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5 Overlooked Swimmers Who had Stellar Summers; Claire Curzan Sharp at Pan Pacs (Women's Edition) This summer has not been short on elite performances, from Kate Douglass and Marrit Steenbergen rewriting the sprint-freestyle record books to Lani Pallister tripling at both the Commonwealth Games and P...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Anna Elendt, Barbora Seemanova Score Double Victories at Mare Nostrum Canet; Dan Wiffen Dominates 1500 Freestyle The three-meet Mare Nostrum series wrapped up Sunday in Canet with another signature breaststroke performance from Germany's Anna Elendt. Following her dominant performance in the 100 bre...

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...

The third finals session of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina featured a night of close races between five medal events. Women's 800 Freestyle Final Hungarian rising distance ace Anja Kesely posted a dominant win the women's 800 Freestyle. The 17-year old raced to the wall in 8...

Sarah Sjostrom unleashed an eye-watering 56.71secs in the 100m butterfly and Florent Manaudou hit the wall after just 21.56secs in the 50 free on the second day of the 22nd Euro Meet 2020 in Luxembourg. Both were meet records and Sjostrom, who had warmed up with second in the 50m backstroke, then re...

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...

ISL Match 10, Day 1: Arianna Castiglioni Sparks Aqua Centurions Comeback, Trying to Avoid Play-In Match As the ISL regular season in Naples, Italy, reaches its conclusion with Match #10, the teams are still fighting to determine the last spots in the playoffs. Eight teams will advance to the next ro...

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...

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...

European Championships, Day Seven Prelims: Lukas Märtens Grabs Last Berth In 400 Free, Marchand In Lane 6 Results Watch the European Championships Live (And Free!) Day 1 prelims report Day 1 finals report Day 2 prelims report Day 2 finals report Day 3 prelims report  Day 3 finals report Day 4 prelim...

ISL Playoff Match 4: Led by Duncan Scott and Kyle Chalmers, London Roar Beat Cali Condors Four of the six matches of the ISL playoff round are complete, and in a surprising twist, there have been four different match winners so far. Cali Condors edged Energy Standard in the first match before LA Cur...

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...

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...

European Championships: Kuzey Tuncelli, 16, Wins 1,500 Free Crown Kuzey Tuncelli is just 16 years old. But the Turkish wunderkind is a European Champion and a sub-15-minute 1,500 freestyler. Tuncelli outdueled Mykhailo Romanchuk Sunday on the final day of the European Championships, clocking in at 1...