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Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of January 13-19, 2020   Friday, January 17 Belmonte at the double Mir...

Sydney Pickrem is plenty busy at this week’s FINA Champions Series in Shenzen, China. But she found time to make news Thursday by signing with Speedo. Pickrem announced the move on her Instagram account. “Starting off the new year with some big news!,” she wrote. “So excited to officially be part of...

The Australian Stingers have ended the USA women's water polo team's amazing 69 game winning streak with a heart-stopping 10-9 victory over the World and Olympic champions in front of a vocal 3,000 strong crowd at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight. The Americans hadn't lost in more than a year, an...

Russian athletes may yet compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games under their flag and in full national kit unimpeded by a four-year sanction from the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), depending on the pace of an appeal process. Some swim fans expressed their surprise that the Russian flag and Russian...

Swimming World caught up with Signe Bro while she was on her training camp in Fort Lauderdale with members of the Danish National team to talk about the first season of the ISL and what it was like being an international swimmer on a primarily-American team. The International Swimming League kicked ...

The countdown is on for tonight’s second international water polo Tests between Australia and the USA at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre and if the opening games were anything to go by then two more gripping games are on the cards. Tuesday saw Olympic women’s champions the US hang on for an exciting 10-...

FINA Champions' Series, Shenzhen, Day 2 There was no doubting the race of the day as Shenzhen's leg of the Fina Champions' Series concluded in China: a dress rehearsal for the Olympic 200m medley final come the Tokyo 2020 Games, assuming three of key podium protagonists make it through to the big mo...

Paris 2024 Roxana Maracineanu left Romania as a child with her family in search of a better life in France. In January 1998, she claimed the World title over 200m backstroke, went on to work for French radio and L'Equipe as a expert commentator. These days, she is the Sports Minister of France - and...

Arno Kamminga moved up to sixth all-time with a Dutch 100m breaststroke record and Danas Rapsys made up a deficit of 0.49secs at the final turn to beat Sun Yang in the 200m freestyle on the first day of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen, China. Kamminga, fresh from double 100m and 200m gold...

Olympic champions the USA have stretched their winning streak to 69 with a thrilling 10-9 victory over a spirited Australian Stingers side to win the first of three women’s water polo Test matches at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight. While in a heart-stopping men's Test the Aussie Sharks came bac...

Federica Pellegrini, the Italian superstar swimmer of the past two decades, raised the possibility of a sixth Olympic campaign beyond Tokyo 2020 as she received the "Leone del Veneto 2019" - Lion of Venice - award at the magnificent Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista at the weekend. Dubbed th...

Sun Yang was all smiles and full of plans for 2020 on the eve of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen, China, with a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport that will determine his future just days away. There had been confusion over whether the Chinese would compete after conflicting r...

Australian-USA rivalry in sports has generated history-making moments on both sides of the Pacific – probably none greater than Australia II's America’s Cup win off the coast of Rhode Island in 1983. That rivalry has extended primarily through swimming, basketball and water polo with 2020 the 20th a...

Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of January 6-12, 2020   Sunday, January 12 Tokyo 2020 Golden Shot Mats...

Mackenzie Padington won’t be returning to the University of Minnesota, the Canadian national team swimmer announced this week. Padington made the announcement on Instagram Monday. View this post on Instagram I would like to confirm that I will not be attending the University Of Minnesota com...

The Sun Yang Fan Club in China has announced on social media that the swimmer has had yet another change of heart and will now race the 200m and 400m freestyle at the FINA Champions invitational event in Shenzhen on January 14 and 15. There is no official confirmation of the fan club message on Weib...

While David Cumberlidge may not be a household name in the sport, nor attract the same social media following as the likes of Florent Manaudou quite yet, his rapid ascent within the swimming world has been nothing short of impressive. Standing at 6´7”, Cumberlidge is an instantly recognizable figure...

Emily Overholt’s performance at the 2016 Rio Olympics was a high point in her young career. But it came at a price for the then 18-year-old, who spent more than two months in the hospital dealing with depression that year. Now 22, Overholt has rediscovered her passion in the pool, opening up about h...

Adam Peaty and Katinka Hosszu have been named the top male and female swimmers in Europe in 2019 in the 12th edition of the LEN Awards. It is the third time in four years that Peaty has been given this accolade - which is voted for by national federations and the European governing body's officials ...

Sun Yang has withdrawn from the FINA Champions Series in Shenzhen next week, telling his China teammates in social media posts that he will see them in Qingdao for Olympic trials in March and continue to focus on his Tokyo 2020 Games preparations. The news follows a FINA announcement including ...