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By Andy Ross. American swimmer Olivia Smoliga won eight gold medals at the 2018 FINA World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China this week, the most of any American woman all-time at a single short course championships. 24-year-old Kelsi Dahlia won seven gold medals this week, and won a silv...

Duncan Scott On "Special" Commonwealth Games As India Confirmed As 2030 Hosts Three-time Commonwealth champion Duncan Scott described the Commonwealth Games as "a special part of my career" after Amdavad - also known as Ahmedabad - was formally ratified as the host of the Centenary Commonwealth Game...

Cast your mind back two months to a time when Tokyo 2020 was looming large on the horizon and the Olympic trials with their highs, lows and everything in-between were just a few short weeks away for many across the world. Mel Marshall had taken her Loughborough group to the McCullagh International i...

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'...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 25. AFTER an amazing day one at the Commonwealth Games that featured a world record by Australia, swimmers returned for day two qualifying here in Glasgow. Plenty of amazing swims occurred with Team Australia asserting a bit of dominance after a first day surge from the hosti...

India Set To Host 2030 Commonwealth Games Pending Final Approval India is set to host the centenary Commonwealth Games in 2030 pending final approval in Glasgow next month as they step up their ambitions to stage the 2036 Olympics. The Executive Board of Commonwealth Sport confirmed they will put fo...

Ryan Cochrane led off a night full of meet records at the Mare Nostrum stop in Barcelona. Cochrane opened up the night with a meet-record 7:52.51 in the men's 800-meter free.  That swim lowered the 7:58.32 set by Gergo Kiss from 2011, and moved Cochrane to sixth in the world. Stephen Milne placed se...

Triple Olympian. World champion. Ten-time European champion. Commonwealth champion. British record holder. In her own words, 70% professional athlete, 20% krispy kreme addict, 10% rockstar. And one thing we can say with certainty is that Fran Halsall is 30 today! The sprint freestyler will be celebr...

I'll be honest. When I first saw the London Aquatics Centre in London I was puzzled. Impressed with its size and grandeur, yes. But puzzled. Why the bewilderment? Well, I didn't really 'get' what the design was meant to signify but for me it resembled a whale. All undulation and smooth curves, a wha...

Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith went top of the 400 free rankings with a performance at the Swim England National Winter Championships that would have captured gold at the short-course Europeans. The Loughborough Universit...

CANET, France, June 11. JEANETTE Ottesen had a banner day in Canet, the second stop in the Mare Nostrum circuit setting two Danish national records in the 50 free and 100 fly on her road to the European championships. Ottesen won the 50 free with a 24.40, resetting her national record of 24.54 from ...

Bronte Campbell of Australia earned her second gold medal of the meet from lane six in the women's 50-meter free with a final time of 24.12, a best time for 2015. After being seeded fourth from her performance in the semi-finals Campbell succeeded in shaving .20 seconds off her time of 24.32 to blas...

GLASGOW, Scotland, April 11. ROBERTO Pavoni had the crowd behind him as he chased his English national record in the 400 IM on the second day of competition at the British long course nationals, while Liam Tancock was in danger of not being able to defend his Commonwealth backstroke titles. The meet...

Great Britain's Olympic swim team will be led by renowned coach Bill Furniss next year, British Swimming announced today. Furniss will have six assistant coaches working with him in Rio de Janeiro, all of whom are likely to have some of their personal swimmers on the trip as well. Furniss is largely...

ANTWERP, Belgium, January 26. FRAN Halsall led another strong day for Great Britain at the Speedo Flanders Cup with a sprint double by way of the 50 free and 50 fly on the final day of a two-night swimming extravaganza. Great Britain opened where it left off yesterday when it dominated the podium on...

BARCELONA, Spain, June 14. THERE must be something in the water at the Piscina Pere Serrat, given that several swimmers just made some major gains on the No. 1 world standings on the first day of swimming in Barcelona, the final stop on the Mare Nostrum circuit. Nathan Adrian has never been under 48...

LONDON, England, May 7. ENGLAND'S team of 39 athletes named today for the Commonwealth Games is one of its strongest ever, with a talented group that could challenge Australia for the most medals in Glasglow, Scotland. Among those on the list is Liam Tancock, who won the 50 and 100 backstrokes at th...

Each day through August 17, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the European Championships, which begins August 18 in Berlin. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below! Commentary by Davi...

Photo Courtesy: Gian Mattia Dalberto/Lapresse LONDON, England, October 1. GREAT Britain has had moderate success at the past two short course world championships, winning seven medals across the 2010 and 2012 events. Back in 2008 when Great Britain hosted the short course worlds four months before t...

Photo courtesy British Swimming Each day through August 17, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the European Championships, which begins August 18 in Berlin, Germany. We invite you to offer your picks in our comments sectio...