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Everything you need to follow along with finals live during the 2015 FINA World Cup Tokyo. Hit refresh for the latest coverage. Schedule of Events: Men's 100 Free Women's 200 Free Men's 50 Breast Women's 100 Breast Women's 100 Fly Men's 100 Back Women's 50 Back Men's 200 Fly Women's 200 Individual M...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 28. PLENTY of amazing swims went up on the scoreboard tonight, but South Africa's Chad le Clos skyrocketed to the top of the world in the 100 fly as he threw down the gauntlet in the event at the Commonwealth Games. LIVE RESULTS LIVE STREAM FINALS Men's 200 back Australia ear...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 6. THE Australian Swim Team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has been announced, tonight following a week of world class action at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane. World champions Cate Campbell, Christian Sprenger and James Magnussen will join g...

Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. GOLD COAST, Australia, August 23. THE heat sheets for tonight’s competition at the Pan Pacific championships show some e...

Little did a 16-year-old Rohan Taylor realise that he would one day become the latest National Head Coach of the same Australian Olympic Swim Team that showed up in his family backyard in San Jose in 1984. Taylor was born in Melbourne in 1968 but grew up in Hong Kong and the United States with his f...

Freestyle sprint stars Bronte and Cate Campbell, Cam McEvoy and James Magnussen will headline a strong Australian Dolphins contingent at this weekend’s Japan Open Swim Meet at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Centre. The three-day meet will start on Friday, May 20 and conclude on Sunday even...

TATSUMI, Japan, June 22. THE always-fast Japan Open came to a close tonight with another handful of blistering times. Yasuhiro Koseki blasted his way to second in the world in the men's 200-meter breaststroke to close shop on the Japan Open. Koseki checked in with a 2:08.34 for the win, second only ...

By David Rieder Day seven. The Olympic Trials will have been going for a full week at that point, and new Olympians will have qualified in 20 different events. So, yeah, the finish line is near. But this thing is not over—not by a long shot. The four finals on Saturday, July 2, will come one after a...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 25. THE second night of the Commonwealth Games proved to be exciting with close finishes throughout the evening. Team Australia, meanwhile, had the strongest night of them all with four gold medals by the time all was said and done, including a monster double by Thomas Fraser...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 4. A big upset followed by an Australian record being smashed were some of the highlights tonight at the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games in Brisbane. FINALS Nunawading's Belinda Hocking, the top-ranked swimmer in the world with a 2:06.40 from the NSW State Cham...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 29. THE final day of competition at the Commonwealth Games featured a chance for Australia to sweep the relay gold medals with the 400 medley relays on tap. Were they able to hold off determined English swimmers? Women's 400 free Breaking away from a pack of five swimmers at ...

Each day through July 23, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July 24 in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below! Commentary by D...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 6. THE final night of action at the Australian Nationals featured some sizzling swims across the board. FINALS St. Pete's Bronte Barratt blasted off in the women's 400-meter freestyle with a winning time of 4:04.56. That performance finished just off Katie Ledecky's top-ra...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 26. IT was an epic night of swimming for England's Fran Halsall as she posted a textile best in her 50 free win and clocked a Commonwealth Games record in her 50 fly semis. LIVE RESULTS LIVE STREAM FINALS Men's 200 fly It wasn't his fastest time of the year, but South Africa'...

MELBOURNE, Australia, January 17. IN one of the more star-studded events taking place this weekend, James Magnussen popped a sizzling men's 100-meter free at the Victorian Open Championships on day one. The world champion posted a meet record of 47.73, just missing the time it took for him to win th...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 28. THE Aussies kept piling it on at the Commonwealth Games with another impressive preliminary session here in Glasgow. LIVE RESULTS Women's 800 freestyle swimoff In a swimoff for the second alternate position in tonight's finals, Emma Robinson of New Zealand took down Scotl...

By David Rieder Six years ago at the FINA World Championships in Rome, 42 total world records went down in a suit-aided blitz, leaving behind in seemingly-unbeatable marks in the women's 100 fly and 200 IM. Sarah Sjostrom and Ariana Kukors lowered long-standing world records in their respective even...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 27. TEAM Australia dominated the fourth night of action at the Commonwealth Games with medal after medal going into the nation's medal tally. Meanwhile, England's Fran Halsall collected her second sprint title of the meet, and South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh put up a siz...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 27. THE oldest Commonwealth Games record in the book took a tumble as Tracey Wickham's historic 800 free mark from 1978 was erased by Jazz Carlin during day four prelims. LIVE RESULTS Women's 200 back Canada's Hilary Caldwell opened the fourth day right with a swift swim of 2...

“Anything you can do I can do too…” was the message from Australian Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown to US world record holder Regan Smith from Down Under tonight. [caption id="attachment_411671" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Exciting times ahead for Kaylee McKeown Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australi...