Swimmer's Daily

  • The City of Tampa is offering Summer Splash Down sessions at its 12 participating city pools, Tampa Aquatics Manager Heather Erickson tells ABC Action News. Mayor Jane Castor’s Summer Splash Down encourages children, ages 5 years to 18 years old, to visit one of the Parks and Recreation Departments twelve pool facilities during open swim hours to be eligible for Back to School gift cards.

  • The 1890s were a gilded age of sports in America. Backed by the country’s moral and intellectual elite in the form of ministers and urban reformers, institutions like the YMCA were popularized, enforcing the rather novel idea of healthful recreation via organized sports.

  • In Swimming, Uganda will be represented by a four strong team at the 18th FINA world championships in the South Korean city of Gwangju. Team captain Avice Meya is hoping that the team can put in a good show at the global showpiece.

    Uganda to send a swimming team of four to South Korea

  • Long-distance swimmer Ben Lecomte has undertaken the challenge of swimming 300 nautical miles through the so-called ‘plastic vortex, also known as ‘The Great Pacific Garbage Patch’.

  • China’s Jian Yang is the winner of the 10m Platform Diving at the FINA World Championships 2019 Gwangju with a total of 598,65 points. His compatriot Hao Yang came in 2nd by scoring 585,75 points, bronze went to Russian Aleksandr Bondar (541,05 points).

  • The final event in Artistic Swimming at the FINA World Championships 2019 in Gwangju was the Free Combination event. The Free Combination is swum by eight to ten swimmers, and each routine is a combination of all the other events: solos, duets, trios, and team segments.

    In the preliminary round, due to a penalty Russia received for being over the 4:00 minutes time limit, the difference between their score and the score for the Chinese team was 0.5000 points. The Russian Combo swimmers depicted warriors and concubines in their routine which was based upon the Russian Opera “Knyaz (prince) Igor”.

    Having cut enough time from their preliminary routine, the Russians were within the allowed time and claimed their 9th gold medal at the 2019 World Championships with 98.0000 points.

  • Rania Elwani broke boundaries and inspired the world. In “The Golden Fish”, the Egyptian tells how she became the first Arab woman to swim in an Olympic final.

    This Egyptian swimmer broke boundaries for women | Words of Olympians