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Pernille Blume spearheads a nine-strong Denmark team as she seeks to defend her Olympic 50 free crown in Tokyo. There will also be a fifth Games for Jeanette Ottesen who made her Olympic debut at Athens 2004. Blume won the title in Rio five years ago in 24.07, then a national record before she lower...

REGENSBURG, Germany, January 17. ONE of Yuliya Efimova's medical advisors has released an interview with the German Academy of Applied Sports Medicine supporting the anti-doping process, and not yet rejecting the alleged positive doping test of Efimova. The president and founder of GAASM, Dr. Homayu...

MANCHESTER, England, June 25. BRITISH swimmers are gathering in Manchester this week for a final racing tuneup before the Commonwealth Games, and dominated the medal podium today in the first morning finals session of the British Gas Long Course International. Though the meet is open to foreigners, ...

VALETTA, Malta, July 6 -- IT'S a long long way from Irvine to Malta but Milorad (Michael) Cavic didn't mind the journey one bit. The Irvine Novaquatics' sprinter-flyer, who was the fastest high schooler in America this past season in the 50 free, captured his first major international go...

By Craig Lord ANTWERP, Belgium, Dec. 16. MARTINA Moravcova, trained in the US and racing for Slovakia, stole the show on the final day of the European Short Course Championships with a fifth successive victory in the 200m freestyle. Her longing for longevity and determination to keep the 200 meters ...

By Craig Lord ANTWERP, Belgium, Dec 14. THE first sub 50-second 100 meter fly swim is in sight! Asked how much pain he felt, Thomas Rupprath, of Germany, found the strength to smile and murmur "too much" after he had clocked a world record of 50.26 seconds to beat the man who had held the standard a...

By Craig Lord THE names Michelle Smith and Michelle Smith de Bruin are to be locked in a trunk and left to gather dust in the dungeons of Irish swimming history in a carefully worded new constitution that bars suspended swimmers from holding records and will confine the triple Olympic champion to a ...

Denmark’s reigning 50 fly world champion Jeanette Ottesen raced for the first time since a road rage assault left her with a broken finger and severe injuries for boyfriend Marco Loughran. Ottesen swam the 50 butterfly at the Danish nationals in Copehagen on Tuesday, winning with an impressive 25.68...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, August 6. FEDERICO Morlacchi and Arjola Trimi both won gold for Italy on Wednesday (6 August) evening at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, propelling the country to fifth in the medals table. Italy have now won 11 medals - made up...

VALENCIA, Dec. 16. An unprecedented three-way tie for first, two more wins for the powerful Swedish team, and a new European mark by Italy's Massi Rosolino, suspected of using human growth hormone, highlighted the third day of competition at the 2000 European Short Course Championships in Valenc...

Italian Swimming #stopolympics Campaign Italy's leading swimmers, which include Olympic 1500m freestyle champion Gregorio Paltrinieri and World champion Federica Pellegrini, are struggling to find adequate time at swimming pools during their nation's coronavirus-pandemic lockdown, prompting the lead...

Records came tumbling down this week in Copenhagen at the 2017 European Short Course Championships, with many of Europe’s biggest stars hitting the short course pool in Denmark. Check out all of the biggest stories in The Week That Was. https://youtu.be/uOaL9R-pRlA The Week That Was #5 - South Afric...

By Phillip Whitten PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain. July 4. SEVEN women's Masters world records were shattered - five in the 50 meter breaststroke - to highlight competition on Day Two of the European Masters Swimming Championships in Palma on the sunny island paradise of Mallorca, Spain. Seventeen Eur...

The 51 members of the 18-and-under group of Americans competing in this week’s Irish Open Championships will not be the only foreigners racing against some of Ireland’s best in Dublin. Several members of the Danish national team will be in attendance as well, offering an exciting look at the future ...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, June 13. NORWAY's reigning four-time world champion Sarah Louise Rung has vowed to swim her fastest times ever at August's 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, following a world record breaking start to 2014. "[My goal] would be to swim ...

CANET, France, June 12. THOUGH the usual suspects won all the races today to close out the Canet stop on the Mare Nostrum circuit tour, plenty of great long course swimming took place under the French sun, including another barrier-breaking time for Rikke Pedersen in the 200 breast. Pedersen continu...

BERGEN, Norway, May 24. A day after making her way into five finals, the Hungarian Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu collected three titles during short course competition at the Bergen Swim Festival. Hosszu is the most prolific prizeswimmer in the history of the sport, and continues to display that ability ...

By Rokur Jakupsstovu, Swimming World Scandinavian correspondent BIRKEROD, Denmark. TONIGHT, Sigma Swim arranged a fun and spectator friendly “War Of The Great Danes,” in connection with their annual sponsor event. Six of the best Danish male swimmers competed in an elimination challenge, consisting ...

Photo by Mads Claussen KANGASALA, Finland, August 9. YESTERDAY and today, lake Vesijarvi in Finland was venue of the 2014 Nordic Open Water Championships, arranged by the Kuohu swim club in Kangasala as part of the annual Finnish championships. Sweden’s Ellen Olsson won both the women’s 5 and 10 K e...

VALETTA, Malta, July 8. IF Anthony Ervin is he "next Alex Popov," who's the next Anthony Ervin? How about Croatia's Duje Draganja. The 18-year-old Croat, playfully dubbed the "swimming Goran Ivansevic" by teammates in honor of the latter's victory at Wimbledon, won his second and third g...