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By David Rieder. The prospects of Katie Ledecky not finishing first in the women’s 200 free final were real, very real. During the first three days of the World Championships, Ledecky has insisted that she believed she was clicking, but her times had just not been up to her usual standard. She had m...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Mark Koganov, who represented his native Azerbaijan at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio as a water polo referee, is comfortable taking on about any subject related to the sport. First as a player in the former Soviet Union and then as a world-class FINA r...

Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden and Caeleb Dressel of the United States were announced as the swimmers of the meet at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest. Sjostrom won three gold medals and a silver and set three world records in the competition. Sjostrom won the 100 fly, 50 fly and 50 free here ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. Seven thousand spectators—the vast majority sporting Magyar red, white and green—had jammed into temporary stands at the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex in Budapest, their excitement demonstrably on display as they roared in unison for...

The last day of finals at the 2017 FINA World Championships featured eight exciting finals as the United States finished its most successful World Championships with 38 total medals. That total surpasses the 36 they had in 1978 and 2007. They finished the night with a world record in the women's med...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor For his oversight of the 2016 European Men’s Water Polo Championship, Darko Udovicic garnered international recognition. But the Serbian native has been in the limelight much of his adult life. Starting from his early days as a player on the VK Partiza...

Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden unleashed a monstrous time of 51.71 to lower the World Record in the women's 100 free and become the first woman under 52 seconds. Her time of 51.71 also stands as the new Swedish National Record and European Record. Sjostrom did all this while swimming the lead off leg for ...

Just a year removed from her first Olympic gold medal, Mireia Belmonte of Spain won her first individual World Championship title as she swam a 2:05.26 to hold off Germany's Franziska Hentke for gold as Hentke got the silver at 2:05.39. Hentke won her first individual medal at the World Championship...

The United States finished off night seven at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest with a huge world record in the mixed 400 free relay. Caeleb Dressel won his third gold medal of the night as he led off at 47.22. Nathan Adrian (47.49), Mallory Comerford (52.71) and Simone Manuel (52.18) al...

By David Rieder. When it comes to the women’s breaststroke events this summer at the World Championships in Budapest, Yulia Efimova will be front and center. She has even earned the status of “favorite” in the 200 breast after she became the first woman to break 2:20 in the event this year at the Ba...

BUDAPEST, Hungary. After a positively unbelievable, uplifting and frankly exhausting evening of water polo at the Alfréd Hajós Swimming Complex, it seemed ideal to start piecing together some of the pieces of what is both an intricate puzzle as well as a concrete reality: Croatia has beaten its arch...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor BUDAPEST, Hungary. On a positively brilliant night in Budapest, an almost indescribable program of water polo took place at the Alfred Hajos Pool. In front of an adoring crowd of over 7,000 fans, the Hungarian men’s team suffocated a frustrated Greek t...

Omega Timing has posted the entry lists for each swimming event on the docket at the 2017 FINA World Championships. The competition will run eight days, from Sunday, July 23 to Sunday, July 30. Click here to view the full entry lists for the World Championships. Relay line-ups are not included in th...

By David Rieder. Sure, Adam Peaty made it interesting, giving the British men a four-hundredth lead over the Americans at the halfway point of the final event of the FINA World Championships, the men’s 400 medley relay. But with Caeleb Dressel and Nathan Adrian closing it out, the result was never r...

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A swim-off is possible to determine which athlete will continue on to semi-finals of the women's 100 free at the 2017 FINA World Championships. Prelims of the women's 100 free saw the Netherlands' Maud van der Meer and Israel's Andrea Murez turn in matching times of 54.49. The two did so from heats ...

The men's 100 free semi-finals featured some young up-and-comers as well as some veterans into tomorrow's final at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest. France's Mehdy Metella had the fastest time of the semi-finals with a 47.65 just ahead of Americans Caeleb Dressel (47.66) and Nathan Adri...

A 29-strong British Swimming team has been selected to compete at this summer’s FINA World Championships in Budapest. Olympic Champion Adam Peaty and Olympic medalists Jazz Carlin, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, James Guy, Duncan Scott, Stephen Milne and Chris Walker-Hebborn will be joined by a group of em...

Over the weekend, Swimming World reported that FINA has proposed adding ten events—the women's 800 free and men's 1500 free, stroke 50s and mixed 400 free and medley relays—to the Olympic program in 2020. That would match the current schedule of the FINA World Championships. In the coaching communit...

FINA has announced a series of technical changes for Swimming and Masters that will go into effect this fall. Among the changes: The so-called "Lochte rule" has been adjusted. Previously, a swimmer could be on his or her back at no point while swimming freestyle during a medley race (IM or medley re...