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Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a previous performance at the world championships that still carries significance. Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing Commentary by Jeff Commings When the ...

By Andy Ross. American swimmer Olivia Smoliga won eight gold medals at the 2018 FINA World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China this week, the most of any American woman all-time at a single short course championships. 24-year-old Kelsi Dahlia won seven gold medals this week, and won a silv...

KANAGAWA, Japan, September 5. MIKI Uchida kicked off the Japan Intercollegiate Championships by breaking the oldest long course Japanese record, while Kosuke Hagino showed off some sprinting speed in relay action. Uchida blasted through the 50 freestyle with a 25.02, breaking the national record of ...

Australian swimming’s “flying fish” Emma McKeon has smashed the Championship record with a stunning time of 23.04 to win the 50 metres freestyle – a time just 0.11 outside the world record - winning her second gold medal of the night and fourth gold medal of the Championships. The Olympic champion w...

Tokyo Vision: All Down To The Touch as Sarah Sjostrom leads 50 Freestyle Field Into Wall Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a ...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan. July 25. THE Living Legend that is Ian Thorpe continued to grow tonight in Fukuoka after the young Australian clocked an astounding 1:44.06 world record over 200m freestyle to avenge his only Olympic defeat last year. Pieter van den Hoogenband, the Dut...

By Phillip Whitten The Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 22-29 at next year's Olympic pool in Sydney, is the pre-eminent swimming competition in the world this year. Times have been fast all season and there are expectations for a superfast meet just a little more than a year before the 2...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern. As we’ve touched on before, swimming is an evolutionary sport. Constantly improving, changing and growing in popularity, our sport has never seen a breadth of talent quite as wide as the one which it currently witnesses. That being said, some question...

Salim Iles from Algeria, won the 100m freestyle in 49.04, a national and African record. Claudia Poll of Costa Rica, won the 200m-400m-800m freestyle and finished second in the 100m freestyle. Just days after his 400m I.M. world record (pending FINA ratification) Marcel Wouda of the Netherlands, mad...

By Craig Lord SHEFFIELD, ENGLAND, May 28. Inge De Bruijn completed her devastation of the world records in the sprint butterfly and freestyle events today by breaking one of the toughest standards in the record book: Chinese swimmer Le Jingyi's 1994 mark in the 100 meter freestyle. The Dutch swi...