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Leon Marchand Headlines 18-Strong France Team for World Short Course Championships Leon Marchand headlines an 18-strong France team that will travel to Beijing next month for the World Short Course Championships. The team comprises five men and 13 women with Marchand seeking his first international ...

Sacha Velly Resets French 1500 Record & Beryl Gastaldello Claims Sixth Crown Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Day 3 report Sacha Velly set a French 1500 record and Beryl Gastaldello made it six titles as the French Elite Championships came to an end in Angers. Velly, winner of world and European ju...

Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Beryl Gastaldello stamped a French 100 back record en-route to a golden double and selections were locked in for the short-course worlds at the French Elite Championships in angers. Gastaldello had already captured three titles in the 50 back and fly and 100 free o...

Results Day 1 report Beryl Gastaldello and Maxime Grousset each added a third event to their respective short-course worlds programmes after the second night of finals at the French Elite Championships in Angers. Like Grousset, Gastadello made two trips to the top of the podium in the 50 back and 1...

Results Maxime Grousset and Beryl Gastaldello each captured double gold on the opening day of the French Elite Short Course Championships in Angers. Three-time world champion Grousset led the way in the 100 fly in 49.09 ahead of Clement Secchi who also went inside 50secs in 49.76 with Amaury Albar ...

Marrit Steenbergen and Sean Niewold are among 15 swimmers selected for the Netherlands team for the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Beijing in December. Ten women and five men will compete in China from 1-6 December with their selections based on performances at the Dutch Qualifiers in ...

Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Day 3 report Milou van Wijk and Sean Niewold each clinched the sprint freestyle double with championship records in the 50 as the Dutch Qualifiers wrapped up in Rotterdam. Van Wijk added the 50 title to her 100 crown in 23.34, a championship record and well within ...

Xu Jiayu Takes Down Newly-Minted 50 Back World Record Xu Jiayu stamped a new 50m backstroke world record of 22.03 to take down Pieter Coetze’s standard from earlier this month. Xu took .06 off the South African’s standard of 22.09, set at the Tashkent World Cup stop just 15 days earlier. The 31-year...

Sean Niewold & Noah Verreth Down National Records At Dutch Qualifiers Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Sean Niewold and Noah Verreth stamped Dutch and Belgian records as Beijing tickets were booked on the third day of the Dutch Qualifiers in Rotterdam. Niewold was already assured of selection to th...

Tatjana Smith Rattles African Record In Rotterdam; Dutch & Belgian Standards Tumble Results Day 1 report Records fell and qualification slots were locked in for the World Short Course Championships on the second day of the Dutch Qualifiers in Rotterdam. Tatjana Smith continues her return from retire...

Two-Time Olympic Relay Champion Matt Richards Heading To Florida Gators In Spring 2027 Two-time Olympic 4x200 relay champion Matt Richards is heading to the Florida Gators in spring 2027 with less than 18 months remaining until the LA Games in July 2028. The Gators made the announcement on social me...

Results Kai van Westering broke the national 200 back record as four swimmers booked their trips to the World Short Course Championships on the first day of the Dutch Qualifiers in Rotterdam. The four-day meet offers swimmers the opportunity to add their names to the Netherlands team for December’s...

Berlin, Paris & London To Stage 2027 World Cup; LA28 Sprint Qualification Up For Grabs London will stage the final leg of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup on 29-31 October 2027 where athletes can qualify for the LA 2028 Games in the men’s 50m breaststroke and women’s 50m backstroke. The meet wi...

Dario Verani and Klaudia Tarasiewicz are confirmed as the overall winners of the European Aquatics 2026 Open Water Swimming Cup with full prize money awarded despite only two of the scheduled four legs completed because of bad weather. The second and third legs were fulfilled in Tenero and Razanac b...

Lucy Hope has announced her retirement after a career that included two Olympics, four Commonwealth Games and trips to the world and European podiums. The Scot concludes her time in competitive waters with an extensive collection of relay medals since making her Great Britain debut at the 2016 Europ...

Marrit Steenbergen continued her record-breaking golden bull run and Gan Ching Hwee lowered the Asian 1500 free record on the first day of the final World Cup stop in Astana, Kazakhstan. Seven swimmers - five women and two men - completed Triple Crowns with a sweep of a single event over the three s...

Archie Goodburn thanked Prime Minister Andy Burnham after the UK Government announced new measures to improve brain cancer care. The Scot revealed in June 2024 that he had three inoperable brain tumours and had been diagnosed with oligodendroglioma, “an extremely rare form of incurable, diffuse and ...

Former Ireland National Coach George Gibney Jailed for 15 and a Half Years for Sexual Abuse Irish former coach George Gibney has been sentenced to 15 and a half years for sexually abusing girls in the 1970s and 1980s. In July, a jury found him guilty of 39 counts of indecent assault and one count of...

FLASH! Pieter Coetze Soars to 50 Back World Record at World Cup in Tashkent Pieter Coetze blazed to a 50 back world record of 22.09 at the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The South African cut 0.02 from the previous standard of 22.11 held by Kliment Kolesnikov since November 2022. Second at the t...

World Cup Tashkent, Day 2 Finals: Cam McEvoy & Egor Kornev to Renew Battle Cameron McEvoy and Egor Kornev shared the 100 free title on the second day of the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It was a second trip to the top of the podium in as many days for McEvoy after his 20.13 victory in the 50 f...