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Another 11 Irish swimming records, on top of the 20 broken at  the European Short Course Championships in Glasgow last week,  tumbled on the opening evening of  Swim Ireland’s Irish Short Course Swimming Championships at the Sport Ireland National Aquatic Centre, Dublin. Mona McSharry and Shane Ryan...

It isn't quite an Olympic record if you take a ship but as the crow flies the 15,706km distance between Paris, where the biggest multi-sports event on the planet will be staged in summer 2024 and Tahiti, set to host new surfing events, would be the biggest gap between Olympic venues at one Games. Th...

The progression continues for Markus Thormeyer. Thormeyer took another step along his career path in 2019, reaching the final of the 200-metre backstroke at the FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and setting a Canadian record. This follows on the heels of Thormeyer winning his first m...

Deja vu for Yuliya Efimova as lawyers placed on alert; Penny Heyns played a key role in watering down four-year anti-doping sanction on Russia described by one former investigator as "neither a ban nor punishment"; WADA Athletes' Commission members say compromise could actually do further harm youn...

Being a model of consistency has made Kylie Masse one of the world’s best backstroke swimmers. The 23-year-old, who trains at the University of Toronto, is the first Canadian to win back-to-back FINA World Championships gold medals. Since her bronze medal performance at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, M...

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For the third time in as many weeks, Mel Marshal, mentor to Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank and other speedy swimmers, has been honoured for her work. The Action Woman Awards celebrate what the title suggests. Marshall collected the Lifetime Achievement Award, the oddness in the accolade for a 37-year-ol...

In an Open Letter to Swim England, English Masters have challenged governors to practise what they preach, reach for transparency and allow grown-up athletes to have a genuine say in running their affairs  Key Masters swimming volunteers have written an open letter to Swim England, formerly the Amat...

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The appearance of rising stars Clyde Lewis, Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister, a host of Olympians and a record number of internationals will highlight the up-coming 2019 McDonald’s Queensland State Swimming Championships at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre (December 14-20). The Open, Age and M...

The World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) Compliance Review Committee (CRC) has the names of all suspicious athletes in the Moscow Laboratory database, which is said to be manipulated before being handed over to the agency's investigators in January 2019. That was the stark message from Jonathan Taylor,...

The United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has issued a stinging rebuke of the World Anti-Doping Agency's decision to impose sanctions on Russia that will still allow Russian athletes to compete at the Olympic Games and other international events. In a statement, USADA describes WADA's decisi...

Russia’s swimmers have been given a green light to continue to race in the International Swimming League (ISL) provided that they have no doping penalty against their name. Sun Yang, Yuliya Efimova, Shayna Jack, Gabriel Santos and others are barred from the ISL, which has a "zero-tolerance", one-str...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has banned Russia from international sports events for the next four years in response to the manipulation of data related to thousands of doping tests. The ban means Russia will miss the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, as well as the Winter Games in Beijing in 2022....

The South East Asian Games, which concluded in the Philippines today after six days of racing, is not the best barometer of how Joe Schooling may fare come the defence of the Olympic 100m butterfly crown in Tokyo next July. Even so, two silver linings and a near miss in tight races with Singapore te...

Former European 400m freestyle bronze medallist Jay Lelliott won four gold medals at the National Winter Championships at Ponds Forge, Sheffield. There was also a British record in the 200m breaststroke for Jocelyn Ulyett while Loughborough University claimed all the relay titles. [caption id="attac...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 5 Finals and Semi-Finals  Vladimir Morozov finished the European Short-Course Championships with seven gold medals after he won the 100m freestyle and rounded off the competition with the breaststroke leg as Russia delivered a thunderous title-winning...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 5 Heats Freya Anderson returned to the pool the morning after winning the 200m freestyle for a double header that took her from the shortest of sprints to middle distance in little more than an hour at the European Short-Course Championships in Glasgo...

Patrick B. Kraemer has had his eye on the water for Swimming World this week at the European Short-Course Championships in Glasgow, his images gracing reports on the action from Liz Byrnes. The gallery of some of Patrick's shots speaks to his skill, the thrill of swimming and the magical interface o...

European Short-Course Championships Glasgow, Day 4 Finals Additional reporting from Liz Byrnes, Swimming World European Correspondent Federica Pellegrini - also known as the Lioness of Verona - has iconic status in the 200m freestyle. Yes, there were the five titles in the 200m freestyle in the litt...