WATER POLO COMPETITIONS 2006/2007

European Women Champions Cup 2006/2007 - Draws, Matches & Results LEN TROPHY Women 2006/2007 - Draws, Matches & Results EURO LEAGUE 2006/2007 - Draws, Matches & Results LEN TROPHY Men 2006/2007 - Draws, Matches & Results

05/12/06   HELSINKI 2006 European Short Course Championships - Websites Helsinki - LEN office - Two days to the beginning of the European Short Course Championships, to be held in Helsinki (FIN), from Dec. 7th to 10th. . Find presentation, results, statistics, interviews and images in the two official websites of the competition: http://www.helsinki2006.fi edited by the Organising Committee and http://www.helsinki2006.org designed and run by LEN. Detailed results available at www.omegatiming.com Link: Helsinki 2006 Organising Committee Official Website Helsinki 2006 LEN Official Website

01/12/06   LEN once more has €35,000 of prize money to award Helsinki (pps) The best athletes once again have the opportunity to earn prize money at the European Short Course Championships for UNICEF. The European Swimming Federation (LEN) put up a total prize money of €35,000 for the outstanding performances. The best results in the men’s and women’s events will be rewarded with €5,000, second place with €3,000 and third place with €2,000 each. Places four to seven are worth €1,500 each. France’s Laure Manaudou was the best female swimmer at last year’s European Short Course Swimming Championships in Trieste (ITA) earning €9,500 for her World records in the 400m freestyle (3.56,79min) and 800m freestyle (8.11,25min) and her gold medal in the 100m backstroke (58.12sec). Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh came top in the men’s events with €8,000 for his World records in the 200m (1.53,46min) and 400m individual medley (4.00,37min). Additional €1,500 are reserved for the „Newcomers of the Year“ in the men’s and women’s events. They will be voted by the media representatives covering the event. Germany’s Steffen Deibler achieved this award last year as runner-up in the 100m freestyle. His female counterpart was Poland’s Katarzyna Baranowska as European Champion in the 200 and 400m individual medley. She will try to defend her two titles in Helsinki, while Deibler entered the 50m freestyle and the 50m butterfly. The best performances of the day will be rewarded with a valuable Seamaster watch from LEN partner Omega, alternating between the best performance in the men’s and women’s events. Omega also offers a Seamaster watch for the most accurate tip of the accredited media representatives. They have to predict the winning time in a certain distance and discipline. Each Federation may enter four swimmers per event but only the best two per nation are allowed to go through to the semi finals and finals. (December 1, 2006) cos-pps/hp-ik Link: Official Helsinki 2006 Short Course European Championships website LEN Helsinki 2006 Short Course European Championships website

29/11/06   “Mr Swimming Finland” says Good-bye Jani Sievinen concludes his career in Helsinki Helsinki - Cosmos-PPS - At the European Short Course Swimming Championships for UNICEF in Helsinki the four-time World and twelve-time European Champion Jani Sievinen will conclude his 16-year international career which started with the 50m backstroke gold medal at the European Sprint Championships in Gelsenkirchen (GER) back 1991. The 32-year old called “Mr Swimming Finland“ in his home country, is focusing on winning a further and last medal at the upcoming Continental Championships. Medal ceremonies in the individual medley events without the likable blond swimmer from Vihti, whose father Esa Sievinen made him one of the most versatile swimmers in the World in the nineties, were rather a rarity in the past. The highlight in Jani Sievinen’s career were the 1994 FINA World Swimming Championships in Rome at the age of 20. He not only gained his only World title on long course in 200m Individual Medley over 1.58,16 minutes but also set a World record that stood of almost nine years before it was broken by the then shooting star Michael Phelps (USA) in 2003. On short course, Sievinen was the fastest swimmer in the World in the 200m Individual Medley for more than twelve years (1992-2004). After 1991 Jani Sievinen only rarely switched from individual medley to freestyle. The famous swimmer, who is still headline news in Finland, won the 1995 European long course title in the 200m freestyle in Vienna. (November 29, 2006) cos-pps/gh Link: Official Helsinki Short Course Championships for UNICEF Web Site LEN Helsinki Short Course Championships for UNICEF Web Site

22/11/06   European Aquatics and UNICEF agree to work together on safe drinking water and sanitation for all ch HELSINKI, November 21, 2006 -- The Ligue Européenne de Natation (LEN) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have agreed to develop a partnership to raise awareness on the importance of clean water for every child. With this partnership, European swimming will be supporting the UN Millennium Goal of reducing by half the number of people in the world living without safe drinking water and sanitation. “This partnership will fulfill one of our main objectives – that of engaging European aquatics in a project for children”, said Bartolo Consolo, President of LEN. “We are extremely pleased to collaborate with an outstanding organization like UNICEF on a project focusing on our main element – water. I really look forward to seeing the entire European aquatics society getting involved.” As a first contribution to this partnership, LEN and the Finnish Swimming Association are dedicating the European Short Course Swimming Championships in Finland on December 7-10, 2006 to UNICEF and safe water. Together with UNICEF Finland, the urgent issue of clean water will be highlighted and promoted with swimmers and national federations throughout Europe. This will open up opportunities for long term partnerships at national level between federations and UNICEF national committees, and also encourage young swimmers to learn more about water and the situation faced by other children in developing countries. Young people and swimming stars alike will have a chance to advocate and help raise awareness and funds for UNICEF’s work to ensure the right of safe water for every child. “Water can be a child’s best friend yet it can also be lethal when not handled properly”, said Pentti Kotoaro, Executive Director of UNICEF Finland. “What better way to raise awareness of the importance of safe water and sanitation for children than through young swimmers.” UNICEF estimates that as many as 4000 children under five years old die each day as a result of water-borne diseases, such as diarrhea. Almost a billion children worldwide have no access to improved sanitation. The partnership opens an excellent opportunity for national swimming federations and supporters of swimming to enter a race against time with UNICEF to help prevent those unnecessary deaths. “Finnish Swimming Association and the whole Finnish swimming society welcome cordially the possibility of collaboration with UNICEF. Sharing the spirit of solidarity pervading the world aquatics, we highly appreciate this great opportunity to contribute to the important work of that renowned international organization. In the future, we are willing to continue this partnership with UNICEF Finland at the national level”, said Rolf Mikkola, General Secretary of the European Short Course Swimming Championships and the head of the Finnish Swimming Association. For more information please contact: UNICEF Finland: Kirsti Dalman +358 9 58450203 UNICEF Geneva Regional Office: Miranda Eeles + 41 22 9095715 Link: UNICEF Official Web Site UNICEF Finland Official Web Site