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Video: Sydney Pickrem Makes First World Championships Team

Sydney Pickrem made her first World Championship team on day two of the Canadian Trials after taking a win over Emily Overholt in the 400m IM final.

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Lexie Waller Secures Backstroke Hat-Trick on Day 4 of Scottish Age Group Champs

The benefits of buoyancy on day 4 of the 2015 Scottish National Age Group Champs.

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2015 Canadian Trials: Day Four Finals – Ryan Cochrane Swims Fifth Fastest 1500 This Year

The fourth day of the 2015 Canadian Trials features the 200 butterfly, 50 freestyle, and 200 IM, as well as the women’s 800 freestyle and the men’s 1500 freestyle. Below is the current World Championships roster going into day four’s final session.

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Video: Santo Condorelli Explains Canadian Citizenship And 100 Free Win

USC swimmer Santo Condorelli has entered his first Canadian Trials after recently renewing his passport and thinking about swimming from Canada.

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Australian Championships and Trials: Day 2 Finals

Emma McKeon led the way as four women broke the 58 second mark in the women’s 100 butterfly…

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2015 Shanghai Long Course Presented By Rocket Science Sports

MEET INFORMATION Oriental Sports Center – Former Location of the FINA World Championships Event Date: May 9th, 2015 Event Time:…

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Dutch Swimmers Defend Home Freestyle Turf on Day 2 of Eindhoven Swim Cup

Swimming in the stadium named for the country’s most legendary freestyler, the Dutch home team impressed in freestyle events on Friday in Eindhoven.

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2015 Australian Nationals and Trials: Day Two Prelims

Emily Seebohm qualified for tonight’s semi-final in the women’s 100 back at the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Championships in Sydney.

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Cochrane, Thomas, Savard All Qualify For Canadian World Championships Team

Prior to tonight, only nine swimmers had met the criteria, but now Ryan Cochrane, Noemie Thomas, and Katerine Savard have joined their ranks on the road to Kazan.

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Penny Oleksiak Takes Down Noemie Thomas’ Age Group Record In 100 Fly

Penny Oleksiak took home a fifth place finish in the 100m fly tonight en route to breaking Noemie Thomas’ Canadian record that she set back in August of 2010.

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2015 Canadian Trials: Day Three Finals – Ryan Cochrane Drops Fifth Fastest 400 Free This Year

CANADIAN TRIALS – DAY THREE FINALS Live streaming can be found here. Live results can be found here Prelims each day…

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Taylor Ruck Breaks 38-Year-Old Age Group Record Set At 1976 Olympic Games

Taylor Ruck took down a legendary Canadian 13-14 age group mark tonight in the finals of the 400m freestyle, claiming fourth with a time of 4:13.51.

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Girl Underwater: Exclusive SwimSwam Excerpt

The novel follows Avery, a competitive college swimmer, who boards a night flight from West coast to East, along with two team members and two hundred strangers. When the plane goes down over the Rockies, only Avery, three little boys, and Colin Shea, the only teammate who has ever challenged her to strike out on her own, survive.

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RACE VIDEO: Watch Femke Heemskerk Swim the 7th-Fastest 200 Free in history

Femke Heemskerk became the first Dutch woman to go sub-1:55 on Friday at the Eindhoven Swim Cup.

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Taylor Ruck Just Shy Of Canadian Record In Prelims, Will Have Another Go At It In Finals

That time for Ruck came dangerously close to the 13-14 Canadian age-group record in the 400 which stands at 4:14.60. That record was set back in 1976 at the Montreal Olympic Games when 14-year-old Shannon Smith took the bronze behind Shirley Babashoff.

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