but if they enter two competitors then in an event then they both have to meet the A standar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria Poon
Cheuk Yuen Victoria Poon (Chinese name 潘卓源) (born October 12, 1984) is a Canadian competitive swimmer who specialises in freestyle events. She was born in Hong Kong. She moved to Canada when she was 11 years old. She lives in the LaSalle borough of Montreal, Quebec. Le Journal de Montreal"Victoria Poon se qualifie pour les demi-finales au 50 mètres style libre" QMI, August 3, 2012 She is the former national record holder in the women's 50m freestyle, with a time of 24.75s. Career Poon's long time swim club has been the Club de natation Calac de LaSalle. In 2005, Poon set the Canadian national record for women's 50-metre freestyle, at 25.52 seconds. Poon competed at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, and won a bronze with the Canadian team in the women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay. In the April 2008 Canadian Olympic Trials, Poon lowered her Canadian record for women's 50-metre freestyle to 25.47 seconds, which she has set in 2005. Swimming World"Canadian Trials: Three N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emily Seebohm
Emily Jane Seebohm, Order of Australia, OAM (born 5 June 1992) is a retired Australian Swimming (sport), swimmer and television personality. She has appeared at four Olympic Games between Swimming at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2021; and won three Olympic gold medals, five world championship gold medals and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals. In 2009, Seebohm was awarded the Order of Australia, Medal of the Order of Australia. Seebohm appeared as a contestant in the I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian season 8), 8th season of the Australian version of ''I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (Australian TV series), I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' in January 2022. Later the same year, she competed on ''The Challenge: Australia'', and in 2023 she competed on ''The Challenge: World Championship''. Early life and education Seebohm was born on 5 June 1992 in Adelaide, South Australia. At age two, Seebohm and her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brittany Elmslie
Brittany Joyce Elmslie, (born 19 June 1994) is a former Australian competitive swimmer. She represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in swimming, and won a gold medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at both Games. Personal life Elmslie was born in Nambour, Queensland. She was named a 2011–2012 YoungStar Sport Award winner for the Northside Chronicle. , she lives in Brisbane, having moved there from Noosa (where she attended Good Shepherd Lutheran College) in 2011 in order to improve her chances of making the Olympics. In 2011 she completed her final year of school at St Margaret's Anglican Girls' School. Elmslie is tall and weighs . Elmslie initially studied Business at Griffith University, majoring in Events and Sports Management. She subsequently changed her academic major to Media and Communications at Flinders University. On June 2, 2020, Elmslie attributed her retirement from competitive swimming, to her own self-reflection after she did not qua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Pelton
Elizabeth Anne Pelton (born November 26, 1993) is a former American competitive swimmer, multi FINA world champion, multi NCCA Champion, and 4x former American Record holder. Pelton also secured NCAA Swimmer of the Year, NCAA Swimmer of the Meet, Pac-12 Swimmer of the Year, Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and Pac-12 Swimmer of the Meet honors her freshman year of college. Personal Pelton is an American swimmer and multiple FINA World Champion. She has been competing against at the world's best since 2009, at the age of 15. Pelton grew up in Fairfield, Connecticut and swam for the Wilton Wahoos before moving to swim at Badger Swim Club in Larchmont, New York under esteemed coach John Collins. In 2006, Pelton moved to Baltimore to swim with North Baltimore Aquatic Club, one of the most elite swim programs in the world. She trained with Paul Yetter, as well as Bob Bowman, coaches who produced Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff, among the other multiple Olympians from that site. Pelton trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone Manuel
] Simone Ashley Manuel (born August 2, 1996) is an American professional Swimming (sport), swimmer specializing in Freestyle swimming, freestyle events. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 Rio Olympics, she won two gold and two silver medals: gold in the Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre freestyle, 100-meter freestyle and the 4×100-meter medley, and silver in the 50-meter freestyle and the Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay, 4×100-meter freestyle relay. In winning the 100-meter freestyle, a tie with Penny Oleksiak of Canada, Manuel became the first Black American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming and set an List of Olympic records in swimming#Women's records, Olympic record and an List of United States records in swimming, American record. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020 Tokyo Olympics, she won a bronze medal as the anchor of the American Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Washington Post
''The Washington Post'', locally known as ''The'' ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'' or ''WP'', is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital. It is the most widely circulated newspaper in the Washington metropolitan area and has a national audience. As of 2023, the ''Post'' had 130,000 print subscribers and 2.5 million digital subscribers, both of which were the List of newspapers in the United States, third-largest among U.S. newspapers after ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. In 1933, financier Eugene Meyer (financier), Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy and revived its health and reputation; this work was continued by his successors Katharine Graham, Katharine and Phil Graham, Meyer's daughter and son-in-law, respectively, who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean Sea, with the Alps on its northern land border, as well as List of islands of Italy, nearly 800 islands, notably Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares land borders with France to the west; Switzerland and Austria to the north; Slovenia to the east; and the two enclaves of Vatican City and San Marino. It is the List of European countries by area, tenth-largest country in Europe by area, covering , and the third-most populous member state of the European Union, with nearly 59 million inhabitants. Italy's capital and List of cities in Italy, largest city is Rome; other major cities include Milan, Naples, Turin, Palermo, Bologna, Florence, Genoa, and Venice. The history of Italy goes back to numerous List of ancient peoples of Italy, Italic peoples—notably including the ancient Romans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marleen Veldhuis
Magdalena Johanna Maria "Marleen" Veldhuis (born 29 June 1979) is a retired swimmer from the Netherlands. She was world record holder in four events (one individual event and three relay events). Veldhuis won eight world championships gold medals and 20 European championships gold medals. In the Olympics, she won a bronze medal in London 2012 in the 50 m freestyle, as well as three relay medals: bronze in Athens 2004, gold in Beijing 2008, and silver in London 2012. Personal life Veldhuis was born on 29 June 1979 in Borne in the Netherlands. She was brought up in the eastern part of the Netherlands. Veldhuis had a daughter in June 2010, causing her to miss the 2010 European Aquatics Championships, and she returned to swimming for the 2011 and 2012 seasons. Swimming career Marleen Veldhuis is a former water polo player which she combined with swimming. After she decided to focus completely on swimming, Veldhuis made her international debut during the 2002 European Aquatics Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
