Category: Competition
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Team USA | Remembering Rio | Men’s 4x100m Medley
Michael Phelps and Team USA win gold in the men’s 4x100m medley relay, continuing their dominance in the Rio pool.
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Team USA | Remembering Rio | Women’s 4x100m Medley
Simone Manuel anchors the U.S. women as Team USA wins the women’s 4×100 medley relay, claiming Team USA’s 1,000th gold medal of all time.
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Team USA | Remembering Rio | Katie Ledecky 800m Freestyle
Ledecky breaks her own world record by almost two seconds, won by more than 11 seconds over the silver medalist.
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Team USA | Remembering Rio | Maya DiRado 200m Backstroke
Maya DiRado defeats the “Iron Lady” Katinka Hosszu by 6/100th of a second to win gold in the women’s 200m backstroke.
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Team USA | Remembering Rio | Simone Manuel – 100m Freestyle
Simone Manuel ties Canada’s Penny Oleksiak for gold with an Olympic record time of 52.70. She becomes the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic gold in swimming.
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Team USA | Remembering RIo | Michael Phelps – 200m IM
Michael Phelps claims his fourth straight Olympic gold medal in the event, putting an exclamation point on his dynasty.
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Sacramento teen heads to Junior Swimming World Championships
Sacramento’s Amalie Fackenthal, 17, will be representing the U.S. in the Junior World Swimming Championships at the end of August in Indianapolis. The teen is a top recruit in the sport. Fackenthal is a sprinter who tackles tougher events like the 200m Butterfly.
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Bath’s Jay Lelliott chasing 400m title defence at 29th Summer Universiade 2017, Taipei
Taipei – He may have won gold two years ago but Jay Lelliot is not feeling the pressure as he looks to defend his World University Games title in the 400m freestyle next month.
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Fisu Athlete stories: Anna Hopkin – Swimming – 29th Summer Universiade 2017, Taipei, Chinese Taipei
Taipei – University of Bath student Anna Hopkin celebrated her upcoming 21st birthday in style by winning 50m freestyle gold at the 2017 British Swimming Championships in Sheffield. Hopkin, who studies Sport & Exercise Science, set a new personal best of 25.07 as she beat Olympic silver-medallist and fellow Sports Training Village-based swimmer Siobhan-Marie O’Connor…