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World Championships: U.S. Men Fall to Serbia; Hungary Upends Croatia There will be a new World Champion this year in Singapore, with 2024 champ Croatia knocked out in Sunday’s quarterfinals by Hungary. Still in the hunt, though, is the reigning Olympic champion Serbia, which eliminated the United St...

Water Polo Coach Mirko Vicevic Leaves Serbian Club after Fans’ Racist Banner Water polo coach Mirko Vicevic last week left Serbian club Red Star Belgrade after fans displayed a racist banner insulting several ethnic groups at a match. Vicevic had taken over Red Star, based in the Serbian capital, la...

By Sophia Chiang, Swimming World College Intern Bogdan Knezevic was only two when, in 1994, he and his parents fled from war in Serbia to Canada. Since then, he’s gone on to swim at some of the world’s most prestigious meets: from placing top at Canadian Varsity Championships to swimming at World Ch...

WOMEN'S FINAL The Netherlands clinched the title for the first time since 1993: they beat Greece 6-4 to claim the nation’s 5th gold at the women’s European Water Polo Championships. This ties Italy’s record and gives them back the top rank on the all-time medal table. The Greeks had to settle for si...

Serbian swim coach Srdjan Filipovic, who was serving as the head coach of the Oman national swim team, died Feb. 5 at age 49. The Serbian Swimming Federation confirmed Filipovic’s passing. The Oman Swimming Association also released a statement mourning Filipovic’s death. Filipovic worked in his hom...

Bea Ortiz, Dusan Mandic Named World Aquatics Water Polo Athletes of the Year Spain’s Bea Ortiz and Dusan Mandic of Serbia were named Water Polo Athlete of the Year this week by World Aquatics. Mandic led Serbia to a third straight Olympic title. Mandic was the top scorer of the tournament with 26 go...

After 14 days and almost 100 matches, the FINA World Water Polo Championships are now concluded. It was a fantastic tournament for the Italian men and American women, who each romped undefeated to gold at the Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center. It’s the first World Championship title in almo...

Photo Courtesy: Qatar Swimming DOHA, Qatar, August 28. The Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu completed a 10-medal, 7-victory, 3-world record run in Doha tonight as the first stop of the FINA World Cup circuit came to close. FINA WORLD CUP MONEY LIST LIVE STREAM Subject to geoblocking LIVE RESULTS HEAT S...

Photo Courtesy: James Lang-US PRESSWIRE ALMATY, Kazakhstan, August 24. SERBIA reaffirmed its status of world strongest nation in the water polo arena by retaining its crown at the 15th FINA Men’s Water Polo World Cup, organised in Almaty (KAZ) on August 19-24. Clashing with reigning World champio...

The USA Cadet Men's National Team won the gold medal at the Darko Cukic Memorial Tournament in Serbia following a 9-6 victory over Croatia. The win capped a 7-0 run at the tournament that included victories over Serbia, Croatia and the Netherlands. Team USA once again relied on defense and goaltendi...

La Jolla, CA - June 2 - In front of a sold out crowd at UC-San Diego's Canyonview Pool, the USA Men's National Team beat Serbia for the first time since the 2008 Olympic Games, winning 12-10. John Mann (Newport Beach, CA/California/NYAC) scored a game high five goals while Bret Bonanni (Huntington B...

After Italy and Serbia had already completed their missions in two rounds, world champion Croatia and host Spain also booked their respective berths in the quarter-finals. The Croats beat Greece with a superb performance while Spain played a thrilling draw with World League winner Montenegro and tha...

UNLV senior Vuk Celic won the WAC championship in the 500 freestyle Thursday in record fashion, smashing the WAC Championships and school records. The Serbian grad student (and national record-holder/Olympic A-cut holder) went 4:16.75 in the finals, an improvement from 4:20.19 in the morning prelims...

Hungary’s Shootout Win over Serbia Headlines Euro Water Polo Men’s Quarterfinals Hungary defeated Serbia in the shootout Friday in the first and most scintillating of the quarterfinals at the Euro Water Polo men’s championships in Croatia. With its 15-14 win, Hungary will take on the host in the fir...

Vuk Celic acknowledged the risk inherent in his decision. Things were going just fine for the Serbian swimmer in the leadup to the Tokyo Olympics. A member of national delegations to major meets, the national record holder in the 800 and 1,500 freestyle, Celic entered 2020 with an Olympic A cut in t...

World Championships: Alvaro Granados Named MVP, with Two Greek All-Stars Alvaro Granados of champion Spain was named the MVP of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships men’s water polo tournament upon its conclusion on Wednesday. Granados is the only Spanish player on the team, voted by media. Bronze ...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, April 11. SWEDEN's Sarah Sjostrom has been on fire here at the Eindhoven Cup as she picked up her third title in two days. Sjostrom tracked down another top-ranked time in the SwimVortex world rankings with a blistering 1:55.04 in the women's 200-meter free. That put her ...

Nikola Radjen, a 30 year old Serbian Water Polo player, was formally suspended for four years of competition following a positive test result for cocaine. Radjen's suspension will officially run from May 7, 2015 until May 6, 2019. The Doping Panel also ruled that Radjen would have all competition pr...

LUXEMBOURG, February 7. WORLD champion Katinka Hosszu competed in the first two of a planned 16 event finals today at the long course Euro Meet in the small landlocked country, winning the 800 free and 400 IM with little difficulty. Hosszu started her day with a meet record 8:29.42 in the 800, erasi...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 8. IT was a truly speedy night for Swedish star Sarah Sjostrom at the Swedish Grand Prix in Stockholm this evening. Sjostrom opened up the night by blitzing the women's 200-meter freestyle field with a near Swedish record of 1:55.76. That swim came up just short of her 1:55....