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Australian Team Gears Up For Short Course Worlds With Training Camp In Bendigo

In the lead-up to Short Course Worlds, the Aussie squad has headed about two hours north for a training camp in the city of Bendigo.

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Li Bingjie Shows Improved Fitness, Eyes 800 & 1500 World Records At Short Course Worlds

Li enters next week’s Short Course World Championships as the defending gold medalist and top seed in the women’s 400 and 800 free.

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Italian Distance Star Simona Quadarella Withdraws From Short Course World Championships

Quadarella, who has won a medal in the women’s 800 freestyle at the last two SC World Championships, has dropped out of the event due to health reasons.

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Cold, Wet, Windy Weather Forecast for World Swimming Championships in Melbourne

2022 FINA SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS December 13-18, 2022 Melbourne, Australia SCM (25 meters) Meet Central Psych Sheets/Entry Lists The…

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11 Gold Medalists from 2021 Short Course Worlds Won’t Try to Defend Titles in 2022

Shaine Casas will be representing the US at SC Worlds, but won’t be defending his title in the men’s 100 backstroke.

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US Open, Minnesota Invite, Winter Jrs, AND SC World Champs | SWIMSWAM BREAKDOWN

We dissect the US Open and Minnesota Invite as well as preview the upcoming Winter Jr Champs East/West and Short Course World Championships

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Cate Campbell Details Menstrual-Related Health Scare That Nearly Ended Her Career

“It’s so important to talk about female health and talk about the things that we have to go through and how that impacts us,” says Aussie Cate Campbell.

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Nathalia Almeida Wrangles Up Double Gold On Night 1 Of Brazilian Summer Championships

2020 Olympian Nathalia Almeida led the first night of the 2022 Brazilian Summer Championships by taking the women’s 200m free and 400m IM events.

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Li Bingjie, Zhang Yufei Head Up Chinese Roster For Melbourne

Li Bingjie, who clocked a new 400 freestyle World Record earlier this season, will lead the Chinese roster for the FINA Short Course World Championships.

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2022 Short Course Worlds Picks And Previews: Women’s Breaststroke

Showdowns consisting of swimmers like Ruta Meilutyte, Lilly King, and Kate Douglass are impending for the women’s breaststroke races at short course worlds.

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2022 Short Course World Championships: Official SwimSwam Preview Index

Australian Emma McKeon is part of a star-studded roster for the host Australians at the 2022 World Short Course Championships. How many medals will she win?

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Israel’s First Olympic Swimmer Nachum Buch Dies at 89

Israel’s first Olympian and pioneer in Jewish swimming, Nachum Buch, died on November 7th in Melbourne, Australia, at 89.

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Andreea Dragoi on Balancing Swimming & Beauty Pageants, Growing Up with David Popovici

Dragoi started modeling in Romania but it was only in the US, once she moved to San Jose to study and swim, that she took on beauty pageants.

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Which Female Swimmer Has the Fastest 4-Stroke 800 Meter IM Add-Up?

Canadian teen sensation Summer McIntosh sparked an interesting question after further-flexing her wide-ranging versatility at last weekend’s U.S. Open.

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Entry Lists For 2022 Short Course World Championships Released

Triple Olympic gold medalist and 2022 world champion Kaylee McKeown is set to race the women’s 50, 100 and 200 backstroke, plus the 200 IM, in Melbourne.

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