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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 18. SO far, so so so good! That's the theme of the Missouri Grand Prix thus far this year. With two world records already on the board, there were a few close calls but no more world records were in the offering.
Erik Vendt did, however, post a U.S. Open mark in the 1500 free to end the day of individual events...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, January 6. THE following federations reported news in January
ARGENTINA
A finalist from the 1st FINA Youth Swimming Championships 2006 in Rio de Janeiro has re-emerged on the scene after setting a national record at home recently at the Argentina Long Course Championships (December 8, at Mar del Plata). Andres Gonzale...
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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, December 6. ON top of the recent announcement that former Club Wolverine Hayley Peirsol returned to Auburn to complete her degree and take a break for swimming, the club just took another blow as Kalyn Keller is retiring from the sport due to a bout with Crohn's disease, according to an article in the
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FORT MYERS, Florida, October 21. AFTER an exciting day of swimming yesterday in which Micha Burden (Mission Viejo) and Kirsten Groome (First Colony) earned spots in the women's 10K at the FINA Open Water World Championships to be held in Seville, Spain next April, the men took center stage in another 10K battle.
Mark Warkentin (Santa Barbar...
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FORT MYERS, Florida, October 20. MISSION Viejo's Micha Burden (2:00:47.48) and First Colony's Kirsten Groome (2:01:05.43) will represent the United States women at the 2008 FINA Open Water World Championships in Seville, Spain next April after finishing 1-2 in the women's 10K at the U.S. Open Water World Championships Trials.
Incred...
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ESSEN, Germany, October 12. ACCORDING to a
post on the SG Essen web site, Kate Ziegler added to her world record total with a pair of short course meter global standards at the Alex Athletics Jubilaums Challenge in Essen, Germany.
Swimming in lane three during the second heat of the 1500 free, Z...
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SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 18. OVER the weekend, Vladimir Dyatchine and Chloe Sutton laid claim to the RCP Tiburon Mile titles for the second year in a row.
Last year, Dyatchine picked up the top honor for the men with a controversial win over Thomas Lurz after the pair physically battled each other down the final sprint to the finish...
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, July 31.
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com is bringing its readers wall-to-wall coverage of USA Swimming's National Championships held at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis this week. As part of the already deep, rich and up-to-the-minute coverage of the actual racing, our team of reporters are also available via this new...
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RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, July 14. THE United States put on a show during the 10K open water swim at the Pan American Games held at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Emerging open water superstar Chloe Sutton, 15, of the United States held off Brazilian challenger Poliana Okimoto in a down-to-the-wire battle in the women's race....
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SEVILLA, Spain, June 9. THE German duo of Thomas Lurz and Angela Maurer topped their respective fields at the Sevilla, Spain stop of the FINA Marathon Swimming World Cup held at the Guadalquivir River on June 9.
Lurz clocked in at 1:51:49.10 to finish ahead of second-place swimmer Russian Vladimir Dyatchin (1:51:50.71). The Netherlands Maarten...
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FORT MYERS BEACH, Florida, May 19. DURING the second day of swimming at the 2007 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships held in Fort Myers, Fla. from May 17-21, Chip Peterson of North Carolina Aquatic Club and Chloe Sutton of California Capital Aquatics, each picked up their second titles of the event in the 10K.
Peterson, who already c...
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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 25. SHE might be relatively new to the rigors of open-water swimming, but Kalyn Keller certainly has a knack for the soon-to-be Olympic sport. One day after Mother Nature's high winds temporarily delayed the 25K race at the World Championships, Keller returned to the water for the completion of the race. Ultimately, ...
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By John Lohn
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 24. THE 12th edition of the FINA World Championships kicked off today with a jam-packed schedule of eight events. Each day during the competition, we'll produce a World Championships Notebook that takes a look at some of the happenings from Rod Laver Arena. Here's the first installment.
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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 24. THE longest of the open-water races was made a little longer due to Mother Nature. Still, Germany's Britta Kamrau-Corestein managed to endure the difficult conditions. One day after the 25K race was halted at its midpoint due to high winds that caused severely rough waters, Kamrau-Corestein prevailed in 5:37:11.6...
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MELBOURNE, Australia, March 20. RUSSIA's Larisa Ilchenko picked up her second gold in as many tries in open water competition at the FINA World Championships held in Melbourne, Australia.
After winning the 5K a few days ago, Ilchenko crossed the line first in the 10K with a time of 2:03:57.9.
Meanwhile, Britain's Cassandra Patten sna...
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COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 19. WITH many of the top swimmers already flying to coop after posting top prelim times in the morning, the final night of the Missouri Grand Prix in Columbia seemed a bit watered down. The remaining swimmers, however, still managed to put on a show for the fans in attendance – especially Natalie Coughlin and Michael ...
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Jason Marsteller
COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 17. MORE than a month before World Championships in Melbourne, Australia, Michael Phelps popped a 1:53.71 in the 200 butterfly to break the long course world record at the Missouri Grand Prix in Columbia, Mo.
"I didn't think I was ...
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Jason Marsteller
COLUMBIA, Missouri, February 16. IN a day that featured a ton of fast swims, Lauren English posted one of the best efforts of the Missouri Grand Prix long course meet held in Columbia, Mo., on Feb. 16-19. English nearly clocked a U.S. Open record of 28.90 in the 50 back. T...
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LOS ANGELES, California, February 1. KALYN Keller looks to be joining Kaitlin Sandeno, Amanda Weir and Rhi Jeffrey as one of four top-flight swimmers to leave the University of Southern California camp according to several sources.
Keller will be joining her brother Klete in Ann Arbor with Club Wolverine. Kalyn declined any comment other than ...
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STANFORD, California, January 21. NUMBER One Stanford (9-0, 5-0 Pac-10) knocked off No. 11 USC (5-3, 3-3 Pac-10) by a score of 174-111 in its final home dual meet of the 2006-07 campaign at the Avery Aquatic Center on Saturday to move within one victory of its first unbeaten dual meet regular season since 2001-02. Stanford will wrap up its regular...
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