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Duncan Scott Set For British Championships A Year After Being Hailed As "Skinnier Version Of Michael Phelps" Such was Duncan Scott's all-round excellence at last year's British Championships that it led James Guy to describe him as "a skinnier version of Michael Phelps". The six-time Olympic medalli...

The 2019 European Junior Swimming Championships entered its final day of competition with renewed energy after a climactic four days. For the last time, Europe's best young talent convened in Kazan in hopes of leaving an impression in the final weeks leading up to the World Championships. Having bee...

Milou van Wijk Among The Winners As Dutch s/c Championships Get Underway Milou van Wijk won the women's 100 free as 13 qualification times for the continental showcase in December were swum at the Dutch Short Course Championships in Rotterdam. Van Wijk, who led off the Dutch 4x1 quartet who won bron...

European S/C Championships, Day 4 Prelims: Johannes Liebmann Smashes 800 Free WJR To Top Prelims Johannes Liebmann set his second WJR of the meet to top the 800 free prelims at the European Short Course Championships in Lublin, Poland. The 18-year-old is another product of the Magdeburg powerhouse w...

Archie Goodburn Wins 50m Breaststroke In Edinburgh, Days After Revealing Brain Tumour Diagnosis Archie Goodburn claimed the 50m breaststroke title at the Scottish National Open Swimming Championships days after revealing he had been diagnosed with brain tumours. Archie Goodburn Diagnosed With Inoper...

James Guy Wins 400 Free As Edinburgh International Wraps Up James Guy won his first global medal when he claimed 400 free silver at the 2015 World Championships. On Sunday he continued his return to the eight-length race with victory at the 2025 Edinburgh International Swim Meet. Guy made his intern...

Great Britain Selects Team Of 28 For World Championships In Singapore A 28-strong Great Britain team has been selected for the World Championships in Singapore, led by Paris 2024 medallists Tom Dean, Duncan Scott, Matt Richards, James Guy and Ben Proud. Athletes who reached the Olympic podium last y...

Ollie Morgan Just Shy Of British 100 Back Record At BUCS Championships; Wiffen Twins Share The Podium Ollie Morgan came within 0.01 of his British 100 back record on the first day of the BUCS (British Universities and College Sport) Championships in Sheffield. Out in 25.64 and back in 27.07 to stop ...

Angharad Evans & Abbie Wood Shine On Day Two Of BUCS Championships Angharad Evans posted a winning 100m breaststroke time that only she has bettered among British swimmers on day two of the BUCS Championships in Sheffield. Out in 31.21 and back in 34.81, the Stirling swimmer stopped the clock at 1:0...

Matt Richards Comes Through In 200 Free Thriller Ahead Of Guy & McMillan In Edinburgh Matt Richards led home fellow Olympic relay gold medallists James Guy and Jack McMillan as the trio underlined the depth and quality of the men's 200 free in Great Britain at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet. ...

Paris Olympics, Day 7: Kaylee McKeown Outduels Regan Smith in 200 Back in OR Regan Smith has been posting best times and set American records here in Paris during the Olympics. But try as she might, the American can’t seem to find a way to beat Kaylee McKeown in an individual race. McKeown extended ...

World Championships Preview — Women's IM: The Astounding Summer McIntosh Hits World-Beating Speed Seven years after Katinka Hosszu swam a time of 4:26.36 in the 400 IM at the 2016 Olympics, shattering the already-stunning world record by two seconds, Summer McIntosh finally knocked off that mark. Sh...

Sporting events around the world are being cancelled in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) but the Edinburgh International Swim Meet featuring Adam Peaty, Duncan Scott and Freya Anderson is going ahead this weekend. Entry lists for Edinburgh include swimmers who would travel from o...

British Championships, Day 2 Prelims: Ed Mildred Fires Off PB To Head 200 Fly Ed Mildred soared to a new PB in the 200 fly as he booked lane four alongside Duncan Scott who was making his first appearance of the 2025 Aquatics GB Swimming Championships in London. The most-decorated Scottish Olympian ...

Kathleen Dawson Leads Stirling Clean Sweep Of 100 Back In Edinburgh Kathleen Dawson led a Stirling clean sweep in the 100 back and Katie Shanahan made two trips to the podium on day two of the Scottish National & Open Short Course Swimming Championships in Edinburgh. Dawson, the European long-course...

British Swimming Name 54 Swimmers To 2023-2024 World Class Programme A total of 54 swimmers have been invited on to British Swimming’s World Class Programme (WCP) for the 2023-2024 season, with a little under nine months to go until the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. The athletes on the WCP – from mul...

These are unsettling times but what does not change is the ability of elite athletes to produce world-class performances in the face of uncertainty. So it was at the Edinburgh International Swim Meet where Duncan Scott, Tom Dean, Adam Peaty, Luke Greenbank and Jacob Peters all stood atop the podium,...

British Championships: Ben Proud Wins 50 Free As First Three Go Inside 22: Shanahan & Wood Make Fukuoka Cut In 200IM Ben Proud all but booked his ticket to Fukuoka with victory in the 50 free as the first three men home all went inside 22secs at the British Championships in Sheffield. Katie Shanahan...

David Popovici set a new world junior 100 free record of 47.56 to go fourth in the rankings as the European Junior Championships got under way at the Foro Italico, Rome. Link to results Popovici, who doesn't turn 17 until September, set a Romanian record of 48.08 en-route to finishing sixth at the E...

Duncan Scott Talks The Highs And Lows Of Olympic Year On The Eve Of British Trials Duncan Scott became Great Britain’s most decorated Olympic medallist at a single Games when he won four medals in Tokyo. Three years on, the Scot is looking to make his third Olympic team with the trials running from ...