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LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 9. THE 3rd FINA World Aquatics Convention is taking place from November 29 – December 1, 2014 at The Ritz Carlton Hotel in Doha (Qatar). For the first time, the Convention will be taking place in conjunction with the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m), scheduled ...

Arena Pro Swim Series editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Arena USA. Visit ArenaUSA.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. ORLANDO- Alia Atkinson has helped grow the sport of swimming in her home country of Jamaica. After setti...

As FINA prepares for another record-breaking World Championships in Kazan, Russia, world-class cities from 7 countries across 4 continents have expressed a strong interest in hosting the 2021 and 2023 World Championships. After a cumulative audience of 4.5 billion watched the 2013 FINA World Champio...

This week saw decisions from FINA, the continuation of an NCAA winning streak, and some fast long course racing across Europe. Read below to read of some of the top stories to catch up on The Week That Was! The Week That was is supported by AgonSwim.com The Week That Was #5 - FINA Suspends Mexica...

The heat is on for the Australian Dolphins Swim Team who have landed in Qatar and are settling in smoothly to a 10-day staging camp in Doha. As temperatures soar above 40 degrees Celsius, the swimmers are making sure their preparations and race skills are just as hot before they take to the world st...

Photo Courtesy: Qatar Swimming DOHA, Qatar, August 28. The Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu completed a 10-medal, 7-victory, 3-world record run in Doha tonight as the first stop of the FINA World Cup circuit came to close. FINA WORLD CUP MONEY LIST LIVE STREAM Subject to geoblocking LIVE RESULTS HEAT S...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott PHOENIX - Coley Stickels, Head Coach of Canyons Aquatic Club joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show to discuss being selected as an assitant coach for Team USA at the Short Course World Championships in Doha, Qatar, training strategies for sprinter Abbey Weitzei...

Photo by Kaitlin Kelly TEMPE - Before heading to the short course world championships in a couple of weeks to represent their respective countries, Cesar Cielo and Darian Townsend will hone their racing skills at the Ron Johnson Invitational Masters meet on the Arizona State University campus. Lucky...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of January 10-February 16, 2020 Sunday, ...

The FINA Marathon Swim World Series gets under way on Saturday in Doha, Qatar, with world champions Florian Wellbrock, Ana Marcela Cunha and Kristof Rasovszky among a strong line-up. Olympic champions Ferry Weertman and Sharon van Rouwendaal also feature with a total of 137 swimmers from 34 nations ...

MARSEILLES, France, February 12. FRED Bousquet has spent the past few months rehabbing a shoulder injury that kept him out of the European short championships and the Duel In the Pool, and as he works on returning to 100 percent, it appears he’s been considering a career in the political arena. In p...

Doha, Qatar, will host its first-ever FINA/HOSA Marathon Swim World Series event on Saturday March 17, with the turquoise waters of Doha’s iconic Corniche providing a stunning setting for reigning Olympic and World Champions to go ahead in the 10km open water races. Doha will open the FINA/HISA Mara...

PHOENIX, Arizona, October 6. SWIMMING was front and center around the world in the mainstream media last week, with the news of a certain Olympic legend’s run-in with the law. We’ll get to that later in the show as we count down the top five swimming headlines of the past week. Let’s get things star...

PHOENIX, Arizona, September 3. THANKS to several countries continuing to showcase their top athletes in the pool, we just saw a great week of swimming around the world, which is where most of our top five headlines of the past week come from for today’s show. We’re going to the southern hemisphere f...

Grant Hackett will be reporting for beIN Sports during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The Qatar based network will be using Hackett for previews and reviews of the competition. Hackett told media, "After swimming at three Games and doing commentary in London, I was worried I wouldn't be involved but th...

CAIRO - Politics is coming into play for next month's short course world championships with the report that Egypt is pulling its swimmers from the competition as a protest against host Qatar's support of Islamist radical groups in the Middle East. It is not known how many athletes were planning to r...

DOHA, Qatar, July 31. The tiny Middle Eastern nation of Qatar is attempting to make a name for itself in swimming, with a leg of the FINA World Cup and the short course world championships scheduled for the capital city of Doha in the coming months. To that end, the swimming federation has appointed...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 8. FINA has announced that six potential hosts have been lined up to bid for the 2018 and 2020 FINA World Short Course Championships. The six nations will head to Lausanne to begin pleading their cases on Tuesday. Russia and the UAE do not have cities initially listed, but...

The first cluster of the 2018 FINA World Cup came to a close in Doha, Qatar this week, with five more World Cup records going down and Sarah Sjostrom and Anton Chupkov coming out as the winners of the first cluster. Get caught up on the stories from that meet and the other biggest news this week in ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, September 2. THE start of the FINA World Cup series and the always exciting junior Pan Pacific championships were the main sources of headlines in swimming this past week, with world records falling in the Middle East and several teenage stars getting a chance to shine in Hawaii. W...