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Suzuka Hasegawa served up a scorching 57.70 in the 100 fly on the third day of the Japan Student Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Yuya Tanaka unleashed a 51.76 in the men's race ahead of a fast-finishing Kouta Akahane who stopped the clock at 51.83. Hasegawa has been on sizzling form of late, consis...

Singapore plays host to a number of fast swims tonight as we await the beginning of the first finals session of the last stop of the 2017 FINA World Cup series. Tonight's events include: Women’s 100m Breaststroke Men’s 100m Backstroke Women’s 100m Freestyle Men’s 400m Freestyle Women’s 200m Butterfl...

Rikako Ikee is competing in the Japan Student Swimming Championships this week, just her second swim meet back after beginning her battle with leukemia. After nearly 10 months of hospital care and treatment, she returned to the water a month ago. With more training, this week, she finished fourth in...

ISL Match Five, Day Two Recap: Tom Shields Takes MVP Honors, But London Roar Edges L.A. Current The London Roar, coming off a lengthy layoff following their first International Swimming League meet of the season, won their second meet in as many outings as Mel Marshall's club tallied 499 points and ...

ISL Semi Final 1: Energy Standard & London Roar in Tussle The ISL post season continued Sunday from Budapest with last year's top two - Energy Standard and the London Roar meeting for the first time since coming down to the Skins in last year's Las Vegas final. Energy won with a comfortable margin t...

Russia finished the meet with a medley relay sweep as the women crushed the World Junior record in the women's 400-meter medley relay at the 2015 FINA World Junior Championships. Irina Prikhodko, Mariia Astashkina, Polina Egorova and Mariia Kameneva raced their way to a sizzling 4:01.05. That swim n...

Turkey's Viktoria Zeynep Gunes turned in a sizzling 1:06.96 to lead the competition in prelims of the women's 100-meter breaststroke. Gunes succeeded in shaving .64 seconds off of her seed time of 1:07.60 and finished strikingly close to Ruta Meilutyte's 2013 championship meet record of 1:06.61. Jap...

The 2019 World University Games will get started this week in Naples, Italy. The swimming competition will start Thursday July 4 at 9:30 a.m. local time (3:30 a.m. EST) and finals will begin at 6:00 p.m. local time (12:00 p.m. EST). The start lists have been released for this week as the Americans a...

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu claimed the 100 IM title in 57.26, a bit off her own World Record (56.51) and Championship Record (56.70). The swim was still enough to edge out Japanese swimmer Runa Imai (57.85) for the win. Jamaica's Alia Atkinson joined them on the podium after earning bronze with a time...

Swedish sprint star Sarah Sjostrom added two more World Cup gold medals to her total tally. This time, her wins came in the 200m freestyle and 50m butterfly.  China’s Zhuhao Lu set a new WJR in the 100m fly, winning silver behind Chad le Clos.  Here you'll find everything you need to follow along .....

World Championships Preview — Women's Breaststroke: Resurgent Lilly King Eyeing Monster Performance Heading into last month's U.S. Nationals, Lilly King had posted no fantastic performances during the season, content to let her rivals domestic and international own the spotlight until the results ma...

Tokyo Tears As Japanese Star Rikako Ikee Makes Stunning Comeback From Leukemia A new chapter in the brave new swimming world of Japanese Olympian Rikako Ikee has begun in Tokyo tonight with a stunning comeback swim in a night of relief and tears, just 594 days since being diagnosed with leukemia. Th...

Records keep falling for Melanie Margalis, the Cali Condors IMer adding the 100 individual medley American record to the pile Tuesday. Margalis won the 100 IM in 57.94 seconds, just .22 ahead of the New York Breakers’ Abbie Wood, in the fourth match of the International Swimming League season. The t...

2020 ISL Match 3 Day 2: Current & Frog Kings Go Down to Skins The third match of the 2020 ISL season will kicked off from Budapest, Hungary as the LA Current and Aqua Centurions are faced off against two new franchises in the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans. The LA Current won both medley relays...

Races Without Favorites: Olympic Champions Schoenmaker, Jacoby Set for Return to Crowded Breaststroke Events Less than two months out from the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, several individual races already have clearly-established favorites, but plenty of others lack an obvious choice for g...

Day four of the 2019 World University Games in Naples, Italy featured swims from the most elite swimmers across the globe. The line-up for today's session consisted of the women's 1500 free, the women's 200 I.M., the men's 100 free semi-final, the women's 100 fly semi-final, the men's 200 breast fin...

After one World Junior Record and one Championship Record were broken during last night's finals of the Beijing stop of the 2017 FINA World Cup circuit, we are slated for another day of close finishes, edge-of-your-seat races and intense excitement. Here you will find everything you need to keep up ...