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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 Andy Ross. American swimmer Olivia Smoliga won eight gold medals at the 2018 FINA World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China this week, the most of any American woman all-time at a single short course championships. 24-year-old Kelsi Dahlia won seven gold medals this week, and won a silv...

JACKSONVILLE, Florida, September 12. THREE renowned coaches were added to the American Swim Coaches Association's Hall of Fame in a ceremony tonight. Two of them are active coaches, while the other is enjoying the fruits of his labor after decades in collegiate coaching. Pete Morgan, Nation's Capita...

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...

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...

How Will The US Swim Team Fare in Sydney? The U.S. Olympic Trials are over and the US team has made the long trans-Pacific trek. How will the Americans fare at the Olympic Games in Sydney against the world's best? Swimming World has a pretty good idea and offers its predictions for gold, silver...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., JAN. 26. COACH Dave Salo's powerhouse Irvine Novaquatics team was the big winner at the SoCal Swimming Senior "Q" Meet during the King Holiday Weekend. The competition took place at the Belmont Plaza Olmpic Pool. NOVA claimed all three team titles, women's (662 to 407 fo...

MONTE CARLO, May 20. DUTCH swimmer Inge "Inky" de Bruijn smashed the women's world record in the 50 meter butterfly when she clocked an amazing 25.83 seconds to highlight the first day of competition at in the first of the Mare Nostrum long course meets being held in Monaco on Saturday. The 27-y...

MONTE CARLO, May 21. HUNGARY'S Agnes Kovacs took the 50 and 200 breaststroke today, setting a European record in the 50, to complete her sweep of the breaststroke events at Monte Carlo, the first stop on the Mare Nostrum circuit. In head-to-head competition with South Africa's Sarah Poewe, K...

SICILY, Italy - Olympic champion Penny Heyns slipped at the World University Games, finishing fourth in the 200m breaststroke. South Africa's Heyns, who complained of flu symptoms, finished nearly two seconds off the 2:30.24 of gold medalist Masami Tanaka of Japan. Slovakia's Martina Moravcova won h...

TOKYO, April 20. Masami Tanaka, Susumu Tabuchi and and Kasuke Kitajima vaulted into Olympic medal contention today with impressive national records on the second day of the Japanese National Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Tanaka, who last year won short course world titles in the 100 and 200 meter...

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 ...

TOKYO, April 22. Japan's Masami Tanaka swam the second fastest 200 meter breaststroke in history today in winning her semi-final heat at the Japanese National Championships in Tokyo. The 20-year-old breaststroke ace stroked 2:24.27 for the four-lap race; only South Africa's Penny Heyns, who ...

MISSION VIEJO, Calif., June 25. THE visiting Japanese Olympic team completed its domination of the competition at the Mission Viejo 2000 Swim Meet of Champions by winning all six women's events and three of the six men's events on the final day of competition. Junko Onshi cracked a minute in...

By Takahisa Ide and Hideki Mochizuki YOKOHAMA, JAPAN. April 19. THE first of four days of competition at the Japanese Championships/ World Championships Trials began today at the Yokohama International Pool, host pool of 2002 Pan Pacific Championships. Unlike the Trials in some other nations, the Ja...

TOKYO, April 23. Five more national records, as well as a world record, highlighted the final day of competition at the Japanese National Championships in Tokyo. Mai Nakamura set a world mark in the women's 50 meter backstroke during prelims, stroking 28.67 seconds for the one-lap sprint. The ti...

TOKYO, April 21. THREE more Japanese records--all by women--fell on the third day of competition of the Japanese National Championships in Tokyo. Masami Tanaka,Mai Nakamura and Tomoko Hagiiwara were the record-setters, and all swam world-leading times for 2000 in setting their records. Tanaka, 20, l...

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...

FULLERTON, Calif., Nov. 11. JAPANESE Olympian Masami Tanaka, former world record-holder in the 200 meter (short course) breaststroke, swam the nation's fastest 200 yard breaststroke this season in a Southern California Senior meet this weekend in Fullerton, Calif. Tanaka, who has been training f...

By Hideki Mochizuki YOKOHAMA, Japan. April 20. DAY TWO of the 77th Japanese National Championships/Fukuoka World Championship Trials brought disappointment among coaches and Japanese swimming media gathered in Yokohama, as results fell far below expectations. Some coaches and officials are fearful t...