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Canadian Olympic Trials: Tessa Cieplucha to Join Sydney Pickrem in 400 IM in Tokyo The gap between Tessa Cieplucha and the Olympic stood at only .43 seconds. But as plenty of swimmers can attest, at Canadian Olympic Trials and elsewhere around the world, that fraction can look like a mountain. Ciepl...

Delfina Pignatiello of Argentina disrupted any plans of a U.S. clean sweep in the 800, as she cruised to an 8:29.42 finish to cinch a decisive victory. Gaining a commanding lead at the outset, Pignatiello used America's Mariah Denigan as a source of motivation throughout the race, keeping her at her...

ISL Match 1: Energy Standard Leads Three-Horse Race After Day 1 The 2021 International Swimming League season kicks off on the heels of the Tokyo Olympics. Season 3 of the 10-team league gets underway in Naples, Italy, on Friday, the first day of a two-day Match 1. The opener features the two teams ...

VICTORIA, British Columbia, April 1. WITH all but one of Canada’s swimming medalists from the 2010 Commonwealth Games now retired, this week’s Canadian nationals will be searching for new talent to put the country on the medal podium multiple times in Scotland this summer. With Brent Hayden, Julia W...

Short Course World Championships: United States and Canada Tie for Women's 400 Free Relay Gold (Day One Women's Recap) The very first women's final at the FINA Short Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi saw Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey take down the world record in the women's 200 freestyle, touch...

Sydney Pickrem, Katerine Savard Lead 26-Strong Canada Team for Doha World Championships Canada on Tuesday named a diminished 26-person roster for the 2024 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. The roster includes several veteran mainstays but is without the brightest talents on both sides of the draw....

Swimming Canada has nominated 26 swimmers to the Canadian Olympic Team for this summer's Tokyo Games, following its Olympic Trials this week. The list includes a return to a fourth Olympic Games for Brent Hayden and a debut for 14-year-old Summer McIntosh. The group of 26 includes 16 women and 10 me...

Olympians & European Champions Among 13-Strong Swim Ireland Squad Set For Budapest Ellen Walshe and Tom Fannon are among a 13-strong Swim Ireland squad who will compete at the World Short-Course Championships next month in Budapest. Daniel Wiffen and Mona McSharry - who between them won Olympic gold...

The recent addition of mixed relays to the FINA event program has proved enormously beneficial to USA Swimming, promoting aggressive strategy particularly in the mixed medley. With the States possessing enormous strength in sprint stroke events, there's no stopping the powerhouse from quickly establ...

Courtesy of a clean finish, America's Daniel Carr found a way to out-touch Brazil's Guilherme Guido (53.54) for the victory, shaving nearly half a second from his time in prelims. The Cal Berkeley youngster is quickly becoming one of America's marquee backstrokers, winning the gold in last night's 2...

The U.S. winning streak came to a shrieking halt in the men's 100 free, as Marcelo Chierighini (48.09) of Brazil upset top seed Michael Chadwick (48.88) for the victory. Chierighini wasn't the only one to get his hand on the wall before the American sprinting stalwart, as Nathan Adrian created outsi...

Unsurprisingly, American Olympic hopeful Annie Lazor quickly turned things around for the States, fending off her teammate Bethany Galat (2:21.84) to seize the win and Pan Am record. A huge swim for both women, Lazor's time of 2:21.40 would rank fifth in the world this year, just behind Lilly King's...

SASKATOON, Canada, July 17. IT's been a busy two days in Saskatoon so far at the Canadian Summer Nationals, with Noemie Thomas headlining the swims thus far. DAY ONE Noemie Thomas ripped off a 26.23 to win the women's 50-meter fly. That time shot her from 16th in the world with a 26.33 to 12th in th...

Maggie MacNeil, Kylie Masse to Headline Canada Short-Course Worlds Squad Swimming Canada on Friday announced a 17-member team for the 2022 FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Australia this December, which includes Maggie MacNeil and Kylie Masse. The group of 11 women and six men will take pa...

2022 Bell Canadian Trials: Finlay Knox Lowers 200 IM National Record Finlay Knox clocked in at 1:57.50 to lower his national record in the men’s 200 individual medley on the first night of the 2022 Bell Canadian Trials Tuesday night. First night of the six-day meet culminated with Summer McIntosh tr...

The first night of the 2019 Santa Clara International is underway at the George Haines International Swim Center. The meet began with the distance events. Both the women and the men swam the 800 free today with some major conviction. Women's 800 Free In first was Tessa Cieplucha of Swim Ontario with...

The U.S. entered the third day of the 2019 Pan American Games holding the cards after tallying ten gold medals in a single finals session on Night Two. With a target on its back, the swimming powerhouse sought a repeat, as the third day's eclectic slate of events seemed to cater to the States' stren...

With the 200 breast being their only event of the meet, Will Licon and Nic Fink (2:08.16) had to make it count. After going 1-2 in prelims, the two men entered tonight's final with the sole purpose of earning the U.S. its first medal in this event since 2011. In reality, the race was all their own, ...

Emergence of Molly Hannis As Skins Weapon Vital to Cali Condors’ Rise In all five of their International Swimming League matches this season, the Cali Condors have won the women’s medley relay and chosen the stroke for the skins race. Four of those times, they’ve opted for breaststroke. The reason, ...

ISL Match 1, Day 2: Energy Standard Wins, Summer McIntosh Moves Toronto to Second Halfway through the first match of the ISL season, Energy Standard held an early edge, as was to be expected given the program’s pedigree. But how the other three teams in the opener of the third season of the Internat...