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Benedetta Pilato & Thomas Ceccon Book Olympic Berths At Italian Open Benedetta Pilato and Thomas Ceccon booked tickets for Paris 2024 with victories in the 100m breaststroke and 100m backstroke respectively at the Italian Open in Riccione. Link to results Day 1 report The meet serves as qualificatio...

ISL Match 4, Day 2: Caeleb Dressel Wins Four Events, Kelsi Dahlia Takes Two as Cali Condors Pull Away The Cali Condors have been mostly untouchable in International Swimming League (ISL) competition over the last year, but in Match #4 of this year's regular season, held entirely in Naples, Italy, th...

The Italian Swimming Federation recently named its team for the Olympic Games this year in Tokyo, with a total of 36 athletes set to represent the nation in Japan's capital in less than three weeks. The team is highlighted by 2008 Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, who is on her fifth and final Olym...

A new champion will be crowned in the women's 100m breaststroke with Tatjana Smith leading the way after the Sunday morning prelims at La Defense Arena. Lydia Jacoby won the title three years ago in Tokyo as the 17-year-old from Anchorage pulled off a shocker to become the first swimmer from Alaska ...

MILAN, Italy, March 8. UKRAINE's Andrey Govorov made some news both in and out of the water at the Italian Grand Prix in Milan. After winning the men's 50-meter fly in 23.76 as part of the ADN Swim Project team, the Ukrainian who was born in Crimea took a Ukrainian flag to the podium with PEACE in b...

Ruta Meilutyte of Lithuania claimed the top seed in the women's 50-meter breaststroke with a stunning time of 29.74 effectively lowering her 2015 best of 29.88 from the Canet stop of the Mare Nostrum circuit. Meilutyte's time secures her spot as the current top leader in the world, as she also holds...

Alberto Razzetti Completes Gruelling Double At Nico Sapio Trophy Alberto Razzetti claimed a gruelling 200 fly/400IM double on day two of the 49th Nico Sapio Trophy in Genoa. The two-day competition doubles as a selection meet for the European Short-Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania, from 5-10...

ISL Times Report: Beata Nelson Lands in Top 10 in Seven Events The ISL regular season has ended after 11 matches. With the finish in ISL Match 11, we’ve seen the last of the Tokyo Frog Kings and NY Breakers for this season, setting their times in amber as the playoffs approach in November. Before th...

Sarah Sjostrom and Kliment Kolesnikov were standout performers on the first morning of the 2021 European Short-Course Championships in Kazan, Russia. The pair headed their respective fields in the 50 free and 50 back at the Aquatic Palace with Kristof Milak marking his debut at the continental showc...

RICCIONE, Italy, April 11. ALTHOUGH Federica Pellegrini has provided the top star power here at the Italian Spring Nationals so far this week, Gregorio Paltrinieri stole some of that thunder with a remarkable swim in the men's 1500-meter free to take down the Italian record. Paltrinieri smoked the m...

Turkey's Viktoria Zeynep Gunes continued to be one of the top swimmers at the meet with a convincing win in the women's 100-meter breast at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Gunes, who nearly took down Ruta Meilutyte's vaunted meet record of 1:06.61 from 2013, won the finale in 1:06.77. Meet...

Russia's Yuliya Efimova led a handful of 1:06s into the semifinals of the women's 100-meter breast at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Efimova put up the top time of the morning with a 1:06.31, well off her third-ranked time of 1:05.89 from the Mission Viejo Invitational in her first swim back fro...

Tokyo Vision: Lilly King Bids To Write Name In History Books With 100 Breast Defense 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 comp...

Lilly King Seventh Into 100Br Semis In Bid For History; Tang Only Woman Inside 1:06 Defending champion Lilly King progressed into the semis as she launched her bid to become the first woman to win three straight titles in the 100 breaststroke at the World Championships. The American, who won in 2017...

The International Swimming League on Tuesday announced that Domenico Fioravanti has been hired as the new general manager of the Aqua Centurions franchise. Fioravanti, 43, has a long history in the sport. The apex was the 2000 Olympics, when the Italian won the men’s 100 and 200 breaststroke in Sydn...

Four Surprise Standouts from Four Matches in 2021 ISL Season From a team perspective, there’s nothing new on the International Swimming League block. The teams that finished 1-2 in the 2020 Grand Final have won each of their first two matches. The teams that finished at the bottom of the 2020 standi...

WR For Italy In Men's Medley Relay; Kliment Kolesnikov Goes Second All-Time In 50 Back at Euro Champs Italy set a world record in the men's 4x50m medley relay and Kliment Kolesnikov produced the second-fastest 50 backstroke in history in a championship mark of 22.47 on day two of the European Short-...

Nicolo Martinenghi went joint-fourth all-time alongside Ilya Shymanovich in the 100 breaststroke in 58.29 and Arianna Castiglioni set a national mark of 1:05.67 in the women's event at the Sette Colli meet in Rome. Link to results Sarah Sjostrom continued her comeback to win the 50 fly in 25.42,  a ...

Sette Colli, Day 1: Benedetta Pilato Sets Italian 100m Breaststroke Record On Night Of Sizzling Speed In Rome Benedetta Pilato set an Italian 100m breaststroke record of 1:05.44 on a night when championship records also fell at the Sette Colli meet in Rome. The 2022 world champion had a best of 1:05...

Russia's Vladislav Grinev had the swim of the day on Saturday at the FINA World Cup in Kazan as he swam a 47.78 in the 100 free to break the meet record of 47.88 set by Vladimir Morozov earlier this year in Singapore. Grinev took down Morozov as the World Cup leader settled for second here with a 48...