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Men’s 100 Backstroke: Pieter Coetze Leads Deepest Event in Men's Swimming For almost a decade, Ryan Murphy was an international stalwart in the men’s 100 backstroke, winning Olympic gold in 2016 and a world title six years later. He missed an international podium exactly once, by one hundredth of a ...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 7: Ryan Murphy, Thomas Ceccon Will Face Off Again in 100 Backstroke 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 th...

Great Britain Relay Analysis: Four Teams Head to Paris as Medal Favorites Three years ago in Tokyo, Great Britain won Olympic gold in the men's 800 freestyle relay, the country's first gold medal in any swimming relay since the inaugural Olympic relay at the 1908 Games in London. Now, with British T...

Budapest 2024: Jacob Peters Relishing Return To International Waters With Aquatics GB Jacob Peters returns to the international stage at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest after missing out on Paris 2024. The butterfly specialist is among an Aquatics GB team that was reduced to 10 on S...

Great Britain Selects Team Of 28 For World Championships In Singapore A 28-strong Great Britain team has been selected for the World Championships in Singapore, led by Paris 2024 medallists Tom Dean, Duncan Scott, Matt Richards, James Guy and Ben Proud. Athletes who reached the Olympic podium last y...

Oliver Morgan, Angharad Evans Spin A Cut Times to Open Edinburgh International Englishman Oliver Morgan opened the 25th annual Edinburgh International Swim Meet Friday by going 53.69 seconds in the 100 backstroke. That’s a meet record and is under the Olympic A cut. Morgan, 20, set the meet record i...

New Men's Swimming Stars? Leon Marchand, Fellow Paris Champions Limit Opportunities In 14 individual men's events contested at the Paris Olympics, exactly one featured a repeat gold medalist, with defending champions shut out until Bobby Finke taking gold in the 1500 freestyle on the final day of co...

British Swimming Has Several Athletes Ready For Breakouts at World Championships With the World Championships right around the corner, the world’s best swimmers are in the final stages of their preparation for Fukuoka. Racing starts on July 23 and concludes on July 30.  The British Swimming team is ...

Max Litchfield, Oliver Morgan Set Meet Records at Edinburgh Invitational Two further meet records went down during Saturday evening's finals session at the Edinburgh Invitational following two record-setting swims in Friday evening's events. Great Britain's two leading 400 IMers, both coming off med...

British Championships: Ollie Morgan & Freya Colbert Make It Two In Two; 13-Year-Old Amelie Blocksidge Goes 8:38 For 800 Silver Ollie Morgan and Freya Colbert made it two titles in as many days while 13-year-old Amelie Blocksidge announced herself on the senior stage at the British Championships in S...

British Trials, Day 6 Finals: Ollie Morgan Edges Out Luke Greenbank To Clinch Backstroke Double, Both Inside Paris Cut Ollie Morgan touched out Luke Greenbank by 0.12 following a late surge as he added the 200 back to his 100 title at the Aquatics Centre in London. Morgan lowered the British 100 bac...

World Championships Preview — Men's Relays: Great Britain, Italy Seeking More Wins Against Established Nations Eight years ago, Great Britain first broke through as a true global contender in men's relays, knocking off the five-time defending champion Americans to win an 800 freestyle relay crown. M...

European S/C Championships, Day 3 Finals: Marrit Steenbergen Sets ERs in 100 IM, 200 Free The finals of the 100 individual medley at the 2025 European Short-Course Championships didn’t disappoint Thursday, as an opener to the third night of the meet. Marrit Steenbergen set the European record in win...

Returning Kliment Kolesnikov Plus New Contenders Poised to Lead 100 Back in Singapore Twenty-seven months after Aaron Peirsol became the first swimmer under 53 seconds in the 100 backstroke, he smashed through another barrier by clocking 51.94. This was at the height of the polyurethane suit era in ...