Memorable Moments of 2011: Swimming
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Hide caption10) The U.S. Women win the 4x100 medley relay in Shanghai. The team of Natalie Coughlin, Rebecca Soni, Dana Vollmer and Missy Franklin each posted the fastest splits in the field as they won gold at World Champs by three seconds and set a new American Record.
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Hide caption9) Alex Meyer makes the U.S. Olympic Team in the open water 10K. The Golden Goggle Breakout Swimmer of the Year became the first American to qualify for the London Games. He will also be swimming for his good friend Fran Crippen who drowned in an open water race last October.
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Hide caption8) Cesar Cielo wins in the face of doping allegations. One week before World Championships, Cielo was cleared for doping allegations, as CAS cited a Brazilian pharmacy at fault. An emotional Cielo went on to win the 50m free and 50m fly in Shanghai.
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Hide caption7) Ryan Lochte sets the tone in the 200m free at Worlds. Lochte proved he was the man to beat in 2011, as seen in the 200m free in Shanghai against a field which included Michael Phelps, reigning silver medalist Paul Biedermann, and Korea's Tae Hwan Park.
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Hide caption6) The comeback of Brendan Hansen. After a disappointing 2008 Olympics, Brendan Hansen retired from competitive swimming, but showed miraculous speed in his 2011 comeback. Hansen swept the breaststroke events at U.S. Summer Nationals, Winter Nationals, and the Duel in the Pool.
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Hide caption5) Missy Franklin sets her first World Record in Berlin. After a break-out World Championships, Franklin took down her first world mark in the short-course 200m backstroke at the World Cup meet in Berlin in October.
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Hide caption4) Rebecca Soni dominates the breaststrokes. Soni displayed her complete dominance of the women's breaststroke events, swimming the 8 fastest times in the world in the 100m breast and 7 of the top 8 fastest times in the 200m breaststroke.
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Hide caption3) Missy Franklin's breakout performance at Worlds. The swimming world had high hopes for the sixteen-year-old Franklin this summer, and she did not disappoint. She walked away from Worlds with 3 gold medals, a silver and a bronze, and proved to be a clutch relay swimmer for the U.S.
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Hide caption2) Sun Yang breaks longest standing world record. How it is that Sun's 14:34.14 in the 1500m free to break Grant Hackett's world record went relatively unnoticed is beyond us. This amazing distance feat was only the second WR to be broken since 2009.
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Hide caption1) Lochte out-touches Phelps for new WR in the 200m IM. Ryan Lochte again got the better of Michael Phelps in this mammoth showdown, as he touched the wall in 1:54.00, breaking his own world record and rounding out his five-gold-medal performance at World Championships.
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