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By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern Swimming is a detail-obsessed sport: It’s all about precise qualifying times, strict training schedules, stroke descriptors, a lot of counting and hundredths of a second to crack the podium.  How many of you feel confident you know the history of swimming...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 12. AMERICAN Olympian Cristina Teuscher won two gold medals at World Cup 1 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first stop on the 2000-2001 World Cup tour. The World Cup meets are swum in a 25-meter (short course) pool. Teuscher, 22, won the women's 400m freestyle (4:09.81)and 200...

BERLIN, Germany, May 7. THIS summer's European swimming championships will feature 30 Germans competing in front of a home crowd, hoping to return to the top of the medal rankings after being the second-best team in the last two outings. On paper, the Germans look to have a strong team, with Steffen...

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...

Berlin, Germany - Seven athletes who competed for former East Germany are seeking legal redress against doctors and coaches for forcing them to take banned performance-enhancing drugs. The seven, who come from several disciplines, have asked Berlin prosecutors to launch an investigation, saying the ...

Memorial Day Rewind: How World War II Impacted Yale Great Bob Kiphuth Editor’s note: We are reposting this great feature by Chuck Warner, originally written as part of a series of articles about the great Yale coach Bob Kiphuth, highlighting a moment in Kiphuth’s career that intersected with the ris...

Marco Koch, the 2015 world 200m breaststroke champion, has appointed former Germany national team director Dirk Lange and the man who guided Cameron van der Burgh to Olympic gold as his new coach seven months ahead of Tokyo 2020. Koch, who also claimed silver behind Hungary’s former Olympic champion...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THORPEMANIA spilled over on to the poolside at the World Championships in Fukuoka tonight as Ian Thorpe was greeted by hundreds of screaming Japanese girls after lowering the world record in the 400 meter freestyle to 3:40.17 and going on to b...

From www.usswim.org - PERTH, AUSTRALIA - USA's Amy Van Dyken and Lenny Krayzelburg won individual golds on the final day of the World Championships, as the American swimmers finished with 14 gold medals, the biggest gold medal haul by a U.S. team in 20 years. Krayzelburg won the 200m backstroke with...

This meet featured Olympic medalists and members of the the US National Team. Steve West, 1995 World University Games silver medalist, won the 200m breast in a fast 2:18:11. Bjorn Zikarsky, who won a bronze medal at the 1996 Olympic Games for Germany, won the 100m free. Note: Jason Lezak of UCSB won...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 3. THE opening leg of the FINA 10km Marathon Swimming World Cup 2014 saw Brazil’s Poliana Okimoto and British Thomas Allen take top honours in front of 7,000 spectators in Viedma, Argentina, on February 1. A total 59 competitors (27 women and 32 men) from 12 countries...

Athleten Deutschland, the German athlete-representative body, has welcomed an International Olympic Committee (IOC) u-turn on its stance on Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter. Until recently, the IOC had been firmly entrenched in its anti-protest stance, issuing a warning to athletes of late that those ...

The head of a swim school in Berlin, Germany, has called for training to resume in outdoor pools with a plea to end "discrimination" against commercial operations and to ward off potential closures. Alexander Steinhart is the managing director and coach at XRay Sports in the German capital which pro...

Perth, Australia ­ December 15th ­ The USA Women¹s Junior National Team came from three goals behind to beat Australia 10-9 and win the gold medal in overtime at the 4th FINA Women¹s Junior World Championships. Amber Stachowski (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA/Golden West) led the team with four goals wh...

Germany Nominates 24 Pool Swimmers For Paris 2024: Names Team For European Championships In Belgrade Lukas Märtens is among 24 pool swimmers - 15 men and nine women - nominated by the German Swimming Association (DSV) for the Olympic Games in Paris. The German Olympic Confederation will confirm the ...

Lausanne, Switzerland - World champion Ian Thorpe has won a moral victory after his protest against the security of the drug-testing procedures at the recent Berlin World Cup meet. The medical officer in charge of the Berlin drug-testing protocol has recommended that the German procedures be upgrade...

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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, February 4. AFTER appealing FINA's decision to strip him of his men's 1500-meter freestyle title from the World Short Course Championships in 2012 following a positive doping test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided today to uphold Mads Glaesner's appeal to retain the ...

MONACO, June 13. AUSTRALIA'S Ian Thorpe missed breaking his own world record in the 200 meter freestyle but still won handily with a time, 1:45.75, only he and Holland's Pieter van den Hoogenband have ever bettered on the second day of the two-day Monaco stop in the Mare Nostrum tour today. ...

By Buky Chass (Swimming World's Israeli correspondent) KIBBUTZ GIVAT HAIM, March 16. IT was the Anya and Vered Show once again on the fourth and final day of competition at the Israeli National Short Course Championships, held at the antiquated pool at Kibbutz Givat Haim. Anya Gostamelski ended ...