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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...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Six Finals (Men's 4x200 Free Relay) Live Stream The start lists for the men's 4x200 free relay were made available before the start of Friday's finals at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. Great Britain, the United S...

World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day two semifinals Men's 100 Back After issues with the backstroke starting ledges in prelims that first ruled out their use in the finals sessions and then meant that they must be used on one setting, the expected favorites rose to the top of the pack in th...

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...

FINA World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019 Day Seven Finals (Men’s 50m Freestyle) Caeleb Dressel swam the fastest 50m freestyle in textile when he won gold in 21.04secs at the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The Team USA swimmer was irresistible, surging past 2017 bronze medallist B...

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 (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 (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...

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 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 (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 ...

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....

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...