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Ilya Kharun Sets 50 Fly Canadian Record, Two Pro Swim Series Marks Ilya Kharun’s weekend at the TYR Pro Swim Series didn’t begin auspiciously. But it ended with a national record and two Pro Swim Series records. Kharun took Finlay Knox’s national mark in the 50 fly by going 23.09 seconds to win the ...

Two-Time Australian Olympian Matt Targett on Comeback Trail Seven years after he retired as a two-time Australian Olympian, Matt Targett is back in the water and training under the watch of former Auburn coach and fellow countryman, Brett Hawke. A three-time Olympic medalist and once a mainstay on t...

Will Auburn's NCAA Men's 200 Free Relay Record Ever Be Broken? As the NCAA Men's Championships approach, we take a look at one of the most-exceptional records in the sport, and ask when it might go down. More than a full decade has passed since the shiny suits were outlawed in the sport of swimming,...

31-year-old Bruno Fratus out-touched Caeleb Dressel in the 50 freestyle at Mission Viejo at the TYR Pro Swim Series as the gold and silver medalist from the last two Worlds lined up alongside each other in southern California in a battle of the titans. Fratus won the matchup with a 21.80 to Dressel'...

BRONX, New York, February 28. A few Olympians and national team members gave the Metropolitan senior short course winter championships a boost last weekend in New York City, where the Badger Swim club took the overall team title a few points ahead of the New York Athletic Club. Badger's team of most...

AUBURN - Florida's Caeleb Dressel put on a show with a second-place finish in the 100 free at the SEC Championships with a 17-18 U.S. National Age Group record. In a blazing fast 100-yard freestyle, Alabama's Kristian Gkolomeev vaulted to 10th all time in the event for the win, matching it with his ...

Florent Manaudou tied the French record in the men's 50-meter fly with the top seed in semis at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Manaudou blasted the field with a 22.84 to match Fred Bousquet's 2008 record.  He also cleared Nicholas Santos (22.90) for the top time in the world this year as just th...

The Australian Olympic Committee and Swimming Australia has been rocked by a positive drug test to champion breaststroker Brenton Rickard, back-dated to the 2012 London Olympics. The test threatens to strip six Australian swimmers of their medals for the first time in history and comes at the same G...

AUBURN - Alabama's Greek God of Sprinting Kristian Gkolomeev dominated the sprint freestyle tonight, while the Georgia Bulldogs finished night two in the lead in both the men's and women's team races at the Southeastern Conference Championships. Men's Meet Florida had a monster start to the night wi...

OKLAHOMA CITY - Saturday night at the American Energy Elite Pro-Am proved to be incredibly fast with Nathan Adrian and Breeja Larson both giving American records a run for their money. Nathan Adrian nearly broke his American record in the men's 50-yard free with a sizzling time of 18.67 in the shoot...

AUBURN - The Florida men won their third straight, while the Georgia women took their sixth straight victory at the 2015 SEC Championships. Men's Meet The top three swimmers in the men's 1650-yard freestyle all cleared the NCAA A cut in what proved to be an exciting finale. Georgia's Matias Koski gr...

SEC Championships at Texas A&M a Reminder of Wicked Fast 2009 NCAAs Seven times during the 2023 SEC Championships, hosted by Texas A&M’s Student Recreation Aquatic Center, last weekend, a certain number came up: 2009. Sixteen of the pool records at the home of the Aggies stemmed from that year, when...

IOC Withdraws Doping Case Against Australia's Brenton Rickard Who Is Left Holding A $50,000 Bill To Clear Name Nightmare doping charges that emerged some eight years after the London Olympics against Australian triple Olympic swimming medalist Brenton Rickard have today been withdrawn by the Interna...

Australian Olympic Trials In what has been a lead up like no other Australia's finest swimmers will line up in Adelaide from June 12-17 (Saturday, Australian time) for the 2021 Australian Olympic Trials at the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre. It has been a frantic and frenetic time where Selection Cri...

SYDNEY, Australia, February 27. THIS weekend’s New South Wales open championships Down Under will feature many of Australia’s top swimmers, plus a few international stars that could make some noise at this summer’s major meets. Alicia Coutts and James Magnussen are the top Australian stars at the me...