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Last week, Spain's Mireia Belmonte received the award for the finest Spanish sportswoman in the last 50 years, an award that had legendary tennis player Rafael Nadal as its male recipient. The award was presented at the 50th anniversary of Diario AS, a major newspaper in Spain. Belmonte told the new...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 20. Women's 100 Free Prelims Top 16 advance to semi-finals: 1. De Bruijn NED 54.77 2. Torres USA 55.12 3. Thompson USA 55.22 4. Moravcova SVK 55.42 5. Muller RSA 55.45 South African Record 6. Alshammar SWE 55.49 7. Voelker GER 55.54 8. Rol...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 8. LARS Frolander, of Sweden, placed Australian Michael Klim in his sights on the sixth day of the European Championships with a 52.23sec European record that confined Denis Pankratov's Olympic victory time of 52.27sec to history. There were six other bodysuits in th...

A Look Back at the Aquatic Events of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics By Kate Walter, Swimming World Intern.  With the summer of Tokyo a little less than a year away, it’s time to take a look back at one of the most pivotal modern Olympics, the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain. A total of 169 countries par...

Liz Byrnes, Swimming World's new European Correspondent, hones in on the achievements of Adam Peaty, one of the most outstanding pioneers on the pool in swimming history, as her No1 pick in our series looking back at our favourite moments of the decade about to end. Liz's list is rich with some of t...

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 15. THE recent news that Martin Zubero and Greg Burgess would be coaching together at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville got us nostalgic about their Olympic medal-winning performances at the 1992 Games in Barcelona. We're featuring both swims from Zubero and Burgess this wee...

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 ...

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, surpassing the European Championships held last month in Istanbul, and the Pan American Games held earlier in August in Win...

Americans Lenny Krayzelburg, Neil Walker and Jenny Thompson each set a short course world record on the second, and final day of competition of the FINA World Cup meet in College Park, Maryland. Krayzelburg blasted the 200m backstroke in 1:52.47, just squeaking by the old mark of 1:52.51 set by Spai...

Main photo by Peter H. Bick MINNEOLA, Florida, September 30. THREE swimming legends will be inducted into the Florida Swimming Hall of Fame Sunday for contributions to the sport. Rowdy Gaines, Gregg Troy and Martin Zubero will be a part of the second class of inductees, joining seven that were part ...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, May 14. OLYMPIC champion Martin Zubero is three days into his new tenure as head coach of the swimming program at the Episcopal School of Jacksonville and its club team the Amberjax. The former 200 backstroke world record holder is not wasting any time setting up a strong coac...

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...