2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships - (Tag)

World Swimming Championships (Kristof Milak) Gwangju 2019 Day Four Finals (Men's 200 Fly) Hungary's Kristof Milak crushed the world record in the 200 fly on Wednesday night at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea.  Milak, 19, crushed the world record at 1:50.73 to lower...

From the moment Hali Flickinger steps onto the blocks, she is facing a little bit of adversity — every single race. The U.S. butterflyer stands nearly 5 feet, 5 inches, sometimes being towered over by the woman in the next lane. It means Flickinger will likely have to take a few more strokes each le...

FINA has sent a warning letter to Swimming Australia over Mack Horton's silent protest against the presence of Sun Yang, of China, yesterday. Sun retained the world title here in Gwangju, with Olympic champion Horton second and Italian Gabriele Detti third. Horton then decided to make a stand agains...

Three-time Olympian and 2012 100 freestyle gold medalist Nathan Adrian announced via social media on Thursday he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. He wrote a lengthy post on Instagram that read: "Life, like swimming the 100 free, can come at you hard and fast as you can't always see who, or what...

Swimming World presents the video series, the Ross Report. It is a series where our head video producer Andy Ross will travel around the country to tell the stories of the athletes you don’t know much about. This week's episode focuses on the University of Louisville Swimming and Diving program. T.....

World Swimming Championships (Caeleb Dressel) Gwangju Day 6 (Men's 100m butterfly semi-finals) Caeleb Dressel has just shattered the world record with a 49.50 blast in another world at the helm of pace going through top the final of the 100m butterfly. He'd intended it, telling Swimming World: "I wo...

FINA World Swimming Championships (Caeleb Dressel and Sarah Sjostrom) Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals The 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships came to a close on Sunday night in Gwangju, South Korea with Caeleb Dressel and Sarah Sjostrom being announced as swimmers of the meet. Dressel won six gold ...

FINA World Swimming Championships (Yulia Efimova) Gwangju 2019 Day Six Finals (Women's 200 Breast) Russia's Yulia Efimova won her third 200 breast World title on Friday night at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Efimova swam a 2:20.17, not far off her 2:19.41 best t...

World Swimming Championships (Regan Smith) Gwangju 2019 Day Six Semifinals Women's 200 Backstroke Regan Smith of the United States looked impressive in the women's 200 back prelims when she broke her own world junior record with a 2:06.01, but as it turns up, that was just the beginning. Smith looke...

World Swimming Championships Zane Waddell Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals Men's 50 Back Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov held the world record in the men's 50 back and posted the top time in the semifinals at 24.35. But Kolesnikov appeared to get off to a poor start and emerged well behind the field, leavi...

World Swimming Championships (Ledecky vs Titmus) Gwangju 2019 Day 1 finals Women's 400m freestyle It was billed as a thriller. It surely was. And it marked the moment of doubt about Katie Ledecky and longevity. The drain of Midas was tangible in the American defending champion, who handed her crown ...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Three Finals (Men's 200 Free) In a severe turn of events in the pool on Tuesday night at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, China's Sun Yang won the 200 free final with a 1:44.93. Lithuania's Danas Rapsys, who originally touched ...

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. Men's 200 Free, 2007 World Championships - Melbourne Michael Phelps had one of the best meets of his life at the 2007 World ...

Mack Horton was greeted to the dining hall at the Athletes' Village last night to resounding round off applause from fellow athletes from around the world after he refused to stand on the medals podium next to Chinese controversy Sun Yang after the Australian Olympic champion finished the 400m frees...

World Swimming Championships (Katie Ledecky, Simona Quadarella, Ariarne Titmus) Gwangju Day 7 Finals (women's 800m freestyle) We have never seen Katie Ledecky like this: out ahead and pace-setting; then caught; then seemingly defeated but... no, wait; fighting back but struggling with Simona Quadare...

The 18th FINA World Aquatics Championships will take place in Gwangju, South Korea July 12-28, 2019. On May 4, the Gwangju 2019 committee announced the mascot for the games via their Twitter account: We chose to have otters as #symbol for the #Championships! Why? The otter swims freely in the water ...

World Swimming Championships (Michael Phelps, Bob Bowman, Kristof Malik) Gwangju, Day 4 finals Plaudits from Michael Phelps, praise from Bob Bowman, hats and 'everything else' off from Chad Le Clos. Then there's coach Atilla Selmeci, who wants to keep Kristof Malik's feet on the ground and broad sho...

World Swimming Championships (Federica Pellegrini) Gwangju, Day 4 finals Women's 200 freestyle The Lioness of Verona has roared again. A legend in the freestyle ranks, Italy’s Federica Pellegrini orchestrated a perfect race on Wednesday night to repeat as champion of the 200 freestyle and collect th...

The Swedish Swim Association has announced its team for the upcoming 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Korea. Sarah Sjostrom leads the field and is expected to be one of the highest-scoring athletes at the world championships. Meanwhile, sisters Louise Hansson and Sophie Hansson also were selecte...

Every time Siobhan Haughey touches the wall, she is making history for her country. At least it seems that way. In the past four months, Haughey capped her career as one of the top swimmers in Michigan history, then qualified for the 2019 World Championships, the 2020 Olympics, become the first swim...