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The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

Commentary by Maria Dobysheva The closer Russia gets to the start of hosting its first Aquatic World Championships, the more attention next week's Russian Worlds Trials attracts and the more questions it raises. It's been a troublesome year for Russian elite swimming since one of its leaders, Yulia ...

Some heavy-hitters within Russian swimming are rallying around the hashtag #MichaelSwim4Russia in hopes that Michael Phelps will show up at the 2015 World Championships this year. Dmitry Volkov, one of the top ambassadors of Russian swimming and an Olympic bronze medalist in the 100 breast at the 19...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 14. DARIA Ustinova, just 15 years old, is quickly taking over the top backstroke spot on the Russian squad as she has been putting up strong times all week at Russian Nationals. A day after setting the World Junior Record in the women's 200-meter back during semis with a 2:09.02,...

Photo by Pia Ellegaard Mortensen Each day through August 17, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the European Championships, which begins August 18 in Berlin, Germany. We invite you to offer your picks in our comments secti...

The operative word for Rob Kent, the general manager of the Toronto Titans in the International Swimming League, is adaptation. It applied for a team that had, by his reckoning, 70 to 80 percent of its roster in place last December, when COVID-19 remained a word quarantined to the Asian scientific v...

By Maria Dobysheva, Swimming World Russian contributor As Christmas and New Year's celebrations came to a close, the new training season has officially started, and with it the usual swimming comebacks are on schedule as well. With the 2016 Rio Olympics around the corner, plenty of swimmers are goin...

NICE, France, February 2. THERE may not be any money-meet swimmer better than Hungary's Katinka Hosszu in the history of the sport. While she is still a world-class swimmer when it comes to the top international events, no one ever has quite figured out the formula she has for stepping up on regular...

NICE, France, January 31. AT the Nice International Long Course Meet, Hungary's Katinka Hosszu shook off a night of food poisoning to still pull off a victorious triple in the 50 free, 200 back and 100 fly in France. She even threw in a Hungarian record for good measure. Hosszu opened up her night w...

Photo Courtesy: Gian Mattia Dalberto/Lapresse Commentary by Maria Dobysheva DOHA - All the debates about short course popularity in swimming quieted down after the first day of World Championships in Doha. Traditionally, all the attention is attracted to the king's event: the men’s 400 freestyle rel...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 17. RUSSIAN swimmers made sure the fans in Moscow went out with some strong memories as they lit up the pool with a host of world-class times as the Russian Nationals came to a close. A few days ago, China hyped up the Butterfly Wars between Jiao Liuyang and Liu Zige. That should...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 27. RUSSIA did not send a strong team to the 2012 European long course championships, choosing to focus on the Olympic Games coming up in three months as were many other European countries. But the team of 34 attending this year's edition in Berlin will aim to beat the lofty seve...

RUZA, Russia, July 24. WITH just a few weeks until European Championships, the Russian contingent is tuning up with the Russian Cup held in Ruza. Evgeny Koptelov, who had ranked 19th in the world with a 52.33 from Russian Nationals in the men's 100-meter fly, raced to a winning effort of 52.20. That...

By Maria Dobysheva, Swimming World Russian contributor MOSCOW - Russian swimming has announced its roster for the World Short Course Championships.  Overall, 36 athletes (21 men and 15 women) will represent Russia in Doha, Dec. 3-7. There are a few surprises to the roster.  Reigning world champion V...

Photo Courtesy: Gian Mattia Dalberto/Lapresse Guest contribution by Maria Dobysheva KAZAN - As the Russian Short Course Nationals are in full swing in Kazan, the big question on everyone's mind is where is Vlad Morozov? Morozov missed the FINA World Cup, including the home meet in Moscow, and has no...

DOHA - Russia started of the fourth finals session with a bang as it took down the world record in the men’s 200 free relay at the FINA World Short Course Championships. Watch Race Video The foursome of Vlad Morozov (21.01), Evgeny Sedov (20.37), Oleg Tihkhobaev (20.59) and Sergey Fesikov (20.63) bl...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, April 13. THE final night of action at the Eindhoven Cup featured plenty of fireworks with a bevy of top-five ranked times going up on the scoreboard, including a world-record attempt. Rikke Moller Pedersen shot to the top of the world rankings with a sizzling 2:19.61 in ...

By Maria Dobysheva Daria K Ustinova clocked the world's fourth fastest 200 backstroke at the final stop of Russian Cup in Ruza, Moscow region - 2:07.42. Even though it's not her season's best so far (she's currently third in the world with 2:07.29), it was the best swim of the meet and a solid warm ...