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LIVORNO, ITALY, April 13. WHAT'S a world record worth? If you're an American and you set an individual mark at this year's Goodwill Games in Brisbane come September it's 50 big ones (dollars, that is, not Big Macs!). And if you're Italian Olympic gold medalist Massi Rosolino it&#...

VALETTA, Malta, July 5. THE opening day of the European Junior Championships got off to a fast start here today when Great Britan's James Goddard went a blistering 4:19.30 to win the 400 IM. Blistering? Well, how 'bout these numbers? Goddard's time is a four-second improvement over his o...

By Bill Bell It was some obscure English playwright whose name escapes us at present but who flourished about half a millenium ago and once penned a tome entitled "Much Ado About Nothing" that would be an appropriate appelation for this year's XXV edition of European Swimming Championships, rec...

HELSINKI, July 9. SWEDEN's Therese Alshammar destroyed the competition in winning the women's 50 meter freestyle on the final day of competition today at the European Championships in Helsinki. The Swedish powerhouse sprinted to a 24.44 clocking, a championship record and the second fastest ...

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...

LIVORNO, ITALY, April 10 -- Massi Rossolino grew "old and gray" chasing Aussie Ian Thorpe and Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband to their world records at last fall's Sydney Olympics, but the Italian freestyle star hasn't given up the ghost yet. Yesterday in the second day of the Italian Nat...

CHAMALIERES, FRANCE, April 30. LAST September at the Olympics in Sydney, Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband stunned the swimming world -- not to mention a certain Russian and a certain Australian -- with his world records and gold medals in the 100-200 meter freestyles. "Hoogie" thus became the firs...

HELSINKI, July 6. THE favorites in this morning's six events breezed through the prelims, easily qualifying for the semi-finals and, in the case of the men's 1500 meters, the finals tonight and tomorrow. Italy's Massi Rosolino, who won the 200 IM last night, posted a 1:49.06 in the 200 f...

TUNIS, Tunisia, Sept. 5. TWO newcomers to the rarified ranks of the gold medal podium position and a veteran European champion were the newsmakers on Day 2 of the Mediterranean Games' swimming competition here today. Italy's Michele Vancini, who dropped his pr in the 200 breast to 2:14.79 at...

By Phillip Whitten KIBBUTZ GIVAT HAIM, March 15. SwimInfo.com's Israeli correspondent, Dr. Buky Chass, reports that Anai Gostamelski and Vered Borochovski continued their onslaught on the Israeli record book, on the third day of competition at the Israeli Short Course Championships. The meet is ...

CHAMALIERES, FRANCE, May 1. A PAIR of national records in the women's 400 meter freestyle and the men's 400 meter individual medley were the highlights of Day 2 of the French Spring Championships-World Championship Trials here today. On the women's side, 17-year-old Alicia Bozon, who had...

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...

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 ...

IMPERIA, ITALY, Dec. 21. AFTER winning a pair of golds and a bronze at last weekend's European short course Championships in Antwerp, Italian world champion Emiliano Brembilla was back in the water here today for his country's short course championships. Also competing was Italian Olympic si...

IN the aftermath of the European Championships in helsinki, and with the Olympic Games only six weeks away, none of Europe's top swimmers is resting for any meets. Nonetheless, a bevy of strong performances by swimmers from several countries have been turned in in recent days. At the Vittel Cup ...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 4. HE was not on the way to a medal, the race merely a semi-final among the many finals last night - but Alexander Popov set a mediocre European Championships alight today with a blistering 48.34sec time in the 100m freestyle - the third fastest ever. The double Olympic ...

BARCELONA, June 2. IN the opening round of the Mare Nostrum Series, former SMU NCAA champ Martina Moravcova -- who represents Slovakia while working on her MBA at the Texas school -- won a tough 50 fly race from Austria's Judith Draxler and Australia's Julia Ham, 27.74-27.81-28.12. Double M ...

PITESTI, ROMANIA, June 16. EUROPEAN champ and Olympic silver medalist Beatrice Coada-Caslaru lowered her pr and national record in the 100 breast during the World Championship Trials here late last week. The Romanian star, who won a silver at Sydney in the 200 IM and a bronze in the 400, went 1:10.1...

JULY 3. SWEDEN and Finland held national championships last weekend in anticipation of the start of the World Championships in a week and-a-half. For the most part the times were relatively flat and both ountries' "Big Guns" basically swam through the competition, but a few events saw records br...

TALLINN, Estonia, June 27. THE same week that Ralf Tribuntsov announced via USC that he was signed to be a Trojan, he had a career meet at the Estonian National Championships with a pair of national records. By the end of the meet, he owned a total of 10 national championships as he dominated the me...