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Naoki Mizunuma Puts 12-Year-Old Japanese 100 ‘Fly Record On Notice With 51.03 Ticket To Tokyo Home Games

Naoki Mizunuma rattled the 12-year-old Japanese record with a 51.03sec ticket to a home Olympic Games over 100m butterfly today, the final featuring a blanket finish of six 51s. The...
Craig Lord 2021-04-09 2 minutes
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Evgeny Rylov Rockets To 1:53.23 European Record & All-Time No 3 In 200 Backstroke

Evgeny Rylov threw down a big gauntlet as he rocketed to a Russian and European record 1:53.23 for the national 200m backstroke title and ticket to the Covid-delayed Tokyo Olympic...
Craig Lord 2021-04-08 3 minutes
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Daiya Seto & Kosuke Hagino Split By 0.02 On Way To Tokyo Home Olympics Tussle For Japan’s Masters Of Medley

Daiya Seto and Kosuke Hagino will take to their blocks once more in medley battle at the Olympic Games in July after their latest spar left them with Tokyo tickets...
Craig Lord 2021-04-08 4 minutes
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The Oxford Experience – A Tale For The True Professionalisation Of The Sport

Commentary by guest writer Brian McGuinness, Executive Director, British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA), penned in light of the resignation of the entire pool coaching staff of the City of Oxford...
Craig Lord 2021-04-08 13 minutes
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Danish Swimming Union Suffers 10% Decline In Membership During COVID Pandemic

The Danish Swimming Union has lost 18,517 members, or just shy of 10 per cent of its aquatics family, as a result of pool closures forced by the Covid-19 pandemic....
Craig Lord 2021-04-08 3 minutes
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Kliment Kolesnikov Tops 100m Russian Rockets With 47.31 Record Blast

Russian rockets were at the ready today in Kazan for solo and relay action at the Tokyo Olympics come July, the best burners on Kliment Kolesnikov, a 47.31 Russian-record victory...
Craig Lord 2021-04-07 10 minutes
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Siobhan-Marie O’Connor To Skip Olympic Trials & Tokyo Games After Struggle With Chronic Illness In Favour Of Long Haul

Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, the Olympic silver medallist for Great Britain at the Rio 2016 Games, has confirmed that she will miss her nation’s Olympic Trials in London next week and, therefore,...
Craig Lord 2021-04-07 2 minutes
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Shoma Sato of the Tokyo King Frogs - by Mike Lewis, courtesy of the ISL

Shoma Sato Rattles World Record With 2:06.40 Asian Standard For Tokyo Ticket To Home Olympics – Ippei Watanabe Out

Shoma Sato took down the Asian 200m breaststroke record with a 2:06.40 triumph at Tokyo Olympic trials and national swimming championships in a final that continued the roller-coaster drama of...
Craig Lord 2021-04-07 5 minutes
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Kliment Kolesnikov of Energy Standard - Courtesy: Mine Kasapoglu / ISL

Kliment Kolesnikov Kicks His Way To 4th On Russia All-time 100m Free Ranks With 47.60 Ticket To Lane 4

Kliment Kolesnikov arrived at Russian Swimming Championships in Kazan this week as 16th fastest all-time in his nation over 100m freestyle with the 48.52 career high in solo racing and...
Craig Lord 2021-04-06 2 minutes
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Tomoru Honda Revs Past Daiya Seto For 1:54.88 Ticket To Tokyo Games 200 ‘Fly Battle; Medley Ace In The Big Race Too

Tomoru Honda replaced Daiya Seto on the Tokyo Frog Kings squad last year and joined the pro-swimming International Swimming League (ISL) party with a mantra – “Never forget to have...
Craig Lord 2021-04-06 3 minutes
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Evgeny Rylov Strikes Back At Kliment Kolesnikov With 52.12 Russian Record, Both Men Inside Previous High Bar

Evgeny Rylov struck back at Kliment Kolesnikov with a 52.12 national record in the 100m backstroke at Russian Championships in Kazan today, the challenger also inside the previous standard, on...
Craig Lord 2021-04-05 3 minutes
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Katsuhiro Matsumoto Gets Closer To Living His Home Tokyo Olympic Dream With 1:44.65 Japanese Record In 200 Free

Katsuhiro Matsumoto took a big stroke towards living his dream at a Tokyo home Olympics this July when he raced to a 1:44.65 national-record victory over 200m freestyle at the...
Craig Lord 2021-04-05 6 minutes
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Ryosuke Irie Makes Home Tokyo Games His Fourth Olympics With 11th Japanese 100m Backstroke Title

Ryosuke Irie will race for Japan at the Olympics for a fourth time this July at a home Games in Tokyo after taking the Japanese 100m backstroke title for an...
Craig Lord 2021-04-05 4 minutes
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Entire Pool Coaching Team Of Five Quit City Of Oxford Swimming Club In Dispute With Committee

The entire pool coaching staff of City of Oxford Swimming Club in England has resigned en masse in a dispute with the club’s management, with both sides denying the allegations...
Craig Lord 2021-04-05 3 minutes
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Rikako Ikee Makes Joyous Return With Ticket To Tokyo Home Games On Road To Recovery From Leukemia

Rikako Ikee was planning on Paris 2024 on the road to recovery from a 2019 diagnosis for leukaemia but a 57.77sec victory in the 100m butterfly at the Japan Open...
Craig Lord 2021-04-04 5 minutes
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Kliment kOLESNIKOV of Russia celebrates after winning in the men's 100m Backstroke Finall during the 19th LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships held at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark, Friday, Dec. 15, 2017.

Kliment Kolesnikov & Evgeny Rylov Set For Rattling Russian Backstroke Battle, National & European Records At Stake

After matching Evgeny Rylov‘s 52.44 solo-race best in morning heats of the 100m backstroke at Russian nationals, Kliment Kolesnikov snapped the snap this evening in semi-finals in Kazan, with a...
Craig Lord 2021-04-04 2 minutes
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The Vortex (March 29 – April 4): Ed Accura and the Meaning of Bl-aquaphobia

A weekly day-by-day digest and SOS Vortex of swimming news, views, top picks and links to coverage of the sport and related issues around the world. Please send any suggestions,...
Craig Lord 2021-04-04 17 minutes
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Mack Horton Says He Would Stage A Form Of Peaceful Protest Again At Tokyo 2020ne Olympics If Sun Or Similar Issues Rise Up The Aerial

Olympic 400m freestyle champion Mack Horton would repeat his peaceful podium protest of 2019 at the Tokyo Games this summer if Sun Yang* or similar circumstances as those in which...
Craig Lord 2021-04-04 4 minutes

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