Brazil, Latin America & Caribbean

Full Entry Lists for 2020 FINA Champions Series Released

71 athletes will compete across 4 days for almost $2 million in prize money at the 2020 FINA Champions Series in China, including 12 races for Katinka Hosszu.

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Felipe Franca Returns To Coach Sergio Marques At Minas Tenis

2016 Olympic finalist Felipe Franca will return to coach Sergio Marques in his bid to make a fourth Olympic team.

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Guilherme Costa is Hitting 100K Meters/Week Leading Up to Tokyo

He’s reportedly been training 16,000 meters a day, divided up in two 8,000-meter sessions, which can surpass 100,000 meters some weeks. 

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The Complete List Of 2020 Olympic Trial Meets Per Nation

Caeleb Dressel and Florent Manaudou look likely to battle once again in Tokyo, but each has to get through their own nation’s Olympic Trials gauntlet first.

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Happy Olympic Year

Jan 1st for most of the world marks an opportunity for renewal, an opportunity to refresh, to make resolutions, to set new goals, to reach for new horizons.

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2019 Swammy Awards: Female Swimmer of the Year Regan Smith

The 2019 FINA World Championships saw Regan Smith win her first Worlds title. On top of that, she set 2 individual World Records.

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2019 Swammy Awards: Male Swimmer of the Year Caeleb Dressel

Caeleb Dressel one-upped his 2017 performance with an 8-medal haul at 2019 Worlds. He became the winningest man ever in a single Worlds meet with his 8 golds.

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FINA General Survey 2019 Logs Nearly 35 Million Registered Aquatic Athletes

The 2019 FINA General Survey found that there are almost 35 million registered aquatic athletes on planet earth across the 6 disciplines.

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2019 Swammy Awards: South American Male Swimmer of the Year Bruno Fratus

After undergoing successful shoulder surgery, Brazilian Bruno Fratus came back with a Worlds silver medal and 2 Pan Ams gold medals.

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2019 Swammy Awards: S. American Female Swimmer of the Year Delfina Pignatiello

Your South American Female swimmer of the year Swammy winner is Delfina Pignatiello, who broke 2 South American records and won 3 golds at the Pan Ams.

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2019 Swammy Awards: CAC Male Swimmer of the Year Ricardo Vargas

Ricardo Vargas won 3 bronze medals as part of a historic Mexican haul in swimming at the 2019 Pan American Games this summer.

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Sjostrom, Fratus, Blume & Manaudou Commit To 2020 Luxembourg Euro Meet

Olympic champion Sarah Sjostro will kick off her 2020 year of racing with a stop at the Luxembourg Euro Meet at the end of January.

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High-Level International Meets For January 2020

Hungarian multi-Olympic gold medalist kicked off her 2019 swimming year with the Euro Meet and the meet highlights our January calendar for 2020 as well.

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Cesar Cielo’s World Record in the 50 Free Turns 10 Years Old on December 18th

Wednesday marks a decade since the unofficial close of the ‘supersuit’ era that changed the history of swimming forever.

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Mexican Nationals Postponed Due To Winds, Likely To Be Cancelled

The Mexican Winter Nationals in Veracruz are at risk of being cancelled altogether due to heavy winds.

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