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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...

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 ...

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...

World Swimming Championships Katinka Hosszu Gwangju 2019 Day Eight Heats Women's 400 IM Hungary's Katinka Hosszu has captured three straight world titles in the 400 IM, and even after a quiet World Championships by her standards, she will be heavily favored to capture a fourth straight gold medal an...

FINA World Swimming Championships (Sarah Sjostrom third straight victory)  Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Finals (Women's 50 Fly) It took Sarah Sjostrom 30m to gather momentum, as Ranomi Kromowidjojo, the 2012 Dutch double Olympic freestyle sprint champion motored a touch ahead of her, but once the Swedish ...

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. When Simone Manuel dove...

World Swimming Championships (Olivia Smoliga) Gwangju, Day 5 finals Women's 50 backstroke Late last year, Olivia Smoliga walked away from the World Short Course Championships with eight gold medals, including victories in the 50 backstroke and 100 backstroke. Still, Smoliga was looking for a major i...

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 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...

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 ...

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. Duncan Scott, Regan Smi...

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...

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:...

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...

World Swimming Championships (Sun Yang and Mack Horton) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals  Men's 400m Freestyle Sun Yang won his fourth consecutive title in the 400m freestyle as his presence loomed large at the Nambu University Municipal Aquatics Center. Mack Horton finished second before refusing to shar...

World Swimming Championships Regan Smith Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Finals Women's 200 Back After taking down a legendary world record in the semifinals, Regan Smith of the United States won her first international gold medal with an utterly dominant performance. Smith went out well under world record-p...