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Summer McIntosh Taking on Five Events, Including 'Biggest Challenge' 800 Free, at Worlds Over five successive days at Canadian Trials, Summer McIntosh redefined the limits of possibility in each of her events, breaking three world records while approaching two more marks considered untouchable. But ...

World Championships Entry List Released: Leon Marchand Entered in All Four Gold-Medal Events World Aquatics has released the entry list for the 42 pool swimming events that will be contested at the organization's upcoming signature event in Singapore. These entries contain the swimmers entered in ea...

Bobby Finke Seeking to Continue Winning Ways in Distance Races in Singapore His two Olympic gold medals in Tokyo, both achieved in dramatic, come-from-behind fashion, cemented Bobby Finke as a legendary figure in distance freestyle. Count out Finke at your own risk, just like Florian Wellbrock, Mykh...

Summer McIntosh Met Michael Phelps via FaceTime After Sensational Trials Performance The heights to which Summer McIntosh is attempting to push herself this year are nearly unprecedented. Following her historic three-world-record performance at Canadian Trials, McIntosh will race five individual eve...

Luca Urlando, Ilya Kharun Chasing Leon Marchand for 200 Butterfly Supremacy In his most recent World Championships appearance, Kristof Milak put forth arguably the finest performance of his career. The Hungarian swept the 100 and 200 butterfly in front of a partisan crowd in Budapest, knocking off h...

South Korean Teenager Kim Young-beom Announces Relay World Record Goal for Worlds South Korea is hardly known as a swimming powerhouse, having never won Olympic or World Championships medals in swimming until 2007. More recently, mid-distance freestyle has become a national strength, with Park Tae-h...

David Popovici, Luke Hobson Leading Men’s 200 Freestyle in World-Record Pursuit A dramatic Olympic final came down to the last strokes before David Popovici claimed his long-sought Olympic gold. The Romanian star was still only 19 years old but seemingly a veteran of such high-stakes finals as he to...

Aaron Shackell to Team Up With Siblings at Indiana After Stops at Cal and Texas After using his first two seasons of NCAA eligibility at Cal and then Texas, U.S. Olympian Aaron Shackell now plans to represent the Indiana Hoosiers. Shackell did not make a formal announcement of the move, but he now l...

Can Kaylee McKeown and Regan Smith Continue Backstroke Dominance in Singapore? The last time Kaylee McKeown was beaten in a major international final of the 100 or 200 backstroke was 2019. The Australian won double individual gold in both Tokyo and Paris while winning four world titles in the stroke...

David Popovici Becomes Global Ambassador for Automation Company UiPath The 20-year-old Romanian who last year became his country's first-ever Olympic champion in men's swimming has continued to expand his business reach. David Popovici has been named a global ambassador for UiPath, a company that sp...

World Record Watch (Men's): Can Leon Marchand or Others Set New Standards at Worlds? Amid his historic four-gold medal performance at the Paris Olympics, Leon Marchand came up just short of world-record pace every time out. In his opening victory in the 400 IM, he swam the second-fastest time in his...

Torri Huske Drops 200 Freestyle From Worlds Lineup; Erin Gemmell Inserted for Individual Event As is usually the case at major international competitions, Torri Huske will have a busy schedule at the Singapore World Championships. She will be a medal favorite in three individual events, but she has ...

World Record Watch (Women's): How Many Can Summer McIntosh and Others Break in Singapore? Six women’s world records have already gone down in the early portion of the 2025 long course season. The first three all came May 3 in Fort Lauderdale, with Gretchen Walsh breaking her own world record in the ...

Tang Qianting Slightly Favored for World Title in Tightly Packed Women’s 100 Breaststroke In her first three appearances swimming for the United States at major international competitions, Lilly King was untouchable in the 100 breaststroke. A dramatic win at the Rio Olympics was followed by a world ...

Relay World-Record Holder David Walters to Receive Pat Tillman Award for Service at ESPYS Sixteen years after David Walters helped the United States set a world record in the 800 freestyle relay, he will receive one of the signature honors in sports at the upcoming ESPY Awards. Walters is now a memb...

Pan Zhanle vs. David Popovici: 100 Freestyle Showdown Awaits Together, these two 20-year-olds are responsible for the only record-breaking swims in the 100 freestyle since the supersuit era. Moreover, David Popovici and Pan Zhanle were the only men to break any world records in long course freestyle...

Regan Smith Wins Two More as Indy Summer Cup Concludes; Chris Guiliano, Simone Manuel Post Quick 100 Freestyle Times Swimmers that train at the University of Texas continued to put up wins in Indianapolis during their final tune-up for next month's World Championships in Singapore. Regan Smith picke...

Regan Smith, Hubert Kos Score Two Wins Apiece Friday Night at Indy Cup After jumping up the world rankings with a 56.52 100 butterfly Thursday night, Regan Smith won two further events in Friday's session while Hungarian Hubert Kos, the Olympic champion in the 200 backstroke and another University o...

World Championship Relay Analysis: China Favored to Back Up Olympic Gold With Men’s Medley Relay Title In the final men’s race at the Paris Olympics, the Chinese team made history by knocking off the United States in the 400 medley relay for the first time ever. Four days after storming to individua...

World Championships Relay Analysis: No One Stopping American Women in Medley Relay The Tokyo Olympic final of the women’s 400 medley relay looks like a blip. Fueled by a career meet from Emma McKeon and an overperforming breaststroke split from Chelsea Hodges, Australia took down the United States f...