Cambodian National Team at World SC Swim Championship 2012: Issue N7./ 12 Dec 2012: 1st Day of Meet!

Cambodian National Team at World Short Course Swim Championship 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey: Issue N7./ 12 Dec 2012: 1st Day of Meet!

We shall cover by special News Issues preparation and participation of Cambodian Swimming Team in upcoming 11th FINA - Fédération Internationale de Natation  World Short Course Swim Championship 2012 in Istanbul, Turkey, on December 12-16, 2012. 

We also, would like to receive our readers comments and possible, news contributions.

Useful Links:
 
FINA Website: http://www.fina.org


FINA World Swim Championship Short Course 2012: http://www.wscistanbul2012.com/

Current World Rankings Short Course Male: http://www.swimnews.com/rank/index

News Swimming in Cambodia: http://aquaticscambodia.blogspot.com

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News in this Issue:

 

1.    Cambodian Swimmers Entries for WC SC 2010

2.    Long Course and Short Course Specifications During Competing

3.    Expectations for Cambodian Swimmers Performance: Analysis 
4. WC News: Day 1

1.    Cambodian Swimmers Entries for WC SC 2010:

-         50 Freestyle Men, 13.12.12 at 10:00 a.m.

Comments For Entries :

Unbelievable, but fact: by mistake made somebody responsible from KASF for entries, or with any other reason might be, the entries, for both Cambodian athletes, for 50m Free were taken from their PBT for Long Course!!!!!!!! It is really, difficult to believe in, and the facts are the following:

1.    Chamraen Youri Maximov PBT for SC is 27.03 made at WC SC 2010 in Dubai, what is current Cambodian National Record for SC

We purposely put here copy of official file with his time result from WC SC 2010.

1.    Chamraen Youri PBT for LC is 27.48 made at WC LC 2011 in Shanghai. The same time was put for his as seed time at this SC WC!

2.    Hemtnon Ponloeu PBT for LC is 27.03 made at OG 2012 in London. The same time was put as his PBT at this SC WC!

3.    Hemtnon Ponloeu PBT for SC is 28.13 made at Japan Open SC Int. Meet in Tokyo, Japan 2007. At least, we haven’t seen any written data about his better PBT for SC.

What is absolutely amazing, and difficult to believe in, that one Cambodian swimmer, Chamraen Youri, being in age 14 years old that time, made time 27.03 at SC WC in 2010, and another Cambodian swimmer, Hemthon Ponloeu, 22 years old, made absolutely same time, after 2 years, 27.03 at OG 2012 at LC Competition!!!!

   
  - 50 Breaststroke Men, 15.12.12 at 10:00 a.m. 

Comments For Entries :
 

Just read this article, from the Newspaper which declares that: "Successful people read The Post"

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/Sport/cambodian-swim-team-selected-for-trip-to-turkey.html

This article, made us also believe, that HEMTHON Ponloeu was enrolled for 50 Back, but, in reality, his father Mr. HEM Thon, who is Founder and General Secretary of KASF and who was answering to reporters from the Post, enrolled him for 50 breast!

We also, agree, that 50 breast will be much better for him to swim, as he is best in Cambodia right now for breaststroke. What we regret, that there is no transparency and accuracy in swimmers enrollment in KASF for international meets, what we see again and again. Everything is done by one person, and we know about results just when cannot change anything for the better.

And, again and again, we see that cannot trust local mass-media: there were many mistakes in the Post and Cambodia Daily, during coverage of swimming in Olympic Games 2012, in particular with exact figure of National Record, and now, big mistakes in covering FINA World Swim Championship 2012.

For PBT enrollment, for SC, seems that person who made enrollment, used again, swimmer result for LC.

- 50 Freestyle Women, 15.12.12 at 10:00 a.m. 

2.    Long Course and Short Course Specifications During Competing
 

The speed in 25 m swimming pool what calls Short Course is more high than in 50 m swimming pool, so results for SC are more faster than for LC, and swimming is more intensive, besides technical skills play more role in SC as swimmer needs to repeats many technical elements with double frequency compare to swimming in LC.

 3.    Expectations for Cambodian Swimmers Performance: Analysis 
 

50 Freestyle Men   

-         The most interesting event will be tomorrow morning, as two Cambodian swimmers HEMTHON Ponloeu, 22 years old and Chamraen Youri, 16 years old, almost with similar at the present moment test times on this distance for Long Course, will be swim both for SC, in different heats. We expect that both will break their PBT as for both it is very outdated. For Chamraen, 2 years ago and for Ponloeu, if to speak about his real PBT for SC, even much more outdated. They both, should swim faster than 27 sec this time, and, one of them, should make new Cambodia National Record for Short Course.

At this World Championship, for the 1^st time, will be 10 lanes, during heats, meaning that now, 10 swimmers will be competing! Before it was only 8 or 6 lanes. It will make races much more interesting to see.

Chamraen is the most experienced Cambodian swimmer on Short Course among based inside the kingdom. He was training in short course 25m swimming pool for 3 years in one of the most prominent swimming clubs in Asia – JIS Aquadragons in Jakarta, Indonesia with coaches from US and Indonesia in 2006-2009. He participated in many regional and international short course competitions in Jakarta, Medan, Singapore, Bangkok and Dubai. Among his vast collection of more than 100 medals, trophies and ribbons for participation in SC and LC meets – 70% are for short course and all of them are from international meets abroad!

As Chamraen was enrolled with his LC PBT which is slower than his actual PBT for SC, he will swim at 1 heat earlier than Ponloeu. His heat N 4, Lane N 2. Among his competitors – 2 swimmers from Uganda, who listed as favorites, by seed times, also 2 swimmers from Ghana, swimmer from Qatar, swimmer from Albania, 1 from Burundi and one from Guyana. The main competition for 1^st place in heat will happen between our swimmer and swimmer from Albania and Qatar, as we suppose.  Hopefully, Chamraen can be 1^st or at least 2^nd, at this heat.

Ponloeu will swim in more well known company, with two fellows from Laos, one swimmer from Brunei (Brunei swimmers by surprise, improved a lot, in recent year), one from Marshall Islands, swimmers from Tajikistan, Andorra, Cote D’Ivoire, Maldives.. He swims heat 5 at 0 lane. It will be difficult to compete for him for 1^st place in this heat, we think if he shows his best he can be among the 3 first swimmers in this heat. He may swim faster than Lao swimmers but with Brunei swimmer will be tough competition. 

50 Breaststroke Men     :

Ponloeu can comfortably win his heat and he will for sure make his PBT for SC and almost certainly, improve Cambodian National Record for Short Course what right now belongs to Chamraen - 35.12 sec made in Thailand in 2010 where he participated in DTAC ISB Splash Int. Meet and won Gold Medal in his age group on this distance.

50 Freestyle Women:

Vitiny certainly should improve her PBT, so automatically her country’s National Record for Short Course will be improved too. She also should try to win her heat.

Some Remarks Post-Factum:

Very unfortunately, on this World Championship both Vitiny and Chamraen  enrollments for 2^nd distance were canceled, by who, and what for, and what are were the reasons, we still do not know for sure. One of the versions, that FINA approved only 1 distance for them from 2. During last WC SC in Dubai in 2010 our club swimmer Chamraen swam 2 distances, during WC LC in China in 2011 he also could compete in 2 distances available. For this WC SC, from the beginning, nobody consulted with us, what distances better to select for Chamraen there, so, he could show all his best. To choose 50 fly for him to swim at WC was a mistake, because among 4 swimming styles and IM, butterfly is the last in the list of his preferred. Nobody knew about it at KASF, for 3 years what he is training with National Team? No coach Hem Kiry, knew, no assistant of coach Hem Lumpat, no KASF Management? Also, we already see, for the 2^nd time, how he was denied, in the last moment, to swim some distances at important international competitions, for his country. In SEA Games 2011 he was enrolled to swim for 6 individual distances. We have discussed every distance with Hem Thon and, even again, for the 2^nd time Chamraen was denied to swim 50 freestyle distance, still he was confirmed for other 6 distances. But, in Indonesia Mr. Hem Thon has changed suddenly his mind and cut, 3 distances from him. So, he just was sitting on the bench 3 days from the 6 days available and looking how others were competing. We still do not know the reasons why it became like this. Also, during recent conversations with KASF officials, we understood that some of them, simply do not understand or do not remember, about the differences between Short and Long Course Competitions in Swimming Sport: for them - PBT, Entries, National Records are the same for both two types of swimming pools. We will try, to develop our web-resource and to put more useful info and statistics here, so people interested in swimming sport developing in Cambodia could receive correct and true information.

4. FINA World Swimming Championships (25M) News, Day One:

Ryan Lochte (USA) revalidates title in the 200m free

Fastest in the heats and winner of this event in 2010, Ryan Lochte (USA) was naturally the favourite for the victory, also taking into account his excellent performance (five medals) at the 2012 Olympics in London. Despite the presence of world record holder Paul Biedermann (GER) in lane 3, the US star controlled the race and got the gold in 1:41.92. Biedermann still tried a final acceleration but finished second in 1:42.07. The bronze went to the second US swimmer of the final, Conor Dwyer (1:43.78). The best performer of the year, France’s Yannick Agnel is not present in Istanbul. 

World Record: Paul Biedermann (GER), 1:39.37 – November 15, 2009 in Berlin (GER)
Championships Record: Ryan Lochte (USA), 1:41.08 – December 15, 2010 in Dubai (UAE)
Best performance of the current season (since August 2012): Yannick Agnel (FRA, 1:39.70 – November in Angers, FRA) 
Last five (2002-2010) winners in this event: 2002 - Klete Keller (USA, 1:44.36); 2004 - Michael Phelps (USA, 1:43.59); 2006 - Ryk Neethling (RSA, 1:43.51); 2008 - Kenrick Monk (AUS, 1:43.46); 2010 - Ryan Lochte (USA, 1:41.08)
The best in this event (1. most victories or 2. fastest time): Gustavo Borges (BRA, 1995 & 1997) and Ryan Lochte (USA, 2010 & 2012)

Hannah Miley (GBR) triumphs with a new CR in the 400m IM

Less than 15 minutes after receiving her gold medal for the 200m butterfly victory, Katinka Hosszu (HUN) was again in action in the 400m IM. Swimming in lane 5, she had been second to Hannah Miley (GBR) in the heats – the British was also the fastest of the year, with a 4:23.47 effort in Chartres (FRA), at the European Championships. In lane 3, the sensation of the 2012 Olympic Games in London, China’s Shiwen Ye, gold medallist in the 200m and 400m IM. In the third final of the inaugural day in Istanbul, Hosszu was never in a position to get the gold, that went to Miley in a new Championships Record of 4:23.14 (Mireia Belmonte, from Spain, had clocked 4:24.21 in 2010). Miley, 23 years old, had been silver medallist in the 200m IM at the FINA World Championships in 2011 in Shanghai. Ye got the silver in 4:23.33, while Kosszu touched third in 4:25.95.

World Record: Julia Smit (USA), 4:21.04 – December 18, 2009 in Manchester (GBR)
Championships Record: Hannah Miley (GBR), 4:23.14 – December 12, 2012 in Istanbul (TUR)
Best performance of the current season (since August 2012): Hannah Miley (GBR, 4:23.14 – December 12, in Istanbul, TUR) 
Last five (2002-2010) winners in this event: 2002 - Yana Klochkova (UKR, 4:30.63); 2004 - Kaitlin Sandeno (USA, 4:30.12); 2006 - Hui Qi (CHN, 4:34.28); 2008 - Kirsty Coventry (ZIM, 4:26.52); 2010 - Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP, 4:24.21)
The best in this event (1. most victories or 2. fastest time): Yana Klochkova (UKR, 1999, 2000 & 2002)

Hosszu (HUN) confirms brilliant 2012 season with 200m fly win

Katinka Hosszu (HUN), the winner of the 2012 FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup, had established the best performance of the season in the heats, in a time of 2:04.19 and got the gold in the final with a faster time of 2:02.20, a new Championships Record (in 2010, Mireia Belmonte, from Spain, had won in 2:03.59). It was the first 25m world medal for the Magyar swimmer, who was the 2009 champion (long course) in this same event. However, it was a hard fight against Jemma Lowe (GBR), silver medallist two years ago and the first until the 150m mark. In the end, Lowe got the bronze in 2:03.19, while Liuyang Jiao (CHN) finished second in 2:02.28. Zige Liu, the world record holder, was only fourth.

World Record: Zige Liu (CHN), 2:00.78 – November 15, 2009 in Berlin (GER)
Championships Record: Katinka Hosszu (HUN), 2:02.20 – December 12, 2012 in Istanbul (TUR)
Best performance of the current season (since August 2012): Katinka Hosszu (HUN, 2:02.20 – December 12, in Istanbul, TUR) 
Last five (2002-2010) winners in this event: 2002 - Petria Thomas (AUS, 2:05.76); 2004 - Kaitlin Sandeno (USA, 2:06.95); 2006 - Jessicah Schipper (AUS, 2:05.11); 2008 - Mary Descenza (USA, 2:04.27); 2010 - Mireia Belmonte Garcia (ESP, 2:03.59)
The best in this event (1. most victories or 2. fastest time): Limin Liu (CHN, 1993 & 1997) and Mette Jacobsen (DEN, 1999 & 2000)

Source: www.fina.org

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