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2015 FINA Junior World Championships: Day 2 Highlights Video

Check out Maxime Rooney’s gold medal-winning 200m freestyle swim and all the other action from Day 2 at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships.

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Rikako Ikee Breaks Meet Record, Puts Scare On Junior World Record

Rikako Ikee of Japan broke the championship record in the women’s 50m butterfly Thursday night in order to take the top seed heading into finals and put a scare on the junior world record.

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Taylor Ruck Wins 100m Freestyle In Championship Record Timing

Taylor Ruck of Canada continued her sprint-freestyle domination at the 2015 Junior World championships, once again dipping under the 54-second mark in the 100 in order to claim gold in the final.

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Daniil Pakhomov Re-Breaks Own 100m Fly Championship Record To Win Gold

After breaking the championship record in the semifinals of the 100m butterfly, Daniil Pakhomov of Russia managed to do so again in order to claim gold in the final and better his time.

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Minna Atherton Breaks Championship Record In 200m Backstroke Final

Rising Australian backstroke talent Minna Atherton secured her second win of the 2015 junior world championships with a 200m backstroke victory in championship record timing.

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Learn the Inverted Row for Your Swim Strength Program

The Supine Row, or Inverted Row as it is often referred to, adds a body weight pulling movement to the progression.

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2015 FINA Junior Worlds: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

Viktoria Zeynep Gunes of Turkey, who won gold in the women’s 50m breaststroke, posted the top time by a large margin in the heats of the 100m breaststroke on Thursday morning in Singapore.

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Michael Andrew Cracks Junior Worlds Meet Record with 25.1 50 Back

Andrew’s heavy schedule lead to some serious fatigue throughout the session in day 2 finals, but it did lead to something good on day 3 prelims: A new meet record in the 50 back.

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2015 Junior World Championships: Day 3 Prelims Preview

Australia’s Kyle Chalmers is the top seed in the boys 50 free on day 3.

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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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2015 FINA Junior World Championships: Atherton ties junior world record on day 2

Australia’s Minna Atherton beat junior world record-holder Claire Adams head-to-head and tied her record while taking gold in the girls 100 back at day 2 finals.

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FINA Says No Further Action Required in Sun Yang Altercation

Sun Yang absolved of any wrongdoing by FINA in relation to warm-up pool altercation at World Championships.

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Minna Atherton Breaks Emily Seebohm’s National Age Record

Australian Minna Atherton has broken a historic National Age Record.

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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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