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By David Rieder. Katie Ledecky was her usual dominant self. Nathan Adrian and Simone Manuel epitomized clutch on the anchor legs of their respective 400 free relays. The Americans won three gold medals on the first night of the FINA World Championships, already almost halfway to matching the eight t...

After one World Junior Record and one Championship Record were broken during last night's finals of the Beijing stop of the 2017 FINA World Cup circuit, we are slated for another day of close finishes, edge-of-your-seat races and intense excitement. Here you will find everything you need to keep up ...

France's Florent Manaudou will be looking to dethrone two-time defending champions Cesar Cielo of Brazil in the men's 50-meter fly at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Manaudou led the way in qualifying with a 23.15. That put him third in the world rankings behind Nicholas Santos (22.90) and Cielo ...

Florent Manaudou tied the French record in the men's 50-meter fly with the top seed in semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Manaudou blasted the field with a 22.84 to match Fred Bousquet's 2008 record.  He also cleared Nicholas Santos (22.90) for the top time in the world this year as just th...

World Record Holder Andrii Govorov Announces Retirement Ukrainian world record holder Andrii Govorov announced his retirement from swimming on Monday, taking with him the world record in the 50 butterfly. Govorov made the announcement on social media. One of the swimmers who figured to most benefit ...

The first cluster of the 2018 FINA World Cup came to a close in Doha, Qatar this week, with five more World Cup records going down and Sarah Sjostrom and Anton Chupkov coming out as the winners of the first cluster. Get caught up on the stories from that meet and the other biggest news this week in ...

Arno Kamminga moved up to sixth all-time with a Dutch 100m breaststroke record and Danas Rapsys made up a deficit of 0.49secs at the final turn to beat Sun Yang in the 200m freestyle on the first day of the FINA Champions Swim Series in Shenzhen, China. Kamminga, fresh from double 100m and 200m gold...

Two-time 50m backstroke world champion Liam Tancock has been appointed chair of the inaugural LEN Athletes' Committee as part of the European federation's governance reforms. The Briton will head the new committee comprising seven former and current athletes - four men and three women - across all a...

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...

Commentary by Jeff Commings This year’s Duel in the Pool, set for December 11-12 in Indianapolis, is likely to further show us what we already knew after this summer’s world championships: the world is catching up to the United States in the pool. Team USA experienced its lowest gold medal count at ...

After losing the top seed to Nathan Adrian of the USA yesterday in the semi-finals France's Florent Manaudou successfully re-claimed the top spot and the gold medal in the 50-meter free. Manaudou finished with a time of 21.19 to move him to the top of the world rankings for 2015. This is an improvem...

18th FINA World Aquatics Championships Preview: Men's Swimming July 21-28 FREESTYLE BY DAN D’ADDONA The men’s 50 free has been the must-see event in international pools since its inception as an Olympic event in 1988. With just fractions of a second deciding first through eighth, it takes nothing .....

By Andy Ross Amongst all the craziness in the swimming world currently going on--Phillips 66 Nationals, Speedo Juniors, Europeans--it was hard to keep up with everything and fully digest what it all meant. Kathleen Baker broke a world record, Adam Peaty broke a world record, Kliment Kolesnikov broke...

Matt Sates won double gold on the first day of the Mare Nostrum tour in Monaco with Lydia Jacoby and Arno Kamminga also among the winners . Monaco results Sates claimed the first gold of the meet when he was the only man inside 3:50 in the 400 free in 3:49.27. Antonio Djakovic of Switzerland (3:50.6...

Make it two World Cup records in a row. One event after Sarah Sjostrom cruised to a World Cup record in the 100 fly, Andrii Govorov of the Ukraine set one in the 50 fly. Govorov swam the 50 fly in 22.87 seconds, breaking the previous record of 23.23 set by South Africa’s Chad le Clos in 2015. Michae...

The 2019 Mare Nostrum Series opened on Saturday with its first stop in Monaco. A full slate of events opened on Day 1 with some of the best swimmers in the world competing internationally. Katinka Hosszu won two events, with Michael Andrew also among the winners. Siobhan Haughey became the first Hon...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. Last week at the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy, we saw Andrii Govorov break the world record in the men's 50-meter butterfly. He clocked a new record of 22.27 to smash the old record of 22.43. The significance of the old record was that it was he...

Nathan Adrian turned in the fastest time in semi-finals of the men's 50-meter free with a sizzling 21.37. That time not only earns him the top seed coming back for finals in the event and the top time for 2015 in the world, but it is also a new American record. Adrian's time replaces Cullen Jones' A...

The World University Games started in Taipei, Taiwan, over the weekend, with several records coming down in the first two days of competition. Check in on the results from WUGs and the biggest news of the week in The Week That Was! https://youtu.be/pOs7HAvJbHE The Week That Was #5 - Ledecky, Meyers ...

The first night of competition in Canet-en-Rousillon, starting off the final leg of the Mare Nostrum Series, proved to be the property of Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom. Sjostrom attacked her two events, the 50 freestyle and 100 butterfly, proving herself as a force to be reckoned with at Worlds. Meanwhile...