2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships - (Tag)

World Junior Championships (Franko Grgic 14:46.09) Budapest, Day 6 Finals Men's 1500m freestyle Franko Grgic has been tipped for the top as a potential world-record holder in Europe. On 14:46.09, a World junior record of magnitude and might, the promise of great things from the fastest 16-year-old 1...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Torri Huske, Claire Curzan) Budapest, Day 5 Prelims Torri Huske and Claire Curzan of the U.S. took the top seeds in the 100 fly, just a hundredth of a second apart on the fifth morning of action at the World Junior Championships in the Hungarian capital. They wer...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (Apostolos Papastamos) Budapest 2019 Day Five Finals (Men's 400 IM) World Junior Record: 4:13.39, Carson Foster, USA (2019) Championships Record: 4:14.65, Hugo Gonzalez, ESP (2017) The men's 400 IM final was expected to be a race between Carson Foster and the...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (Lani Pallister) Budapest 2019 Day Five Finals Australia's Lani Pallister won her third gold medal of the meet with a new championships record of 15:58.86 in the 1500 after golds in the 400 and 800 to complete the distance hat trick, taking after her mother, ...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Jade Hannah Doubles) Budapest 2019 Day Three Finals The third night of finals at the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships concluded with some of the best 18 and under swimmers on display in Budapest, Hungary. Canada's Jade Hannah got her second gold of t...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Alba Vazquez Ruiz, USA men's 4x100m free quartet set World Junior Records) Budapest, Day 1 Finals The 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships got off to a sizzling start in Budapest, Hungary, today, a 3:46 championship record over 400m freestyle from Hungar...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Budapest 2019 Day Six Finals (Men's 4x100 Medley Relay) World Junior Record: 3:35.17, Russia (2018) Championships Record: 3:36.15, United States (2017) The Russian Federation ended the United States' perfect streak in relays on the final night of the World Ju...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships (USA Gold Rush) Budapest 2019 Day Six Finals A sizzling Franko Grgic 14:46.09 World Junior Record Makes Croatian Ace Fastest 16-Year-Old Over 1500m In History, stole the show in the curtain-closer at the Duna Arena in the Hungarian capital this evening. The l...

World Junior Championships (Gabor Zombori World Junior Champion) Budapest, Day 1 finals Gabor Zombori does not turn 17 until October. He started the year with an ambition of cracking 4 minutes on one of his 'lesser' events, the 400m freestyle; rose to 20th best Hungarian ever at trials in 3:53 and u...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Budapest 2019 Day Four Finals (Men's 4x200 Free Relay) The United States remained perfect in relays after four nights of the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest with a new world junior record in the men's 4x200 free relay. The quartet of...

Thirty of Swimming Australia’s most talented young swimmers will travel to the capital of Hungary in August to compete at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships. The team, which comprises of 14 boys and 16 girls from Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia,...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Kayla van der Merwe) Budapest, Day 3 Prelims The 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships continued on Thursday morning in Budapest with a full slate of events as the top junior swimmers in the world vied for world titles. The session started with the women’...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Lani Pallister, Janelle Elford) Budapest By Ian Hanson “Gotcha Mum…!!” were the words from rising swim star Lani Pallister after she rocketed up the world rankings and into Olympic contention with gold over 800m freestyle at the World Junior Swimming Championship...

USA Swimming, the national governing body for the sport of swimming in the United States, has announced the names of 45 young swimmers and six assistant coaches to represent Team USA at the 2019 FINA World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary. The five-day event will take place from August 20-2...

FINA World Junior Swimming Championships Budapest 2019 Day Four Finals The fourth night of finals produced a second gold for Australia's Lani Pallister for the distance double, the 400m freestyle crown added to the 800m title in which she surpassed her mother, Janelle Elford, on the all-time list on...

World Junior Championships (Gianluca Urlando Dress Rehearsal) Budapest - August 21-26 Gianluca Urlando turned 17 in March this year, three months shy of a 1:53 effort over 200m butterfly. Long-course. One of the headliners for the USA team at World Junior Championships that get underway in Budapest ...

World Junior Swimming Championships (Gabor Zombori, Thomas Ceccon) Budapest, Day 1 Prelims Hungary’s Gabor Zombori, racing in his nation's capital, and Italy’s Thomas Ceccon got the FINA World Junior showcase off to a fast start with meet records in their respective events. Zombori thundered out a 3...

World Junior Championships (USA World Junior Record) Budapest, Day 1 The United States men broke the world junior record in the 4x100 free relay on the first night of the 2019 FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest with a 3:15.80. Jake Magahey (49.51), Luca Urlando (48.73), Adam Chaney...

Josh Matheny has been in rare form this week at the FINA World Junior Swimming Championships in Budapest, winning two golds in the mixed medley relay and 200 breaststroke, and also a silver in the 100 breast. The 16-year-old helped the U.S. set a world junior record in the mixed medley relay, set th...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday September 5, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: What was the most impressive world junior record from the World Junior Championships? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: Fra...