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MONTREAL, May 30. EVERYTHING went according to form tonight at the Piscine Olympique in Montreal during the third evening of the Canadian Olympic Trials. Kelly Stefanyshyn and Michelle Lischinsky went one-two in the women's 100 meter backstroke, just as they did in prelims and semi-finals. Each ...

By Phillip Whitten The Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 22-29 at next year's Olympic pool in Sydney, is the pre-eminent swimming competition in the world this year. Times have been fast all season and there are expectations for a superfast meet just a little more than a year before the 2...

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 26. The following are the results of this morning's prelims. The top 16 swimmers in each event advance to the semifinals, to be swum this evening. Women's 200 meter freestyle 1. Claudia Poll (CRC) 1:59.73 2. Nadezhda Chemezova (RUS) 2:00.07 3. Mette Jacobsen (DEN) 2:00.3...

Photo Courtesy: Ivan Hunter Photography/EurOptimum VANCOUVER, Canada, October 22. THE 2015 UBC Sports Hall of Fame Dinner will feature the largest-ever class of inductees, as some 125 members of UBC's men's and women's swim teams from 1998 to 2007 enter the Hall of Fame in the Team category. Under t...

Alexander Popov won three events: the 50m and 100m freestyle and the 100m backstroke. The 100m freestyle, however, was much closer than Popov would have liked. He touched out Michael Klim, his teammate from the Australian Institute of Sport, 50.30 to 50.36. Jenny Thompson held off Amy Van Dyken in t...

MONTREAL, May 31. JOANNE Malar and Marianne Limpert finished one-two in the women's 200 meter individual medley on the fourth night of the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal, giving Canada a powerful one-two punch for Sydney in the event. Malar finished in 2:14.38 with Limpert a quarter of a se...

Canadian swimmers won four women's and three men's events yesterday on the second, and final, day of the world cup meet in Edmonton, Alberta. It was the second of twelve stops on the World Cup tour that will continue in South America, Asia, Australia and Europe. Jessica Deglau, the Pan American Game...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, June 24 -- A stirring back-to-back double by St. Petersburg's Robert Margalis highlighted the final day's competition at the 24th annual TYR Swim Meet of Champions at the Marguerite Recreation Center Pool here today. Margalis is a strapping University of Georgia s...

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...

A REMARKABLE 6th WORLD RECORD IN SIX WEEKS TO HEYNS By Stephen J. Thomas It looked for a while tonight that we would see a day of competition go by without a world record being broken. Susie O'Neill, the favorite of the Australian crowd, again fell short of Mary T's 200 fly record. Penny Heyns, the ...

ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FOR AUSSIE MEN By Stephen J. Thomas The Aussie 800m freestyle relay annihilated their existing world record by more than 3 seconds. Thorpe as part of the team has broken a world record on each night of this meet!!! Tom Malchow (US) swam the 2nd fastest 200 fly in history and Sus...

LOS ANGELES, CA - Two-time backstroke world champion Lenny Krayzelburg, the reigning king in the specialty, easily defeated a strong field to win the 200m backstroke to highlight the second day of the sixth annual Janet Evans Invitational on Friday (July 16) at the USC McDonald’s Swim Stadium in the...

By Norm Frauenheim Winnipeg, Canada - Just when the United States needed to show a little fight, two fighters arrived. First, there was Karen Campbell, a black belt in tae-kwon-do. She delivered the opening shot in the women's 100m butterfly with a Pan American Games record time of 59.70 in Thursday...

SANTA CLARA, June 30 -- Has Anthony Ervin lost it? The Cal junior-to-be, who in his short career among the world's elite sprinters the past two years already has produced an Olympic gold medal, three NCAA titles and an American record, has now lost the last two major 50 frees he's swum: and ...

MONTREAL, May 29. MORGAN Knabe and Owen Von Richter turned in the most impressive performances during the finals of Day 2 of the Canadian Olympic Trials, being held at the Piscine Olympique, site of the 1976 Olympic Games, in Montreal, Quebec. Knabe breezed to victory in the men's 100 meter brea...

by Phillip Whitten San Antonio, TX - There were several upsets, four meet records and some very fast swimming on the final day of the three-day U.S. Open Swimming Championships, held at Palo Alto College in San Antonio. The very first event of the evening saw the meet's biggest upset when Japan's Sa...

MONTREAL, May 28. World-class swims by Joanne Malar and Rick Say highlighted the first day of competition at the Canadian Olympic Trials being held in Montreal, Quebec, at the Olympic Pool, site of the 1976 Olympic Games. Malar, 21, led from start to finish as she clocked 4:42.72 in the women's ...

STOCKHOLM, Jan 25. SWEDEN'S Anna-Karin Kammerling delighted the hometown crowd in Stockholm, when she obliterated her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record in the final race of the FINA World Cup IX meet. Kammerling clocked 25.36, wiping out the mark of 25.60, which she set at the Eur...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, CA, June 22. JASON Lezak has never swum in an individual Olympic race. Emily Mason has never even made an Olympic team. But both these swimmers may well be the mainstays of the U.S. Olympic team come Athens, if results from the second day of the TYR Swim Meet of Champions...

MONTREAL, June 1. CANADIAN national record-holder Jessica Deglau won the women's 200 meter butterfly tonight, on the fifth day of competition at the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal. Deglau led Jennifer Button all the way to touch in 2:11.85, well off her national mark of 2:09.64. Button foll...