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Warrender Takes Scottish Age Crown; Duncan Scott Casually Anchors 48.1

Edinburgh’s Warrender Baths Club earned ‘Top Club’ honors at this year’s Scottish National Age Group Championships, as the squad leaped out in front of the team standings from day 1 and kept its momentum going throughout.

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South Africa’s Kings Park Finally Getting Block Wedges

Now-retired South African Karen Prinsloo competed her whole career at Kings Park without starting block wedges.

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Hosszu, Sjostrom, & TFH Headed To Helsinki

Aussie Thomas Fraser-Holmes is one of over 502 athletes set to descend upon Mäkelänrinne in Finland to contest the 2019 edition of the Helsinki Swim Meet.

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Greene Earns Swimmer Of The Meet Honors To End Irish Open

The 2019 Irish Open Swimming Championships wrapped up tonight in Dublin, with 5 Irish Records, 2 Irish Junior Records and 7 Championship Records biting the dust by the time all was said and done.

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Hear How Shane Ryan Hit Fastest 100 Back Time In 6 Years

Keep fighting, swimmers, and you might put up your fastest time in 6 years like Irishman Shane Ryan did last night in Dublin.

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Sun Yang Completes Quartet, Ye Shiwen Is Back

Olympic champion Sun Yang successfully completed his quartet of victories at these 2019 Chinese Nationals, capturing his final gold in the men’s 1500m freestyle tonight. Ye Shiwen completed a trio of titles by taking the women’s 400m IM race.

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Greene & Ryan Lead Irish Swimmers On Penultimate Night

Shane Ryan collected a World Championships-qualifying time en route to gold tonight in Dublin.

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Kozma Wows With 1:45.77 2Free Gold To Lead Milak To Gwangju

Dominik Kozma turned in a powerful performance in the men’s 200m freestyle tonight, where the 27-year-old came close to his lifetime best and Hungarian National Record of 1:45.54 with a massive mark of 1:45.77 for gold.

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Sabo Upsets Milak For 100 Fly Gold In Front Of Hungarian Crowd

Serbian Sebastian Sabo pulled the 100m fly upset against young gun Kristof Milak, beating the Hungarian racer who entered this meet ranked 3rd in the world.

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Serbian Silađi Takes 50 Breast In Hungary In New World #1

Notching one National Record at the 2019 Hungarian Open National Championships apparently wasn’t enough for Serbia’s Caba Silađi as the 28-year-old earned his 2nd new mark in 3 days.

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Shane Ryan Clocks New 1Back Irish Record, Qualifies For Gwangju

25-year-old National Centre Dublin swimmer Shane Ryan made more Irish history competing on the penultimate session of the 2019 Open Swimming Championships.

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Hear From Hyland & Hill, Newly-Minted Irish Record Holders

Hear what Brendan Hyland and Danielle Hill have to say after earning new Irish Records on night 3 of this year’s Open Championships.

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Milak Looking For 1Fly/2Free Double In Debrecen

Kristof Milak is looking to end his Hungarian Nationals with 2 more titles tonight.

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Li Zhuhao Clocks 51.8 1Fly As Sun Yang Looks To 1500 Final Tomorrow

Sun Yang will try to complete his quadruple of gold tomorrow night as he takes on the 1500m free final at Chinese Nationals.

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Wang Jianjiahe Crushes Li Bingjie, Takes Chinese/Asian 800 Free Record

Wang Jianjiahe became the 3rd fastest 800m freestyle performer all-time with a new Chinese and Asian Record in the event tonight.

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