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Doha 2024, Final Day North America Recap: Men’s Relay Gold & 2 Silvers Aid USA’s Team Title

Armstrong’s 50 back and Douglass’ 50 free silvers, plus the men’s 4×100 medley relay title, solidified the US’s 2024 Doha team title.

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Claire Curzan Leads All Swimmers With $78,750 in Earnings at 2024 World Championships

After missing the US team for Worlds in 2023, Claire Curzan led all money-earners at the 2024 World Championships in a huge bounceback meet.

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Kate Douglass Breaks Simone Manuel’s American Record With 23.91 50 Freestyle

Kate Douglass set her second LCM American Record, breaking the 50 free becoming the 2nd American under the 24 second mark in history.

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2024 Worlds Day 8 Relay Lineups: USA Swaps All Four Swimmers for Men’s Medley Final

Shaine Casas has his best swim of the meet splitting 50.99 on the fly leg of the prelims medley relay, but Team USA still subbed in Zach Harting for the final

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Did the American Women Cede a Medley Medal With Day 8 Scratch?

Whenever a team has Kate Douglass, they have a lot of options in the 400 medley relay – but did a small Team USA have enough options on Sunday?

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Doha 2024, Day 7 North America Recap: Curzan Matches McKeown With 3-for-3 Backstroke Sweep

19-year-old American Claire Curzan is now the second woman to sweep the three backstroke events at LC Worlds, one edition after Aussie Kaylee Mckeown’s sweep.

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Doha 2024, Day 6 North America Recap: Fink the 2nd Man to Medal in All Three Breast Events

30-year-old American Nic Fink is now the second man to medal in all three LC Worlds breaststroke events, one year after China’s Qin Haiyang’s 3-for-3 sweep.

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Doha 2024, Day 5 North America Recap: Canada’s Finlay Knox Wins First Men’s Gold Since 2007

Out of lane seven, Finlay Knox won the men’s 200 IM final at 1:56.64, setting a new national record and Canada’s first men’s gold since Brent Hayden in 2007.

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2024 World Championships: Curzan Leads All Swimmers with $37.5k In Earnings Through Day 4

Through 4 days of swimming action at the 2024 World Championships, Claire Curzan has earned $37.5k for her performances in the pool, leading all swimmers.

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Nathan Adrian Thinks the 100 Free World Record Will Keep Getting Broken

Adrian wasn’t surprised that Cesar Cielo’s mark stood since 2009 but now we’ve seen two men break it in just 1.5 years.

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No Changes to Olympic Field for Mixed Medley Relay (But US Catches a Spark)

While the field of 16 for the Olympics in the mixed medley relay didn’t change on Wednesday, the expectation may have for the US.

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Santa Clara Looking At Temporary Training Solution With Swim Center Facing Lengthy Repairs

The Santa Clara Aquatics Foundation is now raising funds to purchase an above-ground pool to alleviate training stress on local swimmers.

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Ledecky, Murphy, Douglass and Jaffe Named Semi-Finalists For 94th James E. Sullivan Award

Ledecky, Murphy, Douglass, and Jaffe were amongst the 30 semi-finalists that were nominated for the James E. Sullivan Award this year.

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USA Swimming’s San Antonio Pro Series Stop Reaches Entry Cap Within 5 Minutes

The final Pro Series stop had an entry cap of “approximately” 600 swimmers and entries opened today, February 13th.

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Armstrong: “Watching Claire Win Her Race Put a Little Pressure On Me” (Quotes From Day 3)

Day 3 of competition is done in Doha 2024 with 5 new world champions, including 2 golds (Curzan and Armstrong) and 1 bronze (Hobson) for Team USA

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