An Historic Day at European Champs05 July 2000By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 6. It was an historical day at the European Championships in Helsinki as Flavia Rigamonti provided Switzerland with its first continental long-course title, Yana Klochkova and Beatrice Coada-Caslaru dead-heated in the final of the 200m medley to provide the first occasio...
1999 European Championships: Day 227 July 1999HOW SWEDE IT IS! KAMMERLING FLYS TO WORLD RECORD! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Anna-Karin Kammerling, an 18-year-old student from Sundsvall in Sweden, set the first world record of the 24th European championships in Istanbul, Turkey, to win the inaugural 50m butterfly title in 26.29, 0.1 better ...
Euro Champs: Popov, Alshammar Take the 100 Free; Pankratov Fails to Qualify04 July 2000By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 5. ALEXANDRE Popov, of Russia, swam to win and not break records in the 100 meter freestyle, gaining revenge on the man who had beaten him a year ago, Pieter van den Hooganband, of the Netherlands. Their times were 48.61sec and 48.77sec, the margin masking the Russian...
1998 Commonwealth Games14 September 1998Day 1 Winners: Men's 200m freestyle - Ian Thorpe of Australia (1:46.70) Men's 100m breaststroke - Simon Cowley of Australia (1:02.00) Women's 100m freestyle - Susan Rolph of England (55.17) Women's 400m individual medley - Joanne Malar of Canada (4:43.72) Women's 800m freestyle relay - Australia (8:...
1999 European Short Course Championships: Day 210 December 1999ALSHAMMAR ROCKS FREE RECORD: HOW SWEDE IT IS! Lisbon, Portugal - Therese Alshammar led a Swedish charge on the record books with an amazing world record of 52.80 to win the 100m freestyle at the European short-course championships in Lisbon, Portugal. The 22-year-old Stockholm sprinter, who has left...
Three British Records Fall on Day Two of Olympic Trials25 July 2000By 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...
Euro Champs: Popov Pops a Monster 100 Free in the Semis03 July 2000By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 4. HE was not on the way to a medal, the race merely a semi-final among the many finals last night - but Alexander Popov set a mediocre European Championships alight today with a blistering 48.34sec time in the 100m freestyle - the third fastest ever. The double Olympic ...