2013 Arena Grand Prix at Charlotte presented by UltraSwim The fifth stop takes the Arena Grand Prix Series to North Carolina. The 29th Annual Arena Grand Prix at Charlotte presented by UltraSwim® takes place May 9-12, 2013 at Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center in downtown Charlotte. Hometown favorite and Olympic gold medalist Ricky Berens, along with Charlotte-based gold medalists Cullen Jones and Nick Thoman, are among the 400-plus swimmers to hit the water in the Arena Grand Prix at Charlotte, presented by UltraSwim, on May 9-12. This is the fifth of...

Maxim Bouchard sixth at USA Grand Prix FORT LAUDERDALE – Maxim Bouchard of St-Constant, Que., placed sixth on men’s 10-metre tower in an event that included four Olympians at the fourth stop on FINA Grand Prix diving circuit on Saturday. Yanquan Zhang of China won the gold medal with 521.00 points edging Olympic champion David Boudia of the U.S., second at 518.60. Oleksandr Bondar of Ukraine was third at 507.50. Bouchard struggled in the middle portion of his program earning low marks for his reverse and inward dives for 397.00....

USA Spring Masters National 2013 [25 yds]--Indianapolis, IN Thursday-Sunday (May 9-12) http://www.usms.org/comp/scnats13/realtime/

Multiple Olympians Headline 2013 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships Olympians Haley Anderson (Granite Bay, Calif.), Andrew Gemmell (Wilmington, Del.) and Alex Meyer (Ithaca, N.Y.) will compete at the 2013 USA Swimming Open Water National Championships in Castaic Lake, Calif. The 10-kilometer race is slated for May 17 and the 5K is scheduled for May 19. The women’s 10K will start at 8 a.m. PT and the men will follow at 10:30 a.m. on May 17. The 5K race on May 19th begins with the men at 8 a.m. followed...

Ware misses berth in final by four points FORT LAUDERDALE – Carol-Ann Ware of Beloeil, Que., missed a berth in the final by four points on Friday on women’s three-metre at the USA Grand Prix diving competition. After placing sixth in the morning preliminaries, Ware scored 297.15 points for fourth place in her semifinal heat. The top-three from each of the two semis advanced to Sunday’s final. Maria Kurjo of Germany took that third spot from Ware with 301.75. After a couple of rough outings in Europe last month on...

Please find below the schedule of the FINA Congresses to take place at the occasion of the FINA World Championships 2013 in Barcelona (ESP): Schedule Info TECHNICAL CONGRESSES July 17, 18 & 25, 2013 - Invitation & Application Forms Diving July 17, 2013 at 09:30 - Technical Diving Congress Circular Open Water Swimming July 17, 2013 at 14:00 - Technical OW Congress Circular Water Polo July 18, 2013 at 09:30 - Technical Water Polo Congress Circular Synchronised Swimming July 18, 2013 at 14:00 - Technical Synchro Congress Circular Swimming July...

Boudia, Burke advance to finals at AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix in Fort Lauderdale FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - 2012 Olympic gold medalist David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind.) returned to competition for the first time since the London Games on Thursday, with his performance in the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix semifinals earning him a spot in Saturday’s men’s 10-meter final. USA’s Amanda Burke (Southampton, Pa.) also will compete Saturday after advancing to the women’s 3-meter final. The men’s 10-meter final will include two other London gold medalists. China’s Olympic gold-medal winning...

2013 PAN AMERICAN MASTERS CHAMPIONSHIP United States Masters Swimming in partnership with our host Sarasota YMCA, is pleased to host the 2013 Pan American Masters Championship. The disciplines of Masters synchronized swimming, Masters swimming, and a 1K and 3K open water events will be offered at the Sarasota YMCA. The discipline of Masters Water Polo will be offered June 21-23 at the Orlando Aquatic Center under the direction of USA Water Polo. The event schedule is: June 1 – 4: Synchronized swimming June 5 – 12: Masters swimming June 13:...

USA’s Bromberg, Dumais advance to finals at AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - Murphy Bromberg (Bexley, Ohio) won her women’s platform semifinal to earn a spot in Sunday’s 10-meter finals and Olympic bronze medalist Troy Dumais (Ventura, Calif./Austin, Texas) secured a berth in the 3-meter finals with their performances Friday at the AT&T USA Diving Grand Prix at the Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Complex. The 17-year-old Bromberg scored 341.30 points to win the women’s 10-meter semifinal B ahead of China’s Jie Lian (330.50) and Japan’s Fuka Tatsumi (300.45),...

Edmonton’s Richard Funk wins two medals at Charlotte Grand Prix CHARLOTTE – World championship team member Richard Funk of Edmonton won the silver medal in the 50-m breaststroke and bronze in the 100-m breaststroke on Friday at the Charlotte Grand Prix swimming competition. In the 50-m breaststroke, Mihail Alexandrov of Bulgaria took the gold in 27.71 seconds with Funk second in 28.11 and Jorge Murillo of Colombia third in 28.28. Alexandrov also won the 100-m breaststroke in 1:01.00, Murillo was second in 1:01.72 and Funk third in 1:02.03. There were...