Another medal for Canada at worlds BARCELONA - Hilary Caldwell of White Rock, B.C., won a bronze medal in women’s 200-metre backstroke Saturday at FINA World Championships in Barcelona. Caldwell swam a new Canadian record of 2:06.80, lowering the national mark for the third time in about 32 hours. American Missy Franklin was the winner, setting a world championships record of 2:04.76, while Australia's Belinda Hocking out-touched Caldwell in 2:06.66 for silver. “I was feeling really good. I was feeling fit, I was feeling good in the water and my...

Review Women's Water Polo: Spain beat Australia 8-6 On Friday evening Spain beat Australia 8-6 to become the first host country to win WCh gold in Women's Water Polo. Spain's best WCh final rank before this year's final was a seventh place in 2007. London 2012 Olympic Games silver medal winners Spain now join a select group of countries who have won either gold or silver at both the Olympics and the World Championships. They are Australia, Greece, Italy, Netherlands and the United States. Australia also improved on their London...

Click this link for OMEGA TIMING Results for FINA World Championships Review Swimming Men’s 50m Freestyle Cesar Cielo (BRA) becomes the first man to win this race three times. Cielo won his sixth gold medal. The only other swimmer outside the USA or Australia with 6+ gold medals is Alexander Popov (RUS). Cielo has won all his six golds in individual events. Only Michael Phelps (15), Ryan Lochte (9), Grant Hackett (7), Aaron Peirsol (7) and Ian Thorpe (6) have won 6+ golds in individual events. Vladimir Morozov (RUS) won...

Ontario opens with four swimming wins at Canada Games SHERBROOKE, Que - Teddy Kalp of North York and Alec Elliot of Kitchener led Ontario to four gold medals on Sunday afternoon to open the swimming events at the 2013 Canada Games. Kalp, who is also preparing for the world junior championships at the end of the month in Dubai, clocked eight minutes and 11.77 seconds for the victory in the men’s 800-metre freestyle. He fended off a strong challenge from Jonathan Brown of Calgary, also Dubai-bound, in second at 8:12.51....

Women’s medley relay, Cochrane go for medals BARCELONA - The women’s 4x100-metre medley relay will join Victoria’s Ryan Cochrane in medal contention for Canada at the final session of the FINA World Championships in Barcelona. The team of Hilary Caldwell, Martha McCabe, Katerine Savard and Chantal van Landeghem combined for a time of 4:00.34 in their morning heat to advance to the final in sixth position. They will join Cochrane, who enters the men’s 1,500-m freestyle final in second spot after qualifying in Saturday’s preliminaries. “The final is one of...

Review Diving Women’s 1m Springboard He Zi (CHN) wins her second gold medal in this event, six years after her first in 2007. She joins Blythe Hartley (CAN) and Irina Lashko (RUS) as only women with two golds in this event. Wu Minxia (CHN) is the only athlete to have won medals in this event over a longer period of time: 2001 (silver) - 2005 (silver) - 2009 (silver). China has now won this event in five of the 10 editions. This was China's 60th gold medal in all diving...

ST LUCIA SWIMMERS FOR GOODWILL GAMES The Barbados Amateur Swimming Association has invited the National Federations of Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana to celebrate the XIX Annual Goodwill Swim Meet 2013 in the Island of Barbados. Host country Barbados has extended an invitation to the St Lucia Amateur Swimming Association to be the “Guest Team” for the 2013 competition The venue will be at the Barbados Aquatic Centre, Wildey, St Michael, Barbados and the games take place from Friday 16th August – Sunday 18th August Criteria for selection are...

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS MEDAL TABLE 8/4/2013 BARCELONA – The following is the list of medals won by the United States at the 15th FINA World Championships. GOLD (14) Open Water 5K – Haley Anderson Women’s 400m Free – Katie Ledecky (American Record) Women’s 400m Free Relay – Missy Franklin, Natalie Coughlin, Shannon Vreeland, Megan Romano, Simone Manuel (prelims), Elizabeth Pelton (prelims) (American Record) Women's 100m Backstroke - Missy Franklin Women's 1500m Free - Katie Ledecky (World Record) Men's 100m Backstroke - Matt Grevers Women's 200m Freestyle - Missy Franklin Men's 200m...

Ryan Cochrane, Model of consistency swims his way into history books BARCELONA – Ryan Cochrane made history in the pool as FINA World Championships wrapped up Sunday in Barcelona. Cochrane won his third straight silver medal in the 1,500-metre freestyle, finishing 1.33 seconds behind China’s Sun Yang in a time of 14:42.48. It’s the sixth career world championships medal for the Victoria native, surpassing Brent Hayden for the most all-time among Canadians. “To have six medals is something I always dreamed of when I was a young kid getting into...

Zacharias, Wiens shine at the 2013 Speedo Junior Development Nationals SASKATOON – Faith Zacharias of London, Ont., completed a golden sweep and Rylan Wiens of Saskatoon smashed his Canadian record on Sunday to conclude the 2013 Speedo Junior Development Nationals diving competition at the Shaw Centre. Zacharias placed first in the 12-13 age group girls three-metre with 346.05 points. Tanya Boychuk of Edmonton was second at 335.40 and Olivia Chamandy of Montreal third at 327.20. Zacharias also won the one-metre and platform on Saturday. “It felt good to get the...