Liz Byrnes - Europe Correspondent - (Author)

The LEN Swimming Cup returns for a second season at the 22nd Euro Meet in Luxembourg from 24-26 January where a strong line-up including Olympic and world champions will include a battle royale featuring Florent Manaudou, Ben Proud and Bruno Fratus in the 50m free. Olympic champion Pernille Blume an...

Freya Anderson gave a hint of an exciting 2020 to come when she took a sledgehammer to her 200m freestyle PB as she came away from the Flanders Cup in Antwerp, Belgium, with three gold medals. James Guy won the 100 free as he too enjoyed a successful weekend that saw the Bath National Centre swimmer...

James Guy claimed two titles and Freya Anderson was also among the winners on the first day of the Flanders Cup in Antwerp with Olympic preparations now in full swing. Guy won the 200m freestyle after leading from the outset and pulling away in the second half of the race with the 2015 world champio...

Arno Kamminga moved up to sixth all-time with a Dutch 100m breaststroke record and Danas Rapsys made up a deficit of 0.49secs at the final turn to beat Sun Yang in the 200m freestyle on the first day of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen, China. Kamminga, fresh from double 100m and 200m gold...

Sun Yang was all smiles and full of plans for 2020 on the eve of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen, China, with a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that will determine his future just days away. There had been confusion over whether the Chinese would compete after conflicting r...

Adam Peaty and Katinka Hosszu have been named the top male and female swimmers in Europe in 2019 in the 12th edition of the LEN Awards. It is the third time in four years that Peaty has been given this accolade - which is voted for by national federations and the European governing body's officials ...

Federica Pellegrini has added her voice to the global horror as devastating bushfires continue to burn in Australia, saying "we must do something to change the course of history ... NOW". The death toll continues to rise as fire ravages New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia and while rain ha...

Liz Byrnes, Swimming World's new European Correspondent, hones in on the achievements of Adam Peaty, one of the most outstanding pioneers on the pool in swimming history, as her No1 pick in our series looking back at our favourite moments of the decade about to end. Liz's list is rich with some of t...

Marco Koch, the 2015 world 200m breaststroke champion, has appointed former Germany national team director Dirk Lange and the man who guided Cameron van der Burgh to Olympic gold as his new coach seven months ahead of Tokyo 2020. Koch, who also claimed silver behind Hungary’s former Olympic champion...

Four-time Olympic champion Kosuke Kitajima is the latest swimming luminary to endorse the International Swimming League with the news that he will front a Tokyo team in next season’s competition. Tokyo and Toronto, Canada, were unveiled as the two new franchises who have yet to be named that will co...

Daiya Seto had to contend with a headache and jet-lag but it mattered not a jot as the Japanese swimmer unleashed a thunderous 400IM world record on day one of the grand finale of the International Swimming League in Las Vegas. The 25-year-old marked his ISL debut with a time of 3mins 54.81secs to c...

Double Olympic champion Cate Campbell has described the International Swimming League as a "revolution" she is proud to be part of as the four teams vying to be crowned the first ISL champions fine-tune their final preparations in Las Vegas. Campbell’s London Roar team will face LA Current, Cali Con...

Arno Kamminga set new Dutch records in the 50m and 100m breaststroke as swimmers booked their place on the Netherlands team for Tokyo 2020 and the European Championships at the Amsterdam Cup over the weekend. Kamminga has enjoyed a fruitful few days as he followed three trips to the podium at the Eu...

Ross Murdoch and Kara Hanlon both completed a clean sweep of the breaststroke events on the final night of the Scottish National Short-Course Championships in Edinburgh. Murdoch, the 2014 Commonwealth champion, won the 200m in 2mins 03.71secs ahead of University of Stirling team-mate and two-time Ol...

A second British record fell in the space of 24 hours at the Scottish National Short-Course Championships as the University of Stirling team led off by Duncan Scott lowered the men's 4x50m freestyle mark in Edinburgh. The quartet of Scott, Martyn Walton, Scott McLay and Craig McLean lowered the mark...

The Scottish National Short-Course Championships started with a bang in Edinburgh as the men’s University of Stirling 4x50m medley relay set a new British record to consign another mark from the shiny-suit era to history. [caption id="attachment_153337" align="alignnone" width="327"] Photo Courtesy:...

Former European 400m freestyle bronze medallist Jay Lelliott won four gold medals at the National Winter Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. There was also a British record in the 200m breaststroke for Jocelyn Ulyett while Loughborough University claimed all the relay titles. [caption id="attac...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 5 Finals and Semi-Finals  Vladimir Morozov finished the European Short-Course Championships with seven gold medals after he won the 100m freestyle and rounded off the competition with the breaststroke leg as Russia delivered a thunderous title-winning...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 5 Heats Freya Anderson returned to the pool the morning after winning the 200m freestyle for a double header that took her from the shortest of sprints to middle distance in little more than an hour at the European Short-Course Championships in Glasgo...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 4 Finals and Semi-Finals Katinka Hosszu became the first woman to complete the treble treble when she made a clean sweep of the medley titles with victory in the 200IM at the European Short-Course Championships in Glasgow. Russia - with a lead-off leg...