Charlotte Parent - (Author)

On the morning of the last day of the 18th European Short Course Championships in Netanya, Israel, Viktoria Gunes from Turkey showed off everyone as she qualified top seed for the women’s 200m breaststroke in a time of 2:21.01, a first in these championships for Turkey. The morning started off with ...

On the fourth day of the European Short Course Championships, times are getting faster and swimmers need to fight with everything they have to make it the semi-finals or finals. In the men’s 100m freestyle, Mindaugas Sadauskas surprised everyone by signing the fastest time of the prelims in 47.18 wi...

Katinka Hosszu cracked 2:00 in the women's 200-meter back to threaten her world record at the 2015 European Short Course Championships. Hosszu keeps on going as she swam one of the fastest 200 backstroke ever, falling short of the world record in 1:59.95. Shortly behind her came Daria Ustinova of Ru...

The first session of the 18th European SC Championships was full of surprises, including Katinka Hosszu breaking the 400m individual medley World Record. The morning started with the men’s 100m butterfly where two swimmers broke the 50 seconds mark: Matteo Rivolta (ITA) 49.72 and Laszlo Cseh (HUN) 4...

The 18th European Short Course Championships will take place in Nentanya, Israel, from December 2nd to 6th 2015. The city, an Oceanside suburb, is located 20 km north of Tel Aviv. Psych sheets are now available in the link to the right. The Netherlands' women - Femke Heemskerk, Inge Dekker and Ranom...

The Belgian Short Course Championships took place over the weekend (Nov. 14-15) in Ghent. It allowed young and talented swimmers to swim alongside their national stars like Pieter Timmers, Emmanuel Vanluchene or Fanny Lecluyse. As the European Championships are coming along fast it was a nice test w...

Lander Hendrickx is a young and talented Belgian swimmer born in 1994 that recently tried to qualify for the 1500m freestyle for European Championships but fell short of a few seconds. Hendrickx comes from Leuven (Belgium) and started swimming at the age of 8. When he turned 15, he decided to start ...

Kimberly Buys, Belgian swimmer and member of the Belgian Olympic Team, recently experienced a terrific accident. She was riding her bike and was hit by a car; she said: “in that moment everything goes very fast and before you realize it you’re laying on the ground.” The accident left her with a br...

A few Belgian swimmers traveled to Tilburg, NED to compete against the Dutch elites. Indeed, the Dutch Open Short Course Swimming Championships took place at the sport center 'de Drieburcht' in Tilburg Oct. 30-Nov. 1. The Belgian men did not disappoint as some of them swam their best times. The swim...