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Events. 28. ← 2022. 2024 →. The 2023 Toyota U.S. Open Swimming Championships took place from November 29 to December 2, 2023, at Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. [1] Competition was conducted in a long course (50-meter) pool. Swimmers were allowed to compete representing their country, such as Hong ...
The U.S. Open Swimming Championships, or U.S. Open, is a championship meet organized by USA Swimming which is open to international teams/swimmers. It was first held in 1985, and was held annually in December through 2006. [1] Beginning in 2007, the meet's first-weekend-of-December timing was given over to the resurrected USA Short Course ...
The United States Swimming National Championships (a.k.a. "Nationals") are held annually, in summer. The event is organized by USA Swimming, and is held in a long course (50m) pool. In the past, and as recently as 2007, there were 2 meets annually: a Spring and a Summer Nationals. The Spring meet began as a 25-yard ( short course) meet, while ...
Mark Andrew Spitz (born February 10, 1950) is an American former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion. He was the most successful athlete at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, winning seven gold medals, each in world-record time. This achievement set a record that lasted for 36 years, until it was surpassed by fellow American ...
List of successful English Channel swimmers. This is a list of notable successful swims across the English Channel, [ 1] a straight-line distance of at least 18.2 nautical miles (20.9 mi; 33.7 km). [ 2] Aerial view of the Strait of Dover. Ted Heaton (in water) being fed by assistants during his 1910 swim.
A bonus pool of $1,000,000 is also to US Open champions who have clinched the first place of the US Open Series. [14] In the U.S. National Championships, Richard Sears (1881–1887), William Larned (1901–1902, 1907–1911) and Bill Tilden (1920–1925, 1929) hold the record for most titles in the men's singles, with seven victories each. Four ...
"U.S. Open Pocket Billiards Championship" as a proper noun most often refers to the straight pool (14.1 continuous pool) championship, the oldest of the events. Though "U.S. Open Pool Championship" as a stand-in for an official event name most commonly refers to the nine-ball event, it may, depending upon context, refer to any of six different ...
Swimming and schooling. Denigan began open-water swimming more than a decade ago at the age of 10, back when the longest race distance was just 1 kilometer. She won the first open-water race in ...