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-- July 5, 2009
RIJEKA, Croatia, July 5. THREE more Croatian records fell at the Croatian Championships held in Rijeka.
Duje Draganja and Mario Todorovic kept up their meet-long rivalry in the men's 50 free semis. With the pair already trading Croatian re...
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-- July 5, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 5. THE first night of long course meter swimming at the World University Games featured several national records falling by the wayside. Meanwhile, Ryosuke Irie set up a potentially incendiary final in the men's 100 bac...
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-- July 5, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 5. CHINA's Pan Zhaowei topped the men's three-meter springboard event at the World University Games.
Pan cruised to a winning tally of 467.15 points. Mexico's Yahel Ernesto Castillo took silver with 449.95 po...
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-- July 5, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 5. ANOTHER day of preliminary competition is in the books for the men's water polo draw at the World University Games held in Belgrade.
Croatia stomped France, 17-6, to open the day. Bojan Car and Ivan Bebic each pos...
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-- July 5, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 5. IN the July issue of Swimming World Magazine, premium members can go to the interactive page of SwimmingWorldMagazine.com, and view the...
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-- July 4, 2009
RIJEKA, Croatia, July 4. THE second evening of long course meter swimming at the Croatian Championships featured three more national marks taking a tumble.
Smiljana Marinovic topped Mirna Jukic's national record in the women's 100 breas...
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-- July 4, 2009
BELGRADE, Australia, July 4. AUSTRALIAN University Sport and Swimming Australia Limited have announced that Australian swimmer Matthew Jaukovic has withdrawn from competition at the 25th Universiade (World University Games) Belgrade 2009 due to vi...
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-- July 4, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 4. THE first night of diving at the World University Games featured a pair of gold medal efforts from the Chinese.
In the men's three-meter synchronized event, Wu Minghong and Zhang Sen broke the 400-point barrier to ...
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-- July 4, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 4. THE third day of competition featured preliminary matches for both the men and women in water polo at the World University Games held in Belgrade.
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Croatia crushed Mexico, 19-8, in the first match of the day...
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-- July 4, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 4. MARGO Geer, a five-star recruit from the Class of 2010, continues this year's series of Swimming World College Recruit Rankings Profiles. Geer swims for Fairbanks High and the Springfield Family YMCA.
Geer ...
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-- July 4, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 4. A full pictorial spread featuring the breaststroke start, turn and pullout highlights the Swimming Technique section in the July issue. In this presentation, Texas A&M swimmer Alia Atkinson and coach Steve Bultman...
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-- July 3, 2009
RIJEKA, Croatia, July 3. THE sprint 50 fly events featured record-breaking performances during the first day of long course meter swimming at the Croatian Championships held in Rijeka.
Duje Draganja and Mario Todorovic traded possession of the ...
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-- July 3, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 3. NBC and Universal Sports will bring fans coverage of USA Swimming's biggest domestic event of the year when stars of the 2008 Olympic Team head to Indianapolis for the 2009 ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Nation...
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-- July 3, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 3. DURING the first day of men's water polo preliminary competition, and the second day overall for water polo at the World University Games, eight matches took place.
France claimed a 13-8 triumph over Mexico in the...
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-- July 3, 2009
MILAN, Italy, July 3. ANDREW Lauterstein has finalized race preparations for the World Championships in Rome by breaking the Commonwealth and Australian record for the 100m butterfly at the Giorgio Armani Swim Meet in Milan overnight.
The 22-ye...
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-- July 3, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. SAMANTHA Tucker, a five-star prospect from the Class of 2010, begins another series of Swimming World College Recruit Rankings Profiles that will appear on this site in the coming month. Tucker, who is from Austi...
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-- July 3, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. THE underwater pullout is a key component for a successful breaststroker, and on the Texas A&M University women's swim team, Coach Steve Bultman makes sure all of the breaststrokers on the team have better-than-profic...
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-- July 3, 2009
Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 3. EVIDENTLY there are talks being held about the possibility of a USA vs. Europe dual meet in the near future. The U.S. had previously taken on Australia, a misguided idea since disco...
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-- July 2, 2009
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, July 2. THE training environment for Canada's top swimmers receives a huge boost today, as the University of Toronto confirms the establishment of a High Performance Swimming Centre led by world-class swim coach John ...
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-- July 2, 2009
HOUSTON, Texas, July 2. THE Rice Owls posted the highest team grade point average for all Division I swimming & diving programs, the Collegiate Swim Coaches Association of America (CSCAA) announced Thursday with its listing of the Spring 2009 Scho...
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-- July 2, 2009
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, July 2. THE Texas A&M women's swimming & diving team will span out across the continent and the globe this week with 15 of its current and former athletes competing in three different major meets in three countries star...
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-- July 2, 2009
AUBURN, Alabama, July 2. FOLLOWING Wednesday's opening ceremonies, rising seniors Ava Ohlgren, Kelly Marx and Dan Mazzaferro prepare for competition in the 25th World University Games, held July 4-10 in Belgrade, Serbia.
Ohlgren earned her ...
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-- July 2, 2009
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July 2. IT's only been a day since the Class of 2010 has been allowed to be called by college coaches, and Alamo Area's Lily Moldenhauer has already...
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-- July 2, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 2. SWIMMING World has learned that the International Swimming Federation (FINA) has backed out of its appeal of Jessica Hardy's ...
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-- July 2, 2009
AMES, Iowa, July 2. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of America announced its Scholar All-Americans and Scholar All-American teams Thursday.
For the 20th consecutive season, the team has earned the honor of being named an Academic All-A...
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-- July 2, 2009
DALLAS, Texas, July 2. THE SMU men's swimming & diving team announced its incoming recruiting class for the 2009-2010 season on Thursday. The Mustangs hope that any holes they had in their line-up will now be filled and are excited to see wher...
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-- July 2, 2009
Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, July 2. THE United States will begin selection of its squad for the World Championships next week in Indianapolis. Of course, one of the main storylines will be the continued suit saga that plagu...
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-- July 2, 2009
BALTIMORE, Maryland, July 2. THE College Swimming Coaches Association of American announced its Scholar All-Americans, and Scholar All-American Teams recently. The program changed its name this year after previously being known as the Academic A...
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-- July 2, 2009
ST. LOUIS, Missouri, July 2. THE Washington University in St. Louis men's and women's swimming teams earned 2009 Spring Team Scholar All-America honors, as announced by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America (CSCAA).
Addit...
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-- July 2, 2009
BELGRADE, Serbia, July 2. FOUR matches in the women's bracket opened water polo action at the World University Games.
China started the tournament with an 11-8 triumph over Hungary. China's Sun Yu Jun and Sun Ya Ting led the way with a...
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-- July 2, 2009
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, July 2. THREE-time Olympic gold medalist Mary T. Meagher, widely know in the swimming community as "Madame Butterfly," will be inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
Meagher claimed three gold medals ...
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-- July 2, 2009
WEST LAFAYETTE, Indiana, July 2. DAVID Colturi, Kara Cook and Ashley Karnes are switching their old gold and black suits for the red, white and blue of Team USA beginning this weekend at the FISU World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia.
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-- July 2, 2009
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 2. IN A Voice for the Sport in the July issue of Swimming World Magazine, publisher Brent Rutemiller writes about a potential Professional Swim League.
The time has come for swimming to spin off its "unwanted&...
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-- July 2, 2009
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, July 2. FORMER LSU swimmers Julius Gloeckner and Katherine Noland and current swimmer Jane Trepp were named 2009 Individual Scholar All-Americans by the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, while the women's...
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-- July 2, 2009
STANFORD, California, July 2. A dozen Stanford swimmers will head to the U.S. World Championship Trials in Indianapolis starting on July 7 with hopes to continue onto Rome for the World Championships starting on July 18.
Headlining the group of...
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-- July 1, 2009
Guest editorial by David Rieder
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 1. SWIMMING World superfan David Rieder, who blogs on his site at swimdr549.blogspot.com, provided us with the followi...
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-- July 1, 2009
COLUMBIA, South Carolina, July 1. COACH McGee Moody's 2009-10 signing class for the South Carolina men's swimming team has turned a few heads in the college swimming world after earning a top-25 ranking for the first time in his tenure. Co...
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-- July 1, 2009
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July 1. LIMPOPO swim sensation Leone Vorster will be among a host of South African tertiary swimmers who will be looking to get among the medals when the World University Games take place in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1...
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-- July 1, 2009
PESCARA, Italy, July 1. WHILE Ous Mellouli of Tunisia was the early favorite for swim of the night with his African record in the men's 1500 free, Spain's Aschwin Wildeboer Faber gave the crowd a bookend world record to close down the show...
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-- July 1, 2009
RICCIONE, Italy, July 1. AT the Italian Long Course Masters Championships this past weekend, Alberto Montini lowered three FINA Masters world records in the 40-44 age division. He dropped a pair of his global marks, while cracking one held by anot...
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