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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 15. THE final night of short course yard swimming at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Minneapolis featured three meet records including one of the individual variety.
Mission Viejo's Chloe Sutton edged her meet record in the women's 1650-yard free by the slimmest of margins with a 16:07.15. That time b...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, November 14. THE second evening of short course yard finals at the USA Swimming Grand Prix held in Minneapolis, Minn., featured a pair of meet records for the Trojan Swim Club.
Trojan's Rebecca Soni won the women's 400 IM in 4:14.41, finishing nearly a second back from Kaitlin Sandeno's meet record of 4:13.54....
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FEDERAL WAY, Washington, August 7. TROJAN's Jessica Hardy is definitely completely back after a year away from the sport due to a doping ban. Tonight, at the U.S. Open, Hardy clocked a pair of world records.
First, she hammered the 50 breast in 29.80 on the way to a stunning 1:04.45 in the 100 breast finale. Yesterday, Hardy clocked a swif...
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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, July 30. MARIETTA's Tim Phillips put together another amazing night with his second straight evening with a YMCA meet record double at the YMCA Long Course Championships.
Phillips downed the men's 100 free YMCA mark with a 50.72. The performance eclipsed the 51.25 set by Evan Reed last year. Pottstown's John ...
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BELGRADE, Serbia, July 10. THE sixth night of long course swimming at the World University Games featured a world-record scare by Ryosuke Irie in the 200 back, and several national records including an American-record performance by Kevin Swander in the 50 breast.
Women's 1500 free finals
Japan's Yumi Kida claimed the women'...
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BELGRADE, Serbia, July 9. TWO continental records fell during the fifth day of swimming at the World University Games held in Serbia. Meanwhile, likely the fastest 50 breast semifinal field in history occurred to close the curtains on a scintillating evening.
Men's 1500 free finals
Poland's Przemyslaw Stanczyk clocked a Games re...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 28. THE final day of prelims came to a close at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships held in College Station, Texas. Auburn put together a strong morning to set the t...
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, March 27. THE second day of preliminary action came to a close at the NCAA Division I Men's Championships. This evening should be interesting, as Secret Service agents were ca...
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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, January 17. THE men's and women's swimming teams had another strong showing in the second round of competition at the Maryland quad meet sweeping the competition. The women added one more first place finish to Friday's results taking seven of 11 events while the men claimed five medalist honors.
"We did ...
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COLLEGE PARK, Maryland, January 17. AFTER over a month off from major competition, the Nittany Lions haven't lost a beat as the No. 15 women's team and the No. 19 men's team are holding comfortable leads over the competition at the Maryland quad meet. The women cruised to six first place finishes of nine events while the men collected s...
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 7. THE nationally-ranked Ohio State men's swimming and diving team captured its first Ohio State Swimming and Diving Invite title Sunday at the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion with a score of 1382.5 points. The No. 11 Buckeyes topped the three-time reigning champion Minnesota by over 500 points.
"I am extremely plea...
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, November 14. THE Florida State swimming and diving team opened its tri-meet with Virginia and Penn State Friday evening in Charlottesville, Va., with a school record-breaking performance and a NCAA provisional qualifying time. The Seminole men lead No. 15 Penn State 111.5-74.5 and trail No. 12 Virginia 104-82. The women ...
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DALLAS, Texas, November 1. AGAINST another pair of ranked opponents, the No. 13 Penn State women's swimming and diving team tied with No. 14 Southern Methodist with a score of 121.5. The No. 16 men's team fell by a narrow margin to the No. 21 Mustangs by a score of 134.5 to 106.5. Swimmers from both the men's and women's teams earne...
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota, July 30. THE meet record book kept being torched as swimmers took to the pool during the second day of the U.S. Open in Minneapolis.
Tyler Clary of Club Wolverine chopped more than a second off the men's 400 IM meet record with a time of 4:17.02. His time eclipsed the 4:18.32 set by Michael Phelps in 2006. Clark Bur...
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Updated July 20, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, July 16. FROM time-to-time, when enough strong meets are going on during the same weekend across the world or country,
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 country based on USA Swimming Section...
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pennsylvania, July 19. PATRICK Schirk took a serious chunk out of the meet record in the men's 100 back in front of his hometown crowd at the USA Swimming Sectionals held on the campus of Penn State.
Schirk dropped a time of 55.61 to wipe out the 56.94 set by David Russell in 2006. Fellow Patrick, 16-year-old Murphy of Gree...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 4. AARON Peirsol is back on top of the 200 backstroke.
About 15 months after losing his world record in the event to teammate Ryan Lochte, and watching his seven-year winning streak come to an end at the World Championships in Melbourne, Peirsol responded in the four-lap back by tying Lochte's world reco...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 3. THE former world-record holder wants his standard back. The current holder wants to keep the mark in his pocket. When Aaron Peirsol and Ryan Lochte lock horns tomorrow night, the men's 200 backstroke could produce some of the biggest fireworks of the competition.
Peirsol, the defending Olympic champio...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Neb., July 3. WHEN they met at last year's World Championships in Melbourne, they provided one of the best races of the meet. Expect a similar outcome in the 200 backstroke from Ryan Lochte and Aaron Peirsol at these Trials. The men are the overwhelming favorites to lead the United States in Beijing. Michael Phelps announ...
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By John Lohn
OMAHA, Nebraska, July 1. FOR two rounds, Aaron Peirsol toyed with his competition. He did what was necessary to get through the prelims, then picked up the pace a bit in the semifinal round. In the final of the 100 backstroke, the world-record holder and defending Olympic champion took the hammer to his competition.
Touching in s...
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