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The British Olympic Association (BOA) plans to drop its appeal of the Olympic decision that denied Nick Gillingham a bronze medal. Gillingham finished fourth behind Russia's Andrei Korneyev in the 200-meter breaststroke in Atlanta, and was promoted to third by the International Olympic Committee (IO...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, April 11. SCOTTISH "lassie" Alison Sheppard broke her own Commonwealth-Scottish-British record in the 50 freestyle here this evening with a world-leading 25.07 on the second day of the British Championships-World Championship Trials. The 28-year-old Sheppard, who set the old mar...

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...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, April 12. BACKSTROKER Sarah Price set her second Comonwealth-British record in the 100 in as many tries here today during the third day of the British Nationals-World Championship Trials. The 21-year-old dorsal specialist raced to a 1:01.32 clocking to gain a spot on the team th...

One of America’s top swim coaches will become the head coach of the development program run by the Birmingham City Council, England. Chris Martin, from Philadelphia, PA, is the former head coach of the USA women’s team and has numerous Olympic, Pan-Pacific and Pan-American gold among his many accomp...

By Phillip Whitten Ten Masters world records and over three dozen European marks fell by the wayside at the European Masters Swimming Championships held August 25-29 at the Tivoli Swim Stadium in picturesque Innsbruck, Austria. More than 2,000 Masters swimmers from virtually every nation in Europe c...

CANET, France. June 7. AUSTRALIAN breaststroker, Jim Piper, continued his record breaking ways yesterday, when he again lowered his own Australian 200m breaststroke mark for the second time in 12 days swimming a 2:12.40 to win the men’s event ahead of Russian, Dimitri Komorninkov (2:12.63) and Frenc...

ROME, June 9. AUSTRALIANS turned in three stunning victories on Day One of the Mare Nostrum tour meet in Rome, stunning a capacity crowd that had turned out to see Italy's Olympic champions in action. Ian Thorpe, Jim Piper and Clementine Stoney were the spoilers from Down Under. Triple Olympic c...

By Phillip Whitten PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain, July 7. The weather may be balmy on this beautiful Balearic isle, but the waters were turbulent at the state-of-the-art Son Hugo Aquatic Complex, where six more world marks were shattered on the fifth day of the European Masters Swimming Championships. Wo...

By Craig Lord SHEFFIELD, England. July 26. DARREN Mew leapt 28 places to ninth on the world rankings to qualify for his first Olympic Games at Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield, England, his 1min 01.78sec and three British records elsewhere were symptomatic of the new dawn of which Deryk Snelling, natio...

LOS ANGELES, July 21 -- Gabrielle Rose always admired Jenny Thompson. Now she's beginning to swim like her. Rose, a 23-year-old Stanford graduate who helped lead the Cardinal to its last three-consecutive NCAA Division 1 Championships in 1996-98 and who is a two-time Olympian for Brazil and the ...

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 ...