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VALETTA, Malta, July 9. THE kids have arrived! On the third day of the 2001 European Junior Championships here today, Greece's Ioannis Drymonakos and Hungary's Viktor Bodrogi were the stars of the show on the boys' side. Among the ladies Ukraine's Aliaksandra Herasimenia was a double...

At the 2019 USA Water Polo Holiday Cup last month, women's teams from Italy, the Netherlands and Russia traveled to Princeton, N.J. to sharpen their skills for a final push to qualify for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. But one top European team did not make the trip East. Hungary last visited the U.S. in ...

The crumbling Greek economy, which has resulted in banks closing and the country defaulting on international loans, will affect aquatic sports this weekend as the country looks for ways to recover from the crisis. The Hellenic Swimming Federation, which oversees all aquatic sports in Greece, announc...

World Championships: Hungary Wins Semis Thriller over Serbia; Spain Takes Shootout The semifinals of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships men’s water polo tournament didn’t disappoint, with Spain surviving a shootout to beat Greece, 11-9 and Hungary outlasting Serbia, 19-18, in regulation. Hungary ...

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...

ATHENS, Ohio, March 19. OHIO University Athletics Director Jim Schaus named Rachel Komisarz-Baugh as the Bobcats' Swimming and Diving head coach today. Komisarz-Baugh comes to Ohio following five years as the Associate Men's and Women's Swim Coach at the University of Louisville. During her five suc...

HELLO from Greece! We finally made it here yesterday after a long, long trip with four different planes!! It was a very long trip and yesterday was horrible, I went to bed at eight and slept the entire night. It is really nice here, besides the smoke. Everyone smokes and I am not used to it, but it ...

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...

TUNIS, Tunisia, Sept. 3. AGELESS 31-year-old French butterflyer Franck Esposito, Italian freestyle star Emiliano Brembilla and Spanish flyer Mireia Garcia were the record setters on Day 1 of the XIVth Mediterranean Games here today. Esposito, who set a European record in the 200 fly at the World Cha...

Spain, Netherlands Reprise World Champs Final by Winning European Championships Semis Spain and Netherlands will meet in the final of another women’s water polo tournament, this time at the European Championships in Eindhoven. Spain booked its place with ease Thursday at the Pieter van den Hoogenban...

World Championships: Alvaro Granados Named MVP, with Two Greek All-Stars Alvaro Granados of champion Spain was named the MVP of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships men’s water polo tournament upon its conclusion on Wednesday. Granados is the only Spanish player on the team, voted by media. Bronze ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, January 22. THE team of Spain, 2013 world champion, got its second victory in the 2014 edition of the FINA Women’s Water Polo World League, after defeating Great Britain in one of the games of the third round of the European preliminaries held on January 21. In the other match...

WOMEN'S FINAL The Netherlands clinched the title for the first time since 1993: they beat Greece 6-4 to claim the nation’s 5th gold at the women’s European Water Polo Championships. This ties Italy’s record and gives them back the top rank on the all-time medal table. The Greeks had to settle for si...

By Lindsay Benko We finally made it to the first day of the meet. It is pretty exciting. Almost everyone swam on a relay, individual event or both today. So we are shaved and everyone is ready to go. The morning went well and almost everyone that swam made it back in either a semi- final or final. T...

Greek open-water ace Spyros Gianniotis will lead the shoal out for The Authentic Marathon Swim at Artemision this September, 2,500 years after Skyllias and Hydna, recorded by Herodotus as the first long-distance swimmers in history, swam the same course. The Authentic Marathon Swim, originally due t...

By Craig Lord The head coach of the Great Britain swim team and the director of swimming for England have been suspended pending an inquiry into the findings of an internal audit that is said to have uncovered "financial issues that raised concerns". Clive Rushton, senior coach to Britain, and Mike ...

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...

AUSTIN, Tx., March 8. SWIM Atlanta's Amanda Weir must enjoy foreign travel, because she's quickly becoming an excellent prospect to tour a very prominentand very ancient European capital that begins with the first letter of the alphabet in just two more years. Athens, of course, site of the ...

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...

ATHENS, Greece - The United States shocked a sold out crowd, of over 10,000, at the Greek Olympic Swimming Stadium by defeating host country Greece, 8-5, to capture the gold medal at the X FINA World Cup. The victory capped an improbable run which started with a 10-7 win over Spain, the defending Ol...