Today's News
Roundup of the latest news
Feb 9, 2010
Editorial Office
Open water, FINA 10km Marathon and Swimming Grand Prix. Libby Trickett could make a comeback for London 2012. Swimming Taiwan
Open Water, leading results from Santa Fe and Santos
Feb 1, 2010
Editorial Office
Stoychev and Nunez won the 37th edition of open water marathon "Rio Coronda" in Argentina, Ana Marcela Cunha and Evgeny Drattsev won 10k in Santos
44 years ago, Bremen tragedy
Jan 28, 2010
Editorial Office
In 1966 an airplane crashed to the ground while landing in Bremen. In the accident died 46 persons including 6 Italian athletes
Biagioli, Ercoli win open water contest in Argentina
Jan 26, 2010
Fabio Terrone
Cecilia Biagioli of Argentina and Simone Ercoli of Italy won the first race of the 2010 FINA Open Water Swimming Grand Prix, which has been held in Rosario, Argentina
Cameron Gibson retires from swimming
Jan 20, 2010
Fabio Terrone
Auckland’s Cameron Gibson retired Wednesday from competitive swimming
Bovell, John-Williams, best swimmers by ASATT
Jan 20, 2010
Editorial Office
George Bovell and Kimberlee John-Williams were named male and female swimmers of the year by Amateur Swimming Association of Trinidad and Tobago
Dubai Gets Deadline From FINA
Jan 18, 2010
Courtesy SwimNews
Dubai has been given until the end of the month to pay a fee due to the international federation in its role as host to the world short-course championships
Zhang Lin, Liu Zige, voted China’s athlete of the year
Jan 18, 2010
Editorial Office
Zhang Lin and Liu Zige were Saturday named Chinese male and female Athletes of the year
Fina Bureau, plan for doping passport, Open water
Jan 18, 2010
Fabio Terrone
The FINA Bureau, at its meeting in Bangkok, considered some anti-doping issues and a couple of innovation in open water discipline
Jones withdraws from Victorian champs
Jan 14, 2010
Fabio Terrone
Olympic and world champion Leisel Jones has withdrawn from Victorian championships, the first major long course event of the year, under the new FINA swimsuit regulations
Germany, Great Britain confront on February
Jan 13, 2010
Editorial Office
Next month’s duel in the pool among European swimming powers, Germany and Great Britain will be the first confront since the 1960s
Roundup of the latest news
Jan 5, 2010
Editorial office
Mark Regan was named head coach of Swimming New Zealand. FINA and EBU extend partnership to 2013.