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Photo by Joao Marc Bosch 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 section below...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, April 12. ALTHOUGH it isn't a full blown nationals, the Eindhoven Cup is still producing some incredible times out of The Netherlands. Tonight, a pair of top-ranked efforts were clocked at the meet. Joeri Verlinden vaulted to the top of the SwimVortex world rankings in th...

BORAS, Sweden, July 5. SWEDEN's Sarah Sjostrom is moving into scary territory for anyone who looks to oppose her this year as she just smashed the 25-second barrier in the women's 50-meter fly at Swedish Nationals. Sjostrom raced her way to an unbelievable time of 24.43. That swim lopped half-a-seco...

In an Instagram post on Wednesday, two-time Olympian and 2015 World Champion Jennie Johansson of Sweden announced her retirement from competitive swimming. Johansson is 29-years-old and was World Champion in the 50 breast at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan. She also swam the breaststroke leg o...

It is a moment that will live long for all those watching when Alia Atkinson won 100m breaststroke gold at the 2014 World Short-Course Championships to become the first black woman to win a world swimming title. The Jamaican stopped the clock first in Doha but her reaction to victory was somewhat de...

This week Olympian Ryan Lochte returned to competition at the Plantation Sectionals in Florida, but before the meet took time to visit Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to meet with the parents of Parkland shooting victim Nicholas Dworet. Read about the Olympian’s visit and some of the other bigg...

BATH, SOMERSET, UNITED KINGDOM - After eight years of preparing Russian and Swedish swimmers for the Olympic Games, world-renowned coach Dr. Andrei Vorontsov has returned to the University of Bath to share his expertise with the student team. He has been appointed as Assistant Coach to Head of Swimm...

STOCKHOLM - Sarah Sjostrom added plenty more to her five golds and a Swedish record from the first three days of competition during the final two days of swimming at the Swedish Short Course Championships. She took down another Swedish record with a 1:51.44 in the women's 200-meter free.  That swim ...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 2. THERE were plenty of top times put up on the board throughout the evening, but one of the most consistent performers at the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games Trials proved to be Thomas Fraser-Holmes. Both of his times tonight put him second in the world in his...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, April 11. SWEDEN's Sarah Sjostrom has been on fire here at the Eindhoven Cup as she picked up her third title in two days. Sjostrom tracked down another top-ranked time in the SwimVortex world rankings with a blistering 1:55.04 in the women's 200-meter free. That put her ...

The Sizzling Swede Sarah Sjostrom continued her strong season with a double on night one of the Swedish Nationals. Sjostrom dropped a meet-record time of 1:55.94 in the women's 200-meter free.  That swim cleared her own mark of 1:56.56 from last year, but was slower than her second-ranked time of 1:...

BORAS, Sweden, July 2. THE Swedish Nationals kicked off in Boras this afternoon with Swedish sprint star Sarah Sjostrom putting a hurting on the meet record in the 200-meter free. Sjostrom spun off another sizzling time in the 200-meter free. She already leads the world with an amazing 1:55.04 from ...

Sarah Sjostrom has thrown down some remarkable performances over the first three days of the Stockholm Cup, but none were more impressive than her 23.83 in the 50 free on day three. That time ranks as the second-fastest in history, and only Britta Steffen (23.73) has ever been faster. Steffen's time...

OEIRAS, Portugal, July 28. THE Portugal Open featured a young British squad and several members of Sweden's national team among some of Portugal's finest in the final weeks before the start of the European championships. Only one Portuguese record was set in the five-day meet. Luis Vaz swam a 1:48.9...

BERGEN, Norway, May 24. A day after making her way into five finals, the Hungarian Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu collected three titles during short course competition at the Bergen Swim Festival. Hosszu is the most prolific prizeswimmer in the history of the sport, and continues to display that ability ...

Russia's Yuliya Efimova and Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte set up a potentially epic battle in finals during the women's 100-meter breast semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Efimova topped the second semifinal in 1:05.60 to move to second in the world rankings behind Meilutyte's world-best 1:05....

ROME, Italy, June 13. THE Swimming World has been spoiled with all the tremendous action in Europe this month with the Mare Nostrum circuit currently underway. But, those attending the Sette Colli meet would not be denied their own spotlight as some seriously world-class swims went up on the board i...

The relay team of Yuanhui Fu (59.29), Jinglin Shi (1:05.56), Ying Lu (56.56) and Duo Shen (53.00) from China posted a combined time of 3:54.41 to claim the gold medal in the women's 400-meter medley relay. The foursome were just over two seconds away from the current meet record of 3:52.19 set by Ch...

Sarah Sjostrom won her fifth title of the meet with a sizzling 50 fly at the Swedish Summer Championships. Sjostrom clocked a time of 25.07, half-a-second off her world best of 24.69 from the Eindhoven Swim Cup.  That was more than enough for her fifth victory, considering Magdalena Kuras placed sec...

Sweden's Jennie Johansson moved up in the ranks in the women's 50-meter breaststroke finishing first with a time of 30.05. Johansson's time moved her up to second in the world rankings for 2015. Going into finals Johansson was ranked fourth but was able to bypass the competition to earn another meda...