GWANGJU – The American team is gaining momentum after the record breaking women’s 4×100 freestyle relay. The all-star relay team includes Abbigail Weitzeil, Shannon Vreeland, Madeline Locus, and Lia Neal, all of whom have previous experience competing at a national level. “Abby kicked off the race well. She gave me a great lead […]
LAUSANNE – FISU mourns the passing of Peter Daland (USA) at the age of 93. Peter Daland was a former Technical Delegate for Swimming. The University of Southern California legend and co-founder of ‘Swimming World Magazine’ graduated from Swarthmore College in 1948 and began coaching in Rose Valley, Pa., where he captured eight […]
László Cseh in action BUDAPEST – A significant number of participants (186) gathered again for the Hungarian university swimming championship. It took place in the Komjádi swimming pool where 24 academies’ 186 attendants – many star athletes from the national team – competed for the medals. In the men’s events László CSEH (Shenzhen SU […]
More than 50 swimmers from the UCR, UNA and U-TEC America met in the tournament COSTA RICA – The organization of the 3rd edition of FECUNDE’s University Swimming Tournament was a complete success, with the representatives of the National University (UNA) landing the overall first place, for men’s and women’s teams while the event’s […]
Pawel Fajdek LAUSANNE – Since the successful 27th Summer Universiade in Kazan ended on July 17th, a great number of the high-profiled student-athletes participating in this FISU event continued their season competing in the Worlds of their respective sports. The FISU Media Department took a closer look at the recently held World Championships of FIE […]
KAZAN – The Games have finally started and the magic of the Universiade has enchanted the city. At this issue we decided to check if everything is in order at the synchronized swimming. Mme Virginia Ruf Jasontek, the technical delegate for this sport confirmed: «Everything is perfect it couldn’t be better!». She insisted on the […]
OTTAWA – Canadian Interuniversity Sport, in conjunction with Swimming Canada, announced Thursday May 2nd, the 38 student-athletes who will represent Canada in swimming at the 2013 Summer Universiade in Kazan, Russia (July 6-17). Highlighting the red and white roster are no less than eight members of the 2012 Canadian Olympic team, including Stephanie Horner of […]
BUDAPEST – Star-studded line-up at the 2011 edition of the Hungarian Universities‘ and Colleges‘ Swimming Championships: reigning World and European Champions, Olympic medallists and a Paralympic Champion raced for the medals in Budapest. One of the best championships ever was staged in Hungary as the nations‘ top swimmers all took part in the event. […]
