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MISSION VIEJO, June 24. JAPANESE swimmers continued to dominate competition at the Mission Viejo Nadadores 2000 Swim Meet of Champions, winning four of five women's events and two of five men's events today. Maki Mita led a one-two-three Japanese sweep in the 200 free, clocking a meet record...

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - USA Swimming announced it will host a stop on the FINA World Cup circuit on Dec. 1-2, 1998 in College Station, TX. The U.S. has never participated in the World Cup, which has traditionally been held in Europe, Asia and South America. "I think it opens a whole new world of comp...

From www.usswim.org - PERTH, AUSTRALIA - USA's Jenny Thompson won her third gold medal of the World Championships, and Lenny Krayzelburg and the men's 400m freestyle relay added two more golds for Team USA. Thompson, 24, of Dover, N.H., who anchored last night's 400m freestyle relay, swam a lifetime...

Neil Walker, 24 and swimming for Texas Aquatics, qualified first in a blazing 48.75; he was ahead of world record pace at the 50 with a 23.06. Gary Hall Jr. qualified second in 49.10, Scott Tucker was third in 49.34, Jason Lezak fourth in 49.60, 200 free champion Josh Davis was fifth in 49.67, Antho...

Event 14: Men's 100 Free Prelims Neil Walker, 24 and swimming for Texas Aquatics, qualified first in a blazing 48.75; he was ahead of world record pace at the 50 with a 23.06. Gary Hall Jr. qualified second in 49.10, Scott Tucker was third in 49.34, Jason Lezak fourth in 49.60, 200 free champion...

U.S. National Team co-captain Jon Olsen destroyed the national Masters record for men 30-34 in the 100 yard freestyle at a Masters meet in Atlanta. Swimming unshaved and untapered, the four-time Olympic gold medalist clocked a 44.65. He also won the 200 free in 1:39.98. Olsen, who will be making a b...

Oklahoma City, OK -- $15,000 in prize money will be on the line in the 50 Freestyle during the 6th Annual Kerr-McGee Corporation Elite Pro-Am swim meet, December 18-21, 1997. The Kerr-McGee Corporation Elite Pro-Am is the nation's only professional swim competition. The $15,000 50 Freestyle purse is...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., June 23. THE visiting Japanese Olympic team continued to dominate the women's competition, but fast times were spread all around on the second day of competition at the Mission Viejo 2000 Swim Meet of Champions. The Japanese women took three of the four women's events ...

Adrian Radley, Ryan Mitchell, Geoff Huegill and Michael Klim of Australia set a world record in the 400m medley relay with a time of 3:30.91 at Australian Short Course Swimming Championships. They smashed the previous standard of 3:32.57 set by an American quartet of Tripp Schwenk, Eric Wunderlich, ...

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

Oklahoma City, OK - Four-time 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amy Van Dyken and 1996 double Gold Medalist Gary Hall, Jr., and 1992 and 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Jenny Thompson top off a field of over 570 competing December 18-21, 1997, at the 6th Annual Kerr-McGee Corporation Elite Pro-Am swim meet at O...

The Southeastern Conference men’s showdown between No. 12 Alabama and No. 16 Tennessee was a nail-biter. The two-day meet came down to the competition’s last race: the 400-meter freestyle relay. Down by three points going into the relay, Alabama’s team of Alex Gray, Crews Wellford, Robert Howard and...

KRAYZELBURG BREAKS AMERICAN RECORD!! By Phillip Whitten Minneapolis, MN - Lenny Krayzelburg lowered his own American record for the fifth time in two years, clocking the second fastest time in history and coming agonizingly close to the world record set by Martin Lopez-Zubero in 1991. What made Kray...

By Phillip Whitten TWO weeks after Holland’s Inge De Bruijn streaked to four barrier-breaking world swimming records in three days at the Speedo Grand Prix in Sheffield, England, the waters of world swimming are still churning with controversy over whether the flying Dutchwoman achieved her marks le...

Masters swimming was justifiably proud when Sheila Taormina became the first active, registered Masters swimmer to win Olympic gold (800 free relay) in Atlanta. At the World Championships next month, there will be 3 registered Masters on the U.S. squad: Ron Karnaugh, M.D., 31, the oldest swimmer on ...

By Gerry Rodrigues July 14. LOS ANGELES. JENNY Thompson destroyed her own eight year-old American record in the 100 meter freestyle tonight, the second night of competition at the Janet Evans Invitational at the Olympic Pool on the USC campus. Thompson, 27, wearing a Speedo bodysuit, clocked 54.27 s...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 15. WOMEN'S 200m FREESTYLE; CLAUDIA IS BACK1 COSTA Rica's Claudia Poll, the defending Olympic champion, pulled away from Jenny Thompson, the early leader, to win the women's 200 free in 1:58.08--the second fastest time in the world th...