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Sixteen-year-old Penny Oleksiak had the meet of her life at the 2016 Olympic Games. It started with a bronze medal in the 4x100 free relay on the first night of competition with Team Canada. It was the first relay medal the country had won in swimming since 1992. The next night she won her first ind...

The McCullagh International concluded on Sunday morning with a host of fine performances from Luke Greenbank, Adam Peaty and Abbie Wood among others while Irish swimmer Mona McSharry left the Bangor Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Complex with six medals. Dan Jervis went sub-3:50 in the 400 free to clinc...

Adam Peaty was taken aback by his own performance as he flew straight to the top of the 50m breaststroke world rankings with a time of 26.83 at the McCullagh International in Bangor, Northern Ireland. Peaty, who became the first man to win the 50-100m breaststroke double for the third time at the 20...

Duncan Scott fired off a time of 1:47.06 in the final of the 200m free at the McCullagh International in Bangor, Northern Ireland, a 27.81 blast down the last 50 rocketing him into the world top 6 on the early 2020 World Rankings. The double Olympic medallist cut 0.26secs from his time of 1:47.32 in...

2020s Vision - The Athlete Voice Libby Trickett, four-times Olympic champion, has called on politicians and sports leaders in her country to start putting athletes first as further threats of cuts in funding follow criticism that the Australian Institute of Sport has turned into the home not for pod...

World bronze medallist Duncan Scott swam the sixth-fastest 200 free of the year as he came home in 1:47.32 following a heat swim that combined grace and strength at the McCullagh International in Bangor, Northern Ireland. It was Scott’s first 200 in a long-course pool since that night at the 2019 Wo...

Adam Peaty treated the crowd at the Aurora Aquatic and Leisure Centre to a performance only he and 2012 champion Cameron van der Burgh have bettered in Olympic waters as he won the McCullagh International title in 58.78. Out in 27.42 and back in 31.36, the Olympic champion cut 0.02secs from the time...

Rikako Ikee, of Japan, has marked the anniversary of her leukaemia diagnosis with an interview in which she says her recent therapy for leukaemia marked the turning point in her life. "I think of all the lessons it has taught me. I hope so many other people can take courage from my example of one he...

Adam Peaty sent shudders across poolsides around the world as he scorched to a heat time of 58.90secs as he made his return to competitive waters at the McCullagh International in Bangor, Northern Ireland. It was Peaty’s first race since the International Swimming League (ISL) final in Las Vegas in ...

Paralympic swimming may replace its able-bodied cousin at the multi-sports European Championships in Munich in 2022 after organisers in the Bavarian capital withdrew from an agreement with LEN, the European swimming league. Marion Schöne, the managing director of Olympiapark Munich GmbH (OMG), said ...

Adam Peaty makes his return to racing when he spearheads a strong field at the McCullagh International Meet in Bangor, Northern Ireland. The Olympic 100m breaststroke champion will be joined by a number of British team-mates including Duncan Scott, James Wilby, Luke Greenbank, Siobhan O’Connor and M...

The International Swimming League has tweeted a short teaser of Season 2 to alert fans that "2020 is going to be a huge year for ISL. New clubs, new cities ! Stay tuned." https://twitter.com/iswimleague/status/1229848138506285056 Season 1 Ahead of announcements on the new teams, colours, changes to ...

Respected Australian sportswriter Wayne Smith is an old school scribe who has always had a keen eye for the finer points of the game and as a clever wordsmith he tells how it is - you can smell the sweat, you can see the blood and relate to the tears. He has been around sports grounds and swimming p...

The South Africa rugby team were named World Sports Team of the Year at the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin on Monday following their triumph at the World Cup in Japan, a victory which brought Chad le Clos to tears. South Africa beat England 32-12 in Yokohama in November 2019 to win the World ...

By Dave Crampton New Zealand's Erika Fair-weather, who turned 16 on the last day of 2019, raced inside the qualifying time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics at the weekend. She is the second of only two New Zealand-based swimmers to achieve the Games standard in individual events in the past year. At the ...

Nunawading has again confirmed itself as the powerhouse of Victorian swimming after running away with the prestigious Fred Blunt State Championship pointscore Trophy in Melbourne last weekend. The super club has always been at the forefront of elite High Performance swimming in Australia under the l...

Two South East Queensland surf lifesavers will go head-to-head in a 10km Open Water shoot-out in May and the prize will be a place on the 2020 Australian Olympic Team. Surf-swim stars Hayden Cotter (Belgravia Swim Club, Burpengary) and Bailey Armstrong (Kawana Waters Swim Club) were the two best per...

The 2020 Konami Open at the Tatsumi International Swimming Centre in Tokyo was a relatively calm affair in terms of the depth of quality often seen at Japanese meets. That noted, the men's 200m backstroke drew the eye, while Yui Ohashi (4:34 400IM) and Daiya Seto (1:46 200 free and 59 100 breast) co...

The suspension of anti-doping testing in China as a result of measures imposed to help contain and control the spread of the Corona - COVID 19 - virus enters its third week tomorrow amid concerns over fairness heading into the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Rob Koehler, head of Global Athlete, has called...

Chandler Olympic hopes Jack McLoughlin and Zac Stubblety-Cook will head home to Brisbane tomorrow after their successful hit and run mission to the Victorian State Championships Melbourne. [caption id="attachment_415563" align="alignnone" width="700"] CLOSE SHAVE: Jack McLouglin claim gold in the 20...