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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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LOS ANGELES, California, June 12. WHILE the Texas Senior Circuit meet sported some Masters world records due to dual sanctioning from USA Swimming and United States Masters Swimming (USMS), the Janet Evans Invitational had a few USMS standards fall.
Paul Carter, 50, broke his 100 fly 50-54 mark with a time of 56.98. The previous standard had b...
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By Emily Sampl
BOULDER, Colorado, March 21. OLYMPIC Trials only come around once every four years, and 50 year-old WACM Masters swimmer Paul Carter is hoping this is his year to make the cut.
With a career best time of 56.40 in the 100m butterfly, Carter sits less than a second outside the Trials qualifying time of 55.59. Just over three mont...
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LONG BEACH, California, December 4. WHILE the best of USA Swimming did battle in Atlanta, Ga., are the USA Short Course Championships, the best of United States Masters Swimming assembled in Long Beach, Calif., this weekend at the Southern Pacific Masters Association (SPMA) SCM Championships.
Irvine Novaquatics won the overall team trophy with ...
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By Michael Moore
WALNUT CREEK, California, October 23. LAURA Val, Paul Carter and Richard Todd combined to break nine world standards, while Laura Davis broke three USMS standards at the Pacific Masters Short Course Meter Championships. Meanwhile, two Walnut Creek Masters teams each broke a USMS relay record, while Val lowered a USMS record as ...
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STANFORD, Calif., Aug. 9. AFTER watching swimmers from the United States claim the bulk of the world records throughout the first five days of the 2006 FINA World Masters Championships held at the Belardi and Baker pools at the Avery Aquatic Center on the campus of Stanford University, the field of international competitors countered during day si...
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By Stephen J. Thomas
HOBART, Australia, April 13. COLORADO Masters swimmer Paul Smith made some waves at the Hobart Aquatic Centre where he took in a few races at the AUSSI Masters (LCM) Nationals during a short vacation Down Under. Smith, who has just moved up to the 45-49 age group, blasted 25.94 for the 50-meter butterfly to trim .18 off Paul...
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MISSION VIEJO, Calif., December 20. LINCOLN Djang, representing the Mission Viejo Nadadores, blasted the world record for men 45-49 in the 400 meters (short course) individual medley recently.
Swimming at the Northwest Zone Masters Championships in Portland, Oregon, November 13-14, Djang streaked to a time of 4:48.97.
The former record was 4...
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By Phillip Whitten
LONG BEACH, Calif., December 19. SOUTHERN Pacific Masters short course meters meets on successive weekends at the Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, Calif., produced seven Masters world records as well as a slew of other very fast times.
At the Southwest Zone Chmapionships, held December 4-6, Paul Carter was the sole record...
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LONG BEACH, Calif., June 27. THE City of Long Beach is hosting national and international competition in swimming and water polo. The Long Beach Aquatic Festival hosted the Janet Evans Invitational on June 10-13 and is also hosting the 2004 FINA Women’s and Men’s Water Polo World League Super Finals, Water Polo World League games featuring USA an...
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By Peter Andersen
RICCIONE, Italy, June 4. IN stark contrast with yesterday when no world records were broken, eight global marks fell today, the second day of competition at the FINA World Masters Championships in Riccione, Italy. Americans accounted for three of the broken records, Germans for two – though one of the Americans formerly was a...
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BRISBANE, Australia, February 25. MASTERS swimmer and Australian swimming legend Shane Gould is planning to compete at the Australian National Championships and Olympic Trials more than 30 years after she won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics. The story is reported tomorrow by the Australian AP press service.
"The 47-year-old ...
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By Phillip Whitten
LONG BEACH, December 18. NO fewer than 26 Masters world records were swept away last weekend at the annual Holiday Classic (Short Course Meters) Masters Meet at Belmont Plaza Pool in Long Beach, California, site of the 1976 U.S. Olympic Trials. Nine swimmers accounted for the record-breaking.
The record book was virtually...
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LOS ANGELES, Calif., October 6. AN injury resulted in a less than productive summer swim season for 45 year-old Masters swimmer Paul Carter. However, all was not lost as he landed two print ads and one TV Commercial.
Michelob chose him as their "Fountain of Youth" model, and Michael Jackson got the privilege of apearing in at TV s...
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By Phillip Whitten
LOS ANGEES, May 24. Natalie Coughlin and Tamas Kerekjarto each won two events to highlight the second day of competition at the Speedo Grand Challenge at the McDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium in Los Angeles. Lindsay Benko, who won the 400 free yesterday in a swift 4:11.82, took the 200 today in 2:00.36.
Coughlin, who ye...
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By Ed Gendreau
New England Masters swim Club
BOSTON, Oct. 22. THE New England Masters Swim Club claimed victory in the inaugural "Mythical" 2001 Short Course Meters (SCM) National Championship.
Arizona Masters was second, 1265 points behind, followed very closely by San Diego Swim Masters in third place – only 56 points behind A...
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CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif., Oct. 6. PAUL V. Carter began the short course season where he left off in long course -- breaking two USMS national records over the weekend at the Swim Jam Senior Development (USA Swimming) Meet.
Carter started by breaking the 50 and 100 meter butterfly marks for men 45-49 with a 27.06 split at the 50 and a 57.55 100...
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By Mel Dyck
IRVINE, Calif., August 12. SWIMMERS representing 36 teams turned out for the Southwest Zone Long Course Championship meet held August 9-11 in Irvine.
For some of us mortal swimmers, the Anteater pool at U.C. Irvine seemed about 5 meters too long!
But not everyone had that opinion. A ton of records were wiped off the books a...
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