Top Ten 100m Swims

By Josh Jeffrey With his European Championship record of 48.47, Holland’s Pieter van den Hoogenband became the third fastest 100m swimmer in history with the third fastest 100m swim. Top

1999 European Championships: Day 3

POPOV DETHRONED!!! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey – Alexander Popov, the Russian Rocket, was defeated in the 100m freestyle for the first time in eight years at a major international

1999 European Championships: Day 2

HOW SWEDE IT IS! KAMMERLING FLYS TO WORLD RECORD! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey – Anna-Karin Kammerling, an 18-year-old student from Sundsvall in Sweden, set the first world record of

1999 European Championships: Day 1

By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey – The records started to fall on the first day of the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, the Dutch men’s 4x100m freestyle relay setting

Taner, Kolbisen To Wed

U.S. National Team members, Ugur Taner and Liesl Kolbisen, announced their engagement. Both were gold medalists at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships–Liesl in the 100m freestyle, Ugur in the

The Champion Who Never Was: Part 2 of 2

“She has those gold medals in her possession. She will always have gold and I will always have silver. It will always be that way for ever. In 1976, those