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Jessica Long Qualifies for 6th Paralympics (Full U.S. Team Roster) Jessica Long is off to the Paralympics for the sixth time in her storied career, U.S. Para Swimming announced on Sunday. The 29-time Paralympic medalist is one of 21 women and 12 men named by U.S. Para Swimming’s selection committee ...

Anastasia Pagonis twice lowered the world record in the women’s S11 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Paralympic Trials Friday in Minneapolis. Pagonis swam a time of 4 minutes, 59.28 seconds in prelims, then lowered it to 4:56.16 in the finals. That trounced the world record of 5:02.19 set by the Neth...

U.S. Opens 2023 Citi Para Swimming World Series with Three American Records Three American records were set on the opening night of the 2023 Citi Para Swimming World Series Thursday night in Minneapolis. Elizabeth Marks set an American mark in the women’s S6 100 freestyle. Morgan Ray followed by tak...

David Abrahams set an American Para Swimming record in the SB-13 100-meter breaststroke this week at the Para Swimming World Series. Abrahams went 1:04.14 in prelims to break the record, then sped up in finals to go 1:04.07. The world record for SB13 was set in 2013 by Oleksii Fedyna at 1:03.58. Abr...

U.S. Paralympic Championships: Noah Jaffe Crowned Swimmer of the Meet Noah Jaffe was crowned swimmer of the meet at the U.S. Paralympic Championships on Sunday in Orlando, wrapping up the three-day event. Jaffe tallied 7,913 points to win the award at the Rosen Aquatic Center. The S8 swimmer from Ca...

Paralympics: Jiang Yuyan Sets World Record in Women’s S6 50 Butterfly Prelims Jiang Yuyan of China set the Paralympic record in the women’s S6 50-meter butterfly Monday in Tokyo. Jiang clocked in at 34.56 seconds. She is the stop seed in the event by just under two seconds. Jiang held the world reco...

By Taylor Covington, Swimming World College Intern.  The 2019 Speedo Sectionals in Buffalo continued on Friday with multiple upsets and blazing times, as swimmers took the Northeast by storm. Madelyn Donohoe led the charge again tonight, sweeping the freestyle events to prove herself as one of the n...

Lawrence Sapp Sets Three American Records in Two Events to Close Paralympic Team Trials Lawrence Sapp didn’t just set an American record in the men’s S14 100-meter butterfly at U.S. Paralympic Team Trials Sunday. He somehow managed to set two. The 19-year-old Sapp clocked in at 56.10 seconds in the ...

Christie Raleigh Crossley Leads American Podium Sweep to Close Out Citi Para Swimming Series Christie Raleigh Crossley led an American sweep of the podium in the women’s 100 backstroke Saturday to close out Night 3 of the 2023 Citi Para Swimming Series stop in Minneapolis. Crossley, who set the S9 w...

By Ryan Gibbons, Swimming World College Intern. With one day left in the 2019 Buffalo Speedo Sectionals, The Fish have taken a commanding lead, with their 871 points ahead of Radnor Aquatic Club's 561 points and Cougar Aquatic Team's 469.5. The evening's schedule of the 200 Fly, 50 Free, 200 Breast,...

U.S. to Send Team of 22 to 2023 Para World Swimming Championships The U.S. on Friday announced a 22-athelte delegation to the 2023 Para World Swimming Championships in Manchester, England. The team includes 16 women and six men. Last week’s Para Swimming World Series in Minneapolis was used as a sel...

Jessica Long, Rudy Garcia-Tolson Selected to Fifth Paralympics for Team USA Team USA announced the Paralympic swimming team for the 2021 Tokyo Olympics on Monday, a group of 24 women and 10 men that includes five-time Paralympians Jessica Long and Rudy Garcia-Tolson. The selection follows the three-...

Paralympics: Taliso Engel Rips World Record in Men’s SB13 100 Breaststroke Germany’s Taliso Engel set the world record in the men’s SB13 100 breaststroke at the Tokyo Paralympics Wednesday morning. Engel clocked in at 1:03.52 in the first semifinal heat, which trims .06 off the world record set in 2...

Paralympics, Day 8 Finals: Aurelie Rivard Wins S10 400 Free for Third Time Few para swimming dynasties rival what Aurelie Rivard has done in the women’s S10 400 freestyle. For the third straight Games, the Canadian has worked her way to the top step of the podium. Rivard on Thursday picked up her fi...