--- Masters News Stories ---
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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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, June 29. OVER the weekend at the Speedo International Age Group Invitational, Oswaldo Quevedo added the U.S. Masters Swimming 100 fly 30-34 age division over long course meters to his resume.
Quevedo, who already owns ...
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LIMA, Peru, June 26. THIS weekend, Rosario "Choco" de Vivanco put together a pair of incredibly strong meets at the Peru National Long Course Masters Championships and the 1st Pacific Masters Short Course Cup. She completed the week wi...
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SARASOTA, Florida, June 18. THIS past weekend at the long course meter Bumpy Jones Classic held in Sarasota, Fla., several FINA World and U.S. Masters Swimming marks took a tumble.
With nearly 200 Masters swimmers attending the meet at the new...
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By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters correspondent
PERTH, Australia, June 16. THE usual suspects were again at it in the pool at the short course Mandurah Carnival on Sunday.
Three Australian records went down, two to...
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 8. DURING a Masters meet held at Cleveland State University this weekend, Lois Kivi Nochman bettered her ninth FINA Masters world record of the year.
Swimming in her first long course meter meet in the 85-89 age division,...
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Guest editorial by John Craig
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 4. THERE's a big dichotomy right now between the official Masters records in the younger age groups and the unofficial ones. As the rules stand, in order to set an official FINA Ma...
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By Graham Senders, Australian Masters correspondent
PERTH, Australia, June 3. BOLD Park Power's Victor Paul has broken three more Australian records in the 65-69 age group. He set the new standards in a State 1500m meet hosted by the...
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TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, May 27. THE Canadian Masters Short Course Meters National Championships were held at the beautiful Etobicoke Olympium Complex from May 14-18 in Toronto, Canada. The championships served to illustrate the importance of an...
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IRVINE, California, May 26. WHILE FINA Masters world records were taking a tumble at the Swimming World Cactus Classic in Tempe, Ariz., Masters swimmers were gunning for the record books at the Janet Evans Invitational in Irvine, Calif.
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By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters Correspondent
PERTH, Australia, May 18. NINE national records fell over the weekend at the West Australian Masters State Swim at Challenge Stadium, the venue for the 2008 FINA World Ma...
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FRESNO, California, May 13. OVER the weekend, Masters swimmers took dead aim successfully at the U.S. Masters Swimming short course yard record books. During the meet held at Clovis North High School in Fresno, Calif., 12 pages of new records wer...
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, May 4. AT the YMCA Masters National Championships held in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., last month, numerous records fell.
During the meet, which took place April 16-19, 180 swimmers had their hands in breaking YMCA and U.S....
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MELBOURNE, Australia, May 4. DANIEL Kowalski put on a show at the 2009 Australian Masters Long Course Championships. Swimming in the 30-34 age division, Kowalski cleared three FINA Masters World Records.
Kowalski posted a time of 8:18.76 in t...
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SIMI VALLEY, California, May 4. CONEJO Simi Aquatics (CSA), a premier aquatics club serving the Simi and Conejo Valley areas, today announced that Nancy Kirkpatrick-Reno, Head Masters and Triathlon Swim Coach for the club, has been named the South...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 28. MASTERS national records were taken to a new level in the 40-44 age group last weekend, as Mike Ross put his stamp on five new short course yards records at the Colonies Zone Championships in Fairfax, Va.
Following a...
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By Brent Rutemiller
PHOENIX, Arizona, April 28. THE current firestorm over competition swimsuits can be traced back to one key moment in FINA history: The redefining of fabric by FINA rule GR 5.5(b) Material in early 2008.
Let's ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 27. MASTERS swimmer David Radcliff has been on a tear this spring in the 75-79 age group, swimming under the world marks in all six freestyle short course meters events at the MSABC Provincial Championships in Duncan, Briti...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey. APRIL 27. WHAT the heck does fast mean anymore? Do we really have any idea? Is something fast because the time is a world record, or buzzes in the vicinity of a global standard? Or, does fast have to be measur...
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By Graham Senders, Swimming World Australian Masters Correspondent
PERTH, Australia, April 22. VICTOR Paul of Bold Park Power stormed into the record books in his new age group on Saturday, April 18 under unseasonal stormy skies.
At...
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LIMA, Peru, April 21. OVER the weekend, Peru's Rosario "Chocho" de Vivanco lowered the FINA Masters World Record in the women's 50 free of the 60-64 age division at the Peru Masters Championships. de Vivanco clocked a time of 30...
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LAKE ORION, Michigan, April 9. LAST weekend, three USMS National records went down at the Michigan Masters State Championships held over short course yards.
The team of Adam Schmitt, Patrick Saucedo, Alec Mull and Kevin Doak posted a time of 1...
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MEDINA, Ohio, April 7. OVER the weekend, the Ohio Masters Swim Club foursome of Todd Stultz, Laura Kessler, Jack Groselle and Karen Staursky claimed the FINA Masters world record in the mixed 200+ 200-meter freestyle relay over short course meters...
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By Graham Senders, Australian Masters correspondent
PERTH, Australia, April 7. ROD Baker gets faster. At the carnival hosted by Melville AUSSI Masters on Sunday, the Mandurah club's 81 year-old broke his Australian long course record...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 2. IT has been a busy couple of weeks for Masters swimmers as several more FINA Masters world records have fallen by the wayside throughout the globe.
Olympic gold medalist Alex Baumann took to the water at the Ontario ...
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