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What's Left in 2022? Short Course Worlds Highlight December Competition Schedule We're down to the last month of 2022. With the International Swimming League on hiatus this year, it has been a relatively quiet fall after three consecutive months of major international competitions in June, July and ...

Women's World Records: Which Are Safe and Which Are In Jeopardy? While five men's long course world records have been broken in 2022, with Hunter Armstrong, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Thomas Ceccon, Kristof Milak and David Popovici all recording history-making swims between April and August. But on the wom...

Ranking the Men's World Records From Softest to Most Challenging Our sport’s world-record book features 17 individual standards for long-course competition. Some of the marks are newer in age, such as the three-month-old 100-meter freestyle record of Romanian teenager David Popovici. Some are more m...

Olympic Qualifying Procedures Announced for Paris 2024 Games; Qualifying Period Opens March 1, 2023 FINA has released the full slate of qualifying procedures for aquatic events for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. There will be 852 athletes competing in the 35 pool swimming events in Paris, and the ...

David Popovici Will Chase Another 13-Year-Old World Record Next Month Over the last six months, David Popovici has exceeded expectations at every opportunity. After dominating a pair of individual events at the World Championships, the Romanian teenager broke a world record more than a decade old in...

The Con of Michelle Smith: How the Irish Lass Cheated the Swimming World Her presence on the international stage was inconsequential. She didn’t affect the makeup of podiums. She didn’t influence any championship finals. At least, that’s the way the career of Michelle Smith unfolded for most of the ...

By McKenna Ehrmantraut, Swimming World College Intern. As the summer winds down and the school books come out, college swimmers are preparing for another eventful season full of grueling practices and best times. While the coaches are preparing tough sets, team captains are looking for ways to help ...

2022's Open Water Highlights: Florian Wellbrock Shines Beyond the Pool As open water swimming continues to grow and return to normalcy after the pandemic, there have been plenty of exciting stories. Here is a look at some of the best and most interesting open water moments during 2022. WORLD CHAMPIO...

Ian Thorpe Says FINA Transgender-Participation Policy Is Wrong Nine-time Olympic medalist Ian Thorpe, who is widely considered the greatest Australian swimmer in history, has spoken out against FINA’s guidelines concerning transgender participation. In a recent interview published by The Guardian, T...

Olympians Raise Nearly $1 Million for Splash Foundation With Water for Wellbeing Open Water Swim Around Hong Kong After the Tokyo Olympics, Jamie Yeung wanted to help raise awareness for mental health in her native Hong Kong. She also wanted to give back to her sport. It turns out, she wasn’t the on...

Swim Adventurer Lewis Pugh Becomes The First Person To Swim Across the Red Sea British endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh recently became the first person to swim across the Red Sea. Pugh set off from Tiran Island, Saudi Arabia on October 11, and completed the 76-mile swim 16 days later, arriving in Hurgh...

FINA Open Water Tour 2023 Announces Six Stops in 17th Season The FINA Open Water Tour 2023 released dates on Thursday for its events next season, the 17th iteration of the global series. The six dates are in addition to the FINA World Championships next summer in Fukuoka, Japan. The tour will have t...

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) voted to suspend the National Paralympic Committees of Russia and Belarus on Wednesday's Extraordinary General Assembly in Berlin, because of the war with Ukraine. The decision by IPC members to suspend NPC Russia and NPC Belarus stems from their inabilit...

Riccardo Di Domenico Downs 23-Year-Old Record at Evansville South African sprinter Riccardo Di Domenico last weekend downed a University of Evansville record that had stood since 1999, belonging to Olympian Nikola Kalabic. Di Domenico led off the Evansville 400 free relay at the A3 Performance Invit...

2027 World University Games Awarded to Chungcheong, South Korea The 2027 World University Games has been awarded to the South Korean city of Chungcheong, the International University Sports Federation (FISU) announced on Saturday. FISU awarded the games over a bid from the American state of North Ca...

Race Of the Century — Part II? Women's 400 Freestyle the Can't-Miss Event On Path to Paris Given that it was only four years into the new millennium, the moniker was a bit of a stretch. Hyperbole, though, has long been a part of the sporting landscape, and not giving the matchup a nickname seemed wr...

Fighting For Ukraine: Mykhailo Romanchuk Using Pool To Raise Awareness For Homeland's Battle Had the Tokyo Olympics gone differently, Mykhailo Romanchuk might have contemplated ending his swimming career. A year—and an invasion of his country—later, and the competition pool has become his battlefiel...

Entry times for the 19th FINA World Masters Championships in Japan have been announced. The meet will take place Aug. 2-11, 2023, in three cities in Japan - across the Island of Kyushu, Japan in the cities of Fukuoka, Kumamoto and Kagoshima. "Holding the tournament across three cities will allow for...

David Popovici Confirms Attendance at World Short Course Champs; Duel With Kyle Chalmers On Horizon At the Romanian Short Course Championships, where he captured gold in the 100-meter freestyle, David Popovici confirmed he will compete next month at the FINA World Short Course Championships in Melbo...

Ana Marcela Cunha and Gregorio Paltrinieri Crowned Swimming World's Open Water Swimmers of the Year In a year full of spectacular races and finishes, two swimmers stood alone in their conquests of open water swimming: Three-time Swimmer of the Year Ana Marcela Cunha of Brazil and Italy’s Gregorio Pa...