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Mack Horton was greeted to the dining hall at the Athletes' Village last night to resounding round off applause from fellow athletes from around the world after he refused to stand on the medals podiu...

The heat sheets have been released for the second night of the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Check out the full heat sheets here. Complete 2019 World Championships coverage here. A...

FINA World Swimming Championships: Gwangju 2019 Day 2 Heats USA's Katie Ledecky cruised through the women's 1500 free heats on Monday morning at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju. ...

World Swimming Championships (Men's 200 Freestyle Prelims) Gwangju 2019 Great Britain’s James Guy posted the top time in the heats with a 1:46.18. Guy eased off on the final 50 and still managed to po...

World Swimming Championships (Men's 100 Backstroke Prelims) Gwangju 2019 Historical firepower was the theme, as the last three world champions qualified among the top-four finishers. China's Xu Jiayu,...

World Swimming Championships (Women's 100 Backstroke Prelims) Gwangju 2019 Canada’s Kylie Masse had the top swim in the heats in the women’s 100 back with a 58.91 to lead the qualifiers into the semif...

FINA World Swimming Championships: Gwangju 2019 Day 2 Heats The second morning of swimming from the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships from Gwangju, South Korea had five preliminary events with fo...

World Swimming Championships (Adam Peaty) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals Men's 100 Breast Great Britain's Adam Peaty has completed one of his ultimate career goals, taking down the 57-second barrier i...

World Swimming Championships (Ledecky vs Titmus) Gwangju 2019 Day 1 finals Women's 400m freestyle It was billed as a thriller. It surely was. And it marked the moment of doubt about Katie Ledecky and ...

The day was going to come. It’s just the way sports works. No matter how long an athlete goes untouched, at some point the reign will end. So it went on Sunday night that Katie Ledecky – on the first ...

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indica...

World Swimming Championships (Nathan Adrian) Gwangju 2019 Day 1 finals Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Flash back to the beginning of this year. As the calendar flipped through the early pages of 2019, N...

World Swimming Championships (Women's 4x100 Free Relay) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals Women's 4x100 Free Relay Australia closed the first night of the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, S...

World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals An exciting slate of semifinals on day one of the FINA World Swimming Championships included a world record from Adam Peaty in the men's 100...

World Swimming Championships (Sun Yang and Mack Horton) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals  Men's 400m Freestyle Sun Yang won his fourth consecutive title in the 400m freestyle as his presence loomed large at...

The opening morning of the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju got off to a fast start with 400m freestyle title defenders Katie Ledecky, of the United States, and Chinese controversy Sun Yang cl...

The 2025 and 2027 versions of the World Championships will return to familiar territory, as FINA announced on Sunday that Kazan and Budapest will serve as hosts of those respective events. FINA Presid...

The final event of the 2019 FINA World Championships will be the men's 4x100 medley relay. The United States has won six of the last eight World titles in this event, and the years they did not win we...

Five years ago, 17-year-old American Caeleb Dressel and 16-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers each had big plans for their athletic futures. Dressel, long considered a future star in American swimming,...

Australia notably won all three women's relays last year at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo over the United States. Will they be able to repeat that in 2019? The Aussies are favorites to win th...