FINA World Swimming Championships: Start a ten-year ensures irritations – SPIEGEL ONLINE

“to learn early swim, can be vital for a child. Therefore, parents should accustom their children already time to the water and send the kids in a swimming course.” It says so on the Counsellor and details eltern.de. Alzain Tareq is ten years old and can already swim. On Friday it will start in the discipline 50 meters butterfly – in swimming World Championships in Kazan

“I would have thought there would be an age limit, because I was not allowed to Perth for the World Cup in 1991, when I was only 13 allowed with 14.. I then start in Barcelona at the Olympics, and I think that 14 is a good age for this is “, Franziska van Almsick told the” Bild “newspaper. Germany’s former swimming star is thus representative of many observers of the World Cup, who are irritated if the age of Tareq, who is the youngest participant in the history of World Swimming Championships.

The world swimming federation Fina has, unlike other sports federations no age limit, at least not in the pelvic swimming. The European Association Len allows swimmers at a EM only from 14 years. The Fina, however allows athletes from every nation, without age restriction, so that each member country can be represented. A Start is for children but for the sole reason usually not considered because they did not yet reach the Fina standards.

As Tareq could qualify, she was asked in an interview, which was published on the FINA World Swimming Championships page. “I was the fastest swimmer in the Team of Bahrain”, the ten-year responds boldly.

It seems before their start on Friday (50 meters butterfly) and Saturday (50 meters freestyle) not to be nervous. “I was not at a major championship, but I have played a lot of tournaments. I have nothing and no one be afraid.” Chances are they will not but have its input time for the butterfly races (41.12 seconds) is nearly 17 seconds over the world record of Swede Sarah Sjöström.

Tareq indicates in the interview, they train five days a week, twice a day, morning and evening. Problems at school, they have not, says the student. Swimming and school would you great pleasure prepare, her favorite subject was math

Chief national coach Henning Lambertz sees the launch of Alzain Tareq skeptical. “How much voluntary case or how much pressure from parents or relatives, which would have see here. I think ten years is rather in the playground instead of here at a World Cup. “