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Swim Ireland have today announced 38 swimmers who will form three cohorts of national squads for the 2020-2021 season. There is a change in structure to the national squad programme with the performance team planning for the start of the Olympic cycle into Paris 2024 while also working towards ...

Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson has welcomed news that water polo clubs have been given the green light to return to training and competition. The governing body had submitted evidence to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport at the beginning of the month and it has now been confirmed...

The California Golden Bears picked up a big international commit on Monday night with World Juniors silver medalist Robin Hanson of Sweden sending his verbal commitment to Berkeley. Hanson won the silver medal at the 2019 World Juniors in the 200 freestyle behind Georgia freshman Luca Urlando and ah...

The Arizona State Sun Devils snagged a huge commit on Sunday out of French national record holder Leon Marchand from France. Marchand won the bronze medal in the 400 IM at the 2019 World Juniors with a 4:16.37, which stands as the national record for France as he was ranked 40th in the world in 2019...

Adam Peaty and Eiri Munro Welcome Parenthood Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Adam Peaty and girlfriend Eiri Munro welcomed their new baby boy on Friday. George-Anderson Adetola Peaty was born September 11, 2020, weighing in at nine pounds, seven ounces. The couple announced their pregn...

When Michael Gunning started swimming as a kid, he never assumed there was anything different about his presence. The native of Kent, England, didn’t see a lot of fellow people of color in the greater London area where he swam. He didn’t see Black faces alongside him on the Great Britain youth natio...

Iowa sophomore Millie Sansome, who starred in her one year at Iowa, announced Friday that she is transferring to the University of Georgia. The decision comes in light of the Hawkeyes’ decision to drop the program after the season. Sansome announced the decision on her Instagram account: The last fe...

27-year-old Sarah Sjostrom is one of the most successful swimmers still competing today. At the 2019 World Championships, she was the female swimmer of the meet after a gold in the 50 fly, silver in the 50 free and 100 fly, and bronze in the 200 & 100 free, and became the first woman to have won fiv...

The rosters for the second season of the International Swimming League (ISL) were released on Wednesday, as Energy Standard has reloaded its roster to push for a second straight league title after taking the first ISL title in 2019. The four European returning teams – Energy Standard, London Roar, T...

Swim Ireland have released a film to mark the launch of their ‘Return to Water’ campaign which encourages thousands of members nationwide to return to their local swimming pools and clubs. The coronavirus has cut a swathe across the world and many have - for a myriad reasons - not got back ...

European junior champion Matt Richards and Commonwealth gold medallists Georgia Davies and Alys Thomas are among 19 swimmers to have been named on the Swim Wales national senior elite squad. Also selected are two-time world 4x200 free champion Calum Jarvis, Dan Jervis, double Commonwealth 1500m free...

Ross Noble, who swims for YOTA (YMCA of the Triangle Area), was selected by the Scottish Swimming Association to represent Scotland on their 2020-2021 National Youth Squad. Ross is a dual citizen of the USA and the UK. Team Scotland has a significant presence on the international stage, led by swimm...

Double Olympic silver medallist Duncan Scott has welcomed the news he is to continue as an ambassador after Scottish Swimming and Scottish Water's Learn to Swim partnership was extended for a fourth year. Scott, who produced the second-fastest split in history when he anchored the GB 4x100m medley r...

Yuri Ganus, the chief executive of the Russian anti-doping agency (RUSADA) was fired on Friday. The World Anti-Doping Agency is “extremely concerned” about the dismissal of the outspoken leader. According to The Associated Press, Ganus was fired after alleged "financial irregularities" came to light...

World Championships silver medalist Andrei Minakov will not be traveling to the United States this coming school year as he will do distance learning in his native Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Minakov, who had committed to swim at Stanford University for this fall, confirmed to Swimming Worl...

The organizers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics will meet next week to discuss coronavirus countermeasures for next summer's Games for the first time, according to a report from Inside the Games. The process will involve three parties: The government of Japan (including representatives of various agencies...

Passages: Two-Time Olympian Laszlo Cseh Sr. Dies at 68 Laszlo Cseh Sr., a two-time Olympian while representing Hungary, died on August 24 at the age of 68. The death of Cseh Sr. was announced by his son, six-time Olympic medalist Laszlo Cseh Jr. Taking to Facebook, the younger Cseh said of his fathe...

Nicholas Granger, 2016 MISHOF Honor Swimmer and two-time Cancer Survivor – He’s One in A Thousand! When asked why he wanted to join the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s One in A Thousand Club, Granger said, “ISHOF was not even on my radar, because in France, most of the Masters swimme...

Barry Watson, who held the record for the fastest English Channel crossing from 1964 to 1977, died this week at age 81. A native of Crossflatts, West Yorkshire, Watson swam the channel in 1964 at age 26. His time of nine hours, 35 minutes to cover the 21 miles from England to France held for nearly ...

Swimming pools, along with gyms and indoor sports courts are allowed to open in Scotland from August 31, the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced today. Great Britain swims as one nation at the Olympic Games but its squad is divided into home countries when it comes to the Commonwealth Games - a...