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A second British record fell in the space of 24 hours at the Scottish National Short-Course Championships as the University of Stirling team led off by Duncan Scott lowered the men's 4x50m freestyle mark in Edinburgh. The quartet of Scott, Martyn Walton, Scott McLay and Craig McLean lowered the mark...

Ellen Walshe and Brendan Hyland, at home in Dublin, led a further rush on record on the third day of Irish Short Course National Championships today, contributing to the rewriting of the nation's standards in the pool. The 26 records taken down in the past 3 days make it 46 Irish short-course record...

The might of Marseille delivered three Championship records on the third day of racing at French Short-Course Nationals, new standards set by club 4x50m medley quartets, men and women, after Theo Bussiere took the pace of 100m breaststroke in France down to 57.42. Florent Manaudou, a 22.44 win over ...

The Scottish National Short-Course Championships started with a bang in Edinburgh as the men’s University of Stirling 4x50m medley relay set a new British record to consign another mark from the shiny-suit era to history. [caption id="attachment_153337" align="alignnone" width="327"] Photo Courtesy:...

David Aubry, the French pool and open water diatonic freestyle ace, rocketed up the rankings to all-time number 4 over 800m freestyle with a 7mins 31.60 victory at French Short-Course Championships in Angers this evening. Aubry's effort added to celebrations on the Montpellier Metropole Natation squ...

Into the second straight week of all-out assault on the Irish swimming record books, with 20 standards downed last week and  11 yesterday, day two of the Irish National Short Course Championships did not disappoint. There were 10 more marks today for a count of 41 new high bars in 10 days at two ev...

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...

Mizuno, a global leader in sporting goods and apparel, introduced the Mizuno GX-Sonic V, the next evolution of acclaimed elite racing tech suit series known as the “Mizuno suit,” to the U.S. market today. Initially introduced in Japan, the Mizuno suit is now available for pre-order at mizunousa.com ...

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....