Articles by Ben Dornan

Which Countries Will Swim Which Relays at the 2022 World Swimming Championships

Check out which countries have (and more interestingly, which ones haven’t) entered to race each relay at the 2022 World Championships.

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Introducing SwimSwam’s 2022 World Championships Fantasy Draft

Check out SwimSwam’s 2022 World Championships Fantasy Draft where we each drafted a team of 8 swimmers that we think will score big in Budapest.

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2022 World Champs Previews: The Potential For Three New Medalists In Men’s 400 IM

Even though Chase Kalisz and Brendon Smith are back in the pool this summer, is it possible that neither of them will make the 400 IM podium this year?

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2022 World Champs Previews: Men’s 200 Breast Might Be The Biggest Lock Of The Meet

If world record-holder Zac Stubblety-Cook doesn’t win the 200 breaststroke at the Budapest 2022 World Championships, who will?

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Mattsson, Jallow, And Kivirinta To Compete For Finland At 2022 World Championships

Mimosa Jallow, Veera Kivirinta, and Matti Mattsson are set to compete for Finland this summer in Budapest at the 2022 World Championships.

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Schoenmaker, Hafnaoui, And Corbett Absent From 2022 World Champs FINA Entry List

Two World Champions in the form of Tatjana Schoenmaker and Ahmed Hafanoui are absent from the list of entrants for 2022 Worlds.

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Smith, Hinds, Murphy, King, And Dressel Named Team USA Captains for Budapest 2022

The 5 captains for Team USA this year have 38 long course World Championships medals between them, dating back to 2015 in Kazan.

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2022 World Champs Previews: Tokyo Podium Ready To Run It Back In Women’s 200 Fly

Zhang Yufei, Regan Smith, and Hali Flickinger are all returning to the pool this summer after landing on the 200 butterfly podium at Tokyo 2020.

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Shields, Nordmann, Minakov Headline 2022 George Haines Psych Sheets

After missing the World Champs team in the 100 butterfly, Tom Shields has found himself a race here against 4th place Olympic finisher Minakov.

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Erika Brown And Alec Connolly Tie The Knot In Knoxville

Just a few days before she flew to Croatia for Team USA training camp, Erika Connolly (née Brown) married Alec Connolly at RiverView Family Farm.

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2022 World Champs Previews: Strong Field Despite Many Absences In Women’s 100 Fly

Half of the finalists from Tokyo will be absent from this event in Budapest, but we’re still anticipating a heated race for gold.

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2022 World Champs Previews: Kamminga’s Time To Shine In Peaty-Less 100 Breast

Reigning World and Olympic champion Adam Peaty is sitting out of Budapest 2022 due to an injury, leaving the path open for Kamminga to collect some gold.

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Cody Simpson Split Within 0.01/0.06 Of Goal Splits During 51.76 100 Butterfly

Simpson planned his splits ahead of time and was 0.01 seconds quicker than his goal on the first half and 0.05 over on the second 50.

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Dartmouth Hires Milana Socha As Head Coach Of Men’s And Women’s Swimming

Socha, who served for two years as an assistant coach at Northwestern, will return to Dartmouth to take over for Jesse Moore.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Erica Sullivan Has An Idea

We are back with your weekly dose of swimming’s TopTenTweets, where we round up the best of this week’s swimming Twitterverse.

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