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World Aquatics has published the full competition schedule for the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) – Beijing 2026. It offers fans and athletes their first detailed look at how the six days of racing will unfold at the Beijing National Aquatics Centre, known as the Water Cube. The World A...

Queensland Short Course Champs: Top Teens Unleash A Record Splash As Former World Champion Jade Edmistone Returns To Racing Two 15-year-old schoolboys have stolen the show with a record-breaking onslaught at the 2026 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Short Course Championships at the Brisbane Aquatic ....

How to Watch Pan Pacific Championships; Link to Meet Results All four days of pool competition at the Pan Pacific Championships, which will run from Wednesday through Saturday, will be carried by Peacock. Prelims will begin at 10 a.m. (1 p.m. EDT) while finals will get underway at 7 p.m. (10 p.m. ED...

POLL: How Many World Records Will Be Broken Between European Champs and Pan Pacs? (VOTE HERE!) The week ahead is sure to be fascinating, with the European Championships (Aug. 10-16) and Pan Pacific Championships (Aug. 12-15) unfolding simultaneously in Paris and Irvine. The world's best swimmers wil...

Five Men's Storylines to Follow at the Pan Pacific Championships: Bobby Finke, Sam Short Set for Distance Matchups The Pan Pacific Championships are days away, with swimmers from Australia, Canada, Japan, South Africa, Brazil, China and elsewhere traveling to Irvine, California, for what could turn ...

Can Sarah Sjostrom Provide Response to New World-Record Marks in 50 Freestyle? For nearly nine years, Sarah Sjostrom reigned atop the 50-meter freestyle. The Swedish star initially set the world record at the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, clocking a time of 23.67. Six years later, at the Wor...

Leon Marchand Out of Individual Medley Events for European Championships The European Championships are just two days from getting underway in Paris and big news was released on Saturday by the French Swimming Federation. In a press release, the FFN announced that Leon Marchand will not compete in t...

Hubert Kos Adopting Heavy (and Intriguing) Program for European Championships Frequently, entry lists for major competitions must be viewed through a skeptical lens. They are not always meant to reflect the actual program an athlete is adopting for the meet ahead, but instead reveal the options on t...

Japan’s Tomoru Honda Out of Pan Pacs, Asian Games after Driving Charge Japan’s Tomoru Honda will not participate in the Pan Pacific Championships and Asian Games after a charge of reckless driving. The Japanese aquatic federation announced the news on Friday. It said that Honda, the silver medalist ...

Five Women's Storylines to Follow at the Pan Pacific Championships; Gretchen Walsh Chasing Sub-54 One of the year's biggest international meets is almost here, the Pan Pacific Championships set to run from August 12-15. It will be the first edition of Pan Pacs since 2018 and, along with the Commonwe...

Pan Pacs Format Will Have U.S. Swimmers on Alert During Morning Prelims The preliminaries at the Pan Pacific Championships won't take long to complete, thanks to smaller-sized fields for next week's competition. Some events will only have two heats during the morning session, but the stakes will be ...

Entry Lists for Pan Pacific Championships Released (See Full Entries) The initial entry lists for next week's Pan Pacific Championships have been released. While many athletes are entered in more events than they will ultimately contest, the entries provide a glimpse of what some swimmers are thinki...

Maurine Kornfeld Sets First Women's Masters World Record in 105-109 Age Group Last month, Maurine Kornfeld became the first woman to set a Masters world record in the 105-109 age group when she covered the 50-meter backstroke (long course) in 2:05.63. Kornfeld has been a regular presence at Masters ...

A week ago, South African swimming star Chad le Clos was beaming with joy after setting the Commonwealth Games men's record for medals with his 20th, tying Emma McKeon for most all time. But while that was happening in Scotland, a devastating fire took over his apartment complex in South Africa and ...

Australian Backstroker Isaac Cooper In Hot Water After Missing Final Night In Glasgow Australian Olympian and world champion backstroker Isaac Cooper has voluntarily stood himself down from the Dolphins leadership group after missing the final session of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, as well a....

Japanese Star Satomi Suzuki Still Writing Chapters to Career at 35 Years Old For a moment, flash back to the 2012 Olympic Games in London. On three occasions, Japan's Satomi Suzuki stood on the podium inside the London Aquatic Centre. She received a silver medal for her performance in the 200-meter ...

Swimming's Most Unique Stroke? The Reasoning Behind Top Breaststrokers' Similarities, Differences When Van Mathias swims breaststroke, the pool is silent. The 25-year-old, who has broken American records in the 50 breaststroke and 100 breaststroke this year, glides through the water with ease, no mo...

Leon Marchand Still Working Through Injury on Way to European Champs; 400 IM Uncertain While 200 Breaststroke Out One week out from the start of swimming competition at the European Aquatics Championships in Paris, four-time Olympic champion Leon Marchand continues to battle a left adductor injury t...

Heavily Depleted Australian Squad Will Need Rise-to-the-Occasion Efforts at Pan Pacific Championships Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? The silence during roll call for the Australian squad at the Pan Pacific Championships will be overwhelming. As sharp as the Dolphins were at the recently concluded Common...

European Championships Begin in Paris: Full Schedule and How to Watch Live One of the biggest events on the international aquatics calendar begins this weekend as Europe's best athletes converge on Paris for the 2026 European Aquatics Championships. Running through mid-August, the championships feat...