Swimming Dec 16, 2012

Seto grabs 200 IM silver at worlds

Daiya Seto placed second in the men’s 200-meter individual medley Friday to capture his second medal at the short-course FINA Swimming World Championships. The 18-year-old Seto was a distant second to American Ryan Lochte, who broke his own world record with a lung-busting time ...

Swimming Dec 15, 2012

Seto wins gold at short-course worlds

Japanese teen Daiya Seto rewrote his own record Thursday en route to winning the men’s 400-meter individual medley on the second day of the short-course FINA World Swimming Championships. Eighteen-year-old Seto shaved 0.87 second off his previous mark to take the gold medal in ...

Swimming Nov 4, 2012

Olympic star Ye triumphs in 200 IM

Ye Shiwen, China’s teenage swimming sensation, stormed to victory in the 200-meter individual medley despite claiming to be 85 percent fit at Beijing’s short-course World Cup meet on Friday. The 16-year-old who stunned the sporting world with two gold medals in the women’s 200 ...

Swimming Oct 22, 2012

Swimmer Seto sets new record

Teenager Daiya Seto set a new World Cup record in the 400-meter Individual Medley final on Saturday on the opening day of Berlin’s short-course meet. The 18-year-old Japanese record-holder notched his fifth consecutive victory in the event, coming home in 4 minutes, 00.12 seconds ...

Swimming Oct 7, 2012

Greek swimmer wins compensation

The Greek Swimming Federation has been ordered to pay €277,000 ($360,986) to 100-meter freestyle swimmer Tonia Machaira for wrongfully excluding her from the 2004 Athens Olympics on the grounds she had failed a drug test. Machaira filed a suit for €1 million eight years ...

Swimming Apr 5, 2012

Terakawa into backstroke semis

World silver medalist Aya Terakawa strolled through the preliminaries of the women’s 100-meter backstroke, taking a time of 1 minute, .28 seconds into the semifinals of the national championships Wednesday. Terakawa, who medaled for her first time at last year’s world championships in Shanghai ...

Swimming Mar 12, 2012

Kitajima completes double in U.S.

Kosuke Kitajima completed a double with a victory in the men’s 200-meter breaststroke in a U.S. swimming Grand Prix series meet Saturday. The two-time double Olympic champion touched the wall in 2 minutes, 10.35 seconds, adding to his win in the 100 the previous ...

Swimming Mar 11, 2012

Kitajima triumphs in tuneup race

Two-time double Olympic breaststroke champion Kosuke Kitajima won the 100 meters in a U.S. swimming Grand Prix series meet Friday. The Japanese star touched the wall in 1 minute, 0.13 seconds as part of his warmup for the Olympic qualifying national championships in Tokyo ...

Swimming Feb 12, 2012

Hagiwara triumphs in 50m freestyle

Comeback kid Tomoko Hagiwara continued her resurgence in the pool as the Sydney Olympian won the women’s 50-meter freestyle in a Japan record at the national short-course championships Saturday. Two months ahead of the Japanese qualifiers for London, Hagiwara, who turns 32 in April, ...

Swimming Jan 30, 2012

Ueda sets national swimming record

Swimmer Haruka Ueda set a new national record in the women’s 100-meter freestyle at the Tokyo championships Sunday. Ueda touched the wall at Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center in 54.33 seconds. She bettered the mark of Misaki Yamaguchi, who timed 54.43 in one of ...