Fernando Scherer - (Tag)

World/Female - Jenny Thompson (26.5% of the votes) World/Male - Fernando Scherer (24.3% of the votes) USA/Female Jenny Thompson (40.4% of the votes) USA/Male - Lenny Krayzelburg (39.3% of the votes)

By Norm Frauenheim Winnipeg, Canada - She stood on the medal stand's top pedestal as if she never wanted to leave. The recorded national anthem was cut short. But she finished the lyrics, anyway. Kaitlin Sandeno wanted the music to play on. The moment to continue. "I thought, 'Wow, this song is play...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 18. UNITED STATES swimming team captain Lindsay Benko and Sweden's Johanna Sjoberg were the standouts on the first day of competition at the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Benko claimed a gold medal double in the 200m freestyle and 200m backstroke, while Knabe took gol...

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA, DEC. 28. WHILE his country is mired in financial insolvency and teters on the brink of economic ruin, one Argentine is definitely on the 40-karat gold standard. He's 22-year-old sprinter Jose Martin Meolans, who at last week's Brazilian Nationals -- which also double...

By Norm Frauenheim Winnipeg, Canada - Kaitlin Sandeno got to sing an encore Friday night. Her second trip to the medal stand's step was as good as the first. Maybe even better. Sandeno celebrated her Pan American Games gold medal in the women's 800m freestyle with a chorus. After her record-setting ...

Scott Tucker flew down to Rio de Janeiro for Thanksgiving to enjoy some southern hemisphere summer sun, check out the action at Ipanema and, oh yeah, compete at the FINA World Cup III meet. It was a good decision. The Auburn University graduate, known primarily as a freestyle sprinter, walked away w...

By Mary Wagner (Courtesy of USA Swimming, with additional comments by Phil Whitten) EAST MEADOW, N.Y., Nov. 29. THE final night of the 2001 FINA World Cup in East Meadow, N.Y., was a night of encores for a number of U.S. swimmers. And Natalie Coughlin led the way by setting a world record in the 100...

Thiago Pereira has been a part of the 200 IM final at the world championships since 2007. He was fourth twice, sixth once and earned bronze in 2013. He moved up a spot tonight with a gutsy silver medal performance that got the 29-year-old more motivated for next year’s Olympic Games in his native Br...

IMPERIA, Italy, Jan 14. CHINA's Yang Yu swam the fastest 200 free of the 2001-02 season as the World Cup Series splashed back into action here this evening. The Chinese sprinter, whose pr is 1:55.50 from the Arena Meeting in Berlin two years ago, touched in a world-leading 1:56.05, taking the No...

MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA. Brazil's Rogerio Romero and Venezuela's Oswaldo Quevedo were the top swimmers at the South American Swimming Championships, held April 12-15 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of the 1995 Pan American Games. In the absence of teammate Leonardo Costa, Romero, 30, bree...

BARCELONA, May 23. Sprinters ruled the first day of competition at the Mare Nostrum meet in Barcelona, the second stop on the Mare Nostrum circuit. Cuban Olympic silver medalist Rodolfo Falcon clocked 25.83 to take the men's 50m backstroke, defeating Germany's Stev Theloke. Ukraine's Ole...