Indoor Open Water 1.0 Video

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aqualoja produced the offical video from the Open Water 1.0 semi-competitive event the Portuguese Swimming Federation conducted to promote Open Water Swimming  among the younger age group swimmers. This was held on the 25th April 2009 at the Lisbon 'Estádio Universitário' 50m swimming pool.

• Results from the preliminary heats

• Results from the finals

By the end of the day we had 211 young athletes, their happiness rejoicing over the hidden exhaustion from swimming several laps. The circuit, drawn on the 50m poll, was a bit over 100 meters.

Several experienced open water swimmers volunteered in helping out for the event, including Daniela Inácio and Arseniy Lavrentiev, who represented Portugal in the 10K at the Beijing 2008 Olympics.

The official news on this event can be read here

The long VI episode video is a direct result aqualoja commitment to put as much young swimmer as possible into Web TV. This is our way of helping in promoting this magnificent discipline

The Video episodes contain

I    Heats for 'Cadetes B' (Male & Female)

II   Heats for 'Cadetes A' (Male & Female)

III  Heats for Female 'Infantis'

IV Heats for Male 'Infantis'

V  Finals for 'Cadetes A & B' (Male & Female)

VI Finals for 'Infantis' (Male & Female) and Interviews

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Águas Abertas 1.0 - Episódio II (Eliminatórias Cadetes A)

Some photos taken randomly while shooting the video

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