CTS Around the World
In Europe
European Junior Nationals
Colorado Time Systems recently provided the entire timing, scoring, meet management, and display systems at the European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium July 18 – 22, 2007.
Welcome to Antwerp
LEN is the governing body of 50 national European Swimming Federations.
Its administrative headquarters are in Rome (ITA), overseen by an elected Bureau composed of Members, representing 15 different Federations
LEN (Ligue Europeenne de Natation) awarded Colorado Time Systems exclusive rights to run this meet in its entirety. Traditionally, this event has been run by Omega.
Colorado Time Systems was responsible for providing all equipment, installation, and running of the Championships at the Wezenberg Swimming Complex.
Setting up relay judging platforms |
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Building the video board |
Numeric scoreboards on caddies
Equipment included:
- System 6 Timing Consoles
- Touchpads
- Relay Judging Platforms with Speedlights
- Championship Start System
- Nine lines of LED Numeric Scoreboards
- LED Video Display
- Hy-Tek Meet Management Software
Championship Starting System |
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Women's 50m breaststroke.jpg |
Overall, the Championship was a huge success; 42 countries participated in this event, with over 8 event records broken during the course of five days.
Replay on the video board
Georges Straetemans
The Federation was very satisfied with the performance of CTS. "Working with such a professional team is a dream for each organizer. The people from 'Colorado' did a fantastic job! Everything was ready in no time. We had some very small problems with the program, but only a few people knew this. Professional people, up to date equipment, all you need to have a high level event. We feel so lucky that we made contact with Colorado Time Systems. Not one second we were thinking about 'Omega.' Congratulations to all of you!"
— Georges Straetemans
Chairman European Junior Championships 2007
Behind the scenes - video board and timing system
Church in Antwerp |
Private Residence in Antwerp |
Streetside restaurant |
In Mexico
The Mexican Swimming Federation 2007 Annual Convention (Convencion Annual Acuatica FMN 2007) was August 23-26 at the Hotel Crowne Plaza Acapulco. Attendees had the opportunity to attend training in the areas of Swimming, Masters programs, Open Water Swimming and Synchronized Swimming. Members of the World Champion and Olympic Gold Medal-winning Russian Synchronized Swimming team were on hand for demonstrations and instruction.
CTS experts presented three classes:
- Training tools for coaches to improve athlete's performance
- Leadership
- Dolphin System of Wireless Stopwatches
CTS is the scoring, timing and display sponsor of the Mexican Swimming Federation.
In China
Several successful, recent high-level swim meets in China using CTS equipment:
Shunde Meet 2007
CTS's Richard Teh at prize presentation
- National team year-end qualifying meet (Beijing) at the China General Administration of Sports Swim Training Pool. Created new Asia Record.
- 2007 National Swim Championships and Olympic Qualifier (Shunde, Guangdong) outdoor pool May 15~21 at Shunde Sports Centre Outdoor Swimming Pool.
- 2007 Guangdong Youth Swimming Championships (Guangzhou, Guangdong) June 1-6 at the Guangzhou University City South China Normal University Swimming Pool.
- The 8th National Universities Games (Guangzhou, Guangdong) Jul 14-19 at the Guangzhou University City South China Normal University Swimming Pool. Created several National Records and universities records.
- In mid-July, there were two different national meets at the same time: the 2007 City Games Qualifier and the National Swim Championships (Dalian, Liaoning and Luoyang, Henan) Jul 20-23 at the Henan Luoyang Natatorium and Liaoning Province (Dalian) Natatorium. At the same time the Vice Chief of China General Administration of Sports (GASC), Chief of CSA and other GASC officials arrived Dalian to officiate the Conferring Ceremony of the new National Aquatic Training Base at Liaoning Natatorium.
- Pre-Olympic Invitation Meet at the China Sports Bureau Natatorium (Beijing) Aug 9-12.
In the coming few months the following meets will utilize CTS timing and display solutions:
| September 22-27 |
2007 National Swim Championships and Olympic Qualifier (Chongqing) |
| October 20-28 |
City Games (Wuhan, Hubei) |
| December |
2007 National Winter Swim Championships |
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