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Femke Heemskerk produced a speedy 53.76 in the 100 free and Arno Kamminga secured a golden breaststroke double at the Flanders Qualification Meet in Antwerp Heemskerk split 25.80/27.96 to enjoy a winning margin of 1.55secs with Kim Busch touching some way back in 55.31 and Marrit Steenbergen in thir...

Mel Marshall responded to the selection of Adam Peaty and Luke Greenbank to Team GB for the Tokyo Olympics by saying "a little bit of hope is what we all need" as the pandemic continues to wreak deadly havoc. Peaty and Greenbank - coached by Marshall at the National Centre Loughborough - were among ...

Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott, Luke Greenbank and James Wilby have been confirmed as the first swimmers to be named to Team GB for the Tokyo Olympics. The quartet earned their place on the team following their medal-winning performances in individual events at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju with...

Four-time world relay medallist Maud van der Meer has announced her retirement from swimming and will now combine motherhood with a career as a sports dietician. The 28-year-old made the decision after failing to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics at the Rotterdam Qualification Meet in December. Van der...

Three-time European short-course champion Arno Kamminga has called on FINA to use the technology they have at their disposal and “expose the cheats” who use illegal dolphin kicks during breaststroke. The Netherlands athlete was on the sort of form that indicated an exciting 2020 ahead when he went t...

Former Australia team coach Jacco Verhaeren has joined the German national team staff where he will share his sprinting expertise, the national swimming association DSV has announced. Verhaeren guided Pieter van den Hoogenband, Inge de Bruijn and Ranomi Kromowidjojo to a total of 10 Olympic gold med...

Pools have been cast in concrete and construction of the dive tower has begun as work continues on the Sandwell Aquatics Centre ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England. Construction on the £73million project started in January 2020 and is scheduled to be completed in spring 2022....

The 54th Geneva International Challenge ended with Nicolo Martinenghi swimming the third-fastest 100 breaststroke of his career in 59.10 and Federica Pellegrini wrapping up the 100-200 free double. Martinenghi split 27.71/31.39 to lower the meet mark of 59.36 set by Arno Kamminga in the morning heat...

The 23rd Euro Meet scheduled for 19-21 March 2021 in Luxembourg has been cancelled as the repercussions of the pandemic continue. The meet - which always attracts a strong field including the likes of Sarah Sjostrom, Adam Peaty and Katinka Hosszu - had been pushed back to March from its traditional ...

Manchester Aquatics Centre - where Ian Thorpe went 3:40.08 over 400 free among a six-strong gold-medal haul at the 2002 Commonwealth Games - needs £31million ($42.3million) of investment in order to survive. The facility in Manchester in the north-west of England is home to the British Para-Swimming...

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 ...

Adam Peaty, Alice Dearing and Siobhan O'Connor are among 85 swimmers to have been named in the England Swimming Team ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. The 85 include members of the Swim England National Performance Squad as well as English swimmers on British Swimming’s and British Para-swimming...

The German Swimming Federation (DSV) has released revised qualification criteria for selection to the national team for the Olympics which are due to start in Tokyo on 23 July. While the qualification times remain the same, the DSV and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) have amended the ...

Former Olympic 50 free champion Florent Manaudou will train solely in Marseille as he prepares for Tokyo 2020 under the guidance of Julien Jacquier. The Frenchman had been dividing his time between Marseille and the Energy Standard training base in Belek, Turkey where he was coached by James Gibson....

Swim England chief executive Jane Nickerson has demanded that swimming pools be included in the list of facilities allowed to open at the "earliest available opportunity" after England was plunged into a third national lockdown. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has confirmed tougher restrictions should...

Adam Peaty and Freya Anderson are among swimmers selected to the Swim England National Performance Squad in order to cultivate an England Swimming Team identity and galvanise interest ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Peaty, the Olympic 100br champion, and Anderson will be joined b...

Passages: A Tribute to Who Was Lost in the Swimming World in 2020: Part 2 (July-December) The world of swimming endured a number of notable passages in 2020, individuals who enriched the sport in the pool and on deck. In 2020, we lost some of the sports coaching pioneers around the globe. Many of th...

Albanian swimmer Klavio Meca, who held a national record and represented his country at the 2017 World Championships, died on Dec. 27 at age 24. The death was first reported by the Albanian Daily News. No cause of death has been publicized. Meca was one of four swimmers to represent Albania at the 2...

Italian swimmer Silvia Di Pietro has tested positive for COVID-19. DiPietro posted the news on social media. "Verified. Unfortunately today I tested positive for covid-19. Sunday, after the 10th day of voluntary isolation from contact at the Italian championships, I took an antigenic swab which was ...

European Swimmers of the Early Millennium: Dutch Delight in Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn With the COVID-19 pandemic canceling the most-important competitions of the year, Swimming World made the decision to suspend its Swimmer of the Year selections for 2020. There simply was not eno...