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BRISBANE, Australia, February 8. ASHLEY Callus, an Olympic gold medalist as part of Australia's winning 400 freestyle relay at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, has announced his retirement from the sport of swimming according to the Courier-Mail...
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RALEIGH, N.C. - Former NC State ACC Champion and All-American diver, and renowned cinematographer, Mike deGruy, was killed in a helicopter crash in eastern Australia on Saturday. The Santa Barbara, Calif., resident was 60.
During his time at NC...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 7. SWIMMING World superfan Bill Bell has returned with his long course meters top 50 lists. Today, we provide the women's list heading into the rest of the Olympic year.
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UPPSALA, Sweden, February 5. THE two-day long course meter Swedish Grand Prix came to a close in Uppsala with another run of top five times in the early world rankings.
Sarah Sjostrom started the second day with a 54.17 to win the women's 1...
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MONTPELLIER, France, February 5. THE final day of the National Open of Montpellier, a long course meter format meet this weekend, a handful of top swims went up on the scoreboard.
Femke Heemskerk moved to third in the world rankings in the wome...
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MILAN, Italy, February 4. THE City of Milan Trophy meet, taking place in long course meter format, featured a handful of swimmers doubling up during a pair of timed finals sessions today.
Fabio Scozzoli jumped to the top of the men's 50 bre...
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MONTPELLIER, France, February 4. Montpellier has been kind to Camille Muffat, as she has clocked a pair of scintillating times in just two days. Tonight, at the National Open of Montpellier, Muffat posted a lifetime best.
A day after placing s...
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UPPSALA, Sweden, February 4. ON a career streak of consistently strong swims, Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom continued on that path with a pair of sterling in-season swims during day one of the Swedish Grand Prix in Uppsala. The meet is taking place...
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MONTPELLIER, France, February 3. THE National Open of Montpellier kicked off with a handful of quick in-season swims as Camille Muffat and Yannick Agnel turned in a pair of second-ranked times in the long course meter opener.
Camille Muffat sco...
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MILAN, Italy, February 3. THE City of Milan Trophy meet that began today, a pair of strong in-season times went up on the board in long course meter competition.
Alessia Filippi posted a 2:10.49 to win the women's 200 back. That effort pu...
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LONDON, Olympic, February 3. CITING a desire to focus on her education after being awarded conditional placement at Oxford University in September, British and former Kenyan swimmer Achieng Ajulu-Bushell withdrew from the British Olympic Trials a...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, February 3. DURING the past week, the following meet managers took full advantage of uploading their results to the Swimming World meet resu...
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AUSTIN, Texas, January 31. SIX months after news broke that Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry would be hosted by the Royal Couple of Monaco in her training up until the 2012 London Games, Coventry has elected to return to Austin, Texas to train with ...
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By Oene Rusticus, Swimming World European correspondent
THE NETHERLANDS, January 30. IT is a remarkable accomplishment, an Olympic swim coach who finishes his PhD on the eve of "London 2012". Dr. Martin Truijens completed his D...
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WEST AUCKLAND, New Zealand, January 30. RHI Jeffrey, an Olympic gold medalist as a preliminary relay swimmer for the triumphant U.S. 800 free relay at the 2004 Athens Games, added on two more events to her potential schedule at the 2012 U.S. Olymp...
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DURBAN, South Africa, January 29. HEERDAN Herman raced to the third Olympic qualifying time to open the second day of the South African International Invitational Swim Meet at the Kings Park Pool in Durban this evening.
The talented Herman kept...
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VALBY, Sweden, January 29. THE Swedish Junior Short Course Championships produced a pair of Swedish national records from Swimming World Magazine February cover girl Sarah Sjostrom en route to five victories. Oscar Ekstrom, meanwhile, won ...
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LUXEMBOURG, January 29. THE three-day Euro Meet held in long course format in Luxembourg came to an end with another handful of meet records falling by the wayside.
Jonatan Kopelev jumped to second in the early world rankings in the men's 5...
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ADELAIDE, Australia, January 29. The men's 50m freestyle final was a wall of whitewash as three World Champions battled it out for top spot. Matthew Targett came out on top in a new personal best of 21.98 beating his previous time of 22.09 set...
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DURBAN, South Africa, January 28. THE initial day of action came to a close at the Swimming South Africa International Invitational held in Durban this weekend.
Women 800m freestyle
Hungarian Evelyn Verraszto was no match for the up-and...
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LUXEMBOURG, January 28. THE second day of action at the Euro Long Course Meet in Luxembourg featured some strong swims throughout the evening.
Laurent Carnol topped the early world rankings in the men's 200 breast with a 2:09.78. That swi...
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GOLD COAST, Australia, January 28. THE one-day Miami Super Challenge, held in long course format, featured some stellar swims by many in attendance, including a cohort of Chinese swimmers led by world-record holder Sun Yang.
Sun Yang crushed ...
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ADELAIDE, Australia, January 28. TWENTY-year-old Blair Evans flew through the water tonight at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre. Her superb style saw her smash two SA All-comers records and record two A-qualifying times in the 200m and 400m frees...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 28. DURING the past week, the following meet managers took full advantage of uploading their results to the Swimming World meet resu...
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LUXEMBOURG, January 27. THE first day of the long course Euro Meet featured timed finals swims in distance events, plus prelims of the 200 butterfly.
Sabrina Marzahn of Germany started the competition with a win in the women's 800 freestyle...
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ADELAIDE, Australia, January 27. WORLD champion James Magnussen posted the two fastest 100 freestyles today at the long course South Australian state championships.
Magnussen, who won the world title last summer with a 47.63 and led off Austral...
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