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The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly 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 March 10-16, 2020 ...

Australia's Emily Seebohm and Russia's Yulia Efimova each posted a No. 1 time in the early 2017 world rankings during day two finals at the New South Wales Open Championships in Sydney, Australia. Live results Full results Jessica Ashwood opened the session with a narrow victory over Kiah Melverton ...

Photo Courtesy: Tobiuo Japan Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. GOLD COAST, Australia, August 24. The Japanese went 1-2 in the final, and it wasn’t even cl...

Nicholas Dos Santos unleashed a sizzling men's 50-meter fly at the 2015 Jose Finkel Trophy meet. Dos Santos, already second in the world with a 22.90 at the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, blasted his way to a 23.00 for the win tonight.  Only top-ranked Florent Manaudou (22.84) has been faster this year. He...

The relay team of Yuanhui Fu (59.29), Jinglin Shi (1:05.56), Ying Lu (56.56) and Duo Shen (53.00) from China posted a combined time of 3:54.41 to claim the gold medal in the women's 400-meter medley relay. The foursome were just over two seconds away from the current meet record of 3:52.19 set by Ch...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 26. IT was an epic night of swimming for England's Fran Halsall as she posted a textile best in her 50 free win and clocked a Commonwealth Games record in her 50 fly semis. LIVE RESULTS LIVE STREAM FINALS Men's 200 fly It wasn't his fastest time of the year, but South Africa'...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly 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 April 13 - 19, 202...

Taylor McKeown twice lowered the meet record in the women's 100-meter breast at the 2015 Jose Finkel Trophy. McKeown clocked a 1:09.34 in prelims to down Julia Sebastian's 2013 mark of 1:09.44.  McKeown then won finals in 1:08.23. Jennifer Conceicao placed second in 1:09.09, under the former meet ma...

Joao Gomes Jr. took down the meet record in the men's 50-meter breast at the 2015 Jose Finkel Trophy. Gomes Jr. clocked a sizzling 27.03 to win the finale and break Felipe Silva's 2009 record of 27.32. The swim also vaulted Gomes Jr. to seventh in the world rankings. Silva took second tonight in 27....

Taylor McKeown crushed the meet record in the women's 200-meter breast in night two of the 2015 Jose Finkel Trophy meet. McKeown, who already ranks 16th in the world with a 2:23.77 from her Australian Nationals, put up a pair of meet records with a 2:28.45 in prelims and a sizzling 2:24.09 in finals...

Passages: Sholto's Fierce Fighting Spirit Lives On As McKeown Sisters Honour Their Late Father No matter where Australia’s swimming sister act, Taylor and Kaylee McKeown swim next they will carry with them the inspiration and fighting spirit of their greatest fan – their Dad, Sholto who sadly lost h...

22-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps will be favored to add one more to his tally when he swims the fly leg on the U.S. men's 400 medley relay tonight. Phelps, the silver medalist in the 100 fly and already with four golds won this week, will be joined by 100 back gold medalist Ryan Murphy, ...

Mollie O’Callaghan Sets The World On Fire With Her Sizzling 100m freestyle of 52.83 At The Australian Championships Australia’s Tokyo discovery Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western, QLD) has produced the fastest time in the world this year in this morning’s 100m freestyle heats in a sizzling start ...

Defending Pan Pacific champion Thomas Fraser Holmes has taken the first step in his comeback to competitive swimming, qualifying for tonight’s 200m freestyle final at the 2018 Hancock Prospecting Pan Pacific Championship Trials in Adelaide. The 26-year-old is the sixth fastest qualifier for the 10-m...

In the last state meet before the Australian Commonwealth Trials, the Australian women put on some solid in-season racing on Saturday night in Sydney at the New South Wales State Championships. 16-year-old Kaylee McKeown and 23-year-old Emma McKeon posted solid times in the 100 back and 100 fly resp...

Aussie Teen Sensation Kaylee McKeown Sizzles Down Under with a World Class 100m Backstroke Time of 58.11 Right out of the blue in Queensland this afternoon, 19-year-old Australian Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown has clocked the fourth fastest 100m backstroke time in history at the low key Medal Shots...

Remembering Dad: Tokyo Golden Girl Kaylee McKeown Pays Tribute to Late Father Sholto On The Anniversary of His Passing Australia’s triple Olympic gold medallist Kaylee McKeown swam her way into the hearts of the sporting world when she swept the Olympic Pool in Tokyo revealing the tattoo on her foot...

Commonwealth Games Australia has announced a 70-strong swimming team for next month’s 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The team was announced on the Gold Coast following the four-day Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Trials at the Optus Aquatic Centre. Made up of 49 able-bodied swimmers and...

Sarah Sjostrom cemented her status as the headliner of this year's Mare Nostrum series with a monumental swim in the 100 freestyle on the final night of competition in Canet-en-Roussillon. With her dominating 52.08, Sjostrom very nearly nabbed both the European and World Records--ultimately coming u...

On Saturday July 21, a group of 25 swimmers on the Australian Dolphins Swim Team swapped the pool for the coral-covered ocean on a Citizens of the Great Barrier Reef expedition to Upolu Reef just off Cairns. The expedition is part of a global effort to raise awareness of the health of the Great Barr...