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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Open Water correspondent
NEW YORK CITY, New York, September 6. AS the sun was setting over the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Lurz of Germany and Poliana Okimoto of Brazil won the New York City stop on the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup.
Lurz won his fourth World Cup victory in a row after swimming ...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, August 7. THIS weekend (August 8), Varna (BUL) will host the next race of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup (MSWC). Meanwhile, in the last few weeks, four big races from both of FINA's two major open water swimming circuits – the FINA 10km MSWC and the FINA Open Water Swimming (OWS) Grand Prix (GP) – took place.
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SHEFFIELD, England, June 29. THE British Gas Swimming Team destined for the World Championships in Rome next month has been revealed.
A team of 40 swimmers, including double Olympic Champion Rebecca Adlington and Olympic medalists David Davies, Keri-Anne Payne and Jo Jackson, will fly the flag for Britain in Rome.
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By Todd Cooper, Swimming World Scottish correspondent
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 27. DAVID Davies produced a dominant performance to set a British Record in the men's 800 free on the third night of finals at the Scottish National Championships.
Olympic 10k silver medalist Davies swam a superbly-paced race to take the title in 7:50.49....
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 26. ANOTHER world record in Germany highlights Friday's news segment on
The Morning Swim Show. Following is the complete transcript of the segment, hosted by Peter Busch.
The Germans top our news again today. For the second day in a row, a world record has fallen in Berlin. Today Daniela Samulski broke the recor...
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By Todd Cooper, Swimming World Scottish correspondent
GLASGOW, Scotland, June 26. WORLD record holders Rebecca Adlington and Joanne Jackson produced one of the fastest 800 free races in history tonight at the Scottish National Championships.
After going head-to-head for 700 meters, it was Olympic champion Adlington who eventually pulle...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 24. TWO related news items were recently published regarding the impact of the media on the Olympic Games.
The
Telegraph is
reporting that the International Olympic C...
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SHEFFIELD, England, March 20. HANNAH Miley kept on trucking at the British Long Course Championships. This evening, she took two seconds off her European record in the women's 400 IM.
During the distance medley finale, Miley scorched the pool with a 4:31.33. The swim evaporated her 4:33.24 continental standard set last year at this meet. S...
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SHEFFIELD, England, March 18. JOANNE Jackson kept on rolling during a career-best weekend at the British Long Course Championships as she downed the Commonwealth record in the women's 200 free.
James Gibson began the night with a winning effort in the men's 100 breast. Gibson checked in with a time of 1:00.22, while Kristopher Gilchrist...
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SHEFFIELD, England, March 17. AFTER a world record opened the British Long Course Championships yesterday, Hannah Miley checked in with a European standard on the second night of action.
Miley clocked a time of 2:09.59 to dominate the women's 200 IM and break the continental record of 2:10.68 set by Yana Klochkova back in 2000. Kerianne Pa...
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SHEFFIELD, England, March 16. IN what proved to be a barn-burner between Joanne Jackson and Rebecca Adlington, Jackson came out on top in a world-record effort in the women's 400 free at the British Long Course Championships.
Jackson rocketed to a time of 4:00.66, while Adlington placed second in 4:00...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, January 23. SANTOS, Brazil is the setting for the first race of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2009 and it promises to be a good one. The competition, which offers USD 20,000 in prize money, takes place Saturday, January 24. Preliminary swimmers lists for the event include a considerable number of the world's b...
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By Steven Munatones
WINDERMERE, England, September 15. GREAT Britain's David Davies defended his home turf over his Olympic 10K Marathon Swim rivals Maarten van der Weijden and Thomas Lurz at the 1-mile Great North Swim in the largest lake in England.
Just like the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim in Beijing, it was a close battle between silver...
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