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Pan Pacific Championships: Team USA Captures Team Title; Douglass, Short Named Swimmers of the Meet Behind 19 gold-medal performances and 50 podium appearances, the United States captured the team title at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine, California. Over four days of action at the William W...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Four Finals: Zac Stubblety-Cook Steals 200 Breast Title in Final Strokes The career of Zac Stubblety-Cook has been defined by extended excellence in the 200-meter breaststroke. The Australian is an Olympic champion, a world titlist and a former world-record holder in...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Four Finals: Tomoyuki Matsushita Completes Medley Double with Late Rally Heading into the final night of the Pan Pacific Championships, Tomoyuki Matsushita was best known for his prowess in the 400-meter individual medley. The Japanese star was the silver medalist at...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night Four Heat Sheets; Katie Ledecky vs. Lani Pallister in 800 Freestyle The last session of the Pan Pacific Championships will unfold on Saturday night at the William Woollett Aquatics Center, with the final of the women's 50-meter freestyle the headline event. During th...

European Championships, Night Six Semifinals: Hubert Kos Positioned to Chase Gold in 200 IM As the European Championships near their conclusion, the schedule calls for plenty of semifinal action on Saturday, including competition in the men's 50-meter freestyle. That event will feature Russia's Egor...

Pan Pacific Championships: Day Four Prelims Heat Sheets; Showdown in Women's 50 Freestyle on Tap The final day of the Pan Pacific Championships kicks off on Saturday morning and it's not difficult to identify the most-anticipated event. The women's 50-meter freestyle will have training partners Gret...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Three Finals: Team USA Snares Gold in 400 Freestyle Relay as Legendary WR Survives Older fans of the sport can typically recall where they viewed. Younger fans have gone the digital route to watch the race. Regardless of age, the legend of the United States' 400-mete...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night Three Finals: Sam Short Takes Down Ian Thorpe Championship Record in 400 Freestyle The feeling of invincibility is a sense all athletes dream of experiencing at some point in their careers. In that moment, they exude unmatched confidence and enter competition with th...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night Three Heat Sheets; Ledecky vs. Pallister - Part II The third night of finals at the Pan Pacific Championships will get underway with Round Two of Katie Ledecky vs. Lani Pallister, this time in the 400-meter freestyle. On Night One, Ledecky edged Pallister in the 1500...

European Championships, Night Five Semifinals: Sarah Sjostrom and Leon Marchand Shine En Route to Finals There is no doubt that the home crowd at the European Championships in Paris will be eager to see what four-time Olympic champion Leon Marchand has to offer on Friday night. Marchand will race th...

Pan Pacific Championships: Day Three Heat Sheets; Battle Brewing in Women's 400 Freestyle The third morning session at the Pan Pacific Championships will start with the can't-miss women's 400-meter freestyle, as world-record holder Summer McIntosh lines up with Katie Ledecky and Lani Pallister. All ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Finals: Gabriel Jett Anchors U.S. to 800 Freestyle Relay Crown Seventeen years ago, Rome was the site of a world-record blitz during the World Championships. At the height of the super-suit era, 43 global standards were set in "The Eternal City," and while just a h...

Pan Pacific Championships, Day Two Finals: Jack Alexy Mines Gold in 100 Freestyle; USA Set for 400n Freestyle Relay A little more than two weeks ago, Jack Alexy walked away from the 100-meter freestyle at the United States National Championships with a seventh-place finish. The performance he logged...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night Two Heat Sheets; Can USA Take Down WR in Men's 800 Freestyle Relay? The second night session of the Pan Pacific Championships will end with the men's 800-meter freestyle relay, where the United States will take aim at the world record that has endured for 17 years. A...

European Championships, Day Four Semifinals: David Popovici Closing In on Third Title in 200 Freestyle Fresh off a come-from-behind victory in the 100-meter freestyle, where he clocked the third-fastest time in history, Romania's David Popovici was the headliner of semifinal action on Night Four of ...

Pan Pacific Championships: Day Two Heat Sheets; Kate Douglass Opts for 100 Breaststroke After the first night of the Pan Pacific Championships delivered a world record in the mixed 400-meter medley relay and victories from Katie Ledecky (1500 freestyle) and Lani Pallister (200 freestyle), expectatio...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night One Finals: Katie Ledecky Adds to Legacy in 1500 Freestyle A pair of Olympic titles. Six world championships. Three Pan Pacific crowns. Those are the international credentials for the United States' Katie Ledecky in the 1500-meter freestyle, an event the 29-year-old ...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night One Finals: Canada's Blake Tierney Rallies for Gold in 100 Backstroke Prior to Wedneday night, the lone medal Blake Tierney had earned in international competition arrived in the 100-meter backstroke at the Pan American Games in 2023. That visit to Santiago, Chile pr...

Pan Pacific Championships, Night One Finals: Lani Pallister Clips Summer McIntosh in 200 Freestyle Last month, Lani Pallister exited the pool at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with a silver medal in the 200-meter freestyle, as she finished behind countrywoman Mollie O'Callaghan. A few weeks later...

Pan Pacific Championships: Night One Finals Heat Sheets; Summer McIntosh Chasing WR in 200 Freestyle Several world records will be on watch during the first night of finals at the Pan Pacific Championships, including Summer McIntosh chasing the global mark in the 200-meter freestyle. McIntosh eased ...