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Kayla Sanchez Wins 8 Medal, Singapore Takes Total Count at 2025 SEA Games Former Canadian international Kayla Sanchez won eight medals, and Singapore claimed 19 golds and 34 total medals to dominate the 2025 SEA Games last week. The meet in Bangkok, Thailand, was a reassertion of Singapore’s regiona...

Tokyo Flashback: It's a Magical Golden Moment For Canadian Maggie MacNeil in 100 Butterfly One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals – ea...

Canadian Olympic Medalist Kayla Sanchez Switches to Represent Philippines Canadian Olympic medalist Kayla Sanchez is exploring a nationality switch to represent the Philippines, it was announced Thursday. Sanchez has been granted her release from Swimming Canada. She was born in Singapore to Filipin...

ISL Expansion Teams Toronto Titans, Tokyo Frog Kings Reveal Inaugural Rosters The success of the inaugural International Swimming League (ISL) season propelled the league to add two new teams for its second season, increasing its international reach into Canada and Japan. Wednesday’s kickoff press c...

The Toronto Titans Thursday revealed their final roster for the 2020 International Swimming League season, the first for the expansion side. It involves three changes from the early September league-wide unveiling of rosters. The big changes include the absence of Anastasia Fesikova and Kayla Sanche...

Pro Series - Knoxville (Day Four) Results The Regan Smith Express continues to roll along toward the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as the American teenager delivered another standout performance on Sunday night to close out her weekend at the TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville. Contesting the 200-meter back...

Canadian Olympic Trials: Reigning Olympic Champ Penny Oleksiak Rips 52.89 100 Free Penny Oleksiak has been gotten messages during Canadian Olympic Trials wondering where she is. Partially, that’s because there’s no “Penny” on the heat sheets. Instead, the swimmer whose mental focus has been on retur...

Finlay Knox set a Canadian record in the men’s 200 individual medley this weekend as some of Canada’s top swimmers positioned themselves for the twice-delayed Olympic Trials. The event, held at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre that will host Canadian Olympic Trials in June, was held in part due to t...

2022 Bell Canadian Trials: Josh Liendo Blasts Canadian Record 21.63 50 Free Josh Liendo is officially the fastest Canadian sprinter in history. The 19-year-old star-in-the-making turned in an outstanding 21.63 in the 50 free at Bell Canadian Trials Sunday night, taking down a Canadian record held si...

Kylie Masse has had plenty of time to ponder, well, time. It’s a commodity usually so cut and dry for swimmers: Hours in the pool adding up to months of preparation, all to translate into tenths or hundredths of a second of improvement. Even before the coronavirus pandemic ramped up its global sprea...

Short Course World Championships: Canada Wins Three Gold Medals with Pickrem, MacNeil, 800 Free Relay (Day Five Women's Recap) Over the past six years, Canada has become one of the powerhouse nations of women's swimming, and that was on full display on day five of the Short Course World Championship...

The Toronto Titans, the newest International Swimming League franchise, have added their second and third signings in Canadian Kayla Sanchez and American Michael Chadwick. Sanchez, a native of Scarborough, Ontario, competed for Energy Standard last year. She was part of Canada’s stellar 2017 World J...

With Penny Oleksiak Anchoring, Canada Delivers Relay Silver You Can Swear By With silver medals around their necks, the Canadian women’s 400 free relay team was all smiles, giggles and hugs Sunday afternoon in Tokyo. And before the race, for a swimming program renowned for its collegial nature? “The...

Penny Oleksiak and Brent Hayden both turned in quick 100 freestyle Wednesday on Day 1 of the three-day Take5 High Performance Test Event hosted by Swimming Canada. Oleksiak was just off her seed time in going 53.67 in the 100 free. Second was Maggie MacNeil in 54.06, with Rebecca Smith third and Tay...

Joshua Liendo got Canadian Olympic Trials off to a flying start Saturday morning by going 51.40 in prelims of the men’s 100 fly, a Canadian record and an Olympic A cut. The 18-year-old will be the top seed in finals Saturday night, the first day of the four-day meet. He cut seven tenths off his seed...

The Toronto Titans signing spree continues, with American sprinter Blake Pieroni and Icelandic Olympian Anton Sveinn McKee joining the roster of the newest International Swimming League franchise Friday. Pieroni, 24, won a gold medal with the American 400 free relay at the Rio Olympics and a bronze ...

Many of Canada’s top swimming stars are remaining hopeful and confident in the face of the news Friday that the global outbreak of COVID-19 has postponed Canadian Olympic Trials. Part of the message tweeted by Brent Hayden, the three-time Olympian who is making a comeback at age 36, is that, “Things...

Short Course World Championships: Shaine Casas, Ilya Shymanovich, Hwang Sunwoo Capture Gold Medals (Day Two Men's Recap) Men's action on second evening of the Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi saw three swimmers each capture their first individual world title. First, American Shaine Casa...

ISL Playoff Match 6, Day 1: Aqua Centurions Take Stunning Lead Over Cali Condors The Cali Condors are missing superstar Caeleb Dressel in the last match of the ISL playoff round, and in his absence, the reigning ISL-champion Condors have not looked particularly sharp. They have individual wins from ...

FINA World Short Course Championships: Kliment Kolesnikov Paces Frantic 50 Back Kliment Kolesnikov is the top seed after a frantic preliminary heat in the men’s 50 backstroke Saturday in Abu Dhabi on the third day of prelims at the FINA World Short Course Championships. Kolesnikov led the way with a...