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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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PHOENIX, Arizona, September 30. JODIE Henry's retirement, Tommy Hannan's decision to remain in the sport and Jonty Skinner's new gig with British Swimming are the highlights of today's edition of
The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch talks to Hannan about his decision to leave the sport of swimming after the University o...
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SYDNEY, Australia, September 30. AT 25 years of age triple Olympic gold medalist from Athens, Jodie Henry, has officially announced her retirement from competitive swimming today.
Henry, who last competed in 2008 before failing to trial for the Beijing Olympic Games due to a pelvic injury, will leave the sport as one of the most decorated female...
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BERLIN, Germany, June 25. DURING preliminary heats of the second day of swimming at the German Long Course Nationals, Britta Steffen eclipsed Libby Trickett's world record in the women's 100 free.
Steffen clocked a time of 52.85 to beat Trickett's 2008 standard of 52.88. Steffen, however, completed the time in a much different way ...
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SYDNEY, October 27: It was the start one magnificent career and the end of another at the Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards in Sydney tonight with Beijing golden girl Stephanie Rice became the sixth female winner of the coveted Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at a glittering function at Darling Harbour and the end of another with the surprise re...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, June 24. THE end is in sight. Including this week, only six events remain in
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview Series. It's been a lengthy run, one that started several months ago. This week, we take a look at the women's 100 freestyle, this wrapping up our look at the freestyle eve...
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DUNKIRK, France, April 25. THE French sprinters are quickly becoming the newest hot topic in the swimming world, as evidenced by another remarkable day in the water at the French Olympic Trials. With the men moving up the ladder, Malia Metella became the first Frenchwoman under 54 in the 100 free. Fred Bousquet then closed the show with a nation...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 15. THE second half of
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview Series, which will lead into this summer's Beijing Games, gets started with the first look at a relay event. With lineups hardly set for relay action, this preview of the women's 400 medley relay will take into considera...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 27. IT may have taken a year since she first set the unratified world record in the 100 free with a 52.99 leadoff of the mixed 400 free relay at the Duel in the Pool last year, but Libby Trickett finally owns the global standard outright. Meanwhile, Eamon Sullivan went off in the 50 free for the second world record of the...
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BRISBANE, Australia, February 28. ACCORDING to Australian media reports, including an article in
The Sydney Morning Herald, three-time Olympic gold medalist Jodie Henry will announce that she will bypass the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The article states that Henry has been battling a "pelvic complaint" that will eliminate her ...
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MELBOURNE, Australia, January 7. THE fourth day of swimming at the Victorian Championships came and went in Melbourne, Australia with some swift swims on hand for the fans in attendance.
Leisel Jones responded to a loss in the 50 breast with a win in the 100, while Kate Ziegler and Grant Hackett each claimed distance freestyle titles.
Wom...
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MELBOURNE, Australia, January 6. WHILE the sprinters have been getting most of the spotlight the first two days of the Victorian Championships held in Melbourne, distance stars Grant Hackett and Kate Ziegler had the chance to show some of their strength during the third day of swimming.
Women's Events
400 free finals
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BRISBANE, Australia, November 9. JODIE Henry, the reigning Olympic champion in the 100-meter freestyle is leaving the Australian Institute of Sport and will return to train in Brisbane, according to a report in
The Age. Henry cited homesickness and dwindling motivation for her decision. After the Athens Olympics, she moved to the AIS to trai...
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SYDNEY, Australia, November 4. THE year 2007 will be one to remember for Libby Lenton after she was named the Telstra Swimmer of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony in Sydney.
The 22-year-old, who won five gold medals at this year's FINA World Championship in Melbourne, joins individual Olympic gold medalists Susie O'Neill (1995 and...
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SYDNEY, Australia, October 16. WHEN Australia's swimming stars head to Sydney next month for the FINA / ARENA Swimming World Cup presented by Telstra, they will need to pack more than just their Speedo's.
Just a night after racing international competition at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre on November 2 and 3 the nation's bes...
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, June 17. THE comeback of Dara Torres continued Sunday as the Mare Nostrum Series came to an end for the 2007 season in Monte Carlo. Competing in the Shootout Duels that are signature events of the Monaco stop of the tour, the 40-year-old Torres clocked 25.00 in the 50 freestyle to defeat Aussie Alice Mills (25.09).
Torres ha...
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MONTE CARLO, Monaco, June 16. AMERICAN Peter Vanderkaay secured an impressive victory Saturday as the Mare Nostrum Tour shifted to Monte Carlo. The Olympian from Club Wolverine prevailed in the 400-meter freestyle, with his mark of 3:48.02 supplying a comfortable triumph over Aussie legend Grant Hackett, who went 3:49.14.
Meanwhile, the comeback...
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SYDNEY, Australia, June 14. A story today in
The Australian by highly acclaimed swimming journalist Nicole Jeffery discussed Great Britain's desire to lure some big-name sprint coaches to prepare the country for the 2012 Olympic Games, which will be held in London. According to the piece by Jeffery, Britain has contacted Australia's ...
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BARCELONA, Spain, June 14. THE highlight event of the second day of the Barcelona stop on the Mare Nostrum Tour turned out to be the longest discipline. Australia's Grant Hackett and American Erik Vendt battled it out for the 30 laps, with both men turning in superb times for this point in the season in the 1500 freestyle. Hackett came out on t...
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BRISBANE, Australia, May 19. THE Monaco style head-to-head showdowns highlighted the final morning of swimming at the Telstra Grand Prix held in Brisbane, Australia from May 18-20.
Monaco Knockout Results
There was an exciting set of head-to-head battles on the final morning of competition. In the first event, Felicity Galvez of Chandl...
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