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Three-time Olympic Champion Adam Peaty Announces Engagement To Holly Ramsay Three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty has announced his engagement to partner Holly Ramsay. The double world record-holder has often credited Ramsay - the daughter of celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay - with having a stabilising...

"Adam Peaty A Fantastic Role Model," Says Swim England CEO Amid #LoveSwimming Campaign Swim England CEO Andy Salmon has described Adam Peaty as a “fantastic role model” in and out of the pool. Peaty won 100m breaststroke silver at Paris 2024 behind winner Nicolo Martinenghi to add to his golds from ...

Claire Weinstein & Brinkleigh Hansen Clinch USA Double At World Junior Open Water Championships Claire Weinstein and Brinkleigh Hansen made it double gold for the USA with victories in their respective 7.5k and 5k races at the 2024 World Aquatics Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Alghero, ...

Sacha Velly & Claire Stuhlmacher Enjoy Contrasting 10k Victories At World Junior Open Water Swimming Championships France’s Sacha Velly and Claire Stuhlmacher of the USA claimed respective 10k victories at the 2024 World Aquatics Junior Open Water Swimming Championships in Alghero, Sardinia. Af...

Paralympic Games, Day 3: World Records For Great Britain Duo Stephen Clegg & Will Ellard Great Britain's Stephen Clegg set a world record of 59.02 en-route to gold in the men's S12 100m backstroke on the third day of the Paralympics in Paris. The 28-year-old led throughout, extending his advantage o...

Commonwealth Games Scotland Wants 2026 Decision As Glasgow Waits In Wings Commonwealth Games Scotland (CGS) has called on the Scottish Government to decide whether Glasgow can host the 2026 multi-sport event. The State of Victoria, Australia, was due to stage the Games but withdrew in July 2023 citi...

Izzy Thorpe Adjusting To Life After Landmark Silver In Artistic Swimming When an athlete stands on the Olympic podium with a medal around their neck, it’s a brief moment that follows years of dedication, intensity, commitment and planning. Athletes go all in in every area of their lives as they push...

Success of British 800 Freestyle Relay Can Be Connected to Camaraderie and Brotherhood No four individuals had combined to win relay gold medals at two different Olympics. The United States’ men’s 800 freestyle relay came close when Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Peter Vanderkaay, who were three me...

Kieran Bird: From The Local Leisure Centre To Paris 2024 As Swim England Launch #LoveSwimming Campaign At around 830pm local time on 30 July 2024, James Guy dived into lane four to lead off the Great Britain men's 4x200 freestyle relay in Paris. Less than seven minutes later – 6mins 59.43secs to be ...

Beyond Leon Marchand, European Men Packaged Dominant Showing at Paris Games How dominant were the European men at the Olympic Games in Paris? Have a look at these numbers. European men won all but three of the individual events at La Defense Arena, and of the 42 medals on offer in solo races, 24 wer...

Bill Furniss Retires As Aquatics GB Head Coach Following 19 Medals Across Three Olympics Bill Furniss is retiring as Aquatics GB Head Coach after overseeing a five-medal haul in Paris at his fourth Olympic Games  in the role. Furniss will head into retirement as the most successful Head Coach in the...

Paris Olympics: The Old Men and the 50 Free; How Veterans Dominated the Sprint Cast your mind back to August 1, 2021. Florent Manaudou came through the mixed zone where swimmers speak to reporters draped in the French flag and with a huge smile on his face. He’d just won his third consecutive Olympi...

Tom Daley Retires After Olympic Career Spanning 16 Years & A Full Set Of Medals Tom Daley has retired from diving after a senior international career that spanned 16 years and brought Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth titles. The 30-year-old has been winning national titles since 2007 and in...

AP Race Launch Swimming Academy In Saudi Arabia AP Race, a brand co-founded and built by three-time Olympic champion Adam Peaty that includes clinics and events, has launched a swimming academy in Saudi Arabia. Peaty and Ed Baxter founded the AP brand which has been delivering race clinics since 201...

Paris Olympics: Kristof Rasovszky Adds Olympic 10k Gold To World Title As Hungary Enjoy 1-3 Finish Kristof Rasovszky of Hungary added the Olympic title to his world crown with victory in the 10k at Paris 2024. Rasovszky was in the top two throughout and came home in 1:50:52.7 to upgrade Tokyo silver...

Paris Olympics: Sharon van Rouwendaal Makes Late Move For Historic 10k Gold Ahead of Johnson & Taddeucci Sharon van Rouwendaal became the first marathon swimmer to win two Olympic golds after she made a late charge to overhaul Moesha Johnson and sprint home at Paris 2024. The Netherlands athlete mad...

Paris Olympics: World Aquatics Cancel Marathon Swimming Training Due To Poor Water Quality Open water swimming at Paris 2024 is coming under ever-increasing scrutiny after World Aquatics cancelled a training session in the River Seine due to water quality concerns. While, E. coli levels were accepta...

Katinka Hosszu Calls On Hungarian Leadership To Resign Katinka Hosszu has put the Hungarian Swimming Federation on full blast and called for the leadership's resignation following Paris 2024. Hungary won three medals at La Defense Arena with Kristof Milak and Hubert Kos taking gold in the 100 fly an...

FLASH! Bobby Finke Crushes 1500 Free World Record In 14:30.67; WJR For Kuzey Tuncelli Bobby Finke set a new 1500 free world record of 14:30.67, 12 years to the day since Sun Yang set the previous mark at London 2012. The American was 0.94 inside Sun's WR at 1450 and came home in 26.27 to take 0.35 o...

Paris Olympics, Day 8 Finals: Kristof Milak Fights Back To Take 100 Fly In 49.90; Josh Liendo Breaks 50 Seconds When Leon Marchand came past Kristof Milak to accelerate into the wall and take the 200 fly title, it condemned the Hungarian to his first defeat over four lengths in a major international...