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Lisa Bates Honoured With BSCA Coach of the Year Award 2025 Lisa Bates has been honoured with the BSCA Coach of the Year Award 2025 in recognition of her role in guiding Ben Proud to the only individual medal claimed by Great Britain at the World Championships in Singapore. Bates is director of swimm...

World Championships: Ben Proud On "Perfect" Paris, Living In London & Finding A Balance Ben Proud sits in his apartment, a few minutes’ walk from the London Aquatics Centre which hosted the 2012 Games and is now the Olympic silver medallist’s training base. The 30-year-old moved to Stratford, east L...

London Roar, one of the founding teams of the International Swimming League, on Thursday announced the launch of the London Roar Academy in the heart of the capital "to maximise developmental opportunities for participating clubs and their members." It accompanied news from founder Konstantin Grigor...

British Swimming Nominate Eight Coaches To Team GB For Paris 2024 Eight coaches have been nominated by British Swimming to Team GB for the Olympics in Paris, three years after their record-breaking eight-medal haul at Tokyo 2020. David Hemmings, Mel Marshall, David McNulty and Steven Tigg all oversa...

Great Britain Tokyo2020 Olympic Coaches Named Mel Marshall and Steven Tigg, respective mentors to Adam Peaty and Duncan Scott, the two leading lights of the Great Britain team at the World Championships in Gwangju back in July, will spearhead a selection of eight Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games coaches. Da...

LONDON, England, June 3. THE London Aquatic Center, the site of the 2012 Olympic swimming and diving competitions, will be the home of a new high performance training group that will be led by rising coach Lisa Bates. Bates is currently working at the Middlesbrough Swimming Club, but will start her ...

International Women’s Day (IWD) To mark International Women’s Day, Swimming World is rolling out a series of features this Monday to highlight the achievements and work of  pathfinders in swimming and raising issues that continue to have a massive impact on women in sport. Here we speak to Aimee Wil...

Twenty years after winning silver in the pool at Manchester 2002, Mel Marshall is head coach to a 48-strong Team England squad - her charge Adam Peaty among them - at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. A pioneer on poolside, Marshall is that rare thing - a woman who has guided a man to every titl...