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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 10. FINA has announced today that a pair of Indonesian swimmers have both been banned two years for positive Methylhexaneamine tests stemming from the Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games. Indra Gunawan On July 1, 2013, a swimmer Indra Gunawan (INA) was tested positive to...

MOSCOW, Russia, June 2. THE Russian sports minister feels his country's swimming federation is one of several sports in danger of suspension from international competition based on recent history of major doping violations. Vitaly Mutko told The Associated Press that the recent high-profile suspensi...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 14. POTENTIAL bidders to the organisation of the FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) and FINA World Aquatics Convention in 2018 and 2020 gathered on May 13, 2014 in Lausanne (SUI) for an information meeting on the bidding procedure for these two events. Cities/National...

By Swimming World Intern Justin Sweetwood PISCATAWAY, New Jersey, January 12. THROUGHOUT the weekend, swimmers have been battling it out in the pool at this year’s CeraVe Invitational. Taking place at the Sonny Werblin Recreation Center on the Rutgers University campus, swimmers from across the coun...

WINNIPEG, Canada, January 25. THE hundreds of swimmers and fans in the Pan Am Pool yesterday in Winnipeg were treated to a major moment in Masters swimming history, a moment not likely to be repeated or bettered for many years. Jaring Timmerman became the first person --- man or woman – to compete i...

MISSOULA, Montana, May 21. SPECTRUM Aquatics, a leading manufacturer of commercial pool equipment, has recently developed an automatic anti-slip backstroke start "wedge" (patent pending) designed to improve the starts of competitive backstroke swimmers. Spectrum's innovative backstroke wedge is comp...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 27. RECENTLY, FINA released the qualifying standards for the 2015 World Championships being held in Kazan, Russia. The qualifying window for the events is between May 1, 2014 and July 20, 2015. Here's the information: --ENTRY LIMITS-- -A nation may enter up to 2 swimm...

Guest commentary by Caroline Simmons As I was watching the Southeastern Championships, I had the pleasure of sitting next to an old swimming friend. After watching a few of the events, the conversation began to focus on the rules and regulations of swimming. Throughout the years that I have been inv...

CANCUN, Mexico, February 27. THIS weekend, FINA, along with the Mexican Swimming Federation, has launched a World Water Polo Conference in Cancun with the motto of “Sharing the Magic of Team Sports.” The most amazing part of the two-day event is that FINA has made sure executives from all walks of t...

BELCONNEN, Australia, June 11. DUAL Olympian Melissa Gorman and World Championship representative Chelsea Gubecka will join a group of Australia's top open water swimmers taking part in a European Tour as race practise ahead of the 2014 Hancock Prospecting Pan Pacific Swimming Championships on the G...

SARASOTA, Florida, June 19. JACK Groselle is having an amazing year in the pool, already setting five Masters world records in short course meters and long course meters meets. The 60-year-old is definitely not slowing down, taking down two more long course records and helping with two relay records...

By Steven V. Selthoffer, Swimming World's Chief European Columnist KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait, July 7. AQUATIC sports continue to grow and show excellent progress in Kuwait with the conclusion of the Kuwait National Championships. One of the main architects of Kuwait’s success is Moeman Abdallah Arafa, Hea...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, March 20. THE new Omega backstroke starting platforms are set to make their debut in the United States next month at the Arena Grand Prix in Arizona, while several competitions in other parts of the globe are set to feature the innovative device. FINA recently produced a how-t...

PERTH, Australia, January 15. JUST days after Bud McAllister announced that he was leaving his job as coach in Great Britain and transferring to an undisclosed club in Australia, the country's federation has announced the McAllister will make camp in Perth to lead the Western Australia Institute of ...

WINDSOR, Canada, June 2. CHINA took home seven of the eight titles on offer at the penultimate leg of the FINA/NVC Diving World Series, held for the first time in Windsor (CAN) on May 30 – June 1. Meaghan Benfeito and Roseline Filion, 2013 World silver medallists, pocketed their first World Series t...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 4. A big upset followed by an Australian record being smashed were some of the highlights tonight at the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. FINALS Nunawading's Belinda Hocking, the top-ranked swimmer in the world with a 2:06.40 from the NSW State Cham...

PHOENIX, Arizona, March 4. WE had a few records broken, some new records that are set to be broken and a star swimmer recognized for her record-setting performances. Let’s not waste any more time shall we? We start our countdown of the top five swimming headlines of the week at number five. Last we...

MESA, Arizona, April 19. NEXT week's Arena Grand Prix meet in Mesa, Ariz., will feature many athletes registered as members of U.S. Masters Swimming, and they will now be able to set Masters world records in their swims. A request by Swimming World Magazine World Masters Swimmer of the Year David Gu...

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana, March 13. LAST summer, Indiana head coach Ray Looze along with some well-connected members of his athletics administration, staged the IU Relay Rally, where the Hoosiers were gunning to be the very first swimmers to complete swims for world records in newly-recognized relays. I...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 13. TODAY, FINA released its final decision regarding Russia's Yuliya Efimova and her positive test for 7-keto-DHEA during an out-of-competition test that took place in Los Angeles. FINA elected to imposed a 16-month competition ban retroactive to Oct. 31, 2013 and conclud...