By Stephen J. thomas HOBART, Australia, August 3. BREASTSTROKER Brooke Hanson showed her versatility to break the national record for the 100m IM by just 0.01 seconds, clocking 1:01.30 in

By Stephen J. Thomas HOBART, Australia, Aug.2. MANY of the big names from the Aussie team from Barcelona had skipped this meet so one might have expected a low-key meet.

By Buky Chass JERUSALEM, August 1. FOUR swimmers will represent Israel at the World University Games in Daegu, Korea at the end of this month. The four are: Miki Halika:

By Karlyn Pipes-Neilsen LA JOLLA, Calif., July 27. SOMETIMES you just have to wonder…how do they do it? Have ninety-one year old Maxine Merlino and eighty-five year old Rita Simonton

GLASGOW, August 2. LASZLO Cseh, Hungary's rising young swim sensation, set his second European Junior record in two days of competition at the European Junior Championships in Glasgow. On a

MINSK, Belarus, August 2. TRIPLE European Junior champion sprinter Alexandra Gerasimenya, 17, of Belarus has been banned by FINA for four years after testing positive for the steroid norandrosterone. The

VIENNA, Austria, August 1. AUSTRIAN backstroke king, Markus Rogan, 21, was admitted to a hospital in Vienna on Tuesday and immediately underwent surgery to remove a cyst. Rogan, a junior

GLASGOW, August 1. LESS than a week after swimmers at the World Championships in Barcelona rewrote the record book, the younger set was at it again — this time at

By Kurt Hanson HOBART, Australia, August 2. RECORDS tumbled tonight on the Day One finals of the 2003 Telstra Australian Short Course Championships at the Tattersall's Hobart Aquatic Centre, with

CLEVELAND, Miss., Aug. 1. DELTA State University swimmer Cagri Sapmaz is slated to represent his country of Turkey in the 2003 Korea Universiade Games this August in Daegu, Korea. Sapmaz