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Kayla Sanchez Wins 8 Medal, Singapore Takes Total Count at 2025 SEA Games Former Canadian international Kayla Sanchez won eight medals, and Singapore claimed 19 golds and 34 total medals to dominate the 2025 SEA Games last week. The meet in Bangkok, Thailand, was a reassertion of Singapore’s regiona...

Joseph Schooling, Quah Siblings Have Singapore Sailing at SEA Games Behind the Quah siblings and Joseph Schooling, Singapore has dominated in the pool through the first four days of the Southeast Asian Games in Vietnam. Singapore has won 15 of the 27 gold medals doled out at Hanoi’s My Dinh Water Pa...

Photo Courtesy: Xinhua/Fei Maohua NANJING, China, August 17. THE hosts had the top swim of the night as the Chinese downed the World Junior Record in the mixed 400 free relay to kick off the Youth Olympics Games. Russia's Anton Chupkov also took down a WJR during the men's 100 breast semis. Schedule...

Vietnam Swim Coach Huang Guohui Found Dead in Quarantine upon Return from Olympics Huang Guohui, the coach of Vietnam’s swim team at the Tokyo Olympics, was found dead during a quarantine upon his return to Vietnam. He was 57 years old. Huang, who is from China and also known by the Vietnamese name ...

Photo by Joao Marc Bosch NANJING, China, August 16. LITHUANIA's Ruta Meilutyte got going early with an easy-speed swim in the 50-meter breaststroke, while a handful of other national records fell throughout the morning in Nanjing. Scheduled Events Men's 400 free Women's 50 breast Men's 100 back Wome...

Refocused Paul Le Pushing Toward Vietnam Olympic Dream The dream was, in Paul Le’s words, starting to feel “hopeless.” Le was 26, still training at his alma mater, Missouri State, mired in the doldrums of an Olympic cycle in 2018, the Tokyo Games he aimed for still more than 18 months away. He’d see...

Jonathan Tan’s Olympic A Cut in 50 Free Highlights SEA Games Jonathan Tan supplied the highlight of the Southeast Asian Games this week, qualifying for the Paris Olympics in the men’s 50 freestyle. Tan went 21.91 in prelims on May 7, the second day of six at the regional multi-sport competition host...

SEA Games: Ching Hwee Gan Finishes Distance Quad; Singapore Dominates Medal Table Ching Hwee Gan completed a sweep of the four longest women’s freestyle races at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games, winning the 1,500 free on the penultimate day of the meet Wednesday. The mile was the only target left for...

Special thanks to ArenaUSA for proudly sponsoring our coverage of the Arena Grand Prix circuit. For all of our coverage and more, please visit our event coverage page ORLANDO, Florida, February 14. THE Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu had another slower time this evening than a meet record this morning, but...

Zhang Yufei Outduels Siobhan Haughey in Asian Games 50 Free Final Zhang Yufei clocked in a championship record 24.26 in the women’s 50 freestyle at the Asian Games, winning a thrilling final over Siobhan Haughey. Zhang had set the mark in the morning prelims, clipping three hundredths off Rikako Ike...

In what the Associated Press called "one of the more improbable upsets in U.S. political history," former age group and high school swimmer, Ventura defeated St. Paul's mayor and the state's Attorney General to become the Governor of Minnesota. Ventura swam for Minneapolis Roosevelt High School and ...

FUKUOKA, Japan. July 18. THE Netherlands has gone crazy over swimming since Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn shared five gold medals at last year's Sydney Olympics. Van den Hoogenband won two individual golds and set two world records in Sydney while de Bruijn picked up three golds, ...