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High-Level International Meets For January 2022

Olympic silver medalist Tomoru Honda may be kicking off his new year with the Kosuke Kitajima Cup, one of several elite competitions on the January agenda.

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2021 Swammy Awards: Asian Coach of the Year, Norimasa Hirai

The Japanese National Team Head Coach, who heads up the training group at Toyo University, led Yui Ohashi to double gold at the Tokyo Games.

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Evgeny Rylov Wins 2021 Silver DOE Award Within Native Russia

Russia’s Evgeny Rylov, double Olympic champion from this summer’s Games in Tokyo, Japan, has been honored with the Silver DOE award for 2021.

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Israeli National Champion Noga Zilberberg Commits to Duke (2023)

Noga Zilberberg gives Duke the chance to reinforce the middle-to-distance freestyles, which was an area of weakness for them last season.

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Aussie Sprinter James Roberts Announces Retirement

Australian two-time Olympian James Roberts has announced his decision to retire from competitive swimming at the age of 30.

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Hungarian Liliana Szilagyi Reveals Her Father Abused Her “Since I Was A Child”

Two-time Hungarian Olympian Liliana Szilagyi revealed that she was abused by her father from a young age all the way up until 2016.

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See 3222 New Swim Jobs You Might Love

Love swimming? See our long list of active jobs in the aquatic community and be a part of the global swimming family…

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Femke Heemskerk Reflects on Illustrious Career, Post-ISL Retirement

Femke cited a lack of motivation when she was training and realized she’d never felt that way before, which led her to decide to step away from the pool

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Review Of Retirements & Deaths From The Year 2021

Italian Olympic icon Federica Pelligrini decided to hang up her goggles towards the end of 2021. Review who else retired throughout the year in our roundup.

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Relive World Record Swims from Short Course Worlds (RACE VIDEOS)

Relive the world record swims from Short Course Worlds with videos featuring Maggie MacNeil, Siobhan Haughey, Sweden’s 4 x 50 medley, and Florian Wellbrock.

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2021 Swammy Awards: Tom Rushton is the Europe’s Coach of the Year

Tom Rushton, as an Energy Standard coach and outside of ISL, has proven this year his ability to coach some of the best swimmers from across the continent.

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2021 Swammy Awards: World Junior Female Swimmer of the Year, Lydia Jacoby

One of two juniors to earn an individual medal in Tokyo, Lydia Jacoby is this year’s World Junior Female Swimmer of the Year.

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Pekarski Snags New Belarusian 100 Fly Record At Vladimir Salnikov Cup

Grigori (Hryhory) Pekarski got it done for 100m fly gold at the 2021 Vladimir Salnikov Cup, clocking a new Belarusian national record in the process.

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2021 Swammy Awards: Oceanic Female Swimmer Of The Year, Emma McKeon (AUS)

Multi-Olympic gold medalist Emma McKeon of Australia earned the 2021 Swammy Award for Oceanic Female Swimmer of the Year.

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Olympic Champion Adam Peaty Now Pursuing ‘Project Immortal’

With another Olympic gold under his belt from Tokyo, 27-year-old Adam Peaty is now looking ahead to what they term ‘Project Immortal.’

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