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Dave McNulty Honoured With BSCA Lifetime Achievement Award After Guiding Swimmers To Olympic Pinnacle The British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA) has honoured Dave McNulty with its Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of a fine career in which he's guided swimmers to the top of the Olympic ...

Los Angeles 2028 Schedule Gives Leon Marchand New, Less Pressing Double The release of the official schedule of all sporting events for the 2028 Olympics on Wednesday makes it possible for swimmers to start targeting their programs for Los Angeles. It puts concrete terms to the scheduling crunch som...

2022 European Champion Lisa Mamié Bids Farewell To Competitive Waters Lisa Mamié, winner of the 2022 European 200m breaststroke title, has brought the curtain down on her career. The Swiss swimmer has been enduring severe shoulder problems over the past 12 months which have hastened her decision to ...

Florine Gaspard Rewrites Two More Records As Belgian Championships Wrap Up Florine Gaspard continued her record-breaking run by setting two new standards on the final day of the Belgian Championships in Gent. The 23-year-old first set about the 50m breaststroke where she stopped the clock at 29.33 t...

Three-Time Olympic Relay Champion James Guy Crowned Aquatics GB Champion Athlete For 2025 Three-time Olympic relay champion James Guy was crowned Champion Athlete for 2025 at the Aquatics GB Awards on Saturday night. Since making his senior global bow at the 2013 World Championships in Barcelona, G....

Florine Gaspard & Noah Verreth Continue Record-Breaking Form; Corbeau Maintains 50m Speed Florine Gaspard and Noah Verreth were breaking records once more on day two of the Belgian Championships in Ghent. Gaspard took down the national 100m breaststroke record in 1:04.30, taking 0.39 off the standar...

Dávid Betlehem Completes Distance Treble & Wins Points Trophy At Hungarian Championships Dávid Betlehem and Ajna Kesely each completed the distance treble as the Hungarian Short Course Championships concluded in Debrecen. Betlehem, who won Olympic 10k bronze in Paris last year, won the 800 free on t...

Filip Nowacki Makes Senior GB Debut As 17-Strong Squad Selected For Short-Course Europeans Aquatics GB has announced a 17-strong team for the European Short Course Championships that take place in Lublin, Poland, from 2-7 December. Olympic relay champions Matt Richards, Duncan Scott and Freya Anders...

European Aquatics: World Aquatics Guidelines Allow Neutral Athletes In Continental Events European Aquatics has released a statement saying that new World Aquatics guidelines allowing Russia and Belarus to compete in team events also extends to continental competitions. This would see them eligible ...

Vanotterdijk, Gaspard & Verreth Rewrite Belgian Record Books; Corbeau Goes 55 In 100m Breaststroke Roos Vanotterdijk, Florine Gaspard and Noah Verreth wasted no time in rewriting the Belgian record books on day one of the short-course nationals in Ghent. Vanotterdijk was straight into it, firing off...

Lora Komoróczy Takes Down Katinka Hosszu's Hungarian 50 Fly s/c Record Lora Komoróczy rewrote Katinka Hosszu's 50 fly national record that had stood for 11 years at the Hungarian s/c Championships in Debrecen. Hosszu had stated at a competition in the last days of 2014 that her goal was to hold all ...

Sarah Sjostrom Delivers Criticism, Social Media Blocks for Enhanced Games Olympic gold medalist Sarah Sjostrom expressed her dismay this week with the Enhanced Games, saying she’s blocked any publicity of it from her social feeds. The Swedish sprinter has distanced herself from the athletes, includi...

David Popovici Produced an All-Time Spectacular Year in the 100 Freestyle Having moved into the last two months of 2025, Swimming World will close out the year by presenting a look at some of the top performers from the campaign. These periodic pieces will highlight impressive accomplishments, great...

Petra Senánszky Lowers Hungarian 50 Free Record At National Championships Petra Senánszky set a national 50 free record and 15-year-old Boróka Kertész upset her senior peers in the 200 fly on day two of the Hungarian s/c Championships in Debrecen. Senánszky accelerated in the second half of the race...

Dávid Betlehem Posts 1500 Free Rankings Topper At Hungarian Championships Dávid Betlehem became the first man inside 14:30 this year as he went top of the 1500 free rankings at the Hungarian Short Course Championships in Debrecen. The Olympic 10k bronze medallist posted 14:27.39 which was 2.61secs s...

Hubert Kos Continued Ascendancy With Masterful World Cup Performance More than two years have passed since Hubert Kos secured his status as the world’s top 200 backstroker when he surpassed Ryan Murphy for gold in the event at the 2023 World Championships. The following year, the Hungarian captured ...

Ellen Walshe, Daniel Wiffen & Róisín NíRiain Named Athletes Of The Year At Swim Ireland Awards Ellen Walshe, Daniel Wiffen and Róisín NíRiain were named Athletes of the Year at the 2025 Swim Ireland Awards. Walshe won the Female Performance Athlete of the Year Award after a season in which she set 1...

Progression of Adam Peaty During World Cup a Positive Sign on Road to 2028 Olympics As Adam Peaty departed the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the British legend owned another medal from his work in the 100-meter breaststroke. After winning back-to-back titles in Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, Peaty secured...

Men's 4x2 Relay Squad Shortlisted For Aquatics GB Award After Adding World Crown To Olympic Title The men's 4x200 free relay that won world gold a year after claiming the Olympic title have been shortlisted for Athletes of the Year at the Aquatics GB Awards 2025. Matt Richards, James Guy, Jack McMil...

Newly Retired Laura Stephens Wins Award for Pool Engineering Plan When Laura Stephens decided to retire from swimming this year, she didn’t step far away from the pool. The Olympian has begun a career built around the sustainable engineering of pools, for which she recently won an ASHRAE UK Technolo...