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Time flies but not as fast as the 'fly times of a man born 70 years ago this day. February 10: happy birthday Mark Spitz, he of the seven gold medals, all won in world records, at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Happy 70th Birthday Mr. Spitz Until Michael Phelps thundered to eight golds at Beijing...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Team scoring, it's not necessarily what you think. When the small, but extremely strong, team from Alaska found out they weren't keeping score at the meet - they took things into their own hands. They made score cards 1-10 and graded each of their swimmer...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Funniest & saddest sight of the day -watching Walt Reid run around the computer area, rummaging through his bags and papers to find his ID card. Without it you can't check in for your race. He wouldn't care so much, except it was for a relay, and if every...

Happy Anniversary: 48 Years Since Mark Spitz Went 7-For-7 at Munich Games Today, Sept. 4, 2020, marks the 48th anniversary of Mark Spitz's seventh gold medal of the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. Each of Spitz's titles was won in world-record time, and the accomplishment became the sport’s measuring ...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - The end of the longest, largest meet I have ever been to has finally come. A full week of swimming. I think my butt hurts the most from sitting on hard seats so many hours. The only event of the day was the 800 Free. 40 heats of women and 48 heats of men. At leas...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Day 3 began with beautiful clear skies and warm weather. Finally, people can start enjoying the outside grassy area. Three events were contested: 400 IM, 100 Breast, and the 200 Mixed Medley Relay. 400 IM - WOMEN Chris Weigland of Germany, had the best time of th...

By Jim Lutz WHILE cleaning out a closest in my "new" digs recently I came across numerous copies of SWIMMING WORLD. Some issues dated back to the late 1960’s when digital stopwatches were nothing more than a vision and a dream. Names like Rothhammer and Schollander graced the pages and in some cases...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of April 27-May 3, 2020 ...

BELMONT SHORES, CA., March 11. IT'S too bad Kaitlin Sandeno isn't in college right now -- because she'd be almost a "lock" to win the 500-1650 frees and 400 IM at this week's NCAA Division 1 Championships on Long Island. However (thankfully?) Sandeno won't attend college until th...

By Steven V. Selthoffer BRAZILIAN Olympian Romulo Arantes Jr. was killed in a tragic plane accident, it was reported on June 11, 2000. The official announcement was made prior to the start of the final relay, on the third day of the Brazilian Olympic Trials, at the Trofeu Jose Finkel in Rio de Janer...

(Australian swimming legend, Shane Gould, headed for the Masters World Championships, becomes a human guinea pig, trying out the new bodysuits and giving her assessment.) By Shane Gould Curiosity got the better of me after the Australian Olympic Swimming Trials in May. I had to try the new, long swi...

By Phillip Whitten TUCSON, Jan. 31. FOR more than 28 years, swimmer Rick DeMont has been seeking vindication. In 1972, DeMont, then 16, was unceremoniously stripped of an Olympic gold medal after testing positive for a banned substance in his asthma medication. Now, U.S. Olympic Committee officials ...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany. THE largest-ever World Masters Swimming Championships began with the Women's 200 IM. The fastest time came from Cornelia Bleul-Gohlke of Germany with a time of 02:30.52 posted in the 30-34 age group. The rumor of Shane Gould doing a 2:31 was not supported by t...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Day 2 of the World Masters Championships saw only two events contested, the 200 Breast and 400 Free. Still the meet began at 7am and concluded about 10:40pm. The 200 Breast took over 8 1/2 hours to complete, while the 400 was only 7 hours due to the two-per-lane ...

By Phillip Whitten The achievements of Masters swimmers in their mid-thirties, and even early forties, are impressive, indeed. This year an unprecedented number of thirtysomething Masters will be participating at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Indianapolis. But one Swedish Masters swimmer has compiled a...

July 29. The biggest World Masters Swimming Championships in history begin today in Munich, Germany, and SWIMINFO and SWIM Magazine will be on site, covering the event with daily stories, photographs and results. The meet has attracted some 6,000 swimmers--both pool and open water--ranging in age fr...

The programme for the 2022 European Championships has been announced with confirmation that swimming will not be incorporated into the multi-sport event to be held in Munich, Germany in August of that year. Instead, the aquatics will be held as an independent event at the Foro Italico, Rome, from 11...

Clifford Barry, Canadian Olympian and Coach of Victor Davis, Dies at 75 Clifford Barry, a significant figure in Canadian aquatic sports, has died at the age of 75. Barry was a multi-sport standout, as he starred athletically as a two-time Olympian in water polo, and then found success as an Olympic ...

By Ian Hanson CANBERRA, July 14. DUAL Olympian and former Olympic bronze medalist Karen Stephenson (nee Moras) will lead an Australian Swimming team into 2008 Olympic city, Beijing, for the 2001 World University Summer Games in September. The 1968 Olympic bronze medalist over 400m freestyle and form...

By Ian Hanson and Belinda Dennett HOBART, March 31. TWENTY-SIX members of Australia's 2000 Olympic team have won selection in the 44-strong Telstra Dolphins Australian team to contest this year's World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in July. Heading the list are individual Olympic ...