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ROBERVAL, Quebec, Canada, November 20. SWIMMING Canada and Traversée internationale du lac St-Jean inc., greeted with joy and great satisfaction the $500,000 contribution from Heritage Canada to help organize the 6th FINA open water world swimming championships (Roberval 2010) set for July 15-23, 2010 in Roberval, Que. The announcement was made th...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, September 17. SWIMMING Canada announced that effective September 1, 2009, all swimwear worn in swimming competitions sanctioned under the authority of Swimming Canada must conform to the January 1, 2010 FINA swimwear approval guidelines.
"We want our athletes to start the season on the right foot," says Pierre Lafont...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, September 17. SWIMMING Canada announces today the coaching staff for the 2009 IPC World Swimming Championships taking place November 29th to December 5th in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Top swimmers who will be vying to be the best in the world include multiple Paralympic champion and World record holders Benoit Huot of Mont...
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CHARLOTTETOWN, Canada, August 29. B.C., and Ontario broke the Canadian short course records in the men's and women's 4X50 meter medley relays on Thursday in swimming action at the Canada Summer Games.
In the men's 4X50 medley relay, B.C., took the gold in one minute and 38.05 seconds eclipsing the previous national mark of 1:38.09 se...
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CHARLOTTETOWN, Canada, August 26. LAST night, a foursome from Quebec broke the Canadian record in the women's 200 free relay during short course meter action at the Canada Summer Games.
The team of Sandrine Mainville (25.23), Roxane Lemieux (25.44), Alyson Ackman (25.30) and Chelsea Rolin (24.80) completed the sprint free relay in 1:40.77. ...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, August 10. IN a press release sent out today by the Canadian Centre for Ethics, Cecil Russell's application for reinstatement to the coaching ranks has been denied.
In 1997, Russell drew a lifetime suspension for steroid trafficking. In 2003, Russell also plead guilty as part of an ecstasy distribution ring. Russell...
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TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, July 2. THE training environment for Canada's top swimmers receives a huge boost today, as the University of Toronto confirms the establishment of a High Performance Swimming Centre led by world-class swim coach John Rodgers of Australia.
Made possible by a partnership with Swimming Canada, Swim Ontario, the Cana...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, June 20. MICHAEL Phelps nearly shot down Ian Crocker's world record in the men's 100 fly at the Quebec Cup this evening.
Phelps ripped off a time of 50.48 to just miss Crocker's global mark of 50.40. Maybe that much ballyhooed moustache cost Phelps a chance at the world record this evening?
Phelps went o...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, June 18. PHILIPPE Dubreuil of Sherbrooke, Que., fresh from an open water victory at the U.S., championships this past weekend, showed he can shine in the pool too on Thursday winning the men's 1,500-metre freestyle at the Canada Cup swimming competition.
Dubreuil clocked a personal best 15 minutes and 38.97 seconds f...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World open water correspondent
FORT MYERS BEACH, Florida, June 14. FRAN Crippen won his second - and more important - race of the USA Swimming National Open Water Championships in Ft. Myers by outsmarting, out-strategizing and out-sprinting his competition. Andrew Gemmell of the Delaware Swim Club finished s...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Open Water correspondent
FORT MYERS BEACH, Florida, June 12. CHLOE Sutton of the Mission Viejo Nadadores led from start to finish at the USA Swimming 5K National Championship in Ft. Myers, Florida, while Fran Crippen, her former teammate, did the same.
"This was a confidence-builder for me,"...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, June 12. SATURDAY, June 13th is National Swim Day and Swim Clubs across Canada are inviting Canadians to their pools for activities in support of Swimming Canada's challenge to make every child in the country water safe.
"Swimming is a part of Canadian living, and every child should be able to safely enjoy being...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, May 27. TODAY'S live edition of
The Morning Swim Show was disrupted by an Internet outage, but you can now see the interviews with the CEO of Swimming Canada and the new national high school record holder in the boys' 200 freestyle.
Watch the video below and see host Peter Busch's interview with Pierre Lafont...
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canada, May 22. A strong mix of international swimmers will be featured at the 46th edition of the Mel Zajac International swim meet this weekend at the UBC Aquatic Center in Vancouver.
Recently crowned World Short Course Record holder Annamay Pierse will be battling Beijing silver medalist Megan Jendrick of the US...
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MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, May 15. THE national governing body for competitive swimming, Swimming Canada, announced today a partnership with l'Universite de Montreal's high performance sport program. The partnership between the two entities will offer Montreal based high performance swimmers an environment to excel in both academic and athle...
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OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada, May 1. A pair of press releases just came through from Swimming Canada. One is a job posting, the other is an explanation of the rules to qualify for the World Championships Team as a non-resident.
University of Toronto – High Performance Swimming Center Head Coach Posting
Swimming / Natation Canada, the nationa...
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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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TORONTO, Ontario, Canada, March 14. ANNAMAY Pierse of the UBC Dolphins won herself a brand new Pontiac Wave as Swimming Canada's world-record bounty proved to be an extra incentive for a global standard to fall at the Canadian Short Course Championships.
Pierse clipped Leisel Jones' world record in the 200 breast with a time of 2:17.50. ...
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PHOENIX, Arizona, March 12. TODAY'S live edition of
The Morning Swim Show featured interviews with two top collegiate swimmers and the CEO of Swimming Canada.
In case you missed our live show (airing each weekday at 10:30 a.m. MST), you can watch the video below and see host Peter Busch's interview with Texas A&M senior Triin Alja...
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EDMONTON, Canada, February 13. WITH a world record already set at the Russian Nationals this week, swimmers have made it known that they will not suffer from a Beijing Olympics hangover in 2009. A pair of Canadian swimmers shot down national short course records at the Speedo Western Canadian Championships held in Edmonton during prelims last nig...
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