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...

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...

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 Synchronised Swimming Solo Free Routine The Solo Free Routine at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships produced an identical podium as the Technical Routine earlier in these championships with Svetlana Romashina (RUS) taking the gold, Huang Xuechen (CHN) collecting the silver and local favourite Ona Carbonell (ESP) pocketing the bronze. Romashina secured her third gold medal at these championships, whilst no other athlete, male or female, has yet won more than one in any event or sport in Barcelona (2013). Only one participant has won more gold medals in a...

Barcelona (ESP), August 3, 2013 - FINA has established the dates of the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), taking place in Doha (QAT) from December 3-7, 2014. This event, the major FINA rendezvous in 2014, will gather more than 900 athletes from over 170 nations, and will include two major novelties in the competition programme: the 4x50m free and medley relays, and the 4x50m free and medley mixed relays. A delegation of the Doha 2014 Organising Committee was in Barcelona (ESP) to promote and to have fruitful meetings with...

Cochrane continues quest, backstrokers in final BARCELONA - Victoria’s Ryan Cochrane has taken another step on his quest to become Canada’s most decorated swimmer ever at FINA World Championships. The 24-year-old advanced easily through his 1,500-metre freestyle heat Saturday morning in Barcelona with a time of 14:55.15. Cochrane will enter Sunday’s final in second position as he attempts to become the first Canadian to ever win six medals at worlds. Only China’s Sun Yang (14:54.65) was faster in preliminaries. Yang and Cochrane went 1-2 in this event at the 2011...

BARCELONA – Franklin, Lochte, Ledecky. The United States’ biggest stars at these 15th FINA World Championships will be back in the water for tonight’s finals at Palau Sant Jordi. Can they maintain their momentum? Here’s a look at some of the storylines: Women’s 50m Butterfly Dana Vollmer will be the lone American swimming in the finals of the women’s 100m butterfly, qualifying fifth in 26.06. Vollmer won bronze in the women’s 100m butterfly on the second night of competition. She has competed in four World Championships over the course of...

Calling all swimmers...the 18th annual St. Croix Coral Reef Swim is set for Sunday, October 13, 2013 headquartered at the legendary Buccaneer St. Croix's annual Coral Reef Swim, one of America's most successful swim competitions, is set forSunday, October 13, 2013, based at St. Croix's legendary Buccaneer resort. This year marks the 18 th annual Coral Reef Swim, which attracts fitness swimmers competing for fun, as well as world-class open water athletes. Swimmers as young as 11 years old and as senior as 75 years old are among the race...

Missy’s world – we just live in it BARCELONA — With the passage of time, and granted it has only been five years, the magnitude of what Michael Phelps accomplished in Beijing in 2008 becomes ever more evident. He set out to win eight gold medals. Inside the howl of noise that was the Water Cube, he won eight gold medals. Records are of course made to be broken. But one wonders whether that 8-for-8 will ever seriously be tested. Missy Franklin had come to Barcelona with the idea of...

FRANKLIN-ESQE AND LOCHTE-LIKE EFFORTS BARCELONA – If “Phelpsian” has officially become an adjective in the swimming lexicon, can “Franklin-esque” be far behind? Missy Franklin will be swimming in her fifth final of the week tonight in the 100m freestyle, and will also compete in the semifinals of the 200m backstroke. She’s won four gold medals so far. But she’s not the only swimmer competing in multiple events this week. Her teammate, Ryan Lochte, will also be swimming in his fourth and fifth finals tonight, in the 200m backstroke and 800m...