International

Husain Al-Musallam Confirmed As Asia’s First-Ever Nominee For FINA President

Al-Musallam, a native of Kuwait, received a unanimous backing from the Asia Swimming Federation at its General Congress in Muscat, Oman.

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Italy’s Paolo Barelli Elected for 3rd Term as President of European Aquatics

Barelli remains the president of LEN for another 4 years – a role he’s held since 2012. David Sparkes was re-elected General Secretary as well.

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Ippei Watanabe Shakes Off Cobwebs With 200 Breast Win At Home

Not competing in the ISL, former 200m breaststroke World Record holder Ippei Watanabe reaped gold tonight in his specialty event.

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Southeast Asia Games Medalist Nisha Kijkanakorn Commits to USC (2022)

Nisha Kijkanakorn, a double bronze medalist at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games for Thailand, will join the USC Trojans in 2022.

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17-Year-Old Levterov Rips 1:56.6 LCM 200 Back To Qualify For Tokyo

Take note of the name of Kaloyan Levterov, as the 17-year-old Bulgarian is making exponential improvements in the 200m backstroke.

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Ting Quah Beautifully Describes Affect of ISL on Self-Image as an “Old” Athlete

28-year-old Quah entered today’s meet having just lowered her own record in the splash n’ dash event last week, setting a new mark of 24.26

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Nakamura To Add London Roar Relay Power For ISL Semi-Finals

Another teammate will be joining the Roar, as Japan’s Katsumi Nakamura has confirmed to SwimSwam he is headed to Budapest on Tuesday.

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ISL Stars of Week 4: Sakci, Kolesnikov, Surkova, Sakai & More

Sarah Sjostrom returned from injury with a lighter event lineup – and that might just be the ticket to maximizing her relay performances for Energy Standard.

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International Swimming League Power Rankings: Week 4

Iron moves up our rankings… but a controversial skins choice by Energy Standard might have had a major hand in that move. We explore further.

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An Analysis of Reaction Times

With so much talk of reaction times in recent ISL broadcasts, here’s a closer look at the impact they really have on individual performance.

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Tekada Now Makes 3 JPN Swimmers In Top 5 200 Flyers This Season

World University Games medalist Takumi Terada was near his lifetime best today to enter the men’s 200 fly world rankings.

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Ippei Watanabe Looks To Answer ISL Breaststrokers At Home

Japan’s Ippei Watanabe has seen Belarus’ Ilya Shymanovich, Great Britain’s Adam Peaty and Germany’s Marco Koch get work done in the breaststroke in the ISL

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Olympian Pieter Timmers Follows Through On Planned Retirement

Olympic silver medalist from Rio Pieter Timmers of Belgium says goodbye to competitive racing , hanging up his goggles from Budapest today.

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2020 ISL: MVPs from Matches 7 and 8 with Prize Money Table

After the first 8 ISL matches, Caeleb Dressel leads the field in MVP points and earnings for the 2020 season.

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Robert Glinta on Iron Teammate Emre Sakci: “He’s an absolute legend” (Video)

When asked about skins champion and teammate Emre Sakci, Glinta echoed his Iron teams previous sentiments: Sakci is the real deal in and out of the pool

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