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Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World’s Top 25 Male Swimmers The title of the top female swimmer in the world has shifted on several occasions this year. Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown have all been considered for that spot throughout the past several months, but at the Olympics, ...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

Rikako Ikee Leads 40-Strong Japanese Team for Fukuoka World Championships Rikako Ikee is set to return to the World Aquatics Championships for the first time in six years after her performances at the recent Japanese trials. The Japan Swimming Federation on Monday released a roster of 40 swimmers fo...

Daiya Seto Produces Quick Start in 200 Fly at Japanese Trials; Tomoru Honda Paces Event When the Japanese Olympic Trials started over the weekend, Daiya Seto was already granted passage to this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo. His automatic qualification was the reward for his status as the reigning...

Paris Olympics, Day 4 Prelims: Kristof Milak The Only Man Inside 1:54 To Top 200 Fly: Tomoru Honda 22nd It's five years and six days since Kristof Milak first broke the 200 fly world record, crushing Michael Phelps' previous standard that had stood for 10 years. The young Hungarian's time of 1:50.73...

World Championships, Day 3 Semifinals: Carson Foster Heads 200 Fly In 1:53; Canadian Record For Ilya Kharun Carson Foster booked lane four for the men's 200 fly semi as he swam a PB 1:53.85 at the World Championships in Fukuoka. World Championships Meet Page Live Results 200 Fly Prelims Report There...

China Rattles WR In Men's Medley Relay At Asian Games; Siobhan Haughey Sets Asian 100 Free Record The first two days of the Asian Games pool programme has seen China dominate with 11 golds among 23 medals in Hangzhou, China. Coming into night three, only the Republic of Korea and Hong Kong had denie...

World Championships: Rikako Ikee to Make Inspiring Return to Individual Racing Four years ago, the last time the World Championships were held in their typical late July slot, the medalists in the women's 100 butterfly stepped onto the podium with a touching message. The medalists, Canada's Maggie M...

Noè Ponti Goes Third In 200 Fly Rankings In 1:54.59 After Completing Treble At Swiss Championships Noè Ponti went third in the 200 fly rankings after going 1:54.59 to complete the treble at the Swiss Championships in Uster. Out in 25.14, Ponti split 29.13/29.83 in the middle half of the race before ...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 5: 100 Freestyle Finals Bookend Busy Middle Night After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countries. T...

After SC World Record, Can Tomoru Honda Close Gap On Kristof Milak In 200 Butterfly? In its current state, the landscape of the men’s 200-meter butterfly is a one-man realm. This world belongs to Kristof Milak, the Hungarian star who is the reigning Olympic champion and has claimed the past two glob...

World Championships Preview — Men's Butterfly: Absences of Milak, Dressel Create Opportunities Between all three men's butterfly events at the World Championships, there will be only one swimmer competing who has ever captured World Championship or Olympic gold in the stroke. That is Great Britain's...

Daiya Seto and Katsuhiro Matsumoto Double At Japan Short Course Championships Unlike the first day of competition, when Tomoru Honda wowed the crowd, there were no world records at the Japan Short Course Championships. Still, there were several impressive performances as the meet came to an end. Lea...

Tomoru Honda & Qin Haiyang Set Meet Marks In Asian Games Prelims; China DQd In Women's Medley Relay Tomoru Honda and Qin Haiyang both pulled out Games records in the final prelims session of the Asian Games pool programme in Hangzhou, China. Asian Games Meet Page However, there was a shock in the wo...

World Championships, Day 3 Prelims: Tomoru Honda Thrills Crowd with 200 Fly Top Time Japan’s 200 butterfliers gave the home crowd something to cheer Tuesday morning in Fukuoka, with Tomoru Honda setting the top time in prelims at the World Aquatics Championships. He will have a countryman in the fin...

World Championships, Day 4 Finals: Tomoru Honda Pulls Away To Win 200 Fly For First Global Gold Tomoru Honda fought a stroke-for-stroke battle with Alberto Razzetti before pulling away in the final metres to claim his first global title in the 200 fly in Doha. The pair couldn't be separated at the 1...

Tomoru Honda Destroys World Record in 200 Butterfly at Japan Short Course Champs By Hideki Mochizuki Tomoru Honda, the men's 200-meter butterfly bronze medalist from this year’s World Championships in Budapest, smashed the short-course world record in the event today with time of 1:46.85. Honda was ...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 8: Kristof Milak Trying to Rocket Past 200 Fly Field in Comeback The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before that,...

Noè Ponti Looks Ahead To "A Great Battle In Paris" Amid A Golden Age Of 100 Fly Swimming A line at the top of the biography section on Noè Ponti’s website states that it’s updated “once a year, during the month of August.” It details the Swiss athlete’s achievements from his first race as a six-year...

Paris Olympics, Day 4 Semifinals: Kristof Milak Tops 200 Fly Semis In 1:52.72 As He Seeks To Defend Tokyo Crown Michael Phelps is the only man to have won the Olympic 200 fly title on more than one occasion with the 23-time gold medallist visiting the top of the podium three times. Seven countries h...