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By Taylor Covington, Swimming World College Intern. The 2019 Italian Swimming Championships entered its fourth day of competition on Friday, but the athletes appeared fresher than ever. Delivering impressive performances across the board, the country's top swimmers made waves in Riccione despite the...

Turkey's Viktoria Zeynep Gunes grabbed another World Junior record with a win in the women's 200-meter IM at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Gunes hit the wall in 2:11.03 as she crushed the meet record of 2:12.32 set by Ruta Meilutyte, and cleared her own World Junior mark of 2:11.46 from ...

The Netherlands' Marrit Steenbergen jumped to 11th in the world in the women's 100-meter free semis for the swim of the night at the European Games. Steenbergen clocked a time of 53.97 to lead the women's 100-meter free semis.  That swim tied the 53.97 set by Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace at the Monte ...

Marco de Tullio concluded the penultimate day of the Italian Championships with victory in the 200 free in 1:46.29. De Tullio, part of the Italian 4x200 relay squad that won bronze at last year's European Championships, was third at halfway behind national record-holder Filippo Megli and Stefano di ...

2018 European 400IM Champion Fantine Lesaffre Announces Retirement Fantine Lesaffre, the European 400IM champion in 2018, has announced her retirement with a home Olympics nine months away in Paris. The Frenchwoman competed in two Olympics - at Rio in 2016 and five years later in Tokyo - with 13th i...

By Taylor Covington, Swimming World College Intern.  The 2019 Italian Swimming Championships entered its last day of competition on Saturday, and its athletes gave spectators quite the finale. The country has shown depth in all events, with new stars surfacing each day. A dark horse in international...

By Taylor Covington, Swimming World College Intern. The 2019 Italian National Swimming Championships entered its third day of competition, offering a wide array of events ranging from the 100 to 1500 free to flex its muscle in both sprint and distance events. Spectators were not disappointed, as a f...

The 2019 World University Games will get started this week in Naples, Italy. The swimming competition will start Thursday July 4 at 9:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. EST) and finals will begin at 6:00 p.m. local time (12:00 p.m. EST). The start lists have been released for this week as the Americans a...

The second night of the Sette Colli meet in Rome, Italy has been a very quick one as Great Britain's Adam Peaty and Italy's Ilaria Cusinato posted world leading times on Saturday to win their respective events. This meet is serving as a tune up for European Championships as we are less than five wee...

Viktoria Zeynep Gunes of Turkey raced to first in prelims of the women's 200-meter IM finishing with a time of 2:12.52. Gunes finished only .20 seconds off of Ruta Meilutyte's championship meet record of 2:12.32 from 2013. Canada's Mary-Sophie Harvey took second overall in prelims with a final time ...

The first of four days at the Italian National Championships in Riccione produced X qualifying times for the FINA World Championships, with Olympic bronze medalist Gabriele Detti and World Junior Record-holder Nicolo Martinenghi leading the way. In the first final of the meet, Tania Quaglieri won th...

Russia's Anton Chupkov lowered his World Junior Record in the men's 100-meter breast at the 2015 European Games. FINALS Russia's Anton Chupkov lowered his World Junior Record in the men's 100-meter breast with a 1:00.65. That performance cleared his own time of 1:00.84 from last summer.  Lithuania's...

Gregorio Paltrinieri swam the second-fastest 1500 freestyle in history as he set a new European record of 14:33.10 to bring the Sette Colli Trophy to a spectacular close at the Foro Italico in Rome. Paltrinieri took 0.94 off his previous record of 14:34.04 which he had set en-route to the European t...

Vladislav Bukhov set a new junior world record of 23.14 in the 50m butterfly and Sarah Sjostrom scorched to victory in the women's race as the 22nd edition of the Euro Meet got under way on Friday in Luxembourg. There were also meet records for Mykhaylo Romanchuk and Thomas Ceccon in the 1500m frees...

The Italian Swimming Federation recently named its team for the Olympic Games this year in Tokyo, with a total of 36 athletes set to represent the nation in Japan's capital in less than three weeks. The team is highlighted by 2008 Olympic champ Federica Pellegrini, who is on her fifth and final Olym...

The final day of the Sette Colli meet in Rome, Italy saw some great swims as Ukraine's Andriy Govorov broke the World Record in the 50 fly, taking down Rafael Munoz's record from 2009. Russia's Yulia Efimova also swam the world's fastest 200 breast of 2018 in her win on Sunday. Men's 50 Fly It was A...

Great Britain had a huge 1-2 finish in the women's 400-meter IM as Rosie Rudin led the way with a meet record at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Rudin topped the finale for gold with a time of 4:39.01 to break Ella Eastin's meet record of 4:40.02 from the 2013 edition in Dubai. Rudin's tea...

Cassidy Bayer of the USA shot to the top of the qualifying list for the women's 100-meter fly with a time of 58.87 during prelims of day five. Bayer succeeded in dropping time from her seed time of 59.00 to put her in a good position to challenge the championship meet record of 58.34 set by Svetlana...

Georgia Coates of Great Britain leads the women going into tonight's finals of the 400-meter IM with a time of 4:42.19, only 2.17 seconds off the meet record of 4:40.02 set by Ella Eastin in 2013. Spain's Africa Zamorano claimed the second-place seed going into tonight's finals with a time of 4:43.2...

By Andy Ross 2018 has been a fast year in the sport of swimming. Six world records have already fallen in long course meters with Katie Ledecky, Andrii Govorov, Kathleen Baker, Adam Peaty and Kliment Kolesnikov, as well as Australia's 4x100 free relay all setting world records this year. It doesn't ...