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2016 > 01
This weekend the Swedish Grand Prix was swam in the new 50 m pool in Hyllie, Malmö. The competition showed a lot of great results, particularly from the Swedish and Israeli toppswimmers. The Swedish megastar Sarah Sjöström broke the Swedish record on 50 back, 28,21 and on top of that she won five more events and showed very strong results overall. For many of the swimmers the GP was an important preparation for the upcoming Swim Open Stockholm.
There is a big interest for Swim Open Stockholm! To be sure you get your place at the stand to see this great event with all the world class swimmers live it´s time for you to buy your ticket. Go to SPECTATORS, there you also find a link to our partner who offers a great deal for accomodation!
There is a great interest for Swim Open in media. After request from TV to get the best opportunities for viewers, the Swim Open organization has decide to place the A-finals on prime time at 18.00 all four days. The B/C finals will then start at 16.30 (friday at 16.00). Those countries and clubs who needs to add rooms to sunday the 3rd please contact management@swimopenstockholm.se asap.
Today we proudly welcome Team Russia to Swim Open. They will participate with a strong team of twelve swimmers. Russia is the 18th country represented with swimmers on the event. The others are Denmark, Norwegian, Finland, Polen, Luxemburg, Croatia, Slovakia, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland, Panama, Hong Kong, South Africa and Lithuania.
Sarah Sjöström got praised for the Best Sport Performence overall in Sweden yesterday! We gratulate Sarah and looking forward seeing her great swimming performences on Swim Open Stockholm!
Today we can present the announcer team on Swim Open Stockholm. We are proud to say we have contracted the Dream Team for the event. As Anchorman we have the great and well known announcer Mikael Larsson! Around him we have a real supertrio. Lars Westholm, the very well known and high treasured announcer from Varberg. In the team we also see the proffesional announcer Hanna Westrin, earlier international topswimmer and ten times swedish champion. The forth person is the well known Peter Aronsson, also an earlier international topswimmer. Peter has been a commentator for many World Cup events for television.
Eurosport, who is broadcasting the event, will be commented by Bosse Hultén, very well known for innumeralbe championships in television. His sidekick will be the earlier Swedish National Head Coach Thomas Jansson!
Today we can announce that we have contract DJ Emil for Swim Open Stockholm! During the entire event you can enjoy his great mixes of dance and house hits behind the knobs. Emil is also an earlier international swimmer,
Today our production team announce that the norwegian channel TV 2 will show all A-finals on Swim Open Stockholm live!
The Israel swimmer, Gal Nevo with eight medals on European Championships today announced his participation. Gal is a specialist on 400 IM and at the latest EC in Netanya he won bronze at the distance.
Today we proudly announce that Swim Open Stockholm are going to be broadcast by Eurosport in Sweden and the event will be produced by Spring Media.