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Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights
BERLIN, Germany, November 14. THE first day of finals at the FINA World Cup stop hosted in Berlin featured five world records, upping the total for...
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Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 11. THE second night of finals at the FINA World Cup stop hosted in Stockholm featured four more world-record performan...
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Universal Sports FINA World Cup Dashboard, including webcasts and highlights
MOSCOW, Russia, November 6. THE final night of finals at the FINA World Cup stop hosted by Moscow featured three more world records taking a tumble...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, October 12. THIS year marks the 10th year of competition this decade, and as a way to celebrate that anniversary,
Swimming World will be publishing the results of its Swimmer of the Decade balloting in the December issue. The process asked various
Swimming World contributors to suppl...
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CANBERRA, Australia, October 7. WORLD Champion and world record holder Jessicah Schipper has won the 2009 Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at Parliament House in Canberra tonight in an evening of high praise for the 22-year-old butterflyer from Brisbane.
The 200m butterfly gold medallist from this year's World Championships in Rome, and sil...
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LEEDS, Great Britain, August 7. AT the British Short Course Grand Prix, Annamay Pierse lowered her own world record in the women's 200 breast. Meanwhile, Canada's men's team broke the 800 free relay global standard.
Pierse smoked the course with a 2:16.83 to lower her world record of 2:17.50 set in March.
Here are the comparative...
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Column by John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, July 20. THE swimming portion of the World Championships is just days away, so it's time for some predictions on what will shake out in Rome. The task won't be an easy one, considering the suit charade that has thrown the sport for a major loop. But, we'll give it our best shot and see...
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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 following analysis of recent groundbreaking swims from throughout the world.
Steffen and the World of Wo...
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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 at the Mediterranean Games. Previously, Federica Pellegrini shot down the women's 400 free global...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12. THE
For The Record section in the current issue of
Swimming World features results from competitions at a variety of levels. The first portion of this section highlights results from the Amsterdam Swim Cup, French Long Course Nationals and the Telkom South African Nationals.
College results include women...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 11. READERS of the current issue of
Swimming World can receive a week's worth of workouts as completed by the St. Petersburg Aquatic Masters. Six days of complete workouts are provided. The workouts average a total of just under 4,900 yards from warm-up thru warm-down.
Also included as part of this month's...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 10. ONE of the largest and most high energy meets conducted each year, the annual YMCA Swimming and Diving National Championships, is the focus of this month's
Junior Swimmer section in
Swimming World.
The Sarasota YMCA continued its winning tradition this year by capturing its third straight combined cha...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 9. SUCCESS comes consistently in the competitive swimming program at the West Shore YMCA, in Camp Hill, Penn. Since 1989, coach Michael Gobrecht has helped build the West Shore Y to national prominence.
In a revealing Q&A interview in the
Swimming Technique section of the current issue of
Swimming World, G...
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BARCELONA, Spain, June 6. THE first night of long course meter swimming at the Mare Nostrum stop in Barcelona, Spain featured plenty of new meet records going into the books.
Joanne Jackson began the night with a winning time of 8:24.48 in the women's 800 free. That swim beat Wendy Trott's meet record of 8:26.88 from last year. Trott f...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 6.
IT's Never Too Late is the title of an article in the current issue of the
SWIM section of
Swimming World, which captures the true meaning of masters swimming. Author Jeff Commings presents the story of four women who have found personal satisfaction, the profound joy of better health and a love o...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 5. IN the June issue of
Swimming World Magazine, premium members can go to the
interactive page of SwimmingWorldMagazine.com and view the interactive content that was embedded in the current digital issue. Members can click on the su...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, June 4. RON Johnson, a former college, Olympic and current Masters coach and swimmer, is the author of
Unpopular Wisdom, a truly thought-provoking piece in the current issue of the
Swimming Technique section of
Swimming World.
In this article, Johnson tackles the question of what is the fastest way for a hu...
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