--- Open Water News ---
OHRID, Macedonia, July 21. PETAR Stoychev of Bulgaria and Stefanie Biller of Germany won their respective races at the Ohrid stop of the FINA Open Water Grand Prix this weekend.
Stoychev checked in with a time of 6:14:51 in the 30K event, while...
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CALAIS, France, July 15. THIS past weekend, Karah Nazor became the first resident of Tennessee to swim the English Channel, according to a report in the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Nazor completed the swim in 12 hours and 28 minutes a...
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SABAC, Serbia, July 14. OVER the weekend, Australia's Brendan Capell and Russia's Anna Uvarova won the men's and women's races during the Sabac, Serbia stop of the FINA Open Water Grand Prix. During the fifth leg of the series, C...
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CAPRI-NAPOLI, Italy, July 7. FRANCE's Stephane Gomez and Germany's Britta Kamrau-Corestein claimed the men's and women's crowns at the fourth stop of the FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix event held this weekend in Capri-Napoli, ...
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SETUBAL, Portugal, June 30. DURING the third leg of the FINA 10K Marathon Swimming World Cup series, Brazil's Ana Marclea Cunha and Italy's Valerio Cleri won their respective events.
Cleri won the men's event in 1:52:46.80, while T...
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, June 4. TOP U.S. open water swimmers Mark Warkentin and Chloe Sutton are the first two swimmers to be named to the 2008 U.S. Olympic swim team. Warkentin and Sutton will compete in the 10K marathon swimming event in Bei...
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FORT MYERS BEACH, Florida, June 3. THE 2008 Open Water Festival took place at Fort Myers Beach, Fla., with several open water stars showing their wares.
On Friday, Fran Crippen walked away with the men's 5K title while representing Mission ...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
BEIJING, China, June 2. THE 58 open water swimmers who competed at the Beijing open water test event returned to their home countries today after the last qualification meet at th...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
BEIJING, China, June 1. NORY Krutchen, the FINA Bureau Vice President, officially closed the Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification races last night in a final dinner with the op...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
BEIJING, China, June 1. PETAR Stoychev qualified for his second event of the Beijing Olympics with a spectacular win in the men's Olympic 10K Marathon Swim qualification race...
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BEIJING, China, May 31. OUR man on the scene, Swimming World Special Correspondent Steven Munatones, is reporting that Petar Stoychev has won the men's 10K at the Beijing Open Water Test Event.
Stoychev is the current world record h...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
BEIJING, China, May 31. "I will get into full training mode starting on Monday morning, training as hard as I can, getting ready both mentally and physically," said Chlo...
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BEIJING, China, May 30. ACCORDING to unofficial on site reports from Steven Munatones, Swimming World's special correspondent in Beijing, Chloe Sutton of the United States has won the 10K test event and the Olympic roster spot that goe...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
BEIJING, China, May 30. BEAUTIFUL blue skies and a stiff wind welcomed 28 women from 17 countries and 30 men from 21 countries at the pre-race meeting at the Olympic 10K Marathon ...
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Updated May 12, 2008
PHOENIX, Arizona, May 11. USA Swimming will send Kirsten Groome and Chloe Sutton to compete for the lone 10K open water spot available for the U.S. at the Beijing Test Event.
Catherine Vogt has also been named th...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 9. BEING such a well-known and accomplished athlete like Grant Hackett certainly has its ups and downs.
After graciously facing the Australian media to di...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 8. MARK Warkentin learned how difficult it is to touch out a 6 foot 8 inch competitor, especially when the touch pads are elevated a foot above the water surfa...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 6. IN many of the recent media articles about the 2008 World Open Water Championships in Seville, much has been made of the physical contact between the swimme...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 5. AT the race promoter's meeting in Seville prior to the 2008 World Open Water Swimming Championships, FINA announced its 24-race proposed schedule:
Da...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 4. SIMILAR to the women's 10K championship yesterday, a British Olympic pool swimmer led the entire way until a savvy Russian surged at the end to claim th...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 5. STEVEN Munatones has been a busy man for us over in Seville at the FINA World Open Water Championships. Here is his latest batch of updates from the scene,...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 2. AS night settles in Seville before the FINA World Open Water Championships, the athletes run down their checklists one final time for the Olympic 10K qualif...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 2. WE have received plenty of e-mail asking about whether any of the FINA World Open Water Championships will be made available for online viewing.
Today, ...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 1. TWO legendary open water swimmers, who are favored to be in the hunt for medals at the FINA World Open Water Championships, will be racing against 45 tough ...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 1. MANY of the swimmers at the FINA World Open Water Championships spent some of the day working on team strategy.
"At the pool during practice, they w...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, May 1. TODAY, at the FINA World Open Water Championships in Seville, the race course was set as dozens of the world's best open water swimmers, including Grant...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, April 30. IN Seville, at the FINA World Open Water Championships, the race course was open today for the athletes from 41 countries under marvelous weather conditi...
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By Steven Munatones, Swimming World Special Correspondent
SEVILLE, Spain, April 30. AT today's FINA World Open Water Championships press conference in the historic Seville City Hall, Nory Krutchen, the FINA Bureau Vice President, pr...
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, April 30. WITH the FINA World Open Water Championships just around the corner, as the meet runs May 3-8 in Seville, Spain, FINA just sent out its complete list of participants for the various races.
Next week, swimmers w...
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