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Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Visit our landing page for more. Forty-seven of America’s best pool swimmers have arrived in Croatia for a 10-day training camp before the FINA world championships. This is the first time the entire team has been in one place since la...

The world of water polo includes some intriguing individuals, and one of them is Tony Karaman. Originally from Croatia, Karaman played professionally for VK Jug in Dubrovnik, where one of his teammates was Elvis Fatovic, now head coach for the Australian national men's team. [On The Record with Elvi...

World Junior Championships (Franko Grgic 14:46.09) Budapest, Day 6 Finals Men's 1500m freestyle Franko Grgic has been tipped for the top as a potential world-record holder in Europe. On 14:46.09, a World junior record of magnitude and might, the promise of great things from the fastest 16-year-old 1...

Niksa Dobud, a member of the Croation Water Polo National Team, has been suspended for four years for an attempt to evade a FINA drug test. Dobud's official suspension will run from April 13, 2015 to April 12, 2019. This suspension comes on the heels of another four-year suspension by FINA regarding...

ROME, Jan 13. AMERICAN Olympian Jason Lezak smoked a strong field to win the men's 100 meter freestyle, while Italian Olympian Domenico Fioravanti won two events on the first day of competition of World Cup VI in Imperia, Italy. the meet is the sixth stop on the ten-stop 2000-2001 FINA World Cup...

World Championships: U.S. Men Fall to Serbia; Hungary Upends Croatia There will be a new World Champion this year in Singapore, with 2024 champ Croatia knocked out in Sunday’s quarterfinals by Hungary. Still in the hunt, though, is the reigning Olympic champion Serbia, which eliminated the United St...

After 14 days and almost 100 matches, the FINA World Water Polo Championships are now concluded. It was a fantastic tournament for the Italian men and American women, who each romped undefeated to gold at the Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center. It’s the first World Championship title in almo...

NEWPORT BEACH, CA. THE Sea Kings are still kings of the pool! Coach John Vargas' Corona del Mar High Sea Kings, defending CIF champs, edged La Jolla The Bishop's, 8-6, last week in the finals of the South Coast boys' water polo tourney at Newport Harbor High. Vargas, who will take over t...

By Rich McEvoy (rmcevoy@uswp.org) Cosenza, Italy (June 7, 2001) – Followers of the Italian Men’s NationalWater Polo Team flocked in groves to the swimming stadium in Cosenza, Italy tonight hoping to watch their team play its final warm-up game against theUnited States Men’s National Water polo Team ...

Indiana Big Ten champion Bruno Blaskovic will miss six to eight months, including the Tokyo Olympics, due to a fractured vertebra. Blaskovic was diagnosed with a fracture in his L4 vertebra, according to a report by the Indianapolis Star. He will need to wear a back brace for six to eight months. “I...

By Eric Velazquez Medal Contender Yugoslavia Handles U.S, 8-5 Sydney, Australia—A day after losing their tournament opener with Croatia yesterday, Team USA and head coach John Vargas had decided it was time to get back to basics. The U.S., considered to be one of the better swimming and counterattac...

CANET, France. June 7. AUSTRALIAN breaststroker, Jim Piper, continued his record breaking ways yesterday, when he again lowered his own Australian 200m breaststroke mark for the second time in 12 days swimming a 2:12.40 to win the men’s event ahead of Russian, Dimitri Komorninkov (2:12.63) and Frenc...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins Women's 100 Back Prelims Top 16 advancing to Semi-Finals: 1. Nakamura JPN 1:00.88 2. Mocanu ROM 1:01.18 3. Maracineanu FRA 1:01.66 4. Bedford USA 1:01.70 5. Zhivanevskaya ESP 1:01.97 6. Ornstedt DEN 1:01.98 7. Zhan CHN 1:02.19 7. Inada JPN 1:02.19 --- 9. Busc...

Goalkeeper Dan Hackett Notches 14 Saves in USA’s Final Pre-Olympic Contest Malibu, CA—Coming into last week’s training series with Romania, the U.S. Olympic water polo team didn’t know exactly what to expect. A few factors figured into this uncertainty. For one, the Romanians, who will not be in the...

LIVORNO, ITALY, April 11. OLYMPIC gold medalist Massi Rosolino (200 IM), he of the astronomical human growth hormone levels, won his second event in two days at the Italian Nationals/World Championship Trials, stroking to an easy 3:47.21-3:49.76 triumph over Emiliano Brembilla in the 400 meter frees...

VALENCIA, Spain. Dec. 17. Italy's Massi Rosolino won his fourth title, Martina Moravcova won her second and third, and Yana Klochkova won DM200,000 (US$90,400) on the final day of competition of the 2000 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Valencia, Spain. Rosolino, 22, added the 200...

Olympic Men’s Water Polo: Greece, Spain Win Groups; U.S. Tops Croatia for Third Greece and Spain wrapped up their groups in the final round-robin day of Olympic men's water polo play Monday, while the U.S. scored a 14-11 win over Croatia to finish third in its group. Quarterfinals are set for Wednes...

Editor’s Note: Given the devastation in Italy, Swimming World has taken particular interest in the circumstances surrounding aquatics sports in the European country hit hardest by the coronavirus crisis. Claudio Mangini, a well-respected journalist for Il Secolo XIX, spoke recently with the great Ra...

SHEFFIELD, England, Jan. 17. BRITISH sprint star Mark Foster smashed the world record in the 50 meter (short course) butterfly at the FINA World Cup meet in Sheffield today with a brilliant performance of 22.87 seconds. His split at the 25-meter mark was 10.33 seconds. The time eclipsed the 23.19 ma...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 12. THE fourth preliminary round for Europe of the FINA Men's Water Polo World League 2014 concluded on February 11 with the leading teams of Montenegro, Serbia and Hungary looking strong to earn a berth for the men’s Super Final taking place in Dubai (UAE) from June ...