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PLANTATION, Florida, March 15. MICHAEL Andrew downed another National Age Group record – this time, his own record in the 100 back – and Theresa Michalak and Michael Klueh picked up their third wins of the weekend during the third night of swimming at the Speedo Champions Series in Plantation. Clara...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 6. IN addition to selecting its senior teams for the premier international meets of the year, Swimming Canada has selected junior teams for two important development events. Canada’s teams for the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in Maui, Hawaii, and the Youth Olymp...

TORONTO, Ontario, June 12. TORONTO Pan Am Sports Centre (TPASC) Inc. is pleased to announce that it will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Swimming Trials, organized by Swimming Canada. The Trials, which will be held in March 2016, mark the first legacy high performance sports event in Toronto th...

MONTREAL, June 4. CANADIAN supestar Curtis Myden led the way on the final three days of competition of the Canadian Olympic Trials in Montreal. Leading from start to finish, Myden clocked 2:01.20 for the men's 200 meters individual medley on Friday--the world's second fastest time this year....

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday, December 27, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Where should the next ISL team be based out of? We created this poll question before we found out that Tokyo (Japan) and Toronto (Canada) were going ...

World Aquatics Announces Fall World Cup 2025 Tour in North America World Aquatics on Tuesday announced a three-spot World Cup 2025 tour in North America. The series will stop in Carmel, Indiana, on Oct. 10-12; Westmont, Ill. on Oct. 17-19; and Toronto Oct. 23-25 for meets in short-course meters. Ind...

July 16, ATLANTIC CITY. SPAIN'S David Meca-Medina, seeking vindication after his win in Atlantic City last year was overturned by FINA for a drug violation, left no doubt that he is King of the Boardwalk, when he won the men's division of the 37-kilometer (22.5-mile) Atlantic City Marathon i...

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...

Etobicoke, Ontario - Double World Cup champion Mike Mintenko of Moose Jaw, Sask., broke the Canadian record in the men's 50-meter butterfly Saturday at the 2000 Speedo Spring National Championships. Mintenko, 24, finished second in the race clocking 24.40 seconds to eclipse the previous national...

TORONTO, Canada, January 20. THE University of Toronto Varsity Blues swimming program is pleased to announce that Kylie Masse has signed a letter of intent and committed to swim for the Varsity Blues in the fall of 2014. A native of Windsor, Masse was the top ranked swimmer in her graduating class b...

AUSTIN, Texas, January 16. FRESH from breaking five national age group records last month – all at one meet – Evan White of Oakville, Ont., is among 28 Canadians scheduled to compete at the second stop on the U.S. Grand Prix swimming circuit this Friday to Sunday in Austin, Tex. White has emerged as...

PHOENIX, Sept. 13. The following editorial, "America: The Good Neighbor," was was given in a 1973 editorial broadcast from Toronto by Gordon Sinclair, a Canadian television commentator. Both Tom Dolan and Bobby Patten sent it to us and, in this terrible moment in our nation's history, we wanted ...

Swimming Canada is adding yet another internationally renowned coach to its stable of High Performance leaders. Martyn Wilby has accepted the new role of senior coach. This leadership position will work in a team environment to support High Performance Director John Atkinson in the areas of technica...

Five international recruits have signed with the Florida State Seminoles. The Seminoles signed 11 swimmers in total. Swimming World looked into the Florida State recruiting class. Manuella Ribas Andrade Andrade is from Curitiba, Brazil and currently resides in Jacksonville, Florida. She specializes ...

MIAMI, Dec. 13. THE University of Denver men's swimming team won nine of 11 events on their way to a convincing 148-44 win over the University of Miami yesterday afternoon. The Denver women, who won only two events, suffered their fourth dual meet loss of the season 140-64. Leading the way for D...

Before the Pan American Games started last week in Toronto, the name Santo Condorelli didn’t register much of a blip on the global sprint freestyle radar. Those who follow American high school and college swimming were aware of his potential from his days at the Bolles School and now at the Universi...

LEXINGTON, Ky. The University of Kentucky swimming team signed three recruits during the fall signing period, UK Coach Gary Conelly announced Wednesday. Joanna Chetcoti-McLean, Breannan Moore and Jamie Saxe will all join the womens team in August 2002. Chetcoti-McLean is a sprinter out of Toronto, ...

Samantha “Murphy” Bromberg (Bexley, Ohio/Austin, Texas) has been added to the U.S. Pan American Team after Mary Beth Dunnichay (Elwood, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) withdrew due to injury. Diving events at the Pan American Games are set for July 10-13 in Toronto, Ontario. Bromberg is a six-time nation...

TORONTO, Ontario, February 20. THE University of British Columbia Thunderbirds lead the way after Day 1 of the 2014 Speedo CIS swimming championships at the University of Toronto’s Varsity Pool. The defending champion Thunderbirds women hold a commanding lead with 254 points, 126 points ahead of the...

Canada’s top Para-swimming athletes will be in action at home just one week following the postponement of the World Para Swimming Championships due to the devastating earthquake that occurred outside Mexico City. Paralympic heroes Benoît Huot, Aurelie Rivard, Katarina Roxon will lead a list of the n...