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Night five in Taipei will feature four finals and five semifinals to continue the 2017 World University Games. Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri started off the night with a victory in the 800 freestyle in meet record fashion. In a shorter distance, USA's Ryan Held fought off a charging Kacper Majchrzak ...

DOHA - The final day of qualifying at the FINA World Short Course Championships featured a world record in the women's 200 free relay, as well as a stacked finale in the women's 200 free and men's 200 back. Women's 200 free relay [caption id="attachment_109431" align="alignnone" width="700"] Photo C...

Daiya Seto Puts Up 4:09 400 IM at Japan Open With seven weeks left until the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, many of Japan's best are in action this weekend at the Chiba International General Swimming Center in Chiba. Reigning World champ Daiya Seto had the best swim of the day with a 4:09.88 in the 40...

The 2019 Japan Open closed today with some more top notch swims, including a sub-2:08 200 breaststroke from world record holder Ippei Watanabe. The 22-year-old hit the wall in 2:07.87 to dominate the race, less than a second off of his top-ranked 2:07.02 from April. Given his consistentcy in this ra...

Photo Credit: Delly Carr INCHEON, Korea, September 16. THE start of the swimming competition at the 17th Asian Games in Incheon, Korea is less than a week away; with the official psych sheets yet to be released, here are five women who could make a major impact at the meet. 1. Ye Shiwen, China [capt...

Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. PHOENIX, Arizona, August 16. KEVIN Cordes was primed to take last year’s world championships by storm after his blazing ...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern.  Today marked the fifth day of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships. Daiya Seto had another big day, winning the men's 200m IM after posting a 1:54 200m fly in finals yesterday. The session's full lineup included the men's 200m IM, men's and women's...

TOKYO, Japan, April 15. JAPAN will have a very strong field of 22 men and women racing at this summer’s Pan Pacific championships, based on the results of last week’s long course nationals that saw several national records and an Asian record fall over four days of racing. Japan is also expected to ...

The second day of the Japanese Olympic Trials saw some quick prelims times with Kosuke Hagino, the winner of the 400-meter IM, posting the top time in the men's 200-meter free. Hagino stopped the clock at 1:47.16 to claim the top seed for finals, also making him the only other swimmer underneath the...

By Emily Sampl BOULDER, Colorado, April 17. LAST weekend featured a busy international meet schedule, with a number of countries holding their long course national championship and trials meets and selecting teams for major meets to come this summer. Not many long course meets had been held thus far...

DOHA - The final session of finals at the FINA World Short Course Championships featured five more world records falling by the wayside. Women's 200 free relay [caption id="attachment_109432" align="alignnone" width="700"] Photo Courtesy: Gian Mattia Dalberto/Lapresse[/caption] The Netherlands lower...

Kanako Watanabe blasted the women's 200-meter breaststroke finale at the 2015 Japanese Intercollegiate Championships. Watanabe won in a time of 2:22.41.  She's been much faster with a second-ranked 2:20.90 from the Japanese National Championships, but she still managed to win by more than two second...

Photo Credit: Griffin Scott QUEENSLAND, Australia, August 19. THURSDAY marks the start of the 2014 Pan Pacific Championships at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre in Queensland, and the meet is shaping up to be another great duel between the United States and Australia, as well as Japan. With only two sw...

Katsuhiro Matsumoto Sets Japanese Record in 200 Freestyle at Olympic Trials; Big 200 Fly Battle Brewing The Japanese Olympic Trials have already featured some major headlines, most notably the qualification of Leukemia survivor Rikako Ikee for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. On Monday, Katsuhi...

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...

By Andrew Ross, Swimming World College Intern I’ve always wondered what and how swimmers would be rated if there was a swimming video game. ESPN has been doing NBA rankings the last four years where they rate all the players on a scale of 1-10 and rank their score to get an accurate depiction of who...

By David Rieder. When it comes to the women’s breaststroke events this summer at the World Championships in Budapest, Yulia Efimova will be front and center. She has even earned the status of “favorite” in the 200 breast after she became the first woman to break 2:20 in the event this year at the Ba...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. After today, there's only one session left of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Over the last six days, swimmers have been trying to qualify for the World championships in Gwangju, South Korea. The highlight of today was Shiniri Shioura...

The second night of finals from the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia featured seven total events with China winning three and Japan winning four, tying the two countries for the most gold medals after two days. Rikako Ikee won two events on Monday night and set two Games Records while supersta...

The 2019 World University Games will get started this week in Naples, Italy. The swimming competition will start Thursday July 4 at 9:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. EST) and finals will begin at 6:00 p.m. local time (12:00 p.m. EST). The start lists have been released for this week as the Americans a...