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Ranking the Best Women's Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 2...

China's Wang Jianjiahe got the FINA World Cup stop #4 off to a blistering start with a new world record in the 400 free SCM on Thursday night in Budapest. Wang swam a 3:53.97 to lower the old record of 3:54.52 by Spain's Mireia Belmonte from the 2013 FINA World Cup in Berlin. Wang just missed the Wo...

Wang Jianjiahe continued her stunning breakout year with a Chinese national record and Asian record in the 800 free at the 2019 Chinese Championships. The 16-year-old won the event in 8:14.64 to become the third-fastest performer in history behind Katie Ledecky and Rebecca Adlington. Wang dropped ne...

15-year-old Yu Yiting had swam a big best time in the heats of the 400 IM at 4:35.94 at the China Swim Series. She is eligible for the world junior record which currently stands at 4:38.53 by Spain's Alba Vazquez Ruiz from the 2019 Junior Worlds. Yu was a 4:37.62 in the final for her second fastest ...

Xu Jiayu Checks in With 200 Back Win at Chinese Nationals; Qualifying Affected By Controversial Fitness Testing The two-time defending world champion in the 100 backstroke, Xu Jiayu proved his worth over twice that distance as the Chinese National Championships continued in Qingdao on Sunday. Xu pre...

Australia's rising distance star Ariarne Titmus won an exciting women's 400 freestyle at the 2018 FINA Swimming Short Course Worlds in a World Record time of 3:53.92. The previous record was held by China's Wang Jianjiahe, who was also in this final and finished second in 3:54.56. Her teammate Li Bi...

By Andy Ross. Last week at the 2018 FINA World Short Course Championships in Hangzhou, China, Australia's Ariarne Titmus broke a world record in the 400 SCM free, the first one in her career. There was a lot of attention on the Americans at the meet as they dominated the medal tally, winning nine of...

The second leg of FINA Swimming World Cup Cluster #2 concluded this weekend in Budapest (HUN) with four victories for the home hero Katinka Hosszu, three golds for Australia's Mitch Larkin and many athletes celebrating double victories after three days of competition at the Duna Arena, the state-of-...

Olympics: In Debut of Women's 1500 Freestyle, Katie Ledecky Goes No. 8 All-Time Performance History was made at 6:55 p.m. (Japanese time) when the first of five heats in the women's 1500-meter freestyle started at the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Monday night. This Olympiad marks the first time in whic...

The China Swim Series continued Friday to ring in the new year as many of China's best were on hand to start off the Olympic year. The best swim of the day came from Zhang Yufei in the 200 butterfly, who improved her 200 butterfly best time with a 2:05.49 from her 2:05.7 in the heats. That swim put ...

Tokyo Flashback: Fittingly, Katie Ledecky Powers to Gold In Inaugural Women's 1500 Freestyle One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship finals – ...

The USA's Katie Ledecky is aiming for her fourth straight world title in the 1500 free. Ledecky set world records on her way to gold at the 2013 and 2015 Worlds and became the first woman to win the event three times in 2017. Ledecky is now aiming to take after Australia's Grant Hackett, who won the...

The 2019 Chinese National Swimming Championships continued on Friday from Anshan City as the Chinese Swimming Federation is simulating an eight day meet with morning finals to get the athletes prepared for the same conditions at the 2020 Olympic Games. Many of China's best swimmers are in attendance...

The first full finals session of swimming at the 2018 Asian Games got started with three new Games Records falling. China got four gold medals thanks to Wang Jianjiahe, Sun Yang, Xu Jiayu and Liu Yaxin and Japan got three golds thanks to Satomi Suzuki, Daiya Seto and their women's 4x100 free relay. ...

FINA has released the entry lists for the 2018 FINA World Short Course Championships that will begin Monday night in the United States. The meet will be held in Hangzhou, China with some of the best swimmers in the world set to attend. USA Swimming is sending a very strong team with the likes of Rya...

The 2018 Chinese Championships and Asian Games Selection meet are underway in Shanxi, China this week, with both new and familiar names emerging to find themselves on the top of the podium. On the opening day of the meet two young distance swimmers battled it out and ended up clearing 16 minutes. 15...

China closed night three of the competition with a Games Record in the women's 4x200 free relay with a 7:48.61 to lower the old record of 7:51.81 from 2010. Li Bingjie (1:56.94), Wang Jianjiahe (1:55.35), Zhang Yuhan (1:58.37) and Yang Junxuan (1:57.95) broke that record and put up the fourth fastes...

22-year-old Zhang Yufei of China has continued her strong assault on her best times log in 2020 as she threw down a very impressive 2:05.70 in the heats of the 200 butterfly at the China Swim Series. It is a new best time for Zhang, who was a 2:06.17 in late 2017 and is ranked fourth all-time in Chi...

Tokyo Vision: Katie Ledecky Makes Inaugural 1500 Freestyle for Women a Coronation Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competi...

As Olympics Approach, Swimming World’s World Female Rankings (May Update) Ranking swimmers who specialize in different events is a very subjective exercise, even in the most normal of times. Judging a 50 freestyler against a 400 IMer means comparing two very different skill sets with little overlap....