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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...

Mimosa Jallow of Swimming Jyvaskyla set a pair of Finnish national records at the Finnish Grand Prix 3 in Espoo this weekend. Jallow first took down the women's 50-meter backstroke national record with a 28.38.  That swim cleared the 28.61 Anni Alitalo posted during semifinals of the 2013 World Cham...

The second night of the Finnish Grand Prix Challenge 2015 taking place in Helsinki, Finland started off with semifinal action for both men and women. Filipp Provorkov will have the top seed going into tomorrow's 50 breaststroke final with a time of 28.35. In the women's event, Jenna Laukkanen swam a...

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 ...

The 2015 Finnish Grand Prix concluded July 5 in Helsinki, Finland. Finals began with Mimosa Jallow crushing the 100 backstroke in a time of 1:00.75. She was three seconds ahead of her closest competitor. In the men's 100 backstroke, Janne Markkanen and  Valtteri Halonen kept the excitement going by ...

BERLIN, Jan. 21. CROATIA's Gordan Kozulj equalled a world record while Britain's Mark Foster set a European record to highlight competition on the second, and final, day of competition at World Cup VIII in Berlin, Germany. Kozulj, who yesterday set the European record in the 100m backstroke ...

TURKU, Finland, April 23. THE initial night of swimming took place in Turku, Finland as the Finnish Long Course Nationals came to a close on the first of five days of competition. Veera Kivirinta posted a 31.89 to win the women's 50-meter breaststroke, a time that hovers outside the top 20 in the Sw...

Jenna Laukkanen stole the show on day three of the Finnish Swimming Nationals. In the women's 100-meter breaststroke Laukkanen touched with a time of 1:08.55 to break her own Finnish record of 1:08.59 that she set in July of 2013. Silja Känsäkoski finished second with a 1:09.73, while Carita Luukkan...

The Finnish Grand Prix Challenge 2015 is taking place July 3-5 in Helsinki, Finland. Day one of the three-day event provided close races on the men's side in a range of distances. The women's races were won by much wider margins. Similar to most men's sprint events, the men's 100 freestyle came down...