2019 FINA World Swimming Championships - (Tag)

FINA World Swimming Championships (Simone Manuel) Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals (Women's 50m Freestyle) Simone Manuel became the sixth woman to win the sprint freestyle double at a single World Championships after she added the 50m title to her 100m freestyle gold in a race to the wall in which the ...

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. Caeleb Dressel On July ...

FINA World Swimming Championships: (Maggie MacNeil) Gwangju 2019 Day 2 Finals In a race that almost everyone in the venue expected to go Sarah Sjostrom's way, Canada's Maggie MacNeil rose to the occasion and won the 100 fly gold medal at 55.83 on Monday night at the FINA World Swimming Championships...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Finals (Mixed 4x100 Free Relay) USA's Simone Manuel helped end Australia's hot streak in the relays this week at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships as she split a 52.00 to anchor the United States to a new world record at 3:19.40. It w...

World Swimming Championships (Adam Peaty) Gwangju, Day 4 Finals Men’s 50m breaststroke Adam Peaty seemingly writes a new line in the history books every time he swims and Wednesday night was no different after victory in the 50m breaststroke saw him become the first swimmer to win six world titles i...

World Swimming Championships (Women's 4x100 Free Relay) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals Women's 4x100 Free Relay Australia closed the first night of the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea with a 3:30.21 in the women's 4x100 free relay. The time is off the world record of 3:30....

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 ...

World Swimming Championships 4x200 Free Relay Gwangju 2019 Day Six Heats Men's 4x200 Free Relay A relatively-unknown Italian foursome put up the fastest mark in the 4x200 free relay qualifying heats, as Filippo Megli (1:46.97), Matteo Ciampi (1:46.42), Stefano Ballo (1:45.66) and Stefano di Cola (1:...

FINA World Swimming Championships (Duncan Scott) Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals (Men's 4x100m Medley Relay) Duncan Scott split 46.14 as he surged past Nathan Adrian in the final metres as Great Britain won the men's 4x100m medley relay to inflict defeat upon the United States for the first time. Adri...

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...

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 (Boglarka Kapas) Gwangju 2019 Day Five Finals (Women's 200 Fly) It was a race that looked to be Hali Flickinger's to lose. The American had come in as the favorite and had the world's fastest time. She looked to be unstoppable this year after totally reshaping her b...

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. Anton Chupkov The co-wo...

World Swimming Championships Regan Smith Gwangju 2019 Day Six Heats Women's 200 Backstroke 17-year-old Regan Smith of the United States didn't need to swim anywhere close to her lifetime best of 2:06.43 (also the world junior record) in order to comfortably qualify for the semifinals, but Smith put ...

FINA World Swimming Championships (Gregorio Paltrinieri) Gwangju 2019 Day Three Heats (Men's 800 Free) Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri is on top of a very tight 800 free field heading into tomorrow's final with a 7:45.70 heat swim. He was in control throughout the second half of his heat swim as the It...

World Swimming Championships Kliment Kolesnikov Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Heats Men's 50 Back Russia's Kliment Kolesnikov entered the 100 back earlier this week as a medal contender and certainly the top Russian after winning last year's European title in 52.53, but Kolesnikov finished a disappointing ...

World Swimming Championships Florian Wellbrock Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Finals Men's 1500 Free For 1400 meters, the top three seeds in an all-European 1500 free final swam neck and neck, rarely separated by more than a couple tenths. That trio included Ukraine's Mykhailo Romanchuk in lane three, Italy...

World Swimming Championships (Adam Peaty) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals Men's 100 Breast Great Britain's Adam Peaty has completed one of his ultimate career goals, taking down the 57-second barrier in the men's 100 breast. Peaty achieved a time of 56.88, crushing the world record of 57.10 that he s...

Senior Siobhan Haughey of the University of Michigan women's swimming and diving team qualified for the 2019 World Championships and the 2020 Olympics at the 62nd Festival of Sport, held on Sunday (April 14) at the Hong Kong Sports Institute Swimming Pool. Less than a month removed from the NCAA Cha...

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. Maggie MacNeil Ten year...