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Alberto Razzetti Completes Gruelling Double At Nico Sapio Trophy Alberto Razzetti claimed a gruelling 200 fly/400IM double on day two of the 49th Nico Sapio Trophy in Genoa. The two-day competition doubles as a selection meet for the European Short-Course Championships in Otopeni, Romania, from 5-10...

How To Swim the 100 Breaststroke: Breaking Down Swimming's Most Perplexing Race What makes a great 100 breaststroker? Many would point to a dominant kick, gliding them through the water. Others would point to a strong stroke, using their upper body to push forward with efficiency. Some might even po...

Paris Olympics, Day 3 Finals: Thomas Ceccon Becomes First Italian Man To Win 100m Backstroke Gold No Italian man had ever reached the 100m backstroke podium which has historically been dominated by USA athletes who have taken gold at six of the last seven Olympic Games. Evgeny Rylov was the only non...

The Defending Champs Headed for European Short Course Championships The 2025 European Short Course Swimming Championships (December 2-7) will take place next week in Lublin, Poland and numerous champions from the 2023 competition in Otopeni, Romania have decided to defend their titles and enrich the...

Mel Marshall Talks Adam Peaty & "Just Daring To Dream That Anything Was Possible" In the first of two articles, Mel Marshall talks to Swimming World about her 15-year journey with Adam Peaty A defining moment in Mel Marshall’s life came when she saw a young swimmer at the City of Derby club do breas...

Italy Names Squad Of 32 For Short-Course Europeans Olympic champions Thomas Ceccon and Nicolo Martinenghi are among an Italy squad of 32 bound for the European Short Course Championships in Lublin, Poland next month. The pair are among 20 men and 12 women to make the trip for the 2025 edition of the...

Status Check: Europe New Powerhouse of Men’s Swimming, Americans at Crossroads The busy summer of international long course racing in the year following the Tokyo Olympics saw a series of new stars take their places as the best of the world. And while the traditional powerhouse nations, Australia an...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 2: Leon Marchand Heavily Favored For First Gold Medal After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countrie...

FLASH! United States Demolishes World Record In Mixed 4x50 Medley Relay; European Mark For Italy The United States obliterated the world record in the mixed 4x50m medley relay in 1:35.15 at the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne. Link to results Day 2 Results The quartet of Ryan Murphy, N...

Nicolo Martinenghi continued his record-breaking form as he went third all-time over 50 breaststroke by lowering his Italian record for the second time in a day to 26.39 in Riccione. Martinenghi had gone fourth all-time with a national record of 26.47 in Saturday morning's prelims at the Italian Swi...

Ranking the Top-20 Men's Swimmers in the World, Part I (16-20): Short Course World-Record Holders Stand Out At the recent World Championships, swimmers competed for medals in 42 pool events, and the results clearly show the best swimmer in the world for each race. Comparing swimmers across events is...

Before They Became Superstars: World Junior Championships Has Served As Springboard for Future Success At the World Junior Championships that wrapped up over the weekend, we witnessed the rise of a new generation in the sport. In the years ahead, some of the athletes who flourished as juniors will t...

Do Olympic Gold Medal Winning Times Matter? It's More About the Moment Winning an Olympic gold medal is the ultimate dream of athletes across sports worldwide, especially in the sport of swimming. It is often a lifelong pursuit, with the possibility offered just once every four years. At last summer...

The Olympic “Quadrennium:” A Look Back and a Look Ahead (From October’s Swimming World Magazine) Swimming World reflects on the last five years since the last Olympic Games in Rio and ponders the questions that lie ahead during the next three years leading up to Paris 2024. ********** Five years ago...

Nicolo Martinenghi Claims Latest 100 Breast Title at Italian Champs; Faster Time Posted in B Final Reigning Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi secured the latest national championship of his career on Monday when he cruised to victory in the 100-meter breaststroke at the Italian Championships in Ri...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 3: Adam Peaty Eyeing 100 Breaststroke Three-Peat Against Qin Haiyang The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before t...

European S/C Championships: Day 1 Prelims, Men: Caspar Corbeau Rattles 100 Breaststroke WR, Daniel Wiffen Enjoys Emphatic Return Caspar Corbeau rattled the 100 breaststroke world record and Daniel Wiffen made his return to international waters as the European Short Course Championships got underway ...

Adam Peaty Doha-Bound For First World Championships Since 2019 As British Swimming Announces Squad Of 20 Adam Peaty will make his first World Championship appearance since Gwangju 2019 after British Swimming announced a squad of 20 for Doha. The three-time Olympic champion has claimed eight golds am...

World Championships, Day 3 Semifinals: Claire Weinstein and Luca Urlando Secure Top Seeds Already a world champion and the reigning Olympic titlist in the 200-meter freestyle, Australia's Mollie O'Callaghan was the headliner of semifinal action during the third night of the World Championships in Si...

Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Caspar Corbeau Heads 100m Breaststroke Ahead Of Adam Peaty; Qin Haiyang Ninth Adam Peaty safely navigated the 100m breaststroke as he seeks to make more history although it was Caspar Corbeau who headed the prelims at La Defense Arena. Peaty will join Michael Phelps in...