Articles by Yanyan Li

Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk, Wife Of Mykhailo Romanchuk, Wins Medal At World Athletics Champs

Bekh-Romanchuk won her third World Athletics Championships medal on Friday, and her husband and Olympic swimmer Mykhalio Romanchuk was there to witness.

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Drew Kibler Now Training Full Time At Arizona State After Spending Past Year In Carmel

Kibler spent the last year at the Carmel Swim Club, and had previously said that he would be “all-in” on training at the club prior to Paris 2024.

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WATCH: World Record Holder Leon Marchand Throws First Pitch At Arizona Diamondbacks Game

Marchand and ASU triathlete Amber Schlebusch were recognized by the Diamondbacks as a part of “Sun Devil Night” prior to the team’s walkoff victory.

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Olympian Caspar Corbeau Leaving Texas, Will Train In Amsterdam Under Mark Faber

Corbeau, who has been Texas’s best breaststroker for the last four years, will not be using his fifth year of eligibility in the NCAA.

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Ron Aitken On What Makes His Current Generation of Sandpipers THE Sandpipers

After nearly 30 years as the Sandpipers of Nevada head coach, Ron Aitken has continuously improved and has now developed some of the best country’s best.

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Emily Thompson, #11 In SwimSwam’s Class Of 2024, Verbally Commits To Stanford

Thompson, a member of the 2022-23 U.S. Junior National Team, holds a 400 IM best time that would be faster enough to ‘B’ final at the 2023 NCAA Championships.

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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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