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Valerie Van Roon Ousts Quarantined Femke Heemskerk For Olympic Spot in 50 Free; Kamminga, de Boer Set Record The Olympic qualifier at Rotterdam was packed with strong performances and a stunning storyline as swimmers from the Netherlands vied for spots on the 2021 Olympic team in Tokyo. Unsurprising...

Femke Heemskerk will miss the Rotterdam qualifying meet in the Netherlands, which is scheduled for Dec. 3-6. Heemskerk will miss because of COVID-19 contact tracing protocols. Her husband has tested positive for the virus, so she will be forced to miss the meet. Heemskerk posted the news on social m...

Two of Germany's best distance swimmers Florian Wellbrock and Sarah Kohler announced their engagement Wednesday morning. Both swimmers medaled at the 2019 World Championships in the 1500 freestyle with Wellbrock taking the gold medal and Kohler taking the silver in the women's race. Both Wellbrock a...

Virginia’s Kate Douglass has been named the women’s ACC Swimmer of the Week for the second time this season, joined by men’s swimmer Evgenii Somov of Louisville. Florida State’s Samantha Vear and Joshua Davidson are the women’s and men’s Divers of the Week, announced on Tuesday. Douglass set a pair ...

A study by a Stanford postdoctoral fellow published last week finds that Olympic swimmers are more than a third of a second faster, on average, in the evening than in the morning. The study is titled, “Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes.” It ...

Aimee Willmott hadn’t raced in months heading into the International Swimming League (ISL) season. And she had never raced in a format like the 2020 ISL season in the Budapest bubble. But the two-time Olympian representing Great Britain put together a strong season, which helped the London Roar to t...

The British Swimming Championships - which double as the Olympic trials for the Great Britain team for Tokyo 2021 - will be held at the London Aquatics Centre from 13-18 April 2021. The trials were due to be held from 14-19 April 2020 at the same venue in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - which sta...

Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson has welcomed the decision to reopen swimming pools when the national lockdown ends but has reiterated her call for financial support to secure the long-term future of facilities. Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Monday that a regional tiered appro...

Beryl Gastaldello has always swam a bit under the radar. After the 2020 International Swimming League (ISL) season, that is no longer the case. The LA Current swimmer produced a speed explosion the entire season, breaking multiple French records, to push the Current into the ISL Grand Final. Gastald...

Adam Peaty set a new world record in the 100m breaststroke as well as laying down a new British mark in the 50br en-route to victory in the skins as ISL Season Two concluded in Budapest. Energy Standard's Siobhan Haughey stopped the clock in the 200 free for a new Asian record of 1:51.11 as she went...

Adam Peaty set his second world record in the space of eight days when he stopped the clock at 55.41 in the 100 breaststroke at the ISL Grand Final. The Olympic champion had taken down Cameron van der Burgh's mark from 2009 last Sunday when he clocked 55.49. Out in 25.85 and back in 29.56, Peaty tod...

Watch Adam Peaty Take Down World Record in 100 Breaststroke The greatest sprint breaststroker in history, Adam Peaty added to his legacy during the International Swimming League Grand Final when he lowered his own world record in the short-course version of the 100-meter breaststroke. One week after...

Energy Standard head coach James Gibson said the Grand Final of ISL Season Two was "going to be a dogfight" and so it proved to be as day one drew to a close with the defending champions in second, 27.5pts behind leaders Cali Condors. Kliment Kolesnikov set a world record of 48.58 in the 100m back o...

Mykhailo Romanchuk of the Aqua Centurions and the Ukraine took the 800 freestyle test event in Budapest with a 7:25.73 that is a new European record, lowering Yannick Agnel's 7:29.17 from 2012. Romanchuk now sits second all-time behind Grant Hackett at 7:23.42 from 2008. The race was not scored, but...

ISL Grand Final, Day 1, Session 3: Cali Condors, Energy Standard Running 1-2 With five individual wins – two each from Caeleb Dressel and Lilly King, plus one from Beata Nelson – the Cali Condors lead the ISL Grand Final through two sessions. But Energy Standard, which has taken both of the relays c...

ISL Grand Final, Day 1, Session 2: Cali Condors Out Front Behind a world record from Caeleb Dressel and the usual depth of scoring on the women's side to complement a wins by Lilly King and Beata Nelson, the Cali Condors are out front early in their quest to stay unbeaten and claim the ISL Grand Fin...

ISL Grand Final, Day 1, Session 1: Energy Standard Out to Repeat For the second straight season, the same four clubs are in the hunt at the ISL Grand Final. Just as in the International Swimming League’s first season, the title will be decided among the Cali Condors, Energy Standard, LA Current and ...

Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson says aquatic sports are "fighting for survival" after the Government announced a £300million (400million US dollars) winter package for sports which have lost spectator income because of Covid-19. The funding, which will largely be composed of loans, will ...

Emre Sakci headed home to Izmir from the ISL with words of praise ringing in his ears after he claimed his place at the top table of breaststrokers alongside Adam Peaty and Cameron van der Burgh. The Turkish swimmer left Budapest as the second-fastest man in history over 50m breaststroke in a short-...

Milorad Cavic Still Claims He Won 2008 Olympic Gold in 100 Fly Over Michael Phelps Olympic silver medalist Milorad Cavic hopped on the Inside With Brett Hawke podcast to talk about his career, where he was a part of perhaps the most famous non-relay swim at the Olympic Games when he famously got bea...