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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...

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 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 ...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Five Finals (Women's 4x200 Free Relay) The start lists for the women's 4x200 free relay were made available prior to the Day 5 finals session in Gwangju, South Korea at the FINA World Swimming Championships. USA's Katie Ledecky will be swimming the ...

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...

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: (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...

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 Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals An exciting slate of semifinals on day one of the FINA World Swimming Championships included a world record from Adam Peaty in the men's 100 breast, a American and Championships record from Caeleb Dressel in the men's 50 fly and impressive ...

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...

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...

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 (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 Caeleb Dressel Gwangju 2019 Day Six Semifinals After the first two semifinals of the evening at the World Swimming Championships produced world records in the men's 100 fly and women's 200 back, action came back to Earth just a smidge with action in the men's 50 free and...

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 Sarah Sjostrom Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Semifinals Women's 50 Free Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom had just minutes to recover after winning gold in the women's 50 fly before she had to return to the pool for the 50 free semifinals, and Sjostrom did what was necessary to earn lane...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! In this issue of Swimming World Biweekly, check out our FULL event coverage of all eight days, July 21-28, of the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Highlights feature Regan Sm....

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. freestyle relay Even te...

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 (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...