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Which Long Course Super-Suit Era World Record Will Last the Longest? The 2009 World Championships in Rome was one to remember. The swimming world witnessed a whopping 43 world records set at the Foro Italico. Only two events (men’s 400 freestyle relay; men’s 400 IM) survived the record onslaught in ...

The Teflon Record: How 100 Freestyle World Mark of Cesar Cielo Keeps on Surviving The feeling should’ve been familiar to swim watchers with certain experience. David Popovici entered Wednesday’s final in the men’s 100 freestyle with big hopes. His semifinals time of 47.13 mounted a brief charge at t...

World Championships: Daniel Wiffen 'Willing to Push Himself to the Limit' in Pursuit of 800 Free World Record Zhang Lin's 800 free world record has stood since July 2009 and it is, says, Daniel Wiffen, "definitely the hardest to break" while vowing to do whatever it takes to do just that. Zhang qual...

David Popovici Sets 100 Free World Record Of 46.86 David Popovici set a new world record of 46.86 in the 100m freestyle final at the European Championships in Rome. The 17-year-old sliced 0.05secs off the previous standard of 46.91 set by Cesar Cielo in the very same Foro Italico at the 2009 World C...

British Trials, Day 2 Finals: Ollie Morgan Sets British 100 Back Record Of 52.70 To Book Ticket To Paris Ollie Morgan lowered the British 100 back record that had stood to Liam Tancock since 2009 to 52.70 as he punched his ticket to Paris 2024. Morgan served notice in the prelims when he went 52.87 ...

5 Men's Events to Watch at the 2021 United States Olympic Trials After more than a year of uncertainty, the United States Olympic Trials are sett to take place next month. With Wave II about three weeks away, most top swimmers have finished their final preparation meets and have their eyes targeting...

Kathleen Dawson was just 0.12 off the European 100 backstroke record all-suits as she went 58.24 at the British Swimming Selection Trials. The University of Stirling swimmer had gone 59.16 in the morning heats to indicate a speedy finals swim. Link to results Out in 28.25 and back in 29.87, the 20.....

Federica Pellegrini will bring the curtain down on a career that has brought Olympic, world and European titles at Season 3 of the International Swimming League which starts in Naples, Italy, in August. The Italian will compete in her fifth Olympics next month in Tokyo, 17 years after her debut at A...

European Championships: Sarah Sjostrom Likes To Spring A Surprise & Katinka Hosszu Eyes 100 International Medals Sarah Sjostrom debuted her new purple-pink hair and Katinka Hosszu set her sights on 100 international medals at the opening press conference of the European Championships in Rome. Sjostr...

Sarah Sjostrom won a record fourth consecutive 50 fly title at the World Championships in Budapest. Sjostrom won gold in 2015, 2017 and 2019 to become the only woman to win three titles in the one-length event. On Friday, she wrote yet another entry into the record books with victory in 24.95 before...

Florine Gaspard & Roos Vanotterdijk Rewrite Belgian Record Books In Stockholm; Kyle Chalmers Continues Winning Streak Florine Gaspard and Roos Vanotterdijk continued to rewrite the Belgian record books on the third day of the Swim Open Stockholm. Vanotterdijk set two new marks in as many days in the...

Federica Pellegrini has reset her sights following the postponement of Tokyo 2020 and is now looking to her fifth Olympics, 17 years after her debut at Athens 2004. Pellegrini won gold and silver in the 200 free at Beijing 2008 and in Athens where she stood on the podium just 12 days after turning 1...

World champions Kristof Milak and Katinka Hosszu are among the swimmers set to compete at the inaugural 4 Nations Swimming Meet from Friday 24 July in Budapest. The three-day meet will be held at the Szechy Swimming Arena which is part of the Alfréd Hajós National Swimming Stadium on Margaret Island...

Throwback race between Rebecca Soni and Nadja Higl. Each week leading up to the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Swimming World will do a special look-back on some of the most memorable races in World Championships history. Read up on last week's throwback: Men's 200 Free - 2007 Women's 200 Brea...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. In her first meet as a professional swimmer, Katie Ledecky stunned the world with remarkable swims and silenced a lot of her recent critics at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianpolis. She put up a new world record in the 1500 freestyle and strong worl...

Triple Olympian. World champion. Ten-time European champion. Commonwealth champion. British record holder. In her own words, 70% professional athlete, 20% krispy kreme addict, 10% rockstar. And one thing we can say with certainty is that Fran Halsall is 30 today! The sprint freestyler will be celebr...