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As Hype Builds for Paris Olympics, Men's 100 Butterfly Could Be a Race to Remember At the last Olympics, the men’s 100 butterfly unfolded as a showdown of two world-record-holding, Olympic-gold-medal-winning swimmers with very different racing styles. The United States’ Caeleb Dressel, already the g...

Swimming Canada Announces 28 Swimmers for Worlds, 19 for Para Worlds At the conclusion of Bell Canadian Trials, Swimming Canada Thursday night announced 28 swimmers for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships. Swimming Canada will also send 19 athletes to the World Para Swimming Championships, Sept. 2...

After Illness Costs World Cup Campaign, Summer McIntosh ‘Feeling Great’ Summer McIntosh says she’s “feeling great” after an illness kept her out of the three-week World Aquatics World Cup series. McIntosh shared her experience in an interview with CBC Sports. A headache two days before the first Wor...

Paris Olympics, Day 7 Finals: Cam McEvoy Wins 50 Free Ahead Of Ben Proud & Florent Manaudou Cam McEvoy won the 50 free at his fourth Olympic Games, as he led home the three oldest men in the field at La Defense Arena. McEvoy clocked 21.25 to become the first Australian to make the dash podium ahead ...

FLASH! Josh Liendo Blasts Stunning World Record in 100 Butterfly in Toronto, Doubles With 50 Free Victory Midway through the first finals session of the Toronto World Cup, Josh Liendo recorded what might go down as one of the all-time great performances by a Canadian male swimmer. Liendo, a frequent...

NCAA Men's Championships: 5 Races to Watch as Multiple Records Are in Danger The bright lights are finally ready to shine for the second straight week at the Weyerhaeuser King County Aquatic Center, with the NCAA Men's Division I Championships slated for Wednesday through Saturday. Previusly, we cov...

Ryan Mallette Appointed as Swimming Canada’s HPC Ontario Head Coach Ryan Mallette had the interim tag removed on Friday, making him the permanent Performance Head Coach of Swimming Canada’s High Performance Centre in Ontario. Mallette, 42, is leading the team at the Commonwealth Games as a team coac...

European S/C Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Ollie Morgan Takes Down British 100 Back Record Day three of the European Short Course Championships got underway in Lublin, Poland, with Ollie Morgan taking down the long-standing British 100 back record. Morgan became the first Briton inside 50secs as he ...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 1: Pan Zhanle, David Popovici Lead Scintillating Showdown in 100 Freestyle The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Be...

Canadian Trials, Night 4 Finals: Ilya Kharun Dominates 200 Butterfly Familiar names and Olympic medalists have highlighted the first three days of competition at the Canadian Trials for this summer's World Championships in Singapore. While Summer McIntosh has been on a world-record assault, with sta...

After Incredible World Cup Performance, Josh Liendo Shooting for Big Finish to Florida Career He raced at all three stops of the World Cup circuit, but something shifted when Josh Liendo got back on home soil for the third and final stop in Toronto. Liendo had been nowhere close to the front of the ...

Paris Olympics, Day 8 Finals: Kristof Milak Fights Back To Take 100 Fly In 49.90; Josh Liendo Breaks 50 Seconds When Leon Marchand came past Kristof Milak to accelerate into the wall and take the 200 fly title, it condemned the Hungarian to his first defeat over four lengths in a major international...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 8: Can Katie Ledecky Accomplish Four-Peat in 800 Freestyle? After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 co...

International Divide in NCAA Swimming Growing More Pronounce on Men’s Side You had to keep scrolling, keep scrolling down the results to find the capital “A” next to NC State’s name last Friday. The Wolfpack had just set the American record in the men’s 400 medley relay at the NCAA Championships. Yo...

NCAA Men's Championships Preview: You Can Count on Cal Amid all the changes that have happened since last year’s NCAAs — jumpstarted by Arizona State’s national championship coach, Bob Bowman, replacing legendary Eddie Reese at Texas as head coach — some things remain the same: In March, the Cal men...

Canadian Swimming Trials Underway in Victoria: Results, Schedule, and How to Watch The road to Singapore is officially open. The 2025 Bell Canadian Swimming Trials kicked off Saturday at Saanich Commonwealth Place, launching six days of top-tier racing as Canada’s best swimmers compete for a spot at...

Noè Ponti Looks Ahead To "A Great Battle In Paris" Amid A Golden Age Of 100 Fly Swimming A line at the top of the biography section on Noè Ponti’s website states that it’s updated “once a year, during the month of August.” It details the Swiss athlete’s achievements from his first race as a six-year...

World Champs Profile: Josh Liendo Again Flying Toward Podium in Singapore Leading into the start of the World Championships later this month, Swimming World will publish a handful of short profiles on top contenders for the podium in Singapore. Our next entry in this series features Canadian and Uni...

Josh Liendo Crushes 42.12 Fly Split as Florida Men Obliterate Medley Relay Record The Florida men were gunning for history in the 400 medley relay. Already during Friday evening's session at the SEC Championships, Julian Smith had taken down the all-time record in the 100 breaststroke after Jonny Ma...

Gutter Talk: The Importance of Pre-Olympic Year Competition How important is this summer's competition to your preparation and goals for the Olympic year? Hunter Armstrong, USA WR holder (50 back), gold medalist (2021 Olympics/1, 2022 World Championships/2) [caption id="attachment_530268" align="ali...