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World Aquatics Names Summer McIntosh, Leon Marchand 2025 Swimmers of the Year For the second straight year, World Aquatics has named Summer McIntosh and Leon Marchand its World Swimmers of the Year. Both repeat in that role after breakout campaigns at the 2024 Paris Olympics that they carried into t...

Tyler Melbourne-Smith On His Record-Breaking Feats & Training Alongside Olympic Elite Tyler Melbourne-Smith rewrote the Welsh and British short-course record books at the recent Swim England Winter National Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. The 20-year-old posted a time of 3:36.09 in the 400m...

Adam Peaty & Holly Ramsay Tie The Knot At Bath Abbey Triple Olympic champion Adam Peaty and Holly Ramsay got married at Bath Abbey on 27 December with many celebrities of sport and entertainment in attendance. The couple tied the knot in the historic city in south-west England with several of Peaty'...

Lukas Maertens Enjoyed Banner Year, Highlighted by Venture to Previously Unvisited Territory The highlight of Lukas Maertens' season is obvious. It arrived in April, when the German star raced at the Swim Open Stockholm and took down Paul Biedermann's 15-year-old world record in the 400-meter freest...

Federica Pellegrini & Matteo Giunta Announce They Are Expecting Second Child Two-time Olympic medallist and Italian swimming legend Federica Pellegrini has announced that she and husband Matteo Giunta are expecting their second child. Pellegrini and Giunta welcomed first child Matilde in early Janua...

Christian Bacico Handed Provisional Suspension After Positive Test For Clostebol World short-course relay medallist Christian Bacico has been handed a provisional suspension after testing positive for a clostebol metabolite. Bacico - the second-fastest Italian in history in the 200 back - was suspen...

Better With Age: French Star Beryl Gastaldello Continues to Shine, as Recent French Records Indicate It’s considered a common piece of social etiquette to not ask a woman her age. To ask is societally viewed as insensitive, offensive, even. That is, unless you’re Beryl Gastaldello.  At the recent Eu...

What Is the Most Overlooked Swimming Performance of 2025? The results from last summer's World Championships in Singapore list Katie Ledecky as a dominant victor in the final of the 1500-meter freestyle. The American prevailed in the 30-lap event by five-plus seconds, and followed a few days later w...

Neutral Power: Russian Swimmers Had Impressive International Return in 2025 For three years, Russian swimmers were largely absent from international swimming competition, exiled as a result of their country’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee opened pathways for Russia...

Ed Mildred Downs British 200 Fly Record From Supersuit Era & Tyler Melbourne-Smith Crushes 800 Mark Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Filip Nowacki Posts His Second Fastest 200 Breaststroke In Short Course Pool Amalie Smith Sets 400IM European Ju...

Martine Damborg: A Rising Star to Continue Denmark’s Legacy After winning two gold medals at the European Short Course Championship in Lublin, Poland and setting four European Junior records, Martine Damborg has emerged as the athlete who will carry Denmark’s legacy into the future. It had been 12 y...

Andrea Camozzi Sets 200 Fly EJR As Italian Championships Wrap Up Results Lisa Angiolini Sets Italian 200m Breaststroke Record Andrea Camozzi wrote his name in the record books with a European junior record in the 200 fly as the Italian Championships wrapped up in Riccione. The 20-year-old from Berga...

Ellen Walshe & Eoin Corby Rewrite Irish Record Books In Dublin Results John Shortt Continues Record-Breaking Form Ellen Walshe and Eoin Corby rewrote the record books on day two of the Irish Winter Championships in Dublin. Walshe, who won the 200 fly at the short-course Europeans that wrapped up las...

Amalie Smith Sets 400IM European Junior Record At Swim England Winter Nationals Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Filip Nowacki Posts His Second Fastest 200 Breaststroke In Short Course Pool Amalie Smith set a European junior record in the 400IM ...

Lisa Angiolini Sets National 200m Breaststroke Record; First Italian Woman Inside 2:19 Results Lisa Angiolini became the first Italian woman to go inside 2:19 in the 200 breaststroke at the national championships in Riccione. Angiolini, who missed the short-course Europeans through illness, stopped ...

John Shortt Continues Record-Breaking Form At Irish Winter Championships Results European short-course champion John Shortt continued his record-breaking exploits of recent weeks at the Irish Winter Championships in Dublin. Shortt set his 17th and 18th Irish record of the past month in the 200IM in ...

Filip Nowacki Posts His Second Fastest 200 Breaststroke In Short Course Pool As Golden Year Nears Its End Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Filip Nowacki On His Golden Summer & 'Iconic' Adam Peaty  Filip Nowacki underlined his quality once more w...

Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith went top of the 400 free rankings with a performance at the Swim England National Winter Championships that would have captured gold at the short-course Europeans. The Loughborough Universit...

Marrit Steenbergen Underrated No Longer After Brilliant Finish to Career Year At age 25, a decade after she first represented her country internationally, Dutchwoman Marrit Steenbergen has finally earned her place on the short list of the best female sprinters in the world. Her efforts in the World ...

Mary McMorrow Becomes Swim Ireland Interim CEO Chief Operations Officer for Swim Ireland, Mary McMorrow, has been announced as the Swim Ireland Interim CEO with Sarah Keane leaving to take up a role as CEO of Cricket Ireland. Keane will end her 20-year tenure with Swim Ireland on 31 January 2026 wit...