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Kliment Kolesnikov Wins Three Events at Impressive Russian Championships Kliment Kolesnikov showed himself to be in fine form at the Russian Championships last week in Kazan, winning three events. The two-time Olympic medalist displayed his versatility by winning the men’s 50 freestyle, 50 backstrok...

Noe Ponti & Anastasia Kirpichnikova Seal Trebles As 2024 Meeting Nice Camille Muffat Concludes Noe Ponti and Anastasia Kirpichnikova secured respective fly and free trebles as the four-day 2024 Meeting Nice Camille Muffat, Giant Series concluded. The Giant Series moves on to Saint-Germain-en-Laye - ...

Noe Ponti Goes Second in 100 Fly Rankings, Rattles Swiss Record In 50.93 At Finale Giant Open Noe Ponti went second in the 100 fly rankings as he went 50.93 at the Finale Giant Open 2024 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. Meet Page Link to results Ponti split 24.10/26.83 to nudge his national record of 50.74...

Arina Surkova Downs National Fly Records As Russian Short-Course Championships Conclude Arina Surkova set two national records as the Russian Short-Course Championships ended in St Petersburg on Saturday. Link to results Four-time European short-course relay champion Surkova set Russian standards of...

French swimming veterans Mehdy Metella, Camille Lacourt as well as Charlotte Bonnet posted fast times on night five of the 2017 French Swimming Championships. Bonnet just missed the French Record in the 100 free while Lacourt and Mehtella posted times ranked in the top eight in the world for 2017 in...

The 2020 FINA Champions Swim Series will kick off next week in Shenzhen, China as some of the world's best swimmers will compete in an elite competition with only four swimmers per event. The meet will be January 14 - 15 in Shenzhen and the second stop will be January 19 - 20 in Beijing. Those are t...

Kliment Kolesnikov set a Russian 100 backstroke record of 52.42 and Anna Egorova dismantled the national 400 free mark by almost two seconds in 4:04.10 at the Russian Swimming Championship which doubles as the Olympic trials in Kazan. Arina Surkova and Svetlana Chimrova both made the cut for Tokyo i...

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

Lisa Mamie Sets Swiss 100 Breast Record Of 1:06.60; Detti Rattles Italian 400 Free Mark At Sette Colli Lisa Mamie set a new Swiss 100m breaststroke record of 1:06.60 and Gabriele Detti came within 0.50 of his Italian 400 free mark on the opening night of the Sette Colli Trophy in Rome. Mamie had set...

Tokyo Vision: Can Katie Ledecky Hold Off Ariarne Titmus In 400 freestyle Shootout? Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a compet...

Cate Campbell of Australia remained the queen of consistency on Friday at the FINA World Cup in Kazan as she swam a 24.08 in the 50 free to win yet another title on her European tour this fall. Campbell has been extremely busy this month as she began her trek in Budapest on October 4 at the World Cu...

Australia's rising distance star Ariarne Titmus won an exciting women's 400 freestyle at the 2018 FINA Swimming Short Course Worlds in a World Record time of 3:53.92. The previous record was held by China's Wang Jianjiahe, who was also in this final and finished second in 3:54.56. Her teammate Li Bi...

The 2019 Mare Nostrum Series lured swimmers from its first location in Monaco to Canet-en-Roussillon for the second stop of the series, where elite athletes compete for prize money and international bragging rights. A primer for next month's World Championships, athletes forwent the sights and got d...

Women's 800 Freestyle Wang Jianjiahe of China sailed to an early lead in front of a home crowd in the 800 free. She won the World Title in 8:04.35, nearly four seconds ahead of her fellow medalists. Italy's Simona Quadarella and the United States' Leah Smith swam within tenths of each other for most...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 14. DARIA Ustinova, just 15 years old, is quickly taking over the top backstroke spot on the Russian squad as she has been putting up strong times all week at Russian Nationals. A day after setting the World Junior Record in the women's 200-meter back during semis with a 2:09.02,...

The final night of the 2017 French Swimming Championships concluded on Sunday night in Strasbourg. The meet is also serving as qualification for the 2017 World Championships in Budapest later this summer. Melanie Henique squeaked under her 50 fly French Record with a 25.85 on Sunday night. That swim...

Maria Kameneva set a Russian 50 free record of 24.20 and Vladimir Morozov claimed an individual slot for Tokyo in the men's race in 21.41 with Kliment Kolesnikov and Ilya Shevchenko in a dead heat for second at the Russian Swimming Championships in Kazan. Andrei Minakov will be among the men jostlin...

Mewen Tomac fulfilled a childhood dream by booking his ticket to Tokyo with a 53.13 victory in the 100 back at the French Olympic Trials in Chartres. Out in 25.48 and back in 27.65, the 19-year-old went comfortably inside the cut of 53.85 to seal qualification. Behind him came Yohann Ndoye Brouard, ...

Pernille Blume sped to a 24.28 victory in the 50 free, Leon Marchand finished a fine meet that indicates exciting times to come in 2021 and beyond and Yohann Ndoye Brouard sealed the backstroke hat-trick as the FFN Golden Tour concluded in Marseille. Link to results Olympic champion Blume went secon...

Melanie Henique set a national 50 fly record of 25.17 and Mewen Tomac added the 200 backstroke to his Tokyo programme on a day at the French Olympic Trials when technical problems dominated proceedings in Chartres. The bulkhead broke during the morning heats which were then halted with the evening s...