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Seán Kelly to start role as Spain's National Performance Director as Ricardo Barreda becomes Programs' Director to work alongside Head Coach Fred Vergnoux as RFEN completes strategic restructuring Seán Kelly has been appointed National Performance Director to Spain. He takes up the new post on ...

Swim Wales has welcomed the news that swimming pools will be able to reopen from Monday 10 August following an announcement on Friday by the Welsh Government. The announcement came six days after indoor pools in England were allowed to welcome back swimmers - although many local authority-owned faci...

Tokyo Vision: Gregorio Paltrinieri And Florian Wellbrock Targeting Double-Pronged Attack In The 800 Free Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Inste...

We end our memories of the boycotted Moscow 1980 Olympic Games with an overview of the swimming events, the truth that emerged down the years and a review of the races over the closing two finals sessions of the meet and where they left the protagonists, at that moment and in the long-term of li...

Tokyo Vision: Sarah Sjostrom Chases History, Repeat in Women's 100 Butterfly Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition ...

Commonwealth Games Federation president Dame Louise Martin has resigned from the Birmingham 2022 board following concerns over a lack of diversity. Martin's decision to step down came days after figures in sport and politics called for urgent action over the lack of diversity among the leadership of...

World champion and record holder Kristóf Milák and Austrian Felix Auböck were in fine fettle at the Four Nations International on Margaret Island in Budapest this evening. Milák followed up a swift 51.14 return to racing in the 100m butterfly yesterday with a sharp 1:55.01 win over 200m for Hungary ...

Seven Hills Meet to Provide Racing Opportunity for Italians Next Month One of the most beautiful pools in the world, Stadio del Nuoto, will host its annual Seven Hills International Meet from Aug. 11-13. What’s new? The meet counts as the Italian Championships that were supposed to be held in March....

Memories of Moscow 1980, the 40th anniversary of 22nd Olympic Games in Moscow, where Glen Christiansen lived his Olympic Dream, a notion that comes with thrilling highs and crushing lows, underpinned by a message to a generation dealing with the postponement of the Tokyo 2020 Games: never give u...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fifth day of racing in the pool at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, where Barbara Krause led one of two GDR podium sweeps on the day by adding the 200m freestyle title to gold in the 100m freestyle, all of that unfolding without Sippy Woodhead, who at 14 had...

Kristóf Milák, the Hungarian who crushed the 200m butterfly World record for the global crown in Gwangju, Korea, last year, just gave a big hint that COVID-19 lockdown has been no barrier to his maintaining world-class form in the pool: 51.14 was the time on the Budapest scoreboard at the end of the...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fourth day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Rica Reinisch, 15, claimed triple gold for the GDR, set the World 100m backstroke record three times and the 200m standard once ... on the way to a doctor's surgery to hear news th...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Sergei Fesenko became the first Soviet swimmer among men to claim Olympic gold in the pool. This week, Swimming World is looking back at the events of 1980 and their impact on those...

17-year-old Anastasiya Shkurdai of Belarus blasted a 56.95 in the 100 butterfly at the Belarusian Cup in her home town of Brest. Shkurdai, who was the silver medalist at last summer's World Junior Championships behind American Torri Huske in the 100 butterfly, broke her own national record of 57.39 ...

The University of Florida men's swimming and diving team and head coach Anthony Nesty has officially announced the addition of Mateusz Dubas, who will join the Gators for the 2020-21 season. Dubas, a native of Siemianowice Slaskie, Poland, heads to Gainesville after achieving various succes...

The story of Dr. Gary O'Toole, his courage, the courage he encouraged, the woeful failings of sports authorities and indeed the legal system to deliver justice to victims and survivors of sexual abuse in swimming is a tortured tale layered with issues that demand inquiry anew and changes to the law,...

British swimmers were among Olympians used as "guinea pigs" to test an experimental substance "in a secret UK Sport project costing hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money" on the way to the London 2012 Olympic Games, according to an investigation by The Mail on Sunday. The allegations on a ...

UK Sport and Sport England are to immediately undertake the first joint review of the Code for Sports Governance. The announcement coincides with a newspaper investigation that calls in question a secret research project organised by UK Sport in 2012. UK Sport's governance review will focus on three...

24-year-old Arno Kamminga from the Netherlands has been on fire all-year long as he was expected to be a key player among the medalists in the 100 & 200 breaststroke at the Tokyo Olympic Games that were set to take place two weeks from now. But with the Olympics being move back a year, that gives ev...

2020s Vision - after introducing the theme of Athlete Sustainability, we dip into the archive to see what we learn from the long career of Therese Alshammar and why Sweden's head coach Ulrika Sandmark wants to tap into the wisdom to be had from it Back in 1991, a 13-year-old junior won the Swed...