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Apostolos Siskos Posts Fastest Time in World in 200 Backstroke; Becomes Third-Fastest European of All-Time During the first day of Acropolis Swim Open in Athens, Apostolos Siskos claimed victory in the 200-meter backstroke with the fastest time in the world for 2026. The 20-year-old registered a per...

Spain Leads Strong Field for the World Cup Division I Water Polo Tournament International competition is back in water polo as Alexandroupoli hosts the World Cup Division I Tournament from April 6-12. The top countries in the world will gather in the Greek city to battle for five tickets guaranteei....

First Stop of Open Water World Cup Scheduled for Weekend in Somabay The first stop of the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup will kick off on March 27-28 in Somabay and many greats of the sport will swim in the Egyptian waters. The weekend marks the first opportunity to collect points for ...

Sarah Sjostrom Leads a Handful of Comebacks to Follow During the 2026 Season The 2026 season could be one remembered for stars returning to the big stage and beginning the journey toward the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Swimming fans will have the chance to follow several comebacks this season...

Marrit Steenbergen Leads Strong Field Set to Race at the Giant Open in Paris Two years after hosting the Olympic Games, Paris will welcome top swimmers to the city this summer for the European Aquatics Championships. But this week at the Olympic Aquatics Centre in Saint Denis, the Giant Open will be...

Faster Than Paris: The Events That Have Eclipsed the Winning Time of the 2024 Olympics The Olympic Games, for more than a century, have offered the most desirable gold medals in the sport. Held every four years, careers can be defined by Olympic titles. For that reason, time is secondary at the Olym...

The Most Top-10 Performances: Summer McIntosh and Sarah Sjostrom Lead the Way Who owns the most top-10 performances in women's swimming history? It's a question that initially suggested Katie Ledecky as an answer, given her long-term dominance in the distance-freestyle events. While Ledecky owns 19 ...

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....