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Over the coming three days, the Swimming World writing team will bring you its collated thoughts on the first season of the International Swimming League, after a first Final Match packed with thrills, spills and nail-biting finishes that showcased swimming as a sport of entertainment and potential ...

Photo Courtesy: Andrea Masini Commentary by Jeff Commings TUCSON - Melanie Marshall knows what it takes to compete on the world stage, and her years as one of Great Britain’s best athletes has turned her into one of the world’s most prestigious coaches. This year, she and star swimmer Adam Peaty mad...

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...

The London Roar of the International Swimming League (ISL) has announced that Melanie Marshall will be its first head coach. The ISL is scheduled to begin competition in its first season in the fall with eight teams. The team announced the move on an Instagram post: “We’re delighted to announce Mela...

Photo Courtesy: Jiri Hodan YORKSHIRE, Britain, September 29. Mel Marshall has been announced as the first woman to ever receive the British Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Year award at the annual conference. Marshall coached Adam Peaty to seven Commonwealth and European medals and two wor...

MANCHESTER, England. April 14. THREE British national records and a Commonwealth mark were broken on the fifth day of the British National Championships in Manchester. The meet also is serving as the selection meet for this summer's World Championships in Japan. James Gibson set th Commonwealth/...

Adam Peaty Returns To The Water Adam Peaty is a big fish on dryland no more. The Olympic 100m breaststroke champion, locked out of his Loughborough haunt in COVID-19 lockdown season, has had a pool flown in to his backyard: the tank was craned in over the roof of his home a few miles from the Briti....

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. IT was a night of celebration in Fukuoka, courtesy of a world record of 59.94 seconds by Roman Sloudnov, of Russia, in the second semi-final of the 100m breaststroke, and two European records in the 200m butterfly. The first of those went to Germany's Annik...

By Martin Petty MANCHESTER, England, April 15. JAMES GIBSON sensationally resurrected his international swimming career on an Easter weekend that saw him break the Commonwealth 50m breaststroke record a staggering three times in as many races. The 21-year-old politics student from Loughborough Unive...

In a year that saw Great Britain excel in all facets of aquatic sports at all levels, the competition for the public’s vote to earn the British Swimming Athlete of the Year was fierce. In perhaps a bit of a surprise, diver Tom Daley won over the public, beating out two swimming world champions. Dale...

MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, April 11. SCOTTISH "lassie" Alison Sheppard broke her own Commonwealth-Scottish-British record in the 50 freestyle here this evening with a world-leading 25.07 on the second day of the British Championships-World Championship Trials. The 28-year-old Sheppard, who set the old mar...

Australia's Dean Boxall wins Swimming World's 2018 International Swim Coach of the Year award for his efforts in training distance phenom Ariarne Titmus. [caption id="attachment_344881" align="alignnone" width="569"] Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australia/Delly Carr[/caption] Boxall coaches Titmus, 20...

International Swimming Coach Of 2019: Mel Marshall There's the 56.88, of course. No getting round it. Project 56. Nailed by Adam Peaty with a stroke-transcending sledgehammer. Certainly a moment to celebrate not only the swimmer and the swim but the coach, too. Mel Marshall, twitter handle massiveme...

Melanie Marshall, mentor to World-title winners Adam Peaty and Luke Greenbank this year, has been named High Performance Coach of the Year across all sports in Britain. The UK Coaching Awards also recognised the work of Danielle Brayson in swimming, as Talent Development Coach of the Year during the...

By Alice Reeves-Turner, Swimming World College Intern. It's a question all swimmers have asked themselves at one stage in their careers-- a question we ask as we push ourselves to the limit but still finish behind those who are doing exactly the same training. Why are they better than me? There are ...

Great Britain's Olympic swim team will be led by renowned coach Bill Furniss next year, British Swimming announced today. Furniss will have six assistant coaches working with him in Rio de Janeiro, all of whom are likely to have some of their personal swimmers on the trip as well. Furniss is largely...

Melanie Marshall made history today at the British Swimming Coaches Association’s presentation of the Coach of the Year award, taking the prize for the second consecutive year. Last year, Marshall became the first woman to earn the award, and further cements her status as one of the best coaches in ...

STOCKHOLM, Jan 25. SWEDEN'S Anna-Karin Kammerling delighted the hometown crowd in Stockholm, when she obliterated her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record in the final race of the FINA World Cup IX meet. Kammerling clocked 25.36, wiping out the mark of 25.60, which she set at the Eur...

Though he was happy with winning his first world championship title, Great Britain’s Adam Peaty did not like the fact that he did not break his world record in the 100 breaststroke at the FINA world championships. “It wasn’t the time I expected to do, and it wasn’t the time I’m happy to do, but worl...

Over the coming three days, the Swimming World writing team will bring you its collated thoughts on the first season of the International Swimming League. The exercise takes a look at what we perceive as pros, cons (Pro et contra - for and against) and solutions that we recommend the League takes in...