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CANBERRA, Australia, October 7. WORLD Champion and world record holder Jessicah Schipper has won the 2009 Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at Parliament House in Canberra tonight in an evening of high praise for the 22-year-old butterflyer from Brisbane.
The 200m butterfly gold medallist from this year's World Championships in Rome, and sil...
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HOBART, Australia, August 10. AT the Australian Short Course Championships, three world records fell this evening.
Libby Trickett nearly broke 51 seconds in the women's 100 free with a 51.01. That swim shattered her record of 51.70 set in 2005.
"That's the first PB i have done in that race in four years and to do it after not ha...
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SYDNEY, Australia, July 11. TELSTRA Dolphins Australian Swim Team members Eamon Sullivan and Hayden Stoeckel have both withdrawn from the upcoming FINA World Championships in Rome, starting on July 26, due to illness and injury.
Sullivan, who has been in Europe for the last six weeks, has struggled to overcome a virus that has hampered his train...
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BELGRADE, Australia, July 4. AUSTRALIAN University Sport and Swimming Australia Limited have announced that Australian swimmer Matthew Jaukovic has withdrawn from competition at the 25th Universiade (World University Games) Belgrade 2009 due to viral bronchial pneumonia and confirmed positive to the H1N1 virus.
Matthew is recovering and is being...
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MILAN, Italy, July 3. ANDREW Lauterstein has finalized race preparations for the World Championships in Rome by breaking the Commonwealth and Australian record for the 100m butterfly at the Giorgio Armani Swim Meet in Milan overnight.
The 22-year-old shaved 0.2 seconds off his previous best over the distance (51.12), breaking the 51 second barri...
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SYDNEY, Australia, June 23. SWIMMING Australia Limited is disappointed by FINA's decision to approve more than 150 swimsuits that were originally banned, or considered in need of modifications, at a swimsuit approval committee meeting in Lausanne in May.
The FINA decision to re-instate suits that were originally banned or classified as in ne...
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BARCELONA, Spain, June 6. THE first night of long course meter swimming at the Mare Nostrum stop in Barcelona, Spain featured plenty of new meet records going into the books.
Joanne Jackson began the night with a winning time of 8:24.48 in the women's 800 free. That swim beat Wendy Trott's meet record of 8:26.88 from last year. Trott f...
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By Priyant Pratap
CANBERRA, Australia, May 10. ANYONE that thought the Japanese wouldn't be able to hold their own against the Australians in the Duel in the Pool this year was sorely mistaken. Australia pulled out a close 167-162 victory in the elite stages, but witnessed a series of stunning upsets throughout the meet that led to an...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, April 16. FOR the third year in a row,
Swimming World Magazine honors the best of the best among the sports information profession. Sports information directors (SID) are often the people that make life much easier for media members throughout the world. SIDs do their best to facilitate fair contact between the media and ...
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By John Lohn
CRANBURY, New Jersey, April 10. THIS summer was going to be Nick D'Arcy's period of redemption, the chance to make up for lost time. He would travel to the World Championships in Rome and, if the blueprint went accordingly, he would have a medal draped around his neck as he stood side-by-side with the best on the planet in t...
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SYDNEY, Australia, April 7. FOR the second international meet in a row, Nick D'Arcy has been removed from the Swimming Australia roster due to issues away from the pool.
The ruling stems from D'Arcy's assault on fellow swimmer Simon Cowley following the 2008 Australian Trials. For more information on D'Arcy's loss of an Olym...
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SYDNEY, Australia, March 16. LAST year might have featured 108 world records, but that mark might wind up being challenged as two world records fell today already.
With the women's 400 free falling in Britain, Sweden's Therese Alshammar stepped up during prelims at the Australian Long Course Championships to lower her record in the wo...
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BELCONNEN, Australia, January 28. IN its recently released Bylaws regarding the conduct of Australian championships under its governance, Swimming Australia has gone one step further than its age group swimming
speedsuit ban in December.
Swimming Australia has a...
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SYDNEY, Australia, December 19. SWIMMING Australia has joined the recent calls from
USA Swimming and
European Swimming to put a brake on the explosion of speedsuit technology, accor...
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SYDNEY, Australia, November 9. AUSTRALIAN swimming has lost one of its greatest ever coaches with the death of master coach John Carew who died overnight, aged 81.
The man who guided Kieren Perkins to two Olympic gold medals, died peacefully in his Brisbane home after a long illness.
Swimming Australia president and life-long friend, David ...
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SYDNEY, October 27: It was the start one magnificent career and the end of another at the Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards in Sydney tonight with Beijing golden girl Stephanie Rice became the sixth female winner of the coveted Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at a glittering function at Darling Harbour and the end of another with the surprise re...
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Universal Sports Webcast Coverage of World Cup
Updated October 27, 2008
SYDNEY, Australia, October 26. ANOTHER sprint 50 event witnessed a world-record performance at the third stop of the FINA World Cup held in Sydney...
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Universal Sports Webcast Coverage of World Cup
SYDNEY, Australia, October 25. IT took until the third stop of the FINA World Cup, but a world record finally went down on the first night of the Sydney, Australia portion of the s...
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