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McEvoy Surges To Top Seed On Day 1 Prelims Of Aussie SC C’ships

Cameron McEvoy raced his way to the pole position in the men’s 100m freestyle this morning in Melbourne.

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Titmus Talks Short Course Racing In Preparation For Melbourne

Heat what teenage Commonwealth champion Ariarne Titmus has to say ahead of the Australian Short Course Championships which start today down under.

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Dutch Swimmers Take To ISF-Aachen This Weekend

The 49th Internationales Schwimfestiva gets underway in Aachen, Germany this weekend.

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Swedish Swimming Releases Milestone Meet Qualification Procedures

Find out what it will take Swedish swimmers to qualify for next year’s World Championships in Hangzhou.

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O’Connor, Coates & Peters Reap Gold At Millfield/Street Super Series

British Olympian Siobhan-Marie O’Connor was back in the pool racing at a local British meet over the weekend.

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Olympic Champion Sarah Sjostrom Opts Out Of Short Course World C’ships

Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden has announced that she will no longer be competing at the 2018 Short Course World Championships in Hangzhou, China this December.

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Make The Most Of Swimming’s Badges Of Honor

We need to hold on to the ‘Badges of Honor’ our sport offers, sometimes under the radar, that make us persist, pursue and excel on a physical and mental level.

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Fred Furniss Posthumously Nominated For Lifetime Achievement Award

UK Coach Fred Furniss, who died in July of this year at the age of 64, is among those nominated for the 2018 UK Coaching Awards.

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Kayla Van Der Merwe Cracks New British Junior Record In 100 Breast

At this weekend’s Manchester International Swim Meet, 15-year-old Kayla Van Der Merwe of Bournemouth College Swim Team snagged a new British Junior National Record en route to winning her age group’s 100m breaststroke title.

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Campbells Absent, But Chalmers, McEvoy & More Set For Aussie SC Cships

Kyle Chalmers is set to race the 50m free, 100m free and 200m free at the Aussie Short Course Championships kicking off on Thursday of this week.

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Rikako Ikee Wreaks Havoc On Night 2 Of Manchester Int’l Swim Meet

Rikako Ikee made an appearance in Manchester, coming within half a second of her own SCM 100 fly national record tonight.

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Freya Anderson Strikes Gold Twice In Manchester

Freya Anderson nabbed two individual golds on night 1 of the 2018 Manchester International Swim Meet.

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Application Period Open For Joseph Schooling Scholarship Grant

Applications are now open for the 2019 Joseph Schooling Scholarship Grant offered by the Eurasian Association (EA).

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Ikee, Ohashi & Hagino Missing From Japanese SC Worlds Selection Meet

The Japanese competition train ceases to stop, as the nation’s top athletes are gearing up for their World Championships Selection Meet slated for October 27th and 28th.

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Falsified Data Rocks Tokyo 2020 Olympic Aquatic Center

The Olympic Aquatic Center, site for competitive swimming at the next Summer Games, is reportedly one of the sites that may be using faulty earthquake shock-absorbing components.

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