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Veteran Satomi Suzuki Claims 100 Breaststroke Title at Japan Swim; High School Record for Tatsuya Murasa Keeping with Japanese tradition, the women’s 100-meter breaststroke offered a tight finish on the second night of the Japan Swim in Tokyo. Clocking a time of 1:06.21, Satomi Suzuki emerged victor...

NSW State Championships, Night One: Kaylee McKeown Fires Off An Opening Shot of 2:04.57 To Win The 200m Backstroke After Just Two Weeks Training Australia’s four-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown has started 2025 with a bang, after pumping out a solid 2:04.57 to win the 200m backstroke on the op....

Taikan Tanaka Sets Japanese Record in 50 Butterfly; Mizuki Hirai Claims 100 Fly Title at Japan Swim The first day of the Japan Swim, which is serving as a selection meet for this summer's World Championships in Singapore, opened with a national record in the men's 50-meter butterfly. Taikan Tanaka p...

Australian Aquatics Sports Launch Eleventh Hour Bid For A 2032 Olympic And Paralympic Legacy AUSTRALIA'S aquatic sports have launched an eleventh-hour plea for a National Aquatics Centre (NAC) to be developed in Brisbane as a critical legacy from 2032 Olympics and Paralympics. [caption id="attachm.....

Double Olympic Champion Kirsty Coventry Elected As The IOC's First Female President Double Olympic champion Kirsty Coventry has become the first female President of the International Olympic Committee following the election at the 144th IOC Session in Costa Navarino, Greece. Coventry - who has serve...

SHAKE IT OFF: Kaylee McKeown ready for more swift times in Sydney. Photo courtesy: Deep Blue Media.

Sun Yang Finishes Second in Return at Chinese Spring Championships Disgraced swimmer Sun Yang finished second on Wednesday in his return to the pool at the Chinese National Spring Championships. Sun, who was suspended four years for his second doping violation, went 3:47.94 at the meet in Qingdao, S...

World Aquatics Announces Fall World Cup 2025 Tour in North America World Aquatics on Tuesday announced a three-spot World Cup 2025 tour in North America. The series will stop in Carmel, Indiana, on Oct. 10-12; Westmont, Ill. on Oct. 17-19; and Toronto Oct. 23-25 for meets in short-course meters. Ind...

Africa to Get Four New Olympic Swimming Pools in World Aquatics, ANOCA Accord Africa will get a big improvement on its availability of Olympic pools, with four to be built on the continent in the coming years. The project, announced Friday and first reported by Inside the Games, was struck at the As...

Swimming World Unveils NCAA Preview Issue (Free Access) March is always known as NCAA Championships month, and Swimming World is stoked to celebrate the end of the collegiate season by offering our "subscriber only" Special Edition at your fingertips. For a limited time, get a Sneak Peak at SW Premi...

The 2024 Swimming World Aquatic Athletes of the Year: Honors in Water Polo, Diving, Open Water, Artistic, Paralympics Swimming World annually recognizes the best athletes from the world of aquatic sports, and it is time to unveil the 2024 athletes of the year in diving, open-water swimming, artistic...

A Flying Start: The First World Record of Olympic Legend Michael Phelps In Swimming World Magazine’s latest edition of World Record Flashback, we take a trip to the Jamail Swim Center on the campus of the University of Texas. There, in early 2001, Michael Phelps set the first world record of his car...

Olympic Champion Kyle Chalmers Expecting First Child With Fiancée Ingeborg Løyning The world's premier 100 freestyler for the last decade is soon to become a father. Kyle Chalmers and his fiancée, Norwegian Olympic swimmer Ingeborg Løyning, announced in an Instagram post that they are expecting a da...

Sun Yang to Swim at Chinese Spring National Championships Sun Yang is set to swim this month at the Chinese Spring National Championships, paving the way for his possible return to the international scene. Sun, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, confirmed on Chinese social media that he will compet...

‘Trash to Treasure’ initiative highlights sustainability efforts at World Aquatics Championships – Singapore 2025 Medalists at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships and World Aquatics Masters Championships will receive distinctive medals crafted from recycled aluminum cans. The World Aquatics Champi...

Once Untouchable, Summer McIntosh Has Placed Target on 200 Butterfly World Record Sift through the list of world records and two – one male and one female – inarguably stand out as the most daunting. On the men’s side, there is the 800-meter freestyle standard of China’s Zhang Lin, who clocked 7:32....

Ellen Walshe Downs Irish 200 Fly Record from 1996 Olympics Ellen Walshe on Saturday took down an Irish record that had stood in the hands of Michelle Smith since the 1996 Olympics. Walshe, a two-time Olympian, swam 2:08.42 in the 200 fly on Saturday at the Leinster Aspiring Champions Meet in Dublin....

TYR Pro Swim Series: Olympic Showdown Set in 100 Back The TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Westmont is not short on big names and thus big matchups. But even among that, the field for the women’s 100 backstroke will stand out prominently Saturday night, the final evening of the meet. Four members of the ...

TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont: Kate Douglass Navigates 50 Stroke Double Kate Douglass had a busy morning Friday at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont, with the back-to-back 50 breaststroke and butterfly. As has come to be expected from the former University of Virginia star and five-time Olympic med...

Dolphins Olympic Quartet Joined By Two Rookies In Australia’s 2025 World Championship Open Water Team Paris Olympic quartet and defending relay gold medallists Moesha Johnson, Chelsea Gubecka, Nick Sloman and Kyle Lee will be joined by rookies Tayla Martin and Thomas Raymond in a six-strong Austra.....