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By Brooke Hanson MELBOURNE, April 22. CENTRAL Queensland teenager Craig McLennan became the first Australian 13-year-old to break the 25 second barrier for 50 meters freestyle in a swim which almost went unnoticed at the end of night three of the Tip Top National Age Group Swimming Championships in ...

China, Japan, Korea and Malaysia were the four nations climbing on the first step of the podium this weekend in Kuala Lumpur (MAS), where the sixth leg of the annual FINA Diving Grand Prix was taking place from October 27-29. The host country claimed victory in the women's 10m synchronised event wit...

After Falling Short of Paris Olympics, Japan’s Ryosuke Irie Announces Retirement Japanese Olympic medalist Ryosuke Irie announced his retirement from competitive swimming on Wednesday, a week after he fell short of qualifying for a fifth Olympics at the Paris Games. Irie posted his farewell on Insta...

The Swim: Crossing the Pacific Ocean Ben Lecomte is attempting to cross the Pacific Ocean from Japan to California, which would be the longest swim in history. However, the long-term value of The Swim will be the information and science that will be uncovered. The Swim is a 5,419-mile (8,721-kilomet...

SYDNEY, Nov 22. AUSTRALIAN former world champion Hayley Lewis announced her retirement on Wednesday, abandoning her dream to compete at a fourth Olympics. The 27-year-old Lewis, who made a comeback to compete at last year's Sydney Olympics after taking time off to have a baby, said she decided t...

MANCHESTER, England. April 14. THREE British national records and a Commonwealth mark were broken on the fifth day of the British National Championships in Manchester. The meet also is serving as the selection meet for this summer's World Championships in Japan. James Gibson set th Commonwealth/...

A Look at Japan's Rich History in the 200 Breaststroke Although the last two editions of the Olympic Games have been a struggle for Japan, the country's history in the men's 200-meter breaststroke remains a strength. A pair of athletes advanced to the finals of the event at the Paris Games, and the ...

By Emily Sampl BOULDER, Colorado, April 30. PAUL Biedermann, Marco Koch, Jenny Mensing and more of Germany’s top swimmers will battle for national championship titles in their respective events as the German Long Course National Championships get underway tomorrow in Berlin. Several exciting matchup...

The Daily Soak – Swim News In Brief If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com Tuesday 12 May  Payne Voices Concerns Over Resumption Of Open Water Swimming In England Olympic 10km silver medallist Keri-anne Payne has questioned whether now is the time to get back ...

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 Towards the end of last week, ...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World Magazine Intern. Only a handful of nations have proven truly invincible in the pool. These teams can be classified as undisputed powerhouses, gravitating towards the top of the podium since the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. How does one account ...

Photo by Griffin Scott PHOENIX, Arizona, October 13. WITH October being a fairly quiet month competition-wise, our headlines come from things that are happening outside the pool. Let’s get things started with a decision by the Japanese swimming federation concerning Naoya Tomita. YouTube Measures Vi...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan. July 25. THE Living Legend that is Ian Thorpe continued to grow tonight in Fukuoka after the young Australian clocked an astounding 1:44.06 world record over 200m freestyle to avenge his only Olympic defeat last year. Pieter van den Hoogenband, the Dut...

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) recently convened in Danang, Vietnam to host their general assembly for 2016. While there the group approved OCA Regional offices in each of the OCA's five zones, as well as named Aichi-Nagoya, Japan as the host city for the 2026 Asian Games. A tradition since the i...

RIVERSIDE, California, May 24. THE USA Women made quick work of Venezuela, winning 17-1, en route to clinching a spot in the semifinals of the FINA Intercontinental Tournament. Kami Craig (Santa Barbara, CA/USC/SBWPF) scored four goals to lead an offensive effort that saw every field player score. B...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, Texas. March 28. ED MOSES finally entered the Promised Land--a world record--tonight at the U.S. National Swimming Championships. Moses' time of 1:00.29 broke the old global mark of 1:00.36 set last year by Russia's Roman Sloudnov. It also broke the American record...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, April 12. BACKSTROKER Sarah Price set her second Comonwealth-British record in the 100 in as many tries here today during the third day of the British Nationals-World Championship Trials. The 21-year-old dorsal specialist raced to a 1:01.32 clocking to gain a spot on the team th...

Rikako Ikee, the Japanese butterfly in rehabilitation after battling leukaemia since her diagnosis last year, intends to return to competition in early October, COVID-19 pandemic allowing, she announced today. The 19-year-old university sophomore - who yesterday was named by a source as a key partic...

By Phillip Whitten ORLANDO, October 14. USA Swimming, still euphoric from the 33-medal performance of the US Olympic swim team at the Sydney Games last month, approved a proposal today that would provide $370,000 in bonus money for the coaches of American swimmers winning medals at the FINA World Ch...

By Jacob Riley, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming has come a long way since the 1980s. Swimmers have gone from having full mustaches and not wearing goggles, to not having a single hair on the body and having fancy goggles that streamline the water. Everything has changed since the 1980s: stro...