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As Career Of Federica Pellegrini Comes To a Close, Tributes Pour in For 'Legend' When Federica Pellegrini touched the wall after anchoring the Aqua Centurions' 4x100 mixed medley at Sunday's ISL playoff, it was the final moment of her competitive career. It was a career that spanned 17 years and fiv...

European Championships, Day 3 Finals: David Popovici Fires Off 46.88 100 Free; Third-Fastest Performance All-Time David Popovici went 46.88 in the 100 free with the third-fastest time in history and one only he and Pan Zhanle have bettered. The Romanian split 22.79/24.09 to retain his European title...

Michelle Coleman of Sweden swam a stellar 24.26 in the 50 free on the first day of the 2019 FINA World Cup in Berlin as she moved into the top ten in the world for 2019 with that time, putting her at number seven. Coleman lowered her own best time by three tenths as she was a 24.5 last week in Budap...

Tokyo Storylines, European Women: Federica Pellegrini, Sarah Sjostrom, Katinka Hosszu And More La Divina. La Fede. The Lioness of Verona. Seventeen years after winning 200 free silver on her Olympic debut at Athens 2004, Federica Pellegrini  will take to the blocks for her final international meet o...

Caspar Corbeau Emerges Victorious From Duel With Training Partner Arno Kamminga In Rotterdam Caspar Corbeau prevailed in a duel with training partner Arno Kamminga in the men's 200m breaststroke on the second day of the Rotterdam Qualification Meet. Link to results Day 1 report The pair - coached by...

European Championships: Zsuzsanna Jakabos Sets Appearance Record At 11th Europeans, Kristof Milak Returns Zsuzsanna Jakabos got her record 11th European Aquatics Championships underway in Belgrade on Monday as she seeks to book a place at her sixth Olympic Games. The Hungarian made her continental d...

Anna Elendt & Alberto Razzetti Twice Visit Podium In Barcelona Anna Elendt and Alberto Razzetti each enjoyed two top-three finishes on the second day of the Mare Nostrum in Barcelona. Elendt has been on consistently fine form in recent weeks during which she set a German 200 breast record of 2:23.54...

Marrit Steenbergen Lowers Her Dutch Record in 200 IM in Double Day in Eindhoven Marrit Steenbergen lowered her national record in the women’s 200 individual medley Saturday at the Eindhoven Qualification Meet, the Dutch dynamo’s second win of the day. Steenbergen clocked in at 2:08.86 in the final o...

World Championships, Day 3 Semifinals: Claire Weinstein and Luca Urlando Secure Top Seeds Already a world champion and the reigning Olympic titlist in the 200-meter freestyle, Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan was the headliner of semifinal action during the third night of the World Championships in Si...

Marrit Steenbergen Hits 1:56 In 200 Free & Melvin Imoudu Sets New 50m Breaststroke Record At Eindhoven Qualification Meet Marrit Steenbergen returned to the top of the podium once more and Melvin Imoudu set a German 50m breaststroke record on day one of the Eindhoven Qualification Meet. Meet page Th...

European Short-Course, Day 3 Prelims: Tomac, Ponti & Kirpichnikova Lead The Way In Otopeni It was the morning after a thrilling night before in day three of prelims at the European Short-Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania. Noe Ponti, fresh from his European 100 fly record of 48.47, was among O...

European Championships, Day 2 Finals: History Made As Camila Rebelo Gets Portugal’s First Gold With French Olympic Trials concurrent and the schedule logjam of an early-year Worlds, the 2024 European Championships were always going to give some different swimmers and different nations chances to shi...

European Championships, Day 7 Prelims: Felix Auboeck Goes 3:48 To Head 400 Free Felix Auboeck and Francisca Martins headed the 400 free during the seventh and final day of prelims at the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade. The sixth night of finals had been twice delayed because of driving ...

The 2019 Mare Nostrum Series kicked off its second day of competition on Sunday, as some of the world's best swimmers convened in Monaco for a healthy international showdown. The athletes will compete next week in Canet for the second stop in the series, showcasing their talents as a teaser for the ...

Luke Greenbank Back On Song At Rotterdam Qualification Meet; Tom Dean Wins By 0.01 Luke Greenbank and Tom Dean were among the winners on the first day of the Rotterdam Qualification Meet. Link to results Greenbank missed the World Championships in Fukuoka after failing to qualify at the British tria...

Sarah Sjostrom fired a shot across the bows of her rivals with a thunderous 53.02 in the 100m free as she claimed her fourth gold medal and second meet record on the final day of the Euro Meet 2020 in Luxembourg. The Swede had already taken down her own meet mark in the 100 fly to 56.71 and there we...

Rising Star Barbora Seemanova Gets Perfect Platform in ISL Chances are, you haven’t thought too much about swimming in the Czech Republic in the last decade or so. It’s probably because you haven’t had much reason to. Plenty of countries in Eastern Europe have had stars crop up for a turn on the Oly...

Tokyo Flashback: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus Triumphs in 200 Freestyle In Tokyo Tussle II; Katie Ledecky Fifth One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the champ...

European Championships: Apostolos Papastamos Blasts Top-10 Time to Win 400 IM Apostolos Papastamos started off the first finals session of the 2024 European Championships with a top-10 time in the world this year to earn gold. The Greek swimmer went 4:10.83 to win by nearly a second. That’s the nint...

European Short-Course, Day 5 Prelims: Daniel Wiffen Books Tilt At Treble In Otopeni Daniel Wiffen booked a tilt at the freestyle treble on the penultimate day of prelims at the European Short-Course Championships at the Aquatics Complex of Otopeni. Having already made Irish history with 400 and 1500...