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• Watch Bacon’s 51.3 100 Back/52.8 100 Fly at 2020 ISL HS Champs (Full Recap)

  26-01-2020 00:10 via swimswam.com
  
  By Lauren Neidigh on SwimSwam
  2020 ISL HS SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSJan. 24, 2020
  McLean, Virginia
  Short Course Yards
  Full Results on Meet MobileStone Ridge’s Phoebe Bacon and Erin Gemmell put on a show Saturday at the 2020 Independent School League Swimming Championships. First, they combined with Eleanor Sun (breast- 30.05) and Tia Thomas (free- 23.76) to win the 200 medley relay in a new League Record of 1:43.62. Bacon led them off with a 24.52 back split, while Gemmell put up a 25.29 on th
  
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• Updated Tokyo 2020 Medal Tables After Chinese Women’s 4×200 Freestyle Relay Disqualification

  20-04-2024 04:26 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
  On April 19th, U.S. swimmers were notified that the Chinese women’s 4×200 freestyle relay from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been disqualified due to a doping violation by a member of the relay.
  The disqualification strips the Chinese relay team–which included Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bingjie in finals and Dong Jie and Zhang Yifan in prelims–of their gold medals. The quartet of Yang,
  
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• Herald Sun: 23 Chinese Swimmers Tested Positive Before Tokyo Olympics

  20-04-2024 03:53 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sophie Kaufman on SwimSwam
  23 Chinese swimmers were cleared to compete at the Tokyo Olympic Games despite testing positive on doping tests due to the tests being contaminated. Details of the mass contamination were released Friday, April 19th in an article by the Herald Sun. 
  It’s alleged in the article that these 23 swimmers tested positive for trimetazidine at a training camp held months before the start of the Tokyo Games. Chinese anti-doping authorities (CHINADA) found the
  
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• Emma McKeon Says Paris 2024 Olympics Will ‘Definitely’ Be Her Last

  20-04-2024 03:48 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  The Paris 2024 Olympics will “definitely” be the last for 29-year-old Emma McKeon, already the most decorated Australian Olympian in history with 11 medals.
  “I think swimming will always be a part of my life and has been for my whole life so far. But this will definitely be my last Olympics, so I’m excited for that,” McKeon told Olympics.com earlier this week. “Success for me in Paris would be to swim faster than I ever have before
  
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• US Swimmers Have Been Notified That China’s Olympic Gold Medal 800 Free Relay Has Been DQ’ed

  20-04-2024 02:47 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  American swimmers have been notified by USADA that the Chinese women’s 800 free relay from the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games has been stripped of their gold medals due to a doping violation by at least one member of the relay.
  That means the Chinese will be stripped of their gold medals and World Record swim of 7:40.33. While athletes were not told who tested positive, the members of the relay were Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan, Zhang Yufei, and Li Bin
  
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• Märtens Throws Down 3:41.98 400 Free, Klemet 3:42.81 At Magdeburg Gothaer & Friends Meet

  20-04-2024 02:06 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  33rd International Gothaer & Friends MeetFriday, April 19th – Sunday, April 21st
  Magdeburg, Germany
  LCM (50m)
  Live ResultsWhile the Berlin Open got underway earlier today, Bernd Berkhan’s German training group opted to attend the local Gothaer and Friends Meet in Madgeburg instead.
  On today’s schedule was the men’s 400 freestyle, where Lukas Märtens dropped a winning time of 3:41.98 to rank 3rd in the world so far this season. It check
  
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• 2024 Australian Open Championships: Day 4 Prelims Live Recap

  20-04-2024 01:22 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSWednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
  Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
  Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
  LCM (50m)
  Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
  Women’s Races to Watch/Men’s Races to Watch
  Meet Central
  Final Start List
  Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
  Day 2 Prelims Live Recap | Day 2 Finals Live Recap
  Day 3 Prelims Live Recap
  
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• George Washington Swimmer Leading Effort to Save Smith Center Pool Following Historic Season

  19-04-2024 23:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  After sweeping Atlantic 10 conference titles and setting a program record with three NCAA qualifiers this year, George Washington swimmers are pushing back against university plans to turn their Smith Center pool into a new practice facility for the men’s and women’s basketball teams.
  Nearly 3,000 people have signed a petition to save the Smith Center pool started by George Washington junior Julia Knox, who called it “heartbreaking” to have &l
  
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• Olympic Medalist Vladimir Morozov Announces Retirement From Professional Swimming

  19-04-2024 23:20 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  Russian Olympic medalist Vladimir Morozov announced his retirement from professional swimming at age 31 in a recent interview with Match TV.
  The former world record holder said “really wanted to swim at least to Paris,” but “factors that I could not control intervened.”
  Morozov hasn’t competed since the 2021 Short Course Championships, where he placed 17th in the 50 freestyle (21.54) while also helping Russia set a meet record in the 200
  
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• Men’s Recruiting Class Rankings Revisited: Top 16 Schools For 2020-2024

  19-04-2024 23:02 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Every summer, we rank down the top recruiting classes snagged by each team. But what do those rankings look like four years later, when each swimmer has had an opportunity to complete a full NCAA career of competing and scoring?
  We’ve already looked back at our top 20 individual athletes in the high school graduating class of 2020, re-ranked when they were high school seniors in the summer of 2020. Now it’s time to look back at our team-by-team recruit
  
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• Wild Speculation: Who Will Take Over For Vic Riggs At West Virginia?

  19-04-2024 22:23 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  West Virginia’s Vic Riggs resigned from his head coaching position after being with the program for the last 17 years.
  According the public records, Riggs made $134,611.71 in 2023 and has hovered in the $130-140K range since 2018. The West Virginia men and women compete in the Big 12 Conference, which will be without Texas for the first time this upcoming season as Texas is moving to the SEC.
  Let’s wildly speculate about who might take over this job.
  The t
  
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• Josha Salchow Swims 47.85 100 Freestyle, Breaks German Record At The 2024 Berlin Open

  19-04-2024 21:11 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  2024 BERLIN SWIM OPENFriday, April 19th – Sunday, April 21st
  Berlin, Germany
  LCM (50m)
  Olympic Qualifying Event
  Live Results
  LivestreamDay one of the 2024 Berlin Open started off fairly quiet, as many of the big name swimmers are focused on next week’s National Championships at this same venue. Both meets serve as Olympic qualifying opportunities though, and Josha Salchow took full advantage.
  The 24-year-old popped a winning time of 47.85 in the men&r
  
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• David Popovici Clocks Career-Fastest 3:47.54 400 Free At Romanian Nats

  19-04-2024 20:15 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 ROMANIAN NATIONALSWednesday, April 17th – Sunday, April 21st
  Otopeni, Romania
  LCM (50m)
  Start List
  Recap #1
  ResultsDay 3 of the 2024 Romanian Nationals unfolded in Otopeni with 19-year-old David Popovici taking on his 3rd freestyle event of the competition.
  After already topping the 50m free (22.27) and 200m free (1:45.10) podiums, Popovici tried the 400m free on for size and found the same gold medal-worthy success.
  The teen stopped the clock in a resul
  
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• Pan Zhanle Produces 3:45.82 400 Free Personal Best On Day 1 Of Chinese Trials

  19-04-2024 19:54 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSFriday, April 19th – Sunday, April 27th
  Shenzhen, China
  LCM (50m)
  SwimSwam Preview
  ResultsThe 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships kicked off today from Shenzhen with the competition spanning a massive 10 days on the journey to Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualification.
  Already on day one, we saw four swimmers add their names to the potential Chinese roster, 2 for the men and 2 for the women.
  The men’s 400m fr
  
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• Pan Zhanle Produces 3:45.58 400 Free Personal Best On Day 1 Of Chinese Trials

  19-04-2024 19:54 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 CHINESE NATIONAL SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSFriday, April 19th – Sunday, April 27th
  Shenzhen, China
  LCM (50m)
  SwimSwam Preview
  ResultsThe 2024 Chinese National Swimming Championships kicked off today from Shenzhen with the competition spanning a massive 10 days on the journey to Paris 2024 Olympic Games qualification.
  Already on day one, we saw four swimmers add their names to the potential Chinese roster, 2 for the men and 2 for the women.
  The men’s 400m fr
  
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• Chikunova’s 2:19.74 200 Breast & Lifintsev’s 52.52 100 Back Close Out Russian Championships

  19-04-2024 18:27 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  2024 RUSSIAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPSApril 14-19, 2024
  Kazan, Russia
  LCM (50 meters)
  Meet Central
  Live Results
  Livestream
  Day 1 Recap
  Day 2 Recap
  Day 3 Recap
  Day 4 Recap
  Day 5 RecapThe 2024 Russian Swimming Championships have officially come to a close. The final night of swimming in Kazan was filled with nine individual finals: the women’s 200 breaststroke, men’s 100 freestyle, women’s 100 butterfly, men’s 50 breaststroke, men’s 200 backst
  
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• World Aquatics Hands Chilean Official Marcos Jara Receives 20-Year Ban

  19-04-2024 18:08 via swimswam.com
  
  By Charlotte Wells on SwimSwam
  The Aquatics Integrity Unit of World Aquatics has issued a 20-year ban to Marcos Jara, the former president of the Chilean Federation of Aquatics Sport.
  World Aquatics delivered the sanction after Jara was found to have violated the FINA Code of Conduct on two counts and the FINA Code of Ethics on one count.
  Jara submitted tampered invoices and false information to World Aquatics on two occasions in 2020 and 2021 in a ploy to gain additional funds through the Olymp
  
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• SwimSwam Pulse: 62% Don’t Think NCAA Redshirts Help Long Course Performance

  19-04-2024 18:06 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  SwimSwam Pulse is a recurring feature tracking and analyzing the results of our periodic A3 Performance Polls. You can cast your vote in our newest poll on the SwimSwam homepage, about halfway down the page on the right side.
  Our most recent poll asked SwimSwam readers if they think taking a year off from college swimming is beneficial to success in long course:
  Question: Do you subscribe to the idea that taking an NCAA redshirt season leads to greater s
  
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• arena Swim of the Week: Ella Ramsay Drops Big For 4:36.94 400 IM At Aussie Open

  19-04-2024 16:49 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Swim of the Week is brought to you by arena, a SwimSwam partner.
  Disclaimer: Swim of the Week is not meant to be a conclusive selection of the best overall swim of the week, but rather one Featured Swim to be explored in deeper detail. The Swim of the Week is an opportunity to take a closer look at the context of one of the many fast swims this week, perhaps a swim that slipped through the cracks as others grabbed the headlines, or a race we didn’t get to ex
  
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• 2024 NCAA Qualifier Tristen Ulett Returning To Louisville For COVID-19 Fifth Year

  19-04-2024 16:05 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2024 NCAA qualifier Tristen Ulett will return to Louisville to use her COVID-19 fifth year during the 2024-2025 season.View this post on InstagramA post shared by tristen ulett (@tristen.ulett)At the end of her senior season, Ulett closed her Instagram caption saying, “i love this team and i am so proud to be associated with this group and i am even more blessed that i get the opportunity to do what i love one final time!!”
  Ulett competed as an undergradua
  
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• World Aquatics’ Universality Quota: Globalization At The Expense of Athletic Performance?

  19-04-2024 15:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Contributors on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Malavika Vishwanath
  Note: This is an article originally published on July 17th, 2021 on the universality selection process. There have been some recent updates to the Olympic Qualification criteria for the Paris 2024 Olympics, as well as the terminology reflected in the original article.The recent changes are briefly outlined below, followed by the original article.
  1) Swimming federations were informed by World Aquatics earlier this month
  
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• How Would Top Age Group Swimmers Stack Up At NCAAs?

  19-04-2024 14:20 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Contributors on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Henry Lyon
  The Men’s 2024 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships just concluded, and I was wondering: How would incredibly talented age group swimmers like World Championship finalist Thomas Heilman or six-time World Championship qualifier Kayla Han do if they had swum at their respective NCAAs? To answer this question, I went through some of the top recruits in the classes of 2025 and 2026 and compared them with the most recent NCAA Division
  
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• Kaylee McKeown Lowers Own 50 Back All Comers Record To 27.07

  19-04-2024 12:16 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSWednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
  Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
  Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
  LCM (50m)
  Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
  Women’s Races to Watch/Men’s Races to Watch
  Meet Central
  Final Start List
  Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
  Day 2 Prelims Recap | Day 2 Finals Live Recap
  Day 3 Prelims Recap | Day 3 Fina
  
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• 3 Reasons to Focus on Swimming “Downhill” in the Pool

  19-04-2024 12:00 via swimswam.com
  
  By Olivier Poirier-Leroy on SwimSwam
  Mental cues are a great way to improve technique in the water. Here are three reasons to use “swim downhill” in the pool today.
  Swimmers spend a ton of time working on their technique, looking for little ways to increase efficiency and maximize speed.
  Whether it’s counting your strokes, tightening up your streamline, or throwing on a swim parachute to develop swim-specific strength, technique is top of mind for most swimmers when they hit th
  
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• 2024 Australian Open Championships: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

  19-04-2024 09:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Retta Race on SwimSwam
  2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSWednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
  Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
  Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
  LCM (50m)
  Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
  Women’s Races to Watch/Men’s Races to Watch
  Meet Central
  Final Start List
  Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
  Day 2 Prelims Recap|Day 2 Finals Live Recap
  Live Results (also available
  
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• UTRGV To Remain Affliated Member Of Western Athletic Conference For Women’s Swim And Dive

  19-04-2024 01:45 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  UTRGV moved from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC) to the Southland Conference at the end of March but will remain an affiliate member for both men’s soccer and women’s swimming and diving.
  The program is set to swim its first season this fall led by head coach Betsey Graham. The hiring of Graham was originally announced on March 19th, less than a week before the move to the Southland Conference was announced on March 25th. At the time, it left the add
  
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• 2024 Australian Open Championships: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

  19-04-2024 01:19 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  2024 AUSTRALIAN OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPSWednesday, April 17th – Saturday, April 20th
  Prelims at 10am local (8pm previous night ET), Finals at 6pm local (4am ET)
  Gold Coast Aquatic Centre, Queensland, Australia
  LCM (50m)
  Non-Olympic Qualifying Event
  Women’s Races to Watch/Men’s Races to Watch
  Meet Central
  Final Start List
  Day 1 Prelims Live Recap | Day 1 Finals Live Recap
  Day 2 Prelims Live Recap | Day 2 Finals Live Recap
  Live Results (also a
  
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• Vic Riggs Resigns As WVU Head Coach After 17 Seasons

  18-04-2024 22:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By James Sutherland on SwimSwam
  Vic Riggs has resigned as the head coach of the West Virginia Swimming & Diving programs after 17 years.
  Riggs took over as WVU head coach in 2007 and has led the program to plenty of success during his tenure, including coaching 37 swimmers to the NCAA Championships and 15 to All-American status.
  “I want to thank Ed Pastilong and Terri Howes for hiring me 17 years ago and giving me the opportunity to be the head coach of WVU Swimming and Diving,”
  
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• Lawyer for Lars Jorgensen Blames Rape Allegations on ‘NCAA Woke Philosophy’

  18-04-2024 21:58 via swimswam.com
  
  By Riley Overend on SwimSwam
  A lawyer for former Kentucky head coach Lars Jorgensen called last week’s rape allegations “defamatory,” blaming the disturbing accusations on his support of Riley Gaines.
  Gaines has been protesting transgender inclusion in sports since tying Lia Thomas for 5th place in the 200-yard freestyle at the 2022 NCAA Championships.
  “This has nothing to do with anything he has done in his private life,” Jorgensen’s attorney, Greg Anderson,
  
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• University of Evansville Head Coach Stuart Wilson Steps Down

  18-04-2024 21:43 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Evansville Athletics
  EVANSVILLE, Ind.—University of Evansville Director of Athletics Dr. Kenneth “Ziggy” Siegfried has announced that Stuart Wilson has stepped down as head coach of the UE swimming and diving program to pursue other professional opportunities. A search for the new UE swimming and diving coach will begin immediately.
  “Coach Wilson has done a tremendous job with our swimming and diving program over the last five years,&rdqu
  
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