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Feature by Elena Karpeeva ST PETERSBURG, Russia, June 12. WHERE does the Olympic dream start? When does the kid say, “This is my passion.” When do you see that spark in his/her eyes for the first time, and what keeps it lit? Swimming at the novice level in the United States and Russia represents two...

Russia was the first to ‘arrive’ to Tokyo among the European synchro swimmers by winning the team event at the LEN Synchronized Swimming Champions Cup in St. Petersburg. Since this feat secured an automatic Olympic berth for their duet too, the silver medallist Ukrainian pair also qualified for 2020...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 14. DARIA Ustinova, just 15 years old, is quickly taking over the top backstroke spot on the Russian squad as she has been putting up strong times all week at Russian Nationals. A day after setting the World Junior Record in the women's 200-meter back during semis with a 2:09.02,...

THOMPSON, TANER WIN SECOND GOLD By Phillip Whitten Minneapolis, MN - The unstoppable Jenny Thompson rolled to her second gold medal on Day Three at the USA Swimming National Championships yesterday. Thompson, who earlier had won the 100m freestyle in a world-leading time of 54.66, took the 200m in 2...

On Wednesday, December 9, USA Water Polo feted its 2020 Hall of Fame inductees in a virtual ceremony streamed on YouTube. It was a much-needed uplift for the sport in the U.S., which has been effectively brought to a standstill by the coronavirus pandemic. [2020 USA Water Polo Hall of Fame Ceremony ...

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...

CLEARWATER, April 19. THE Fourth Annual Tampa Bay Marathon Swim will be held on Saturday, April 21, in celebration of Earth Day. The 24 mile competition starts at 8:30am from Ben T. Davis Beach on the Courtney Campbell Causeway, and ends at the Sunshine Skyway at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort (800...

It is with great sadness and deep regret that we report the loss of one of our greatest Masters swimmers. Jayne Lambke of the St. Petersburg Masters (FLA) passed away last Saturday night after suffering from internal bleeding complications following spinal surgery. She was 61. Lambke was not only an...

AUBURN, Ala., Dec. 2. U.S. OLYMPIC champions Megan Quann and Ed Moses completed sweeps of the breaststroke events, winning the 200 meter distance tonight, the final night of the US Open Championships, held at the James E. Martin Aquatic Center at Auburn University. Quann took the women's event i...

THE 24-mile Tampa Bay Marathon Swim is being held this Saturday in Tampa. Twenty-one individuals and several relay teams have signed up for the event. Check out the competitors at: www.DistanceMatters.com/competitors2001.html Following the swim, which ends at the Holiday Inn Sunspree Resort in St. P...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 16. IT was a banner night for the Sizzling Siberian Vlad Morozov as he tracked down his third title of Russian Nationals with a 50-meter back Russian record. Morozov crushed his Russian record in the men's 50-meter back with a sterling time of 24.52. That swim smoked his previous...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Aggie's Breeja Larson and Badger's Cody Miller both shined in the 100-yard breast at the American Energy Elite Pro-Am tonight. Aggie's Breeja Larson blasted the women's 100-yard breast with a sizzling time of 57.76.  That's not quite her American record of 57.23 from the 2014 NCAA Ch...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 17. RUSSIAN swimmers made sure the fans in Moscow went out with some strong memories as they lit up the pool with a host of world-class times as the Russian Nationals came to a close. A few days ago, China hyped up the Butterfly Wars between Jiao Liuyang and Liu Zige. That should...

The St. Petersburg Masters Open Championships featured two Masters world records by Anna Polyakova, who used the meet to prepare for the upcoming world championships in her home country. Polyakova will swim the 100 fly for Russia at the world championships, but recently in St. Petersburg, she steppe...

Ilya Shymanovich continued the red-hot form that brought him the 100br world short-course record with another fine performance over 50m at the Vladimir Salnikov Cup in St Petersburg. The two-time world short-course silver medallist fired off 25.67, days after he became the third-fastest man in histo...

3 WORLD RECORDS IN THE MILE AT MASTERS NATIONALS By Phillip Whitten Minneapolis, MN - The USMS National Long Course Championships ended today as they began four days earlier--with a bang--as three world Masters records were set in the 1500m freestyle. Interestingly, all three records were recorded b...

By Bill Bell MISSION VIEJO, June 24 -- A stirring back-to-back double by St. Petersburg's Robert Margalis highlighted the final day's competition at the 24th annual TYR Swim Meet of Champions at the Marguerite Recreation Center Pool here today. Margalis is a strapping University of Georgia s...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia. Aug. 9. RUSSIA'S chief swimming referee said today that St. Petersburg's main pool should never be used for major competition again after a timing failure cost Roman Sludnov a breaststroke world record. Yesterday - shades of the Seiko fiasco at the World Chjampionship...

by Bill Volckening USMS Editor, SWIM Magazine ST. PETERSBURG, FL- On Nov 4th, the Florida Maverick Masters' 320+ women's 800 meter free relay broke a USMS national record during a Short Course Meters meet in St. Petersburg, Florida. Pictured (from left to right): Kay Schimpf, June Reynolds, ...

By Margie Hutinger. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 15. JANUARY 13th was a notable day for the Florida Mavericks, as they set four Masters national and one world record, in a long course Development Meet in St Petersburg, FL. Jean Troy, 75, set the world mark in the women's 75-79 age group, while the...