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Olympic marathon champion Sharon van Rouwendaal is used to going the distance in pool, rivers, lake, sea and ocean. She trains 90km a week. This coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic season is different and we find the Montpellier-based Dutch ace in her backyard on a rope pacing herself standing still in ...

Triple Olympic Champion Pieter van den Hoogenband Named Team Netherlands Chef de Mission For Paris 2024 Three-time Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband has been named Chef de Mission for Team Netherlands at Paris 2024. The 44-year-old repeats the role he undertook at the Tokyo Olympics with se...

When Inky Made Her Mark: The 25th Anniversary of Inge de Bruijn And Her Sydney Star Turn It has been 25 years since the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The Games Down Under also served as a redemptive locale for the Netherlands’ Inge de Bruijn, who used the stage to define herself as one of the sport’...

VALETTA, Malta, July 8. IF Anthony Ervin is he "next Alex Popov," who's the next Anthony Ervin? How about Croatia's Duje Draganja. The 18-year-old Croat, playfully dubbed the "swimming Goran Ivansevic" by teammates in honor of the latter's victory at Wimbledon, won his second and third g...

VALETTA, Malta, July 9. THE kids have arrived! On the third day of the 2001 European Junior Championships here today, Greece's Ioannis Drymonakos and Hungary's Viktor Bodrogi were the stars of the show on the boys' side. Among the ladies Ukraine's Aliaksandra Herasimenia was a double...

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...

Colorado Springs, CO—U.S. women’s water polo coach Guy Baker has been selected as the 2000 United Airlines/U.S. Water Polo Coach of the Year and will be honored, along with Developmental Coach of the Year, Randy DiMicali, at the USWP awards luncheon in January. For Baker, this will be his second rei...

By Oene Rusticus & Jos van Kuijeren EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, June 3. AFTER the final of the 200 freestyle at the Dutch Nationals today, Olympian Kirsten Vlieghuis announced her retirement. She told our reporter: "Two months ago I decided to quit. I have gone through so many nice things, but now I...

By Danny Whirlow, Swimming World College Intern.  On August 18, 2018 - fifteen years after he beat leukemia - Dutch Olympian and gold medalist Maarten van der Weijden plunged into the frigid waters of the Netherland's famous Elfstedentocht. Typically used a speed skating course, the Elfstedentocht c...

(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’...

By Bill Bell APRIL 8. WHEN Australian triple Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe set the world record in the 800 free during last week's Australian Nationals/World Championship Trials in Hobart, he joined a rather exclusive group -- consisting of a mere two other swimmers -- who have ever held worl...

By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - The records started to fall on the first day of the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, the Dutch men's 4x100m freestyle relay setting a European record of 3:16.27 and both women's finals producing championship records that replaced the best that the GD...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 19. It's the half-way point of the swimming portion of the Olympics. Excitement is still at a fever pitch and every event seems to be a new world or Olympic record, produce a surprise winner, or hold a special story. Tonight's competition at...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24. IAN Thorpe was back on his blocks just 15 minutes after qualifying for the final of the 200m freestyle against Pieter van den Hoogenband. Before that boiling battle, there was another one to tackle, over 800m against teammate Grant Hackett, the Olympic 1,500m c...

By Michael Collins MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA. ELEVEN members of the USA Disabled Swim Team competed in the XVII Swimming International Tournament in Pool and Open Seas in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from December 14-17, 2001. The meet served as a test meet for the International Paralympic Committee Wor...

by Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, Australia. October 14. AUSTRALIAs Grant Hackett today swam within 1.51 seconds of a world record when he clocked 7 minutes 36.41 seconds to win the 800 meter freestyle on Day Three of the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centr...

James Guy claimed two titles and Freya Anderson was also among the winners on the first day of the Flanders Cup in Antwerp with Olympic preparations now in full swing. Guy won the 200m freestyle after leading from the outset and pulling away in the second half of the race with the 2015 world champio...

By Phillip Whitten Federal Way, Wash., July 24. HOLLAND's fabulous Flying Dutchwoman, Inge "Inky" De Bruijn, lowered her own world record in the 100 meter butterfly Saturday night with a time of 56.64 seconds. The time sliced five-hundredths of a second off the mark she set May 28 at a Grand Pri...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, Wednesday, July 25, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. Five finals are up for grabs, including one of the meet’s undoubted highlights: the 200 meter freestyle re-match between Olympic champion...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 2 Finals and Semi-Finals Danas Rapsys dug deep into his reserves and produced a late surge to claim the 200m freestyle title to add to his 400m gold on the second night of finals at the European Short-Course Swimming Championships in Glasgow. Russia'....