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Italy’s Quadarella Breaks Four Year Old 1500m Championship Record

Slovenia’s Tjasa Oder saw her 1500m freestyle championship record get broken on the 5th night of finals at Junior World Championships by Italy’s Simona Quadarella

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2015 FINA Junior World Championships: Day 5 Prelims Live Recap

Team USA came out in front of the prelims of the women’s 100 fly with a 58.87 by Cassidy Bayer. That’s a new best for Bayer, who came into the meet with a 59.00 from 2015 U.S. Nationals.

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British Swimming Launches Inaugural Awards

The nominees are Tom Daley, Rebecca Gallantree, Jack Laugher, Jessica-Jane Applegate, Ollie Hynd, Tully Kearney, James Guy, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor and Adam Peaty.

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Ukranian ex-pat Gunes breaking new ground for Turkey with first 3 world golds

Viktoria Zeynep Gunes was forced to flee the Ukraine when Russia invaded last year. Now she’s won the first-ever world-level gold medals for her new home nation of Turkey.

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Anton Chupkov Downs Another World Juniors Meet Record In 200 Breast

Anton Chupkov overtakes his own meet record in the 200m breaststroke at the 2015 World Junior Championships.

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Anton Chupkov Scrapes Under 200 Breast Junior Worlds Meet Record

Chupkhov was in a league of his own in prelims this morning. He finished in a time of 2:10.73, just enough to claim the meet record that previously belonged to Russia’s Alexander Palatov at 2:10.75.

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USA, Italy and Brazil set lineups for Raia Rapida sprint showdown

Anthony Ervin is back to head the U.S. roster at Brazil’s made-for-TV Raia Rapida sprint format meet.

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Schedule for London 2016 LEN European Aquatics Championships Released

Over 900 athletes are expected to compete at the last major aquatics event prior to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and Siobhan-Marie O’Connor is excited at the prospect of completing her own personal first.

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Blueseventy Swim of the Week: Castiglioni hits her stride in Italy

It’s not often a swimmer gets an immediate shot at redemption. But Italy’s Arianna Castiglioni did just that at the Italian Age Championships.

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Russia Registers New World Junior Record In Mixed 4×100 Medley Relay

Anton Chupkov’s sub-minute breaststroke split helped steer his Russian mixed 400 medley relay team to the top of the podium.

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USA women undefeated in major 800 frees this summer after Schmidt’s Jr Worlds win

Sierra Schmidt has reason to dance: she and her American teammates have won every major 800 free title this summer.

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Daniil Pakhomov Leads 100 Fly Semifinals With Championship Record

Daniil Pakhomov of Russia broke the championship record in the men’s 100m fly semifinals Wednesday night in order to take the top seed heading into finals over some of the best competitors worldwide.

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Young Brits Win 3 More Medals at World Juniors

Britain’s promising youngsters continue to shine at the FINA World Junior Championships in Singapore with three more medals on day two of the event.

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Rudin and Coates win gold and silver at World Juniors

Britain celebrated their first medals of the FINA World Junior Championships in emphatic fashion with gold and silver both coming in the Women’s 400m Individual Medley thanks to Rosie Rudin and Georgia Coates.

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Serbian Water Polo player Nikola Radjen suspended 4 years for cocaine use

Serbian Water Polo player Nikola Radjen’s suspension has been announced as 4 years, per FINA. Radjen tested positive for cocaine earlier this year.

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