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Danielle Hill reclaimed her national 100 free record and Finn McGeever set a new 400 free mark on day three of the Irish National Team Trials in Dublin. There were however no more swimmers inside the cut for Tokyo to add to the quartet of Mona McSharry, Daniel Wiffen, Darragh Greene and Sha...

Netflix has begun production on a film called “The Swimmers,” which tells the story of Syrian refugees Yusra and Sarah Mardini. Yusra Mardini swam for the Refugee Olympic team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Variety reports that Netflix and Working Title Films are collaborating on the project. Welsh-bo...

The Irish National Team Trials continued Wednesday from Dublin as no new Olympic qualifiers emerged from day two, but a national record fell the way to Danielle Hill in the 100 back and to Jack McMillan in the 200 free. Results Hill covered the distance in 1:00.34, lowering her own national record o...

Felix Auböck sat down with the Social Kick Podcast to discuss his recent Tokyo Olympic qualifying swims from the Stockholm Open in Sweden as the Austrian put up the second fastest time in the 400 free and third fastest in the 800 free in the world this year. Auböck went in detail about the differenc...

Irish Olympic Trials: Mona McSharry Lowers National 100 Breast Mark To 1:06.29 As Quartet Make The Cut Mona McSharry twice lowered her Irish 100br record on Tuesday to post a time of 1:06.29 and go seventh in the rankings at the Irish National Team Trials in Dublin. Daniel Wiffen set a new Iris...

The International Swimming League on Tuesday announced that Domenico Fioravanti has been hired as the new general manager of the Aqua Centurions franchise. Fioravanti, 43, has a long history in the sport. The apex was the 2000 Olympics, when the Italian won the men’s 100 and 200 breaststroke in Sydn...

Duncan Scott continued to rewrite the British record books, Dan Jervis had a dream come true and Sarah Vasey booked a trip to Tokyo on the final night of the British Swimming Selection Trials. Scott went 1:44.47 to win the 200 free and take 0.44 off his own national mark with Tom Dean also under the...

Duncan Scott ended the British Swimming Selection Trials with another record-breaking performance of 1:44.47 in the 200 free to head to the top of the rankings and ninth all-time. The two-time Olympic relay silver medallist set the previous British record of 1:44.91 at the 2019 World Championships i...

Florian Wellbrock Flirts With German Record in 1500 Freestyle; Looks Strong For Tokyo The final day of the German Olympic Trials was highlighted by Florian Wellbrock’s flirtation with his own national record in the 1500 freestyle. The reigning world champion in the event, Wellbrock put together a 30...

Duncan Scott spearheaded what will be a fascinating 200 free in 1:46.41 with the first five qualifiers separated by 0.47 and all sub-1:47 at the British Swimming Selection Trials. The 2019 world bronze medallist booked lane four ahead of Tom Dean, Matt Richards and James Guy with Max Litchfield the ...

Ben Proud showcased a demonstration in sprint freestyle as four more swimmers all but booked their tickets to the Tokyo Olympics in July at the British Swimming Selection Trials. The top two in each event within the consideration time will be nominated to Team GB where they will join Adam Peaty, Dun...

Ben Proud threw down the gauntlet as he went 21.42 in the 50 free at the British Swimming Selection Trials to go 0.01 behind  Vlad Morozov at the top of the rankings. It was the seventh-fastest time of his career and means he now holds the top 45 British performances. Proud, who won gold at the 2014...

Florian Wellbrock Swims 3:44 400 Free on Night Two of Germany's Olympic Qualifier The 2021 German Olympic qualifying meet #2 continued Saturday from Berlin, the host of the 2002 European champs and numerous World Cup meets. The best swim of the day came from world champion Florian Wellbrock in the 4...

British Olympic Trials, Day 4 Heats: Abbie Wood Easily Tops 200 IM; Guy, Proud Ready to Fire in Finals Through three days of the British Olympic Trials, the likes of Adam Peaty, Molly Renshaw and Duncan Scott - among others - have defined a strong squad bound for this summer's Olympic Games in Tokyo...

Max and Joe Litchfield will become only the third brothers to represent Britain in the pool at the same Olympics after the former won the 400IM at the British Swimming Selection Trials. Max - the elder by three years and four months - won in 4:12.67 to join Joe who had booked a slot in the 200IM at ...

Isabel Gose added her name to Germany's Olympic roster on Friday at the Olympic qualification meet in Berlin as the German Swimming Federation has targeted more than one meets as qualification for the Games in Tokyo this summer. Gose won the 200 freestyle at 1:56.93 ahead of Annika Bruhn (1:57.17) a...

Duncan Scott matched his British 100 free record when he went 47.87 at the British Swimming Selection Trials. Scott went third in the rankings but he wasn't happy with his time, the triple world 4x200 relay champion always looking to improve. The two-time Olympic silver relay medallist set the recor...

Duncan Scott went seventh in the 100 free rankings in 48.19 with the next three men home all doing sub-49 PBs in the third heats session of the British Swimming Selection Trials. Scott has already set a British 200IM record of 1:55.90 this week at the London Aquatic Centre and looked ominous in the ...

Kathleen Dawson set a European 100 back textile record of 58.24 and Molly Renshaw obliterated the British 200br mark at the British Swimming Selection Trials. Dawson now stands behind only Gemma Spofforth and her European record of 58.12 and Anastasia Fesikova (58.18) in the European rankings all-su...

Molly Renshaw set a new British 200br record of 2:20.89 with Abbie Wood also going under the previous mark at the British Swimming Selection Meet. Renshaw had matched the previous record set by Jocelyn Ulyett in 2017 when she went 2:22.08 at the Manchester International Swim Meet, something she obli...