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Category: Organization

  • China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban

    China’s swimming national team lifts Sun Yang’s ban

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    Read People Daily The Chinese swimming national team lifted the ban on Olympic champion Sun Yang’s on Wednesday. Sun, the first Chinese man to win an Olympic swimming gold with his victories in the 400 and 1,500-meter freestyle at the London Games, was suspended from training and competing indefinitely last November after he was given…

  • Lady Liberty Sharkfest Swim Promo

    Lady Liberty Sharkfest Swim Promo

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    See Sharkfest Swim What could be more sensational than swimming in the waters off the iconic Statue of Liberty, the most well known lady in the United States? The swim will start just outside the security zone of Liberty Island and will go past the historic Ellis Island and the Colgate clock on the Jersey…

  • State concludes Swimming NZ sponsorship

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    Read Voxy State Insurance and Swimming New Zealand today announced the conclusion of their successful partnership. Roger Wallace, General Manager for State Insurance, said the decision follows a rewarding four-year partnership that has helped tens of thousands of Kiwis to stay safe in the water. The announcement follows a review of State’s sponsorship and community…

  • 2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Queensland

    2014 Australian Trials SwimFan Week – Queensland

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    Another week of awesome videos from Swimming Australia, as lead-up to the 2014 Australian Swimming Championships Trials in Brisbane, Tuesday 1 – Sunday 6 April 2014. Monday Memory Featuring Brittany Elmslie, Grant Irvine, Ned McKendry, Katie Goldman, Maddie Wilson, Maddie Elliott, Bronte Barratt

  • Learning to Swim at UCSB

    Learning to Swim at UCSB

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    Santa Barbara-area third-graders learn to swim, and learn a lot about a college education, in an annual session sponsored by UC Santa Barbara’s Early Academic Outreach Program. Learning to Swim at UCSB from UC Santa Barbara on Vimeo.

  • Senegal to Host the Next African Championships

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    Read AllAfrica “After the withdrawal of Algeria, the Confederation of African Swimming (CANA) designated Senegal to host the next African Championships swimming planned for next September, ” the president of the Senegalese federation told Africa Top Sports. According Dr. Mohamed Diop : “It is Algeria, which was to organize these games, but for some reasons,…

  • Mass. man completes 24-hour swim to raise money for YMCA

    Mass. man completes 24-hour swim to raise money for YMCA

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    See NECN How did you spend the weekend? Kim Garbarino did swam lap after lap after lap to raise money for the North Shore YMCA. Looking to raise $10,000, the 56-year-old probation officer at Lynn District Court started his 24-hours swim at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Lynch/van Otterloo YMCA in Marblehead, Mass. He spent…

  • Italian and European swim chief Paolo Barelli faces fraud claim

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    Read The Washington Post The president of the Italian swimming federation, Paolo Barelli, has offered to resign if fraud accusations directed at him are proved true in an escalating feud with the country’s Olympic committee. CONI, the Olympic committee, denounced the swimming federation in court last month after an internal audit cast doubt on the…

  • Dramatic 8Km “Swim For Hope” Produces Records

    Dramatic 8Km “Swim For Hope” Produces Records

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    Swim For Hope – Press Release All fourteen swimmers who participated in today’s Swim For Hope – an extreme open water swim around Cape Point – successfully complete the 8km swim, while both the male and female records for the route were broken.