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Martine Damborg: A Rising Star to Continue Denmark’s Legacy After winning two gold medals at the European Short Course Championship in Lublin, Poland and setting four European Junior records, Martine Damborg has emerged as the athlete who will carry Denmark’s legacy into the future. It had been 12 y...

The Defending Champs Headed for European Short Course Championships The 2025 European Short Course Swimming Championships (December 2-7) will take place next week in Lublin, Poland and numerous champions from the 2023 competition in Otopeni, Romania have decided to defend their titles and enrich the...

Fab Five: The Athletes Who Captured World Titles in Singapore and Swept the World Cup Tour  The 2025 season has given the world of swimming incredible races, times and duels from which a handful of swimmers managed to record undefeated runs between the World Championships last summer in Singapore, a...

An Evolution: Lani Pallister Has Shown her Real Powers to the World in 2025 From the World Championships in Singapore to her recent performances at the World Cup, it has been a spectacular 2025 for Australian Lani Pallister. The year started with a coaching change, as Pallister shifted her training ...

Big Names Figure to Deliver World Records at World Cup Series Later this week, many of the world's top swimmers will be in action for the first stop of the World Cup series in North America. The three events (Carmel; Westmont; Toronto) will welcome Olympic champions, world champions and world-record...

Leon Marchand and Gretchen Walsh Produced Top-Rated Races of the Season (Full Scoring Results) The focus in swimming has largely turned to the short-course season, which means we can take a look at the long-course campaign and highlight the best swims that took place in 2025. It should be no surpris...

Before They Became Superstars: World Junior Championships Has Served As Springboard for Future Success At the World Junior Championships that wrapped up over the weekend, we witnessed the rise of a new generation in the sport. In the years ahead, some of the athletes who flourished as juniors will t...

Commentary: Return of Russian Athletes to World Champs a Boost for Competition The World Championships in Singapore was full of memorable moments. The four gold medals won by Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand’s world record in the 200 individual medley and Katie Ledecky’s seventh gold medal in the 800 ...

On the Bucket List: Which Swimmers are Ranked No. 1, but Still Chasing a World Title? Many of the swimmers at the top of the current world rankings have never won a gold medal at the World Championships - at least in the event which they lead. Will that scenario change in Singapore? Will they back u...

The Rise of Greek Swimming is Due to a Water Polo Man Swimming was never the No.1 sport of Greece, not even No.1 in aquatics. But everything changed when Kiriakos Giannopoulos took command of the Hellenic Swimming Federation in 2021. Three years later, at the 2024 Games, Apostolos Christou won Greec...

Speed Show: How Summer of 2025 is Shaping Up to Be Faster Than Olympic Year Last year was an extraordinary season for the sport of swimming. Because of the Olympic Games in Paris, athletes targeted their best shape possible and to deliver at the most important time. Less than a year later, the pace ...

Europe Needs a New Star in Women’s Events to Keep Up with the Rest of the World The last three years, Summer McIntosh, Mollie O’Callaghan, Ariarne Titmus and Gretchen Walsh - among others - have been showstoppers in the sport. They are generational female talents who have altered the record books. W...

Greece's Apostolos Siskos Has Emerged as Major Backstroke Threat It is not very common to see a Greek swimmer at the top of the world rankings in any event, but that's where 19-year-old Apostolos Siskos sits in the 200-meter backstroke. And 2025 might just be the start of major achievements to come....

On a Spectacular Run, Gretchen Walsh Can Use Summer to Enhance Star on Road to LA28 Maybe we are rushing, because the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles are more than three years away. But the host country has found its star for the biggest global stage, with Gretchen Walsh already writing history. T...