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CARACAS, VENEZUELA--The 2014 Venezuela Nationals began September 3 and continues in Caracas. It serves in the qualifying for Venezuela's teams to the 2014 Central American & Caribbean Games and the 2015 World Championships. Results are available online via here: http://feveda.org.ve/resultados-del-nacional-abierto-de-natacion/
The Cayman Islands Amateur Swimming Association is requesting your assistance. CIASA has only received a minium number of registrations for the 2014 UANA Pan American Open Water Swimming Championships to be held the 24 - 26 of October, 2014. CIASA faces an important deadline with the host hotel this Friday September the 6th . Please confirm your intentions to attend the 2014 Championships IMMEDIATELY. Our organizing committee simply needs to know your intention to attend and the number of male and female athletes plus staff to assist with the planning...
Lima on course to become sporting hub, saying Olympic Committee chief Friday, 29 August 2014 Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email More Sharing Services 0 By Zjan Shirinian The Peruvian capital Lima is well on the way to becoming a sporting hub that will leave a legacy for generations to come, the country's National Olympic Committee chief has said. Lima will stage the 2019 Pan American and Parapan Games, and is bidding to host the 130 the International Olympic Committee Session in 2017 - at which the...
Joes Maestas will address to topic of social media and sports: Joey Maestas (@SportsJoey) has joined the USOC as Manager, Social Media Strategy. Joey comes to the USOC after spending the last three and a half years at Time, Inc. developing social media strategies for Sports Illustrated and its associated properties (including SI Swimsuit, The MMQB, SI Video). He was also a contributing writer to the Sports Illustrated blog network. Joey’s strengths lie both in his creativity and in his ability to use social media to drive specific business results....
Team USA’s Anderson, Gemmell Sweep Pan Pacs Open Water Titles Pan Pacs, Junior Pan Pacs open water 10Ks held Sunday in Maui MAUI, Hawaii – U.S. Olympians Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.) and Andrew Gemmell (Wilmington, Del.) raced to the Pan Pacific Championships 10-kilometer open water titles Sunday at Ulua Beach. In the tightly contested women’s race, Anderson out-touched U.S. teammate Eva Fabian (Keene, N.H.) for gold by one second. Anderson was victorious in 1 hour, 59 minutes, 51 seconds; Fabian earned silver in 1:59.52. Chelsea Gubecka of Australia was...
USA Youth Women Win Gold At FINA Youth World Championship With Victory over Canada Madrid, Spain - August 31 - The USA Youth Women's National Team won their first ever FINA Youth World Championship title following a 5-4 win over Canada. The gold medal caps an undefeated week for Team USA. Aria Fischer scored four goals to lead the offense while Carlee Kapana was named the top goalkeeper of the tournament. Every match from the tournament was webcast and is available on-demand. To see the complete streaming playlist featuring action...
The United States hauled in 14 medals on night four of the Junior Pacific Pan Pacs highlighted by a sweep of the women’s 1,500-meter freestyle and multiple meet records. Sierra Schmidt paced Team USA in the mile, touching the wall in 16 minutes 24.09 seconds. Isabella Rongione finished second in 16:27.23 and Madison Homovich rounded out the top-three in 16:32.95. In the men’s 50m free, Paul Power raced to gold in 22.20. His time set a meet record and also set the 17-18 U.S. National Age Group record. James Jones...
The first finals session in the FINA/MASTBANK Swimming World Cup saw the Hamdan Sports Complex come alive tonight as the excited crowd witnessed two new world records. In a dual celebration for the Hungarian team, Katinka Hosszu and Daniel Gyurta both set new world marks, Hosszu in the 200IM (2:02.13) and Gyurta in the 200m breaststroke (2:00.48). Following the Press Conference the UAE’s Al Jasmi brothers were presented with a Guinness World Record certificate to acknowledge their achievement of being the first team of brothers to compete in a relay...
Hosszu lowers 3 IM 25m WRs in Doha DOHA, QATAR--Hungary's Katinka Hosszu swam under her existing short course World Records in all three women's IM events at the first meet of the 2014 World Cup series in Doha yesterday and today. Hosszu bettered the existing World marks in the 100, 200 and 400 IMs in winning the three events. Her times were: -women's 100 IM: 57.25, Katinka Hosszu (old= 57.45, Hosszu, August 2013) -women's 200 IM: 2:02.61, Katinka Hosszu (old= 2:03.20, Hosszu, August 2013) -women's 400 IM: 4:20.83, Katinka Hosszu...
