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DAVIS, California, October 14. THE Tamalpais Aquatic Masters (TAM) put together some short course meter relay FINA Masters world record swims at the Sacramento Masters Annual Pentathlon held recently.
The 240-plus mixed medley relay of Richard Burns, Ken Frost, Laura Val and Barbara Wheeler broke the relay world record with a time of 2:10.89. Th...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 6. FAST swimming at the US Open and the US Masters nationals highlight today's news segment on
The Morning Swim Show.
Host Peter Busch breaks down the top swims by Jessica Hardy, Nick Thoman, Nick Brunelli and others at the US Open. He also talks about some of the Masters world records broken on the first day ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 9. TODAY'S live edition of
The Morning Swim Show featured an interview with the top vote-getter as the female Masters world swimmer of the year for
Swimming World Magazine.
In case you missed our live show (airing each weekday at 10:30 a.m. MST), you can watch a video of two female athletes battling it o...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 25. DURING the past year,
Swimming World Magazine covered some top-flight and exciting action throughout the swimming community. One of the greatest honors the magazine can bestow, outside of its World Swimmer of the Year awards, is a spot on one of 12 covers each year. This year, we actually had 14 covers with a ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, December 15. THIRTY-ONE individual and three relay FINA Masters world records were bettered at the Southern Pacific Masters Association's short course meters regional meet, held Dec. 5-7 in Long Beach, Calif.
Laura Val of Tampalpais Masters and Keefe Lodwig of Nebraska Masters led the way with four world records each.
Va...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 21. AT the second annual Ron Johnson Invitational short course meters meet in Tempe, Ariz., seven swimmers swam faster than 14 Masters world record times at the Mona Plummer Aquatic Center. Two relays also swam under existing world marks.
Roque Santos, a 1992 Olympian in the 200 breast representing Walnut Creek Masters...
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WALNUT CREEK, California, October 15. RECENTLY, at the Pacific Masters Walnut Creek Short Course Championships, 16 Masters world records took a tumble.
Laura Val posted five global records in the 55-59 age division. She clocked top times in the 100 back (1:12.92), 200 back (2:40.05), 50 fly (31.75), 100 fly (1:09.40) and 400 free (4:46.64).
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BOULDER, Colorado, September 18. IN United States Masters Swimming, the women's 45-49 age group often features some of the toughest, fastest competition around. With names like Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, Sue Walsh, and Laura Val dominating the record books, other swimmers must be on top of their game to have a chance...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 17. THE final day at the United States Masters Swimming Long Course Championships capped off an amazing weekend of swimming with more world records and fast times from many of the meet's standout swimmers.
Rita Simonton, 90 years old representing Golden West Swim Club, notched her third world record and fourth nation...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 16. MORE world records fell in the third day of competition at the United States Masters Swimming Long Course National Championships in Gresham, Ore., with US Olympic Trials finalist Gary Marshall providing the biggest fireworks of the day.
The day started with the men's 400 free. George Wendt continued his streak of...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 15. Blistering temperatures in Gresham, Ore., were no match for the bevy of sizzling world records set in the second day of competition at the United States Masters Swimming Long Course Nationals.
Over the course of 12 hours, 12 world records were set in the 11 events contested today.
The award for star swimmer of Fri...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, August 14. THE first day of the United States Masters Long Course National Championships produced five world records in the remodeled Mount Hood Aquatic Center in Gresham, Ore., where more than 1,110 swimmers have gathered for the weekend.
The first record of the meet came from 90-year-old Rita Simonton of Golden West Swim Club...
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 4. THE final day of the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championships came to an end with another session of record-breaking performances.
Here is a list of those top swims:
Men's 500 free
85-89
New Record: Jurgen Schmidt, 85, 8:24.83
Old Record: Jim Eubank, 8:28.81, 2001
Women's 200 b...
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 3. JOSH Davis had a banner effort in the 35-39 age division during the third day of competition at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championships held in Austin.
Additionally,
Swimming World's own Jeff Commings lowered his 50 breast USMS record in the 30-34 division.
Here is a list of all the U...
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AUSTIN, Texas, May 2. THE second night of swimming at the United States Masters Swimming (USMS) National Championships held in yards witnessed Susan Von Der Lippe posting several record swims.
The following USMS records fell throughout the second day of competition:
Women's 400 IM
40-44
New Record: Susan Von Der Lippe, 42, 4:28....
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 1. THE Thursday edition of
The Morning Swim Show features an interview with one of the world's top Masters swimmers and looks inside a packed May issue of
Swimming World Magazine.
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Updated April 25, 2008
PERTH, Australia, April 24. THROUGH the final day of competition at the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth, nearly 50 world records have fallen.
While results from the 400 freestyle events are still unreported, the past few days have seen plenty more world records taking a tumble.
The followin...
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PERTH, Australia, April 21. AFTER a few days of some technical difficulties, results have now been made available from the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth.
Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen, an American, is representing a French club and is listed as representing France.
The following are the world records that have been broken or tied...
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PERTH, Australia, April 18. THE beauty of nearly 80 heats of the 800 freestyle opened the 2008 FINA World Masters Championships held in Perth. During the marathon day of long-distance swimming, three world records fell.
The following world records fell during the first day of swimming:
Women's 50-54 800 freestyle
New Record: Suzanne Heim,...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 1. LAURA Val, top vote getter for 2007 World Masters Swimmers of the Year, is the cover personality on the April issue of
Swimming World.
The annual World Best Masters feature names 12 of the world's top Masters based on performances. The six women and six men for this year's feature were selected by a vot...
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