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  • The Battery Rocks swimmers can be found every morning in Penzance, Cornwall. An assortment of people from all walks of life and a variety of ages – from those in their teens to those in their eighties – there are the full makings of a community. For four of the women that meet there – Kizzy, Jill, Jessie, and Katie – they have their different reasons for becoming a member of the Battery Rocks crew. But for all of them, the unexpected sense of community they have found is a pivotal part of how they’ve come to love swimming in ways beyond which they ever could have imagined.

  • In this week’s episode, we bring back three Ultimate Swimmer Podcast legends to discuss the highs and lows of the last few months of racing and training. Cody, Lilly, and Hali all share their insight into what it means to be an “Olympian.” Check us out on Instagram for more great content!

  • It’s time to take a deep dive into the stereotype that “Black people just don’t swim.”

    Like everything else in American history, systemic racism is largely responsible for the rocky relationship that we have with water. Loria Yeadon chose to become one with water by taking swimming lessons at her local YMCA and created an initiative to teach parents and children of color how to swim for free. She joins BNC’s “AMplified with Aisha Mills” to discuss her story behind swimming.

    All this and more on “AMplified with Aisha Mills.”

  • The Jesuit High School swim team wants to continue making history in the pool and making a difference outside of it.

  • Italy sets new WR, Sjostrom, and Kolesnikov crack CRs, Lamberti Jr stuns

    Two really fast swims kicked off the second day in Kazan as Russia’s Kliment Kolesnikov, in the 50m back, and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, in the 50m free, both cracked the respective Championship Records while clinching their first title here. Russia got a second gold soon as Anastasia Kiripchnikova won the 800m free by a mile. Hungary’s Szebasztian Szabo claimed a stunning victory in the 100m fly while Italy’s Michele Lamberti, son of former great Giorgio, amazed many by taking his second silver of the day in this event, and soon he was part of Italy’s golden medley relay team which smashed the world record.

    • SJOESTROEM Sarah SWE Sweden 50m Freestyle Women Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • CARRARO Martina ITA Gold Medal CHIKUNOVA Evgeniia RUS Silver Medal JEFIMOVA Eneli EST Bronze Medal 100m Breaststroke Women Podium Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Kolesnikov Kliment RUS Gold Medal 200m Backstroke Men Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Carraro Martina ITA celebrating Gold Medal 100m Breaststroke Women Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • SJOESTROEM Sarah SWE Gold Medal, WASICK Katarzyna POL Silver Medal, KAMENEVA Maria RUS Bronze Medal, 50m Freestyle Women Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • KOLESNIKOV Kliment RUS Gold Medal, LAMBERTI Michele ITA Silver Medal, GLINTA Robert-Andrei ROU Bronze Medal, 200m Backstroke Men Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Szabo Feltothy Eszter HUN 100m Butterfly Men Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Lamberti Michele ITA 100m Butterfly Men Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Kirpichnikova Anastasia RUS Celebrating Gold Medal 800m Freestyle Women Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • SZABO Szebasztian HUN Gold Medal, LAMBERTI Michele ITA Silver Medal, MAJERSKI Jakub POL Bronze Medal, 100m Butterfly Men Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • ITALY, MARTINENGHI Nicolo’ ITA, ORSI Marco ITA, ZAZZERI Lorenzo ITA, LAMBERTI Michele ITA, Gold Medal – World Record, 4x50m Medley Men Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Szebasztian Szabo HUN Hungary Gold Medal 100m Butterfly Men Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Simona Quadarella ITA Italy Silver Medal Anastasia Kirpichnikova RUS Russia Gold Medal Isabel Marie Gose GER Germany Bronze Medal 800m Freestyle Women Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Lorenzo Zazzeri, Michele Lamberti, Marco Orsi, Nicolo Martinenghi ITALY Ita Gold medal and world record Kliment Kolesnikov, Oleg Kostin, Vladimir Morozov, Vladislav Grinev RUSSIA RUS Silver Medal Stan Pijnenburg, Arno Kamminga, Jesse Puts, Thom De Boer NED Netherlands Bronze Medal 4x50m medley Final Kazan – Russia 03/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

    Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom is getting back on the usual track: after her horrible injury last winter, she regained some of her old form for the Olympics, but she was clearly off her top speed in Tokyo. In Kazan, she had shown some gears already on the opening day, and in the final, she really geared up to snatch a clear win and set a new CR (23.12). Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick wasn’t as close as she might have wanted to be (trailed by 0.37 at the wall) but her silver was never endangered by bronze medallist Russian Maria Kameneva.

    Next came another CR swim, Kliment Kolesnikov delivered the first individual title for the hosts in the men’s 50m back (clocked 22.47). Record-breaking is something Kolesnikov does routinely especially in this event though this time it was even more surprising that Italy’s Michele Lamberti was pretty close to him, only 0.18sec separated them at the end – and the Italian managed to out-touch Romania’s Robert Andrei Glinta by 0.09.

    The son of the fantastic freestyle swimmer, world and European champion and world record-holder Giorgio Lamberti was back in action a bit later and this time he was even more stunning as he managed to grab another silver in the 100m fly, in less than an hour.

    In this race there was other news too: top qualifier Tomoe Zenimoto Hvas of Norway had to withdraw from the final due to illness – which seemed to have cleared the path in front of Olympic champion Kristof Milak of Hungary. But it was compatriot Szebasztian Szabo, fresh from finishing atop in the 50m free semis, who upset the others and clinched the gold in an extremely tight finish. Milak, still at the beginning of his short-course mission, missed the podium by a fingernail behind Poland’s Jakub Majerski – interestingly enough, his long-course European Record clocked at the Olympics, 49.68, was the exact winning time of Szabo. At the same time, Zenimoto Hvas must have been in pain to watch the final from home as his SF time (49.22) would have granted him an easy win.

    While on the first day the Italians continued where they stopped at the Olympics – collecting silvers and bronzes in big numbers but no gold –, the second day brought the top finishes for them. First, it was Martina Carraro whose homecoming leg remained unmatched in the women’s 100m breast. Russia’s Evgeniia Chikunova launched a fiery finish too and managed to catch up with Eleni Jevimova at the wall – she turned 7th, the Estonian was 1st at the halfway mark, at the end they both got silver to produce a second tie for silver here in Kazan.

    Anastasia Kirpichnikova landed Russia’s second title of the day as she led all the way in the women’s 800m free, gained almost 6sec on Italy’s long-course queen Simona Quadarella and almost bettered the CR, untouched since 2008. Isabel Gose was just 0.06sec off of the Italian’s pace so the German earned her first individual senior medal in the same pool where her career really kicked off two years ago at the junior Europeans.

    At the and it became a really happy birthday for Michele Lamberti, who returned for a third swim, this time for the lead-off leg in the medley relay. Now the 18-year-old managed to get even closer to Kolesnikov, held on for a 0.04 gap and his teammates took care of the rest. They managed to out-pace the Russians in all three of the remaining legs and not only earned a comfortable 0.65sec win but also downed the world record by 0.30sec. The old mark of the Russians lived for four years. Behind the two favorites, a fierce duel went for the bronze between the Netherlands and Turkey – the Dutch managed to out-touch their rivals at the very end but the Turks were done anyway as their butterflier’s –0.05sec takeover led to their disqualification.

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    Press release courtesy of LEN, images courtesy of Deepbluemedia / G. Scala

  • Two Inspector General reports detail a culture of abuse, humiliation and harassment within the aquatics department at the Chicago Park District.

    The reports said underage victims were given alcohol by other lifeguards at after-hours parties. In some cases, sexual assaults occurred. In others, attempts were made.

    In all of the cases, the victims reported being harassed by other co-workers after the incidents and faced claims of retaliation by supervisors and co-workers, according to the report.

    See WGN9

  • Grand opening: Dutch double and thrilling finishes

    The Netherlands kicked off the party in style in Kazan by claiming an individual and a relay gold on the opening day. The first title went to Turkey’s Victoria Gunes in the women’s 400m IM, she won a thriller by 0.03sec. Host Russia also clinched its first win, while Italy earned four medals in the evening.

    • GUNES Viktoria Zeynep TUR Turkey 400m Individual Medley Women Final Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Gold Medal KROON Luc NED Netherlands Silver Medal CIAMPI Matteo ITA Italy Bronze Medal DE TULLIO Marco 400m Freestyle Men Final Podium Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • RUS Russia NASRETDINOVA Rozaliya SURKOVA Arina KAMENEVA Maria KLEPIKOVA Daria Gold Medal 4x50m Freestyle Women Podium Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Gold Medal RUS Russia NASRETDINOVA Rozaliya SURKOVA Arina KAMENEVA Maria KLEPIKOVA Daria Silver Medal NED NETHERLANDS BUSCH Kim DE WAARD Maaike TOUSSAINT Kira VAN ROON Valerie Bronze Medal Poland POL WASICK Katarzyna FIEDKIEWICZ Kornelia SZTANDERA Dominika TCHORZ Alicja 4x50m Freestyle Women Podium Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • NED NETHERLANDS PUTS Jesse PIJNENBURG Stan SIMONS Kenzo DE BOER Thom Gold Medal 4x50m Freestyle Men Final Podium Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Andrea Staccioli / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • Kroon Luc NED Gold Medal 400m Freestyle Men Final Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • GUNES Viktoria Zeynep TUR Gold Medal, 400m Individual Medley Women Final 400m Individual Medley Women Final Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto
    • NETHERLANDS  PUTS Jesse NED PIJNENBURG Stan NED SIMONS Kenzo NED DE BOER Thom NED Gold Medal ITALY  MIRESSI Alessandro ITA CECCON Thomas ITA ZAZZERI Lorenzo ITA ORSI Marco ITA Silver Medal RUSSIA  MOROZOV Vladimir RUS GRINEV Vladislav RUS RYLOV Evgeny RUS KOLESNIKOV Kliment RUS Bronze Medal 4x50m Freestyle Men Final Kazan – Russia 02/11/2021 Aquatics Palace LEN European Short Course Swimming Championships Photo Giorgio Scala / Deepbluemedia / Insidefoto

    The meet couldn’t have been started in any more thrilling way: the medallists of the women’s 400m IM were separated by 0.02sec with a shared silver – it was an amazing finish in anybody’s language.

    Turkey’s Viktoria Gunes, after going through some ups but mostly downs since 2015 when she had seemed to make a breakthrough at the junior Worlds in Singapore, managed to pull away over her beloved breaststroke leg and she was well set to claim the title. However, Serbia’s Anja Crevar and Italy’s Sara Franceschi launched a huge finish and they really closed the gap but the touch favored Gunes while the chasers were tied for the silver. An interesting fact: favorite Zsuzsanna Jakabos faded in the second half, finished 5th – but the Hungarian’s family had still something to celebrate: his coach and husband Ivan Petrov’s twin brother, Arpad Petrov coaches Gunes who swims now in the same pool in Gyor (HUN). It was the first win at senior level for Gunes, she had silvers in the breast events in Netanya 2015.

    The first men’s final offered similar thrills and in the end, Netherlands’ Luc Kroon’s managed to pass Italy’s Matteo Ciampi who was leading for most of the race. Kroon gained half a second on his rival while Marco di Tullio arrived in time to give Italy a 2-3 finish. Kroon delivered a first-ever podium for the Dutch in this event.

    Russia claimed its first medal, a gold in the women’s 4x50m free relay – they sailed away from the others and never let their rivals have a shot at the title. Their winning margin of 0.55sec was convincing, the Dutch came second, ahead of Polish. Interestingly, the best individual efforts occurred in the leadoff legs (no better splits were clocked with flying starts), Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom was 0.05sec faster than Poland’s Katarzyna Wasick – the semis of the individual race had seen something similar which promises a brilliant final for Wednesday.

    The Dutch landed another gold in the men’s relay which ended in the same thriller the whole session began with. Though Italy’s Lorenzo Zazzeri came up with a brilliant 20.24 split in the third leg and gave Italy a 0.17sec lead but the clash of the veterans in the homecoming saw Thom de Boer out-touching Marco Orsi by 0.03sec at the wall.

    Russia had some fine rockets in its line-up but Olympic champion backstroker Evgeny Rylov’s 20.99 put Kliment Kolesnikov a bit behind before the last turnover and even Kolesnikov was the fastest anchor he could only secure bronze for the home team. Thus, he needs to wait a day for his first title – he already signed up for that by setting a new Championship Record in the men’s 50m back in the semis.

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    Press release courtesy of LEN, images courtesy of Deepbluemedia / G. Scala

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