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Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports At 2026 Commonwealth Games: Diving Misses Out Swimming and para swimming have been confirmed among 10 sports to be contested at the 2026 Commonwealth Games although diving will not be on the scaled-down programme in Glasgow. The programme also includes athlet...

The waters have been smoothed and peace has been restored in the corridors of power at Swimming Australia – and its back to the business of what really matters - trying to win more gold medals than the U.S. at the next Olympics in Los Angeles. Latest CEO, two-time Olympian Rob Woodhouse, has delive....

The World Aquatics World Cup stop in Shanghai concluded on Sunday. The short-course meters (SCM) has seen several world records set and is a tune-up for short-course worlds later this year. Day 1 Recap Day 2 Recap World Cup: Men's 400 IM France's Leon Marchand started the final session with a win .....

FLASH! Noè Ponti Crushes 50m Butterfly S/C World Record Noè Ponti lowered the 50m butterfly short-course world record to 21.67 in prelims on day three of the World Cup in Shanghai. The Swiss reached the turn in 9.95 secs before a blistering 11.72sec second 25 propelled him into the wall in a new gl....

World Cup Shanghai, Day 2 Finals: Regan Smith, Kate Douglass Notch American Records; Leon Marchand Breaks Series Record Five swimmers who won individual medals at the recent Paris Olympics were victorious during Saturday's finals at the World Cup in Shanghai. Among the standout performances, Leon Ma...

‘Absolutely Happy’ Olympic Champ Yui Ohashi Ready for Opportunities of Retirement Japanese Olympic medley gold medalist Yui Ohashi expressed gratitude for her career at a press conference on Friday, her first extended remarks since retiring from the sport in September. Ohashi’s press conference in T...

Kaylee McKeown Pulls Out Of World Cup: "Putting My Mental Health First" Kaylee McKeown has pulled out of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024, in order to put her "mental health first". The Australian made the announcement on social media hours after winning the 50 back in an Oceania record of...

World Cup Shanghai, Day 1 Finals: Continental Records For Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Kaylee McKeown & Noè Ponti Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Kaylee McKeown and Noè Ponti set respective continental standards on a fast and furious day one of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024 in Shanghai, China. A bli...

Like most of the world's elite swimmers, Gal Groumi was focused on the Olympics. He was laser focused with tunnel vision, all eyes locked on Paris - and all of the expectations and pressure that comes along with that journey. But now that the Olympics are over, the focus, the pressure and the expect...

Major Potential: South Korea Has Flashed Steady Growth in Freestyle Events Over the course of the last four years, South Korea has quietly built a dangerous 800 freestyle relay. While consistently lowering its national record, South Korea has reached new international heights, with the core of the r...

Marcello Guidi & Lea Boy Claim Maiden World Cup Victories Marcello Guidi and Lea Boy claimed their first victories at the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Setubal, Portugal at the weekend. Olympic champion Kristof Rasovszky traded the lead with Marc-Antoine Olivier early on, only for ...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) hosted the Class of 2024 Honorees and award winners, as well as the MISHOF (Masters) Class of 2023, this past weekend, Oct. 4-6, 2024, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for the 59th annual Induction Weekend. The Honorees weekend kicked off Friday evening, O...

Olympic Champion Zac Stubblety-Cook To Join Adam Peaty’s Coach Mel Marshall On The Gold Coast Australia’s Olympic champion breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook has revealed he will link with celebrated British Olympic coach Mel Marshall on the Gold Coast as he kick-starts the next chapter of his career....

Rookie Queensland Butterflyer Harrison Turner Rewarded With Dolphins Call Up For World Short Course Championships Brisbane-based Nudgee College 20-year-old Harrison Turner will make his international debut at the Budapest World Short Course (SC) Championship from December 10-15 after being called i....

Leon Marchand Leads the 'Tremendous 12' into World Cup Action in Asia Leon Marchand, winner of four golds at Paris 2024, is among a star-studded field of Olympic champions and medallists at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024. The Frenchman is one of 12 swimmers slated to compete at all three...

How Olympians Raced the 200-Meter Events: Analyzing Strategies of Success in Paris “Go out as fast as possible. Don’t hold back!” “Build the first 100, and then stay strong.” “Keep a consistent pace!” These are all strategies which have guided the ways athletes race the 200 freestyle, an event that ...

Marchand Record Mania to Continue? Frenchman Sets Sights on Short Course Meters World records in short course meters swimming often lack the credibility of their long course counterparts, largely because of elite swimmers eschewing opportunities to race in the 25-meter course. European swimmers typi...

The Week in Review: Kaylee McKeown Planning a Break; Katie Grimes Headed for College As a new week begins, let's make sure everyone is caught up on the major news stories from the past week. To do so, Swimming World brings its readership the latest installment of Week in Review, which is headlined b...

How Often Should You Be Swimming Fast? It's a New World On September 26, five-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown blasted a new short course meters 100 backstroke world record. Swimming a 54.56, McKeown undercut the previous record by a significant three tenths of a second. The performance came jus...

Paris Practice For Los Angeles? Teenagers Who Could Emerge as Stars Three years before they emerged as the top swimmers of the Paris Olympics, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh each got a taste of the sport’s highest level, collecting some valuable international experience that they would quickly pa...