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Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson To Retire As Review Demands Urgent Reform Of Safeguarding & Disciplinary Procedures Swim England CEO Jane Nickerson will retire at the end of 2023 as an independent review into the handling of allegations of bullying and fat-shaming demanded urgent reform of disciplin...

Tokyo Olympian and double Irish record holder Brendan Hyland has announced his retirement to start a new chapter of his life in Australia. The 28-year-old represented Ireland at the World and European Championships as well as at the 2020 Games where he was a member of the 4x200 quartet as Ireland co...

David Popovici and Sarah Sjostrom are among the nominees for the 2022 LEN Awards with 54 athletes nominated across 12 categories. There will be a public vote which will count for 30% of the total voting with LEN members and the technical committee of each discipline making up the other 70%. Vote her...

Sophie Hansson went 1:06.95 in the 100m breaststroke to set her second meet record in Luxembourg and slice 0.31 from the mark that had stood to Ruta Meilutyte since 2013. Link to results Day 1 Report Day 2 Report It concluded a fine Euro Meet for the Hansson sisters with older sibling Louise adding ...

Performance In 200 Freestyle Enhances Profile Of Italian Star Thomas Ceccon As the headliner of Italy’s recent rise on the global scene, Thomas Ceccon has established himself as a multi-event star. In addition to his world-record status in the 100-meter backstroke, Ceccon has flourished in the 100 f...

Sophie Hansson set a meet record of 30.69 in the 50 breaststroke as sister Louise's 100 fly victory made it three from three at the Euro Meet in Luxembourg. Link to results Day 1 Report Sophie Hansson sliced 0.01 from Carraro's meet mark of 30.70 which had stood since 2019 with the Italian second  i...

Mykhailo Romanchuk pulled away from Daniel Wiffen on the final 100 to take the 1500 title on day one of the Euro Meet in Luxembourg. Link to results It was Wiffen's first competition of the year following a superb conclusion to 2022 where he became the first Irishman to set a European record when he...

Swim Ireland has set up its first Athletes' Commission for Swimming, Para Swimming and Diving, co-chaired by Olympians Gráinne Murphy and Nicholas Quinn. The Commission was appointed in 2022 with the first in-person meeting taking place last month and it will act as a consultative body of Swim Irela...

Leon Marchand On Track to Make History, Knock Off Legendary Record in 2023 One year ago, Leon Marchand took college swimming by storm and then turned the World Championships individual medley races into a personal showcase. Now, in just two days of racing this year (at arguably his least significant...

Arno Kamminga made it two wins in as many races with a clear victory in the 100m breaststroke as the Flanders Cup wrapped up in Antwerp. Link to results Day One Report Kamminga was the only man inside the minute mark in the prelims, booking lane four in 59.94. The double Olympic silver medallist ret...

Roman Mityukov wrapped up a successful meet with victory in the 100m backstroke at the Geneva International. Link to results Day Two report The Swiss swimmer had already topped the podium three times over the first two days of competition in the 50/100 free and 200 back. On Sunday he led throughout,...

Arno Kamminga and Marrit Steenbergen were among the winners on day one of the Flanders Cup in Antwerp. Link to results Double Olympic silver medallist Kamminga went 2:11.34 to take the 200m breaststroke, four seconds ahead of Ivo Kroes who clocked 2:15.35. The 27-year-old also went 26.90 - 0.10secs ...

Roman Mityukov twice topped the podium on day two of the Geneva International to continue his winning form. Link to results The Swiss swimmer - who won bronze at the European Championships in Budapest in 2021 - appeared first in the 200 back and led by 0.22 from Michele Lamberti after the first 50, ...

Former European 100m backstroke champion Robert Glinta has announced his retirement at 25 saying "the resources are exhausted" while pledging to look after his physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Glinta was the most prominent Romanian swimmer for some time until the emergence of David ...

Passages: Jane Cederqvist, Swedish Olympic Silver Medalist, 77 Jane Cederqvist, the silver medalist in the 400 freestyle at the 1960 Olympics, died on Jan. 15. She was 77 years old. Cederqvist died from complications of ALS. The native of Stockholm had just turned 15 in the summer of 1960 when she h...

From Luxembourg to California Baptist, Remi Fabiani Has Big Dreams There’s something familiar to Remi Fabiani when he competes at meets like November’s Purdue Invitational. Representing California Baptist, he’s not part of the biggest team. But as a native of Luxembourg, he’s gotten accustomed to th...

Andrei Minakov Makes Stanford Return in Rout of Pacific Andrei Minakov returned to action for Stanford on Friday night, winning an event in a dominant 179-67 dismissal of Pacific. Minakov won the 100 freestyle in 43.91 seconds. That’s the fifth-fastest time on the Cardinal this season, though well o...

Katarzyna (Kasia) Wasick made her resurgence into the world’s elite swimmers at the Tokyo Olympics - her fourth. But she hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down. In fact, she is getting even faster and is finally starting to get recognized as one of the top sprinters in the world. This week, Wasick w...

Two-time Swiss Olympian Maria Ugolkova Announces Retirement Maria Ugolkova, a two-time Olympian from Switzerland, has announced her retirement from the sport. Ugolkova made the announcement via social media on New Year’s Eve. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Maria Ugolkova (@mari...

Romanian Teen David Popovici Ascends Sport's Throne As Male World Swimmer Of the Year A little more than a year ago, based on his precocious talent, we dubbed him “The Boy Who Might Be King.” There was David Popovici, splashed on the cover of Swimming World Magazine, the accompanying article suggest...