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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...

Georgia Invitational: Luca Urlando Lowers American, NCAA Record in 200 Fly Luca Urlando isn’t shy about setting best times when you don’t always expect them. Chalk up Friday as another instance. Urlando went 1:36.41 to win the 200 butterfly at the Georgia Invitational. That’s .02 seconds quicker tha...

Before the Beep: How Florida Star Josh Liendo Prepares for Major Competitions Josh Liendo was an Olympian before he arrived at the University of Florida in the fall of 2022. His time since becoming a Gator has only sharpened his racing focus. Liendo’s explicit aim upon trading his native Scarborough...

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 ...

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...

The Top Returning Finishers From the NCAA Championships in 2025-26 Season A large contingent of top performers departed college swimming at the conclusion of last season. Gretchen Walsh concluded her astounding four years representing the University of Virginia by matching or lowering the fastest ti...

Georgia Invitational, Night 2: Josh Liendo Blasts 43.42 100 Fly to Outduel Luca Urlando The audience didn’t have to wait long for the signature event of the second night of the Georgia Invitational. Josh Liendo and Luca Urlando delivered. Liendo won the battle of Olympians with a time of 43.42 in th...

Summer McIntosh Set for Seven Events at Next Week's Canadian Trials (PSYCH SHEET) Next week, Summer McIntosh will attempt to secure qualification on her second Olympic team for Canada as the country's best swimmers assemble in Toronto for the Bell Olympic & Paralympic Trials. The meet was relocated ...

It has been tremendous for the sport watching Jordan Crooks and Josh Liendo go head-to-head for the past three years with NCAA titles on the line. The 100 freestyle provided one more showdown in the friendly rivalry on the final night of the 2025 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championshi...

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...

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...

U.S. Open Prelims: Caeleb Dressel Comes Out Strong with 51.83 in 100 Fly Based on the evidence of Thursday, Caeleb Dressel’s U.S. Open looks less sluggish than sluggish to start. The five-time Olympic gold medalist in Tokyo rectified a B final placement in prelims Thursday by blasting a time of 21.9...

Olympics: Caeleb Dressel Ties Olympic Record, Kristof Milak Second Seed in 100 Fly The intersection of distance and stroke is rarely more evident in swimming than in the 100 butterfly. From one direction come the sprinters. From another come the pure butterfliers. In Tokyo, it appears, the marquee c...

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...

Josh Liendo Repeats as Swimming Canada Male Swimmer of the Year Josh Liendo’s silver medal at the Paris Olympics earned him Swimming Canada’s Male Swimmer of the Year honor this week. The 22-year-old earns the honor for the third straight year, the first to do that since Ryan Cochrane’s run of eight...

Commonwealth Games Roster a First Look at Canada's Plan for Busy 2026 Swimming Canada is used to the balance between international events in off summers. In 2022, it weighed a postponed World Championships with the Commonwealth Games, a meet of lingering prestige if not one that always attracts the ...

Fifteen-year-old Summer McIntosh will be greeted by a wall of noise at the Duna Arena where Hungarian hero Katinka Hosszu awaits. The rising Canadian star will launch her maiden FINA World Championship campaign on Saturday when she steps out for the heats of the 400 free followed by the 200 fly and ...

World Championships: U.S., Australia, Canada to Battle for Mixed 400 Free Relay Title (Lineups) The mixed 400 freestyle relay will conclude the seventh evening of finals at the FINA World Championships in Budapest, and the top-seeded team will be the United States, which has won this gold medal in a...

With Brent Hayden Leading, Youthful Canadian Men’s Program Shows Promise in Tokyo The hope for the Canadian men’s program before its Trials in late June was to see progress. A performance like the women’s team, which garnered six medals from the Tokyo Olympics, would be beyond any reasonable expecta...