Open water swimming is entirely different to swimming in a swimming pool. This isn’t to say that you shouldn’t love swimming in a pool. It just means that for variety and excitement, you should try open water swimming every once in a while!
First in our line-up of HEAD Elite Swimmers is Markus Deibler. A German competitive swimmer with two national records. Specialising in the individual medley. At the World Championship in Doha 2014, he set a new World Record in the 100m medley in 50”66. He also competed at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games. Learn more about Markus Deibler in this athlete bio...
Next up in our roll-call of HEAD Elite Swimmers is Jakob Heidtmann. A German swimmer specialising in the individual medley. He broke the German age-group record at age 18 with a time of 4:21,12. Find out more about the German swimmer...
A young talent for Italian swimming, Ilaria Bianchi won, aged 16, the Junior World Championships in that which will always remain her specialty, the 100m butterfly. Bolognese, born 1990, Ilaria took part in the Beijing Olympics in 2008 where she broke an Italian record in the heats, 58.12, with 7th place overall. After the Chinese Olympics followed 4 years of great change, at the end of which Ilaria joined her current team, Azzura ’91.
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