Boudia repeats as World Championships silver medalist Posted on July 28, 2013 by USA Diving BARCELONA, Spain – For the second consecutive FINA World Championships, David Boudia (Noblesville, Ind./West Lafayette, Ind.) came away with the silver medal in the men’s 10-meter contest, giving the U.S. its only medal of the championships on Sunday. Boudia scored 517.40 points to finish second behind China’s Qiu Bo, who also won the gold in Shanghai in 2011. Qiu finished with 581.00 points in Barcelona, while Germany’s Sascha Klein took bronze at 508.55. Klein also...

Barcelona, Spain - July 28 - The USA Men's National Team had their run at the FINA World Championships halted by the home team, falling to Spain 10-6 earlier today. The loss concludes Team USA's competition at the event under new guidelines that allow only the top eight teams to play out to a final standing. Janson Wigo (Fort Lauderdale, FL/Stanford/NYAC) scored three goals and goalkeeper Merrill Moses (Palos Verdes, CA/Pepperdine/NYAC) turned in a stellar performance stopping 20 shots including a penalty attempt. The United States had nearly erased a...

High diving makes its debut at FINA World Championships BARCELONA – Stephanie De Lima of Montreal, a professional high diver who performs at Canada’s Wonderland, will be Canada’s sole entry when this spectacular sport makes its debut at the FINA World Championships on Monday. The men get into action on Monday competing on the 27-metre platform while the women, who dive from 20-metres, are in the spotlightTuesday. The competition takes place outdoors at the Port of Barcelona where diving towers were installed for the competition. ‘’It’s a big honour to...

The State of the Art of Distance by Casey Barrett 16-year-old Katie Ledecky and 21-year-old Sun Yang… A clinic of freestyle perfection The two best swimmers in Barcelona only swim one stroke, and they don’t have much speed. On day one of these World Championships, Katie Ledecky and Sun Yang delivered a pair of 400 freestyles that showed just how far ahead they are from the rest of the world. They won gold going away, but that’s the easy part of the story. Take a look at those underwater cameras...

Relay lowers record, Cochrane 4th in 400 BARCELONA – Another Canadian record fell on a night of near misses for Canada at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona Sunday. The women’s 4x100-metre freestyle relay team of Victoria Poon, Sandrine Mainville, Chantal van Landeghem and Samantha Cheverton lowered the mark they set in the morning by nearly a full second with a time of 3:37.09. Despite smashing the national standard, Canada had to settle for fifth in a fast race that saw the U.S. win in 3:32.31, setting a continental record...

Diving Canada reaches goals at FINA World Championships BARCELONA – Canada retained its status as an international diving power this past week at the FINA World Championships earning a silver and two bronze medals. In addition to winning medals at five straight Olympics, Canada has now stepped on the podium in seven consecutive world championships. ‘’We are always innovating, always developing methods and ways to get better,’’ said Michel Larouche, the former head coach of Montreal’s famed club CAMO and now Diving Canada’s national head coach. ‘’Our sport is very...

Savard, women’s relay set records; Cochrane advances BARCELONA – Two national records fell as eight Canadians advanced to semifinals or finals on the first day of pool competition at the FINA World Championships in Barcelona. Ryan Cochrane and the women’s 4x100-metre freestyle relay will swim for medals tonight, while Katerine Savard, Noemie Thomas and Erika Seltenreich-Hodgson will look to advance through semifinals. Canada’s fly girls got Sunday morning's opening session started off right, as Savard and Thomas both qualified for tonight’s semifinals in 100-m butterfly. Savard shaved .09 off her...

Nine Different Nations Earn Medals in Barcelona's Moll de la Fusta Thomas Lurz took home two of the six gold medals from the open water discipline, claiming his first title in the 25K and leading his German teammates to their first victory in the Team 5K event. Lurz left Spain with four medals, his new tally stands at 20 world championships titles, the most in history for an open water swimmer. Angela Maurer was a "blink" away from winning her third gold medal in the 25K on her 38th birthday....

B.C. swimmer up to six gold at 2013 Age Group Nationals MONTREAL – Tai Long Singh of Delta, B.C., earned his fifth and sixth gold medal in the boys’ 13 and under division on Saturday at the 2013 Canadian Age Group Swimming championships. Singh, 13, posted wins in the 100-metre backstroke and 200-m freestyle on Saturday to add to his victories earlier this week in the 50-m freestyle, 200-m backstroke, 50-m backstroke and 100-m freestyle. All wins were in personal best times. ‘’I never expected this kind of success,’’ said...

As the swim meet at the 2013 FINA World Championships gets under way in Barcelona this weekend, don't count on too many hints of what might happen at the Rio Olympics in 2016. Enlarge Image Of the 26 individual races contested in the pool at both the London Olympics in 2012 and the 2009 World Championships in Rome, 12 produced no repeat medalists, and just 19 of 78 available medals in the individual races in 2012 went to swimmers who won medals in 2009 in those events. The women's meet...