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Qin Haiyang and Li BIngjie Dial Up Swift Performances At Chinese Spring Championships Fast times dotted the second day of the Chinese Spring Championships, with Qin Haiyang and Li Bingjie producing the top performances. Coming off a runnerup finish in the 200-meter individual medley, Qin was dominan...

Chinese Teen Wang Haoyu Clocks Sub-48 In 100 Freestyle At Spring Champs; Olympic Titlist Wang Shun Looks Strong Another teenager is making noise in the 100-meter freestyle, as 17-year-old Wang Haoyu broke the 48-second barrier at the Chinese Spring Championships. With the World Championships in Fuku...

China’s Zhang Yufei Setting Paris Olympics Sights on 100 Fly China’s Zhang Yufei assembled one of the best performances of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, with two gold medals and two silvers. As the 24-year-old looks toward the Paris Olympics next year, her eyes are trained on the 100 fly as her main g...

Passages: World-Record Setter and Olympic Medalist Shiro Hashizume Dies at 94 ISHOF Honoree Shiro Hashizume died recently at the age of 94. Up until his death on March 9, 2023, Hashizume was Japan’s oldest living Olympic medalist. Born in 1928, Hashizume should have been at his peak for the 1948 Oly...

If Not For His Swimming Prowess, Julius Caesar Would Not Have Lived to the Ides of March “Beware The Ides of March!” Had Julius Caesar not been a strong swimmer, we would never know the term – he would have died in 48 BCE and never lived to die on the Ides of March in 45 BCE. ***************** It is...

ISHOF Announces Spectacular Class of 2023; Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman Among Honorees The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is proud to announce its prestigious Class of 2023. This year, ISHOF will induct 13 honorees from eight countries: five swimmers, two coaches, one diver, one water ...

Kasia Wasick flew all the way from Poland to Fort Lauderdale for the TYR Pro Swim Series stop. While many athletes use the series to develop multiple events, try doubles and gauge where they stand in several races, Wasick was there to race. In fact, she flew all the way from Poland for less than 25 ...

Australian World Champion Freestylers Emma McKeon and Lani Pallister Born Into Golden Gene Pools Little did they know it at the time but former Australian surf lifesaving rivals Ron McKeon and Rick Pallister would father two of Australia’s greatest swimmers – Emma McKeon and Lani Pallister. Between ...

Kaylene Corbett Posts Strong 200 Breaststroke; Coetze, van Niekerk Win Again at Durban Grand Prix On the first day of Swimming South Africa's Grand Prix meet in Durban, both Lara van Niekerk and Pieter Coetze recorded "A" qualifying times for this summer's World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, and ...

Joseph Schooling Pulls out of Singapore Squad for SEA Games Joseph Schooling has pulled out of Singapore’s squad for the SEA Games in May in Cambodia, the Olympic gold medalist citing a lack of preparation and form. He released a statement this week that read, “After careful consideration with my te...

Lara van Niekerk, Pieter Coetze Post Strong Performances at Durban Grand Prix Several of South African's top swimmers are racing this weekend at a Grand Prix meet in Durban, and World Championship medalist and Commonwealth Games champion Lara van Niekerk produced a strong swim in the 100 breaststrok...

Siobhan Haughey hasn't swam long course since the Tokyo Olympics. The two-time Olympic silver medalist wanted to get as much long-course racing in as she could at the TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Fort Lauderdale, entering in a plethora of events. On Friday night, Haughey went back-to-back events, swi...

World Aquatics released its newest competition regulations update, the first since the world governing body was renamed (formerly FINA). Most of the 417-page report on the World Aquatics site is the formality of renewing current rules and guidelines. But there were three differences. The first has t...

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 ...

The 2023 World Junior Championships will be held in Netanya, Israel, from 4-9 September. The six-day competition will take place at the Wingate Institute, a purpose-built facility 30km up the northern coast from the capital Tel Aviv. Anastasia Gorbenko became the first Israeli woman to win a Europea...

‘It’s Crazy to Think I’m Still Here:” Abdelrahman El-Araby Shares Emotional Post-Victory Speech The swim by Abdelrahman El-Araby Wednesday night in the 50 freestyle at the ACC Championships was special for many reasons. He went from sixth in the morning prelims in 19.22 to winning in 18.79, besting ...

Olympic Champ Sharon van Rouwendaal Wins 50th Edition of Midmar Mile Olympic champion Sharon van Rouwendaal of the Netherlands picked up the win last weekend at the Midmar Mile race in South Africa. The men’s race was won for the second straight year by South Africa’s Connor Buck. The 50th edition o...

On February 6, 2023, the world of swimming lost a long-time ambassador in 96-year-old Greta Andersen. One of the greatest swimmers of all time, Andersen burst onto the world’s stage when she won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1948 London Olympics. When she returned home to Copenhag...

United States Among 35 Nations Pressing For Ban Of Russian Athletes From 2024 Paris Olympics Pressure is ratcheting up on the International Olympic Committee to ban athletes from Russia and Belarus from the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. According to Reuters, the United States, Germany and Australia a...

World Aquatics has announced Singapore will play host to the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, and will replace Kazan. The Russian city was awarded the showpiece event in July 2019 and were due to stage the meet 10 years after they played host in 2015. However, the invasion of Ukraine and ongoing w...