2019 FINA World Aquatics Championships - (Tag)

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 ...

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 ...

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.....

The women's 100 free has been one of the most stacked races this decade. Eight of the ten best swimmers of all-time are still active and seven of them will by vying for the gold in Gwangju at the World Championships. World Record holder Sarah Sjostrom was a 51.71 leading off Sweden's 4x100 free rela...

China secured the top two spots in the three-meter diving event during an exciting final round on the sixth day of the World Championships. The Chinese women accomplished the same feat yesterday. Men's three-meter was the only event today, and Xie Siyi took home the gold medal. Xie entered finals ti...

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...

If you don't know who Sarah "Seri" Harris is—and you’re a fan of water polo—you should. And you will. Dismissed last May as the head coach for South Africa’s women’s water polo team, Harris sent a thunderbolt through her country's water polo establishment just as her former team was set to open play...

Pan Pacs 4x100m freestyle champion Gabriel Santos will miss the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020 after FINA increased an eight-month suspension to 12 months following his positive drugs test. It was announced last month that Santos had tested positive for Clostebol, a synthetic androgenic steroid with...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Heats (Women's 50 Breaststroke) 14-year-old Italian Benedetta Pilato, just the third youngest in the entire event, swam to the top seed in the 50 breaststroke on Saturday morning at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South ...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor. Men's 27-meter, the final diving event of the 18th FINA World Championships, took place this morning, July 24, 2019, in Gwangju, South Korea. In a thrilling finish, British diver Gary Hunt overtook American Steve LoBue in the fourth and final round. It wa...

World Swimming Championships Gwangju, Day 3 finals Women's 1500m freestyle  Simone Quadarella had hoped to race for gold in a battle with the superstar of 30-lap racing but illness put Katie Ledecky out of the fight and the Italian was left to experience what the American often has: a race against t...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

World Swimming Championships (Cate Campbell) Gwangju, Day 4 finals Mixed 4x100 Medley Relay Powered by an anchor split of 51.10 from Cate Campbell, perhaps the greatest relay performer in history, Australia took top honors in the mixed medley relay, winning in 3:39.08. Campbell overhauled the United...

After scratching two events and under-performing in a third because of illness, Katie Ledecky returned to gold at the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. And Ledecky did so by holding off Simona Quadarella in one of the closest races in recent memory in the women's 800 free. In fa...

A 25-strong British Swimming team has been selected to compete at this summer’s FINA World Aquatics Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, the event taking place from 12-28 July. Defending world champions Adam Peaty, Ben Proud, Duncan Scott, Calum Jarvis and James Guy headline the team, which boasts...

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...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World Contributor.  Diving has officially started at the 2019 FINA Diving World Championships with women's one-meter, men's synchronized three-meter, and mixed synchronized ten-meter platform. Mixed synchronized 10m was the first final event to finish. The Chinese team, mad...