Articles by Ben Dornan

Swimming’s TopTenTweets: A Big Week For Katie Ledecky’s Relatives

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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Curzan Closes Out TAC Polar Plunge With 1:53 200 Fly Victory

The 2021 TAC Polar Plunge meet wrapped up today, featuring 1 final win from one of the youngest members of the US National Team Claire Curzan.

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Paralympic Swimming Legend Daniel Dias Announces Post-Tokyo Retirement

14-time Paralympic gold medalist Daniel Dias has announced that he will be retiring from the sport following the 2020 Paralympic Games this summer.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Breaststroke Inspo From Cody Miller

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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Swimming Canada Sends Out Invites For 2021 Olympic Trials; Full Lists Here

Swimming Canada has just sent invites to 20 swimmers in each event for the reduced capaity 2021 Canadian Trials to be held in April.

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Sims, Curzan, Douglass, and Roy Added To 2020-2021 US National Team

USA Swimming has announced the addition of Bella Sims, Claire Curzan, Kate Douglass, and Daniel Roy to their 2020-2021 national team.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Male Swimmer of the Year Caeleb Dressel

This year’s Male Swimmer of the Year goes to the man who set 4 world records this year en route to decisively winning the 2020 ISL MVP award: Caeleb Dressel.

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2020 Swammy For Female Swimmer Of The Year Goes To Australia’s Kaylee McKeown

This year’s Swammy award for Female Swimmer of the Year goes to backstroke ace and Australia’s newest world record holder – Kaylee McKeown.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Mark Faber Is This Year’s European Coach of the Year

This year’s European Coach of the Year goes to the coach of the Netherlands’ best of 2020 including world record breaker Kira Toussaint.

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2020 Swammy Awards: World Jr Female Swimmer of the Year – Benedetta Pilato

This year’s Swammy award for Female Jr Swimmer of the Year goes to Italian teen and Energy Standard’s leading breaststroker Benedetta Pilato.

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2020 Swammy Award: World Jr Male Swimmer of the Year – Andrei Minakov

The 2020 Swammy Award for Male Junior Swimmer of the Year goes three-time world junior record-breaker, Andrei Minakov of Russia.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Male Breakout Swimmer of the Year – Emre Sakci

Team Iron’s Emre Sakci threw down some world-leading breast swims this year asserting himself as an ISL star and potential medal threat come Tokyo 2020.

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Swimming’s TopTenTweets: Shaine Casas Loves Boba

We’re back this week with swimming’s TopTenTweets presented by Arena, where we round up the best of the swimming Twitterverse.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Breakout Swimmer of the Year – Kasia Wasick

This year’s Swammy award for Female Breakout Swimmer of the Year goes to Polish swimmer and member of the New York Breakers, Kasia Wasick.

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2020 Swammy Awards: Caeleb Dressel Wins US Male Swimmer of the Year

For the second year in a row and third time in Swammy history, Caeleb Dressel has been named as the Male US Swimmer of the Year.

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