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Day four of the 2019 World University Games in Naples, Italy featured swims from the most elite swimmers across the globe. The line-up for today's session consisted of the women's 1500 free, the women's 200 I.M., the men's 100 free semi-final, the women's 100 fly semi-final, the men's 200 breast fin...

By Olivia Wile, Swimming World College Intern. After a calm session yesterday, the third day of the 2019 Japanese Swimming Championships followed a similar pattern. Most of the top seeded swimmers won their respective events, with Katsuhiro Matsumoto kicking things with a finals win in the men's 200...

Shoma Sato and Waka Kobori set meet records in the 100 breaststroke and 400 free respectively and Tomoru Honda unleashed a 1:55.76 in the 200 fly on the second day of the Japan Student Swimming Championships. Suzuka Hasegawa again impressed with a 2:07.82 in the 200 fly while there was also a new me...

China got its 2018 Asian Games off with a 1-2 finish in the women's 1500 free with Wang Jianjiahe and Li Bingjie winning gold and silver. Wang and Li were back and forth throughout the first 800 to which Wang pulled away and was nearly three full seconds ahead of Li. Li scratched and clawed her way ...

Tomoru Honda Takes Down Seto in 200 Fly at Japan Open; Hagino, Ohashi Take 200 IM Wins The 2021 Japan Open continued Saturday from the Tokyo Olympic Aquatic Center with some of Japan's best competing 168 days out from a home Olympics. Notably, this meet has seen the return of multi-world champ Daiya...

Reigning Olympic Champ Yui Ohashi Finishes Fourth in 400 IM at Japanese Trials There will be a new Olympic champion in the 400 individual medley in Paris, after reigning champ Yui Ohashi missed out on qualification Tuesday. Ohashi finished fourth at Japanese Trials in Tokyo, where she had done the I...

China's Wang Jianjiahe won her second gold medal of the 2018 Asian Games with a new Games Record in the 800 free with an 8:18.55. Wang earlier won the 1500 free gold medal in a very tight battle with teammate Li Bingjie. It was expected to be another tight battle with those two but Li was well off p...