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BOZEN, Italy, November 9. WHILE plenty of swimmers were competing at the Moscow stop of the FINA World Cup, a lot of international swimmers decided to call the Bozen International Swim Meet home prior to the Stockholm stop of the World Cup. The meet took place over short course meters.
The Netherlands' sprint group opened the meet with a 1-...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, July 5. THREE more Croatian records fell at the Croatian Championships held in Rijeka.
Duje Draganja and Mario Todorovic kept up their meet-long rivalry in the men's 50 free semis. With the pair already trading Croatian records the first two days, Draganja topped the sprint free semis with a 21.79. That effort cleared his ...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, July 4. THE second evening of long course meter swimming at the Croatian Championships featured three more national marks taking a tumble.
Smiljana Marinovic topped Mirna Jukic's national record in the women's 100 breast with a time of 1:10.42. Jukic previously set the standard with a 1:10.56 back in 2001. Gabrijela Kor...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, July 3. THE sprint 50 fly events featured record-breaking performances during the first day of long course meter swimming at the Croatian Championships held in Rijeka.
Duje Draganja and Mario Todorovic traded possession of the national record in the men's 50 fly throughout the day. First, Todorovic claimed the mark heading ...
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PESCARA, Italy, June 30. SPAIN's Aschwin Wildeboer Faber captured the European record in the men's 100 back during the fourth night of swimming at the Mediterranean Games held in Italy.
Wildeboer Faber lowered his European standard in the men's 100 back with a swift time of 52.87. The performance wiped out the 52.93 he set back in A...
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ZAGREB, Croatia, June 7. DURING the second, and final, night of long course meter swimming at the Golden Bear meet in Croatia, Laszlo Cseh and Peter Bernek each entered the record books.
Cseh checked in with his second meet record in as many days with a 1:57.53 in the men's 200 fly. That performance erased Thomas Rupprath's mark of 1:58...
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ZAGREB, Croatia, June 6. LASZLO Cseh started off the Golden Bear meet strong with a meet record in the men's 200 free over long course meters. The meet is held in Zagreb, Croatia.
Cseh clocked a 1:48.95 to break his meet standard of 1:49.05. Dominik Kozma finished second in 1:51.58 with Norbert Kovacs taking third in 1:52.18.
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ZAGREB, Croatia, March 24. SANJA Jovanovic proved to be on fire at the Croatian Short Course Championships as she took down three national records over the weekend.
On the first night, Monika Babok just missed setting the women's 50 free national record with a 25.42 during finals. The time came up just short of the 25.41 set by Sanja Jovano...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 14. THE fourth night of finals at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia moved the total 2008 world record tally to 105 for the year.
After a preliminary world record from France's Amaury Leveaux in the men's 50 fly, Spain's Mireia Belmonte Garcia (women's 400 IM), Italy's Fe...
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RIJEKA, Croatia, December 11. THE first night of finals came to a close at the European Short Course Championships held in Rijeka, Croatia with a pair of world-best times being posted on the scoreboard in bookend fashion.
Amaury Leveaux of France opened the evening with a world record in the men's 50 freestyle semifinals, while Italy's 2...
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BERLIN, Germany, November 16. THE second day of prelims concluded at the Berlin stop of the FINA World Cup.
Men's 1500 freestyle slower seeds
Switzerland's Stefan...
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BERLIN, Germany, November 15. THE first day of preliminary action during the final stop of the 2008 FINA World Cup circuit held in Berlin, Germany came to a conclusion.
Men...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 12. A day after a pair of world records took a fall, the FINA World Cup returned to Stockholm for one more day of competition.
Women's 100 free...
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, November 11. THE FINA World Cup circuit is heading down the stretch with two more meets over the next week. The first day of action at the Stockholm stop came t...
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DUBROVNIK, Croatia, July 14. THE Croatian Open Championships witnessed plenty of national-record performances from across Europe throughout the meet held in Dubrovnik, and the final day was no different.
Sara Isakovic began the day by downing her Slovenian record in the 200 free. She clocked a time of 1:55.90 to clip a second from her previous ...
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DUBROVNIK, Croatia, July 12. THE quartet of Kim Daniela Pavlin, Adrijana Bencic, Anja Trisic and Doroteja Bednjanec brought down the Croatian record in the women's 400 free relay at the Croatian Open Championships held in Dubrovnik.
The contingent clocked a time of 3:55.26 to edge the previous standard of 3:55.48 set in 2005.
Sara Isakovi...
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DUBROVNIK, Croatia, July 11. MARIO Todorovic picked up a pair of wins on the first night of the Croatian Open Championships held in Dubrovnik, while several national records also took a tumble.
Anja Carman of Slovenia opened the first night of finals with a national record in the women's 200 back. She touched in 2:11.55 to break the 2002 st...
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ZAGREB, Croatia, June 22. POLAND's Agata Korc set her country's record in the women's 50 fly with a time of 26.55 at the Golden Bear meet held in Zagreb, Croatia. She broke Aleksandra Urbanczyk's record of 26.83 set two years ago. Eszter Dara finished second in 27.33, while Monika Babok placed third in 27.71.
Janne Schaefer beg...
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ZAGREB, Croatia, June 21. THE first night of swimming at the Golden Bear meet held in Zagreb featured a European standard in the women's 50 back and a British record in the men's 50 free.
Sanja Jovanovic opened the night on fire when she tied the European record in the women's 50 back with a time of 28.05. Anastasia Zueva holds the ...
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