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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 ...

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...

Throwback Thursday: Alexander Dale Oen Wins Emotional Gold for Norway at His Final Major Meet The news was a gut punch not just for his family and friends but for the entire swimming community. Late at night on April 30, 2012,  Norwegian breaststroker Alexander Dale Oen passed away suddenly, his cau...

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...

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 ...

At Latest Games, Sprint Sensation Sarah Sjostrom Dazzled in City of Lights Just before the start of the Olympic Games, Sarah Sjostrom was comfortable with a limited schedule. The 50-meter freestyle and a little relay duty for Sweden. That program seemed just right for the 30-year-old. It would allow...

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...

Leon Marchand and His March to Olympic Legend: Nine Days of Greatness For nine days in the pool at the Paris Olympics, Leon Marchand brought down the house at the Paris La Defense Arena, metaphorically. At the end of two weeks in a home-country Olympics widely regarded as a successful spectacle, Mar...

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...

Paris Olympics: Ireland Leaves Games as a Country on the Rise The standard moved so quickly that even Daniel Wiffen had trouble keeping up. By Sunday at the Paris La Defense Arena, the Irish distance swimmer freely admitted that things had changed. Coming into the week, had all else gone the way all...

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...

Two-Time Olympic Medalist Mykhailo Romanchuk Retires Mykhailo Romanchuk, who won two medals at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, announced his retirement from swimming after the 2024 Paris Games. Romanchuk, who turns 28 on Aug. 7, announced his decision on social media. The Ukrainian international won sil...

Change of Scenery Was Medal-Worth Decision for Caspar Corbeau The check list for Caspar Corbeau, after the 2023 World Championships, had three main line items. He was 22 but with nearly a decade on the global stage under his belt and contemplating what he wanted out of the rest of his career. The se...

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...

Lucky Break Helps Kaii Winkler Become German Olympian From the viewpoint of the deck at the Paris Olympics, Kaii Winkler saw a lost summer of 2023 as a lucky break. Winkler broke his arm in the spring of 2023, an injury that kept him out of Nationals and, crucially, prevented him from qualifying to ...

Adam Peaty to Anti-Doping Authorities: ‘Wake Up and Do Your Job’ Adam Peaty had an eventful week at the Paris Olympics. A tie for silver in the men’s 100 breaststroke, then a week convalescing with COVID-19 and an ear infection, then a fourth-place finish in the men’s medley relay didn’t leave much ...

Adam Peaty Returns after Physically ‘Probably the Worst Week of my Life’ Adam Peaty returned to the water Saturday morning at the Paris Olympics for relay duty on Great Britain’s men’s medley, though the silver medalist in the 100 breast isn’t fully recovered from a bout of COVID-19. Peaty tested po...