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Ultra-marathon swimmer Chloë McCardel is expected to leave British shores early Sunday morning (August 16) in her extraordinary quest to break the men’s world record for the number of English Channel crossings. The Melbourne-raised Sydneysider, who has spent many months in Kent, UK, over the past de...

Gregorio Paltrinieri swam the second-fastest 1500 freestyle in history as he set a new European record of 14:33.10 to bring the Sette Colli Trophy to a spectacular close at the Foro Italico in Rome. Paltrinieri took 0.94 off his previous record of 14:34.04 which he had set en-route to the European t...

Vitaliy Khudyakov has completed a 56-kilometer swim over 13 hours in a lake in Kyrgyzstan, Vitaliy Khudyakov . The swim took place last week in Issyk-Kul, the second-largest Alpine lake in the world at 1,609 meters above sea level. It's also one of the deepest lakes in the world. The swim, which too...

The Sette Colli Trophy meet will be held in the famous Foro Italico in Rome starting Tuesday and going through Thursday, as the clock starts ticking under 365 days to the reset Tokyo Olympic Games. The Sette Colli has long been one of the premiere in-season meets in European swimming as some of Ital...

Three-time British 50 fly champion Charlotte Atkinson has announced her retirement from the pool and will now train for a career as a physician associate in London. The butterfly specialist represented Great Britain at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, after claiming the national ti...

Legendary swim coach Gennadi Touretski passed away on Friday at his home in Switzerland, according to a report from the Russian Swimming Newsletter. Touretski was 71 and suffered a fatal stroke. [caption id="attachment_443202" align="alignleft" width="259"] Photo Courtesy: Darrin Braybrook / Swimmin...

Leaders at the European Swimming League (LEN) and its domestic-member federations have been warned that they could be held liable under Swiss federal law if they are found to have ignored allegations of financial irregularity at the continental federation, which they were made aware of last December...

Italian swimmer Luca Dotto opened up about the recent death of his mother on Brett Hawke's podcast as she passed away after a battle with brain cancer. Dotto is currently in Rome so he can remain close to his family. Dotto got into swimming at age 6 (8:50) as he was influenced by his mother to start...

Seán Kelly to start role as Spain's National Performance Director as Ricardo Barreda becomes Programs' Director to work alongside Head Coach Fred Vergnoux as RFEN completes strategic restructuring Seán Kelly has been appointed National Performance Director to Spain. He takes up the new post on ...

Swim Wales has welcomed the news that swimming pools will be able to reopen from Monday 10 August following an announcement on Friday by the Welsh Government. The announcement came six days after indoor pools in England were allowed to welcome back swimmers - although many local authority-owned faci...

Tokyo Vision: Gregorio Paltrinieri And Florian Wellbrock Targeting Double-Pronged Attack In The 800 Free Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Inste...

We end our memories of the boycotted Moscow 1980 Olympic Games with an overview of the swimming events, the truth that emerged down the years and a review of the races over the closing two finals sessions of the meet and where they left the protagonists, at that moment and in the long-term of li...

Tokyo Vision: Sarah Sjostrom Chases History, Repeat in Women's 100 Butterfly Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition ...

Commonwealth Games Federation president Dame Louise Martin has resigned from the Birmingham 2022 board following concerns over a lack of diversity. Martin's decision to step down came days after figures in sport and politics called for urgent action over the lack of diversity among the leadership of...

World champion and record holder Kristóf Milák and Austrian Felix Auböck were in fine fettle at the Four Nations International on Margaret Island in Budapest this evening. Milák followed up a swift 51.14 return to racing in the 100m butterfly yesterday with a sharp 1:55.01 win over 200m for Hungary ...

Seven Hills Meet to Provide Racing Opportunity for Italians Next Month One of the most beautiful pools in the world, Stadio del Nuoto, will host its annual Seven Hills International Meet from Aug. 11-13. What’s new? The meet counts as the Italian Championships that were supposed to be held in March....

Memories of Moscow 1980, the 40th anniversary of 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow, where Glen Christiansen lived his Olympic Dream, a notion that comes with thrilling highs and crushing lows, underpinned by a message to a generation dealing with the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Games: never give u...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fifth day of racing in the pool at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, where Barbara Krause led one of two GDR podium sweeps on the day by adding the 200m freestyle title to gold in the 100m freestyle, all of that unfolding without Sippy Woodhead, who at 14 had...

Kristóf Milák, the Hungarian who crushed the 200m butterfly World record for the global crown in Gwangju, Korea, last year, just gave a big hint that COVID-19 lockdown has been no barrier to his maintaining world-class form in the pool: 51.14 was the time on the Budapest scoreboard at the end of the...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fourth day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Rica Reinisch, 15, claimed triple gold for the GDR, set the World 100m backstroke record three times and the 200m standard once ... on the way to a doctor's surgery to hear news th...