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BELGRADE, Serbia, July 8. THE United States had an outstanding effort during the fourth day of action at the World University Games held in Serbia.
Women's 800 free finals
Whitney Sprague of the U.S. had no peer in the women's distance free event today. Sprague led the race at every turn as she built her advantage throughout ea...
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SHEFFIELD, England, March 19. ELLEN Gandy put together a European-record time in the women's 200 fly at the British Long Course Championships.
Gandy raced to a strong time of 2:04.83 that crushed the previous standard of 2:05.61 set by Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak. The effort also smashed Jemma Lowe's British record of 2:06.64. Han...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, November 19. THE November issue of LEN Magazine is now available as a PDF download for $8.95 in the Swim Shop.
Click here to download your copy.
LEN Magazine is the official publication of LEN, the Ligue Europeenne Natation, the governing body o...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 14. WANT to hear a place go absolutely crazy? Should have been in the Water Cube for the final of the women's 200 butterfly, where China won gold and silver to the roaring delight of the home crowd. Making the decibel level rise another notch was the fact that both women obliterated the world record.
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 13. IF China is going to capture a gold medal in swimming action, the women's 200 butterfly might be where it happens. Heading into the championship final of the event, the Chinese occupy the first and third positions, with the pre-meet favorite holding down the second position.
Liu Zige, who had the to...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 12. BY Thursday morning, one of the primary names in the event might be on the top step of the podium when the medals are presented in the women's 200 butterfly. For now, the Chinese are loving the fact that Liu Zige is the top qualifier after the preliminary round. Swimming in the third of five heats, Liu...
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By John Lohn
BEIJING, China, August 10. JUST four years ago, a performance of 4:05.34 was good enough to capture the gold medal in the women's 400 freestyle. Now, that kind of time doesn't even earn a spot in the championship final. Oh, how the sport has changed dramatically since Athens was the center of the sports universe.
The worl...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, July 15. FOUR to go in
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's 32-week Olympic Preview Series. We'll tackle the 100 butterfly races this week and next, then close things out with the 400 freestyles relays. At that point, it will be time for the Beijing Games and plenty of fireworks in China.
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CANET, France, June 14. HUNGARY's Laszlo Cseh improved upon his status as the second-best swimmer in the men's 400 IM in history during the first day of the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum series.
Cseh crushed his previous personal-best time of 4:09.59 from the European Championships earlier this year when he stopped the clock in 4:07.96...
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Updated June 9, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, June 6. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world,
Swimming World likes to lump them together as if they were in the same meet. Here are the most updated available times from across the world. The top three finishers from each meet are...
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ROME, Italy, June 8. QUITE possibly the strongest meet of the weekend came to a close at the Sette Colli (Seven Hills) meet held in Rome, Italy.
Markus Rogan of Austria opened the final day with a meet record in the men's 200 back. Rogan clocked a time of 1:57.50, beating the 1:58.26 set by Razvan Florea in 2004. Australia's Hayden Sto...
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ROME, Italy, June 7. THE Sette Colli (Seven Hills) meet continued to make its mark as the top meet of the weekend with some blazing fast times. Italy's Alessia Filippi blasted her women's 800 free Italian record for one of the top swims.
Sara Isakovic of Slovenia opened the second finals session with a victory in the women's 200 fly...
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ROME, Italy, June 6. THE Australians put on a show during the first day of the Sette Colli (Seven Hills) meet taking place in Rome, Italy this weekend.
Leisel Jones scared her world record in the women's 100 breast with a time of 1:05.34, just off her top time of 1:05.09 from 2006. Sweden's Joline Hostman placed second in 1:07.79, while...
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OSTROWIEC, Poland, May 19. OVER the weekend at the Polish Grand Prix held in Ostrowiec, Otylia Jedrzejczak lowered her own national record in the women's 800 freestyle.
Jedrzejczak clocked a time of 8:35.73 to drop her 2004 record of 8:35.94 set in Rjeka on July 9.
She went on to win the 50 fly (28.25), 200 fly (2:10.51) and 400 free (4:...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 29. Will a sub-4:00 performance in the 400-meter freestyle be required to win gold in Beijing? That's one of the highlight questions heading into this summer's Olympic Games in Beijing. A star-studded field will battle for the three medals. Here's the latest installment of
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By Hideki Mochizuki
TOKYO, Japan, February 23. DURING the first day of the Japanese Short Course National Championships held in Tokyo, Reiko Nakamura and Yuko Nakanishi eclipsed a pair of world records.
Nakamura broke the 200 backstroke record with a blazing time of 2:03.24 to surpass the mark set by Natalie Coughlin with a 2:03.62 on Nov. 2...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, February 19. THE original plan was to move into the breaststroke this week. However, with Katie Hoff lighting it up at the Missouri Grand Prix over the weekend, we decided to go in another direction. As we continue our Olympic Preview Series,
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com will take a look at the women's ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, February 5. THIS week's installment of
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com's Olympic Preview Series shifts to the butterfly, specifically the women's 200 fly. The event has primarily been the domain of Poland's Otylia Jedrzejczak and Australia's Jessicah Schipper for the last few years, with Am...
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