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CANBERRA, November 10: World record holders Robert Hurley and Matt Jaukovic and Queensland teenager Amy Smith all won gold medals while Marieke Guehrer maintained her overall points lead after the second day of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Moscow overnight. Hurley added the 50 metres backstroke title in 23.54 and silver in the 200m backstroke in 1:52.94 to his day one win in the 100 metres backstroke to maintain second place in the race for the $US180,000 men's prize pool. - Ian Hanson reports...
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Marieke Guehrer (Australia) and new men's leader Cameron van der Burgh (South Africa) are the overall leaders after meet five in Russia.
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CANBERRA, November 9: Australian swimmers have collected four gold medals on the opening day of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup in Moscow overnight. IAN HANSON reports....
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john carew 1photo ascta.jpg By Ian Hanson

Australian swimming has lost one of its greatest ever coaches with the death of master coach John Carew who died overnight, aged 81.

The man who guided Kieren Perkins to two Olympic gold medals, died peacefully in his Brisbane home after a long illness.

Swimming Australia president and life-long friend, David Urquhart described Carew as a "pioneer in all forms of coaching."

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Pointscore Leaders after meet four Marieke Guehrer and Christian Sprenger from Australia.
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CANBERRA, November 3: Marieke Guehrer has increased her lead in the women's pointscore while Christian Sprenger, Robert Hurley and Matt Jaukovic remain locked in a three way battle for a slice of the $US360,000 overall prizemoney after round four of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup wound up in Singapore last night. - Ian Hanson reports...
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CANBERRA, October 31: Singapore's round of the FINA/ARENA Swimming World Cup this weekend is shaping up as a "mini duel in the pool" with United States foursome Tara Kirk, Kara Lynn Joyce, Randall Bal and Peter Marshall up against Australia's rising group of Telstra Dolphins. Experienced backstrokers Bal and Marshall are sure to keep 20-year-old emerging Dolphin Robert Hurley on his toes after the AIS-based Wollongong boy broke the four-year-old world record in the 50m backstroke in Sydney last Sunday. - IAN HANSON reports...
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Pointscore Leaders after meet three Marieke Guehrer and Christian Sprenger from Australia.
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SYDNEY, October 27: It was the start of one magnificent career and the end of another at the Telstra Swimmer of the Year Awards in Sydney tonight with Beijing golden girl Stephanie Rice becoming the sixth female winner of the coveted Telstra Swimmer of the Year Award at a glittering function at Darling Harbour and the night also saw the end of another with the surprise retirement of the world's greatest distance swimmer Grant Hackett. Rice, 20, joins Hayley Lewis, Susie O'Neill, Jodie Henry, Leisel Jones and Libby Trickett on a prestigious list of "who's who" to have won the coveted award, presented in front of over 500 people at the Sydney Convention Centre.
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