Articles by Yanyan Li

LEN U23 Bronze Medalist Kai Van Westering Is Dutch Despite Growing Up In France

Van Westering told SwimSwam that despite growing up in France, he is not a French citizen. His father is Dutch, and he has always had Dutch nationality.

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Taylor Ruck Will Not Continue Swimming NCAA, Is “Unsure” If She Will Stay At Stanford

Ruck said that she still had remaining NCAA eligibility but was opting not to use it, and that she was “unsure” of whether she would stay at Stanford.

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Kate Douglass And Jordan Crooks Advance To Finalist Standing For James E. Sullivan Award

Douglass and Crooks were two out of the six finalists that advanced from semi-finalist standing for the 2023 AAU James E. Sullivan Award.

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World Record Holder Katinka Hosszu Announces Birth Of Her First Child

Hosszu announced the birth of her daughter, Kamila Layber-Gelencsér, alongside her husband Máté Layber-Gelencsér in an Instagram post made on Monday.

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A De-Briefing Of Team USA’s Prospects Headed Into The Paris Olympics

Now that the dust has settled on the 2023 World Championships, where is Team USA at headed into the Paris Olympic games next summer?

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SwimSwam’s Awards For The 2023 World Championships — Women’s Edition

In this article, SwimSwam gives out several awards for some of the top female swimmers at the 2023 World Championships that happened last week.

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McKeown On Campbell: “She’s Not Speaking On Behalf Of The Whole Australian Team”

Three-time 2023 world champion Kaylee McKeown expressed disagreement with Campbell’s remarks on Team USA in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.

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Ranking The Top 15 Female Swimmers Of The 2023 World Championships

In this article, we rank who we think were the top 15 female swimmers that competed at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan.

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Cate Campbell On Aussie World Champs Success: “It Is So Much Sweeter Beating America”

Campbell criticized the choice to sort medal tables by total count, and expressed how happy she was not to hear the Star-Spangled Banner on day one of Worlds.

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Ahmed Hafnaoui And Bobby Finke Become Second And Third-Fastest 1500 Freestylers Ever

Hafnaoui ended up beating Finke by just 0.05 of a second, but the two swimmers stayed close for the entirety of the race and became two of the fastest ever.

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Maxime Grousset Drops 49.27 Fly Split On Medley Relay, Second-Fastest Ever

Grousset clocked the eighth sub-50 butterfly split in history, and only Caeleb Dressel has swum faster than him on a relay.

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2023 SwimSwam World Champs Fantasy Draft: Live Scoring Updates (Yanyan Won)

Follow along on this article for live scoring updates on SwimSwam’s 2023 World Championships draft and to see who is leading.

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Fukuoka 2023, Day 8 North America: After Prelims Scare, King Gets The Job Done For USA

After a rough showing individually, King (pictured) stepped up on the medley relay to help Team USA beat Australia and win gold.

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Summer McIntosh Swims 4:27.11 400 IM To Break World Championships Record

McIntosh was over two seconds faster than Katinka Hosszu’s old championship record time of 4:29.33 that was set back in 2017.

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Dakota Luther Posts 2:06.79 200 Fly At Pro Champs, Over A Second Faster Than Trials Time

Luther’s time would have qualified her for the World Championships, and also would have finished fourth in the Worlds final.

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