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  • Day 6 of Australian Olympic Trials: Trickett earns 3rd Olympic bid

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    While most of the comeback stories have fizzled this year at the Australian Trials, Libby Trickett managed to qualify for the 4×100 relay. Melanie Schlanger and Cate Campbell took the individual spots in 53.85 and 54.01, while Brittany Elmsie, Yolane Kukla, and Alicia Coutts took the other relay spots. In the men’s 200 backstroke, Mitch…

  • Nick D’Arcy qualifies for Olympics on 4th day of Australian Trials

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    Midway through the Australian Olympic Trials, Stephanie Rice qualified for a second Olympic event with a win in the women’s 200 IM, 2:09.28 ahead of also qualifying Alicia Coutts in 2:09.83. In the men’s 200 butterfly, Nick D’Arcy qualified in 1:54.71, bettering Michael Phelps’ world’s best time this year of 1:55.32, with Christopher Wright also…

  • Kylie Palmer sets Australian record on 2nd night of Australian Trials

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    Kylie Palmer managed an impressive 4:03.40 win and Australian national record in the women’s 400 freestyle at the Austrial Olympic Trials today, qualifying for the Olympics along with Bronte Barratt in 4:05.74. In the 100 butterfly, Alicia Coutts and Jessicah Schipper qualiftied in 57.59 and 57.88 respectively, and in the men’s 100 breaststroke, Christian Sprenger…

  • Who elbowed Alicia Coutts in the Shanghai 2011 call room?

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    Wild story here on SwimNews.com (source Courier Mail), on how Australia’s Alicia Coutts was elbowed in the head and spat at by a European opponent on the way to her blocks for the 100m freestyle final at the Shanghai 2011 World Championships. “I’d never had anyone try to psych me out before. It must be…

  • Women’s 200 IM at Mare Nostrum Barcelona 2011

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    Womens’ 200 individual medley at the 32è Trofeu Internacional Ciutat de Barcelona de Natació 2011. Australia’s Alicia Coutts wins in 2:09.68, Spanish Mireia Belmonte is 2nd in 2:12.55, and Great Britain’s open water swimmer Keri-Anne Payne is 3rd in 2:13.99. Coutts’ winning time was the best female performance on the Barcelona leg (934 FINA points),…

  • Irie and Coutts cup champions of Barcelona 2011

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    Japan’s Ryosuke Irie and Australia’s Alicia Coutts were cup winners of the 32nd International Trophy Ciutat de Barcelona, Irie for winning the 200 backstroke with a time of 1:54.92 (931 FINA points), and Coutts for winning the 200 IM in 2:09.68 (934 FINA points). A total of 13 championship records were set by the Australians…

  • Belmonte and Costa set Spanish records

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    At the Spanish Open today, Mireia Belmonte García completed what was a strong meet with a national record time of 2:10.26 in the 200 IM, behind only Australia’s Alicia Coutts’ 2:10.06 and China’s 14-year-old Ye Shiwen’s 2:10.11 this year. And in the 400 free, Melanie Costa Schmid downed the Spanish record with a 4:07.09, moving…

  • Coutts fears drowning during the 200 freestyle

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    Alicia Coutts posted world-leading times in the 100 fly and 200 IM today, but has a fear of drowning during the 200 freestyle tomorrow. “When I was 14, I went to Australian Schools’ Nationals in Perth and on the third turn of the 200m freestyle I blacked out.” Coutts says she only blacked out for…

  • Alicia Coutts sets world bests in 100 fly and 200 IM

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    Alicia Coutts dominated the women’s 100 fly at the Australian Long Course Championships today, with a winning time of 57.25, surpassing the previous world pacesetter of 57.62 clocked by Inge Dekker in Amsterdam in March. And then she followed up with winning 200 IM in 2:10.06, ahead of Stephanie Rice in 2:10.41, crushing the previous…