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A pair of world records fell back-to-back, including the longest standing one in the short course books, at the 2015 European Short Course Championships.  Gregorio Paltrinieri (1500 free) and Katinka Hosszu (100 IM) both stunned the crowd with swift swims. Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri smashed the Wo...

On the day in which Robert Griswold captured the gold medal in the S8 100-meter backstroke at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, we resend this piece by his sister, Molly Griswold. The article is a wonderful look and tribute to being the sibling of a Paralympian. By Molly Griswold Daily annoyances, insi...

Water World Swim, the world leader in open water swimming, today announced Mitali Khanzode, a 15-year-old girl native to Sunnyvale, Calif., has successfully completed the swim of the Messina Strait. The 3.5Km (2.1 miles) aquatic traverse between the island of Sicily and mainland Italy took place on ...

The Italian Swimming Federation (FIN) has cancelled its Olympic Trials and a host of other aquatic national championships, in open water, water polo, diving and synchronised swimming, as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency lockdown measures in Italy that were extended to the entire coun...

World Championships, Day Six Men's Finals: Australia And USA Dead-Heat For Gold In 4x100 Medley Relay; Lower 2009 WR Australia and the United States dead-heated for gold as they consigned to history the 4x100m medley relay world record that had stood since 2009 in 3:18.98 at the World Championships ...

STOCKHOLM, Jan 25. SWEDEN'S Anna-Karin Kammerling delighted the hometown crowd in Stockholm, when she obliterated her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record in the final race of the FINA World Cup IX meet. Kammerling clocked 25.36, wiping out the mark of 25.60, which she set at the Eur...

From www.uswp.org Defending Olympic and World water polo champion Spain will seek another international title when it faces three of the world's most dominant teams - United States, Russia and Italy - at this summer's Goodwill Games. The announcement, which also included the water polo draw and priz...

Italy set a new world record of 1:30.14 in the men's 4x50 medley relay at the European Short-Course Championships in Kazan. Kazan 2021 Results Day Two Finals Wrap: Kolesnikov Goes Second All-Time In 50 Back Russia had qualified swiftest and they started with a line-up of Kliment Kolesnikov, Oleg Kos...

Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte has announced that professional sports teams can start training on 18 May with individual sports resuming on 4 May. While most eyes turned to football – and the resumption of the Serie A league – it also means there is a date for all other sports to resume and f...

World Championships: U.S. Men Fall to Serbia; Hungary Upends Croatia There will be a new World Champion this year in Singapore, with 2024 champ Croatia knocked out in Sunday’s quarterfinals by Hungary. Still in the hunt, though, is the reigning Olympic champion Serbia, which eliminated the United St...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. IT was a night of celebration in Fukuoka, courtesy of a world record of 59.94 seconds by Roman Sloudnov, of Russia, in the second semi-final of the 100m breaststroke, and two European records in the 200m butterfly. The first of those went to Germany's Annik...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 22. The seventh, and next to last day of swimming in the Olympics produced one world record and three Olympic marks. Meanwhile, Team USA continued to dominate the medal count, winning three of five events. Women's 200 Backstroke Final Gold - Moc...

By Eric Tiettmeyer FUKUOKAm Japan. July 26. ITALY topped the USA Women's National Water Polo Team 8-6 in the semi-final round of the World Championships. In other semi- final action, European Champion Hungary defeated Canada, 4-3, so Team USA will play arch-rival Canada tomorrow for the bronze m...

The 2018 Sette Colli Trophy kicked off in Rome, Italy this morning, with plenty of European stars on hand to set up for what should be a fast few days of racing. The first day of the meet features the men’s and women’s 50 backstroke, 400 free, 100 breast, and 50 free in addition to the women’s 50 fl...

LIVORNO, ITALY, April 11. OLYMPIC gold medalist Massi Rosolino (200 IM), he of the astronomical human growth hormone levels, won his second event in two days at the Italian Nationals/World Championship Trials, stroking to an easy 3:47.21-3:49.76 triumph over Emiliano Brembilla in the 400 meter frees...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of March 30-April 5, ...

Benedetta Pilato, Chiara Tarantino Get 90-Day Bans for Arrest Benedetta Pilato and Chiara Tarantino were suspended 90 days by the Italian swimming federation for their arrest for shoplifting in Singapore this summer. The duration of the ban will rule them out of the European Short-Course Championshi...

When Alessandro Campagna was a young boy, his doctor recommended he start swimming to help with a medical condition.  What soon emerged from swimming was his love of the water and a drive to work hard.   He tried his hand at water polo and in his very first water polo match, Alessandro scored three ...

Perth, Australia ­ December 15th ­ The USA Women¹s Junior National Team came from three goals behind to beat Australia 10-9 and win the gold medal in overtime at the 4th FINA Women¹s Junior World Championships. Amber Stachowski (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA/Golden West) led the team with four goals wh...

SHEFFIELD, England, Jan. 17. BRITISH sprint star Mark Foster smashed the world record in the 50 meter (short course) butterfly at the FINA World Cup meet in Sheffield today with a brilliant performance of 22.87 seconds. His split at the 25-meter mark was 10.33 seconds. The time eclipsed the 23.19 ma...