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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: 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 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...

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, 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

On day one of the Stockholm Open in Sweden, Loughborough's Felix Auboeck, who swam collegiately at the University of Michigan, won the 400 freestyle with a 3:44.51, which stands right now as the top time in the world for 2021, passing Australia's Elijah Winnington (3:44.83) and Russia's Martin Malyu...

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...

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...

The fourth finals session of the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina featured seven medal events and one World Junior Record. Men's 50 Freestyle Italy's Thomas Ceccon picked up his first gold medal of the meet after earning one silver and two bronze medals earlier in the week. His ti...

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 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...

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...

European Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Noè Ponti Leads 100 Fly In 51.09 Ahead of Milak & Kos Noè Ponti went 51.09 to head the 100 fly prelims with the promise of a real world-class tussle to come over two lengths at the European Aquatics Championships in Belgrade. The race featured all three medalli...

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...

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 ...