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By Belinda Dennett and Kurt Hanson MELBOURNE, Dec. 5. AUSTRALIAN Olympians Grant Hackett, Michael Klim and Matt Welsh turned in stellar performances on the first night of competition of the Telstra FINA World Cup 5 at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre in Melbourne, Australia. In the men's ...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 16. Outstanding performances are anticipated here on the final evening of the Janet Evans Invitational,at the MacDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium on the campus of the University of Southern California. In prelims, several impressive performances...

Event 3: Women's 100 Fly Final After a battle that came down to the last stroke and had the crowd on its feet, Jenny Thompson beat out Stanford teammate Dara Torres to take the 100 fly in 57.79. Torres was second in 57.86; both were slower than the 57.58 American record Torres had set in prelims...

By Ian Hanson More than 200 swimmers from over 20 countries will converge on Melbourne for the three day Telstra World Cup meet, December 5-7, including teams from Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, Brazil, China, Great Britain, Sweden, Canada and France and they will race for $156,000 in prizemoney. A...

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, May 28. American record-holder Tom Malchow showed he's all business, recording the third fastest 200 meter butterfly time in history--unshaved and untapered--on the final night of competition of the Cadillac Challenge Series meet, held at the Canham Natatorium at the Univers...

USTER, Switzerland. DOUBLE Olympic champion Yana Klochkova, of Ukraine, was a triple winner at the Uster International Invitational Swim Meet in scenic Uster, Switzerland. The short course meet was held January 27-28, the same dates as the FINA World Cup X meet in Paris. Klochkova won both medleys--...

By Doug Mariboe AMY BALCERZAK (Sharon, Pa.), a former All-American swimmer and valedictorian at The Peddie School, capped off three months of FINA World Cup Short Course competitions by capturing first place points and prize money in the 100 and 200-meter breaststroke events and the 200m individual ...

Event 5: Women's 100 Back Prelims Courtney Shealy, 22, of Athens Bulldogs qualified first for the semi-finals with a 1:02.13. In second is veteran B.J. Bedford, 27, with a 1:02.19. Bedford, swimming for the National Resident Team, was third in this event at the 1996 Trials and has won seven nati...

Oklahoma City - Chad Carvin and Tammie Stone were the top money winners in a star-studded field at the 9th Annual Kerr-McGee Corporation/Nike Pro-Am, December 14-17. Carvin, the 2000 Olympian, lead the men's field by taking home $2,900, for winning four events including a $500 bonus for the 1650...

By Phillip Whitten LAUSANNE, Switzerland. Jan. 29. SLOVAKIA'S Martina Moravcova was easily the dominant swimmer on the 2000-2001 FINA World Cup tour which ended yesterday in Paris. The Southern Methodist University grad, who still trains in Dallas, finished first in eight events, earning $32,000...

From www.usa-swimming.org PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain - The U.S. Swim Team team went six for six in the medal count, including five golds, on the second night of competition at the World University Games. Mark Warkentin continues to lead the Americans, earning two more gold medals with wins in the 800m...

Georgia's Kristy Kowal continued her role as a one-woman wrecking crew, hacking some three seconds off her own 200m breaststroke record with the year's fastest time, 2:22.9. The only swimmer with a shot at derailing the Kowal Express is Arizona frosh, Amanda Beard, who breezed to an easy win...

100 Fly Joscelin Yeo of Cal, the Pac-10 champion, was the top qualifier in the 100 fly at 58.85. Misty Hyman of Stanford qualified second at second in 58.94. UCLA looks to score big in this event, being the only team to have two finalists as Julia Voitovitsch (59.77) and Katie Younglove (59.84) qual...

SANTA CLARA, June 23. IN spite of a long delay due to a bizarre "practical joke," in which someone drove the trailer containing all the timing and related computer equipment into the pool, the swimming was sizzling on the second day of competition at the Cadillac Challenge Series swim meet at Santa ...

Event 5: Women's 100 Back Final B.J Bedford ended her seemingly endless quest for an Olympic berth in winning the 100 back in a 1:01.85. Bedford, long one of the top backstrokers in the world, was a disappointing seventh at the 1992 Trials and a heartbreaking third in 1996. This time she didn...

SANTA CLARA, June 24. COMEBACK queen Dara Torres and ebullient B.J. Bedford posted big wins on the third day of competition at the Cadillac Challenge Swim Series in Santa Clara. Torres vaulted to more than a second's lead on the first 50 of the 200 free and never looked back, finishing in 2:00.5...

ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, May 27. Samantha Arsenault is a name to watch at the upcoming U.S. Olympic Trials. The 18 year-old, who swims for the Greenwood (MA) Swim Club and trains in "the oldest pool in New England," handily defeated several top-notch swimmers in the 200m freestyle during Day 2 of compet...

SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The final fields for the 2000 Qantas Skins swim meet, to be held at the Sydney Aquatic Centre on Saturday, December 9, have been set, announced Ian Hanson, media director for Australian Swimming. Swimmers will compete for prizes ranging from $5,000 to $300 per event. *Fields are list...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, March 27. WITH the absence of three of the USA’s biggest Olympic stars and the retirement of half a dozen more, the stage is set for a changing of the guard at the 2001 USA Swimming Spring National Championships, in Austin, Texas, March 27 - April 1. The meet will also ser...