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Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Announces Retirement Brazilian Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus announced his retirement from competitive swimming this week. Fratus made the announcement on social media, with posting confirmation of his formal withdrawal from the International Testing Agency’s list of ac...

Koehn Boyd, Katie Kubiak Emerge as Stars at Para Swimming Nationals Koehn Boyd and Katie Kubiak were among the new stars to emerge from last weekend’s 2024 U.S. Paralympic National Championships in Orlando. Boyd, just 15 years old, took home six gold medals in the mixed-class races at Rosen Aquatic ...

Jack Ryan Sweeps Boards, Wins 3 Titles at USA Diving Winter Nationals Stanford diver Jack Ryan earned three national titles this weekend at USA Diving Winter Nationals in Bloomington, Indiana. Ryan started the meet by teaming with Quinn Henninger last Wednesday to win the synchronized men’s 3-meter ...

Loyola Marymount Turns to David Carrasco as Water Polo Head Coach Loyola Marymount All-American David Carrasco is the next leader of its men’s water polo program, the school announced this weekend. Carrasco takes over for John Loughran, who retired this month after 40 seasons at the helm (including ...

Ben Wainman, Ella Dyson Win Titles at CSCAA Open Water Championships Saginaw Valley State’s Ben Wainman and Ella Dyson of Rice University took home individual titles Sunday at the CSCAA Open Water National Championship. Dyson successfully defended her title from 2022, the last edition of the meet, a...

Budapest 2024, Day 6 Finals: Hubert Kos Wins 200 Back with ER, Brush with WR The home fans at the Duna Arena in Budapest have been treated to one home-country gold medal this week, courtesy of Zalan Sarkany. A man who knows about winning world titles supplied the second on Sunday. Hubert Kos set a m...

Budapest 2024, Day 6: Jordan Crooks Backs Big Week With Gold in 50 Free It’s gotten to the point in Budapest this week that any race not ending in a world record seems an outlier. For Jordan Crooks, one ending with him getting a gold medal is just fine by him. Crooks didn’t quite match his world rec...

Budapest 2024, Day 5: Neutral Athletes Edge U.S. by .08 in First Mixed Medley Relay The conventional logic in mixed medley relays to eschew female breaststrokers and go with male freestylers. The United States on Saturday defied that logic and nearly got away with it. The U.S. finished second in the...

FLASH! Budapest 2024, Day 5: Summer McIntosh Completes World Record Hat Trick in 400 IM; Katie Grimes Gets AR Summer McIntosh is 3-for-3 at 2024 World Short-Course Championships, in gold medals and world records. The Canadian wunderkind positively destroyed the world record in the women’s 400 indivi...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman Drops 100 Fly NAG to 43.86 Thomas Heilman twice lowered the national-age group record in his signature 100 butterfly Friday at the Speedo Winter Juniors East meet. Heilman went 44.55 in the morning at Greensboro Aquatic Club. That eased the 17-18 NAG held b...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Luke Hobson Downs Paul Biedermann 200 Free WR; U.S. Wins 800 FR Whatever else has befallen the American men’s program, the relays seem gloriously unaffected. And in Luke Hobson, the U.S. has another tentpole to build the future around. Hobson blasted away the last super-...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Isabel Gose Golden; Jillian Cox Gets Bronze from Morning Heat in 1,500 The 1,500 freestyle is a marathon in the pool, but it was nothing compared to the wait for Jillian Cox Friday in Budapest. Isabel Gose came in with the fastest time in the final of the women’s 1500 fr...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Noè Ponti Caps Double with 100 IM Gold Noè Ponti had 24 minutes between his semifinal of the men’s 100 butterfly and the final of the 100 individual medley on Friday at Budapest’s Duna Arena, As he’s done a lot of lately, the Swiss speedster made sure no one beat him in ...

Budapest 2024, Day 4: Miron Liftintsev Adds Another Gold, WJR in 50 Back Two years ago in Melbourne, a world junior record in the semifinals by Isaac Cooper led to just a silver medal in the final of the men’s 50 backstroke. Friday, the Aussie was again in silver, this time on the wrong side of a WJ...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Sara Curtis Anchor Leg Rallies Italy to 200 Mixed Free Gold It’s been a breakout year for young Italian Sara Curtis, a campaign that has continued with a world junior record in the women’s 50 backstroke at the 2024 World Short-Course Championships in Budapest this week. ...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Maximus Williamson Opts for Sprint Focus, Drops 19.29 Maximus Williamson had an interesting night Thursday at the Speedo Winter Juniors West Championships. The reigning champion and record holder in the men’s 200 individual medley finished just third in that event at Aust...

Budapest 2024, Day 3 Finals: Elijah Winnington Wins 400 Free as Americans Tie for Silver A men’s 400 freestyle final that excluded some big names shaped up to be a thriller Thursday in Budapest. Just how intriguing it proved to be may even have exceeded those lofty expectations. Australian Elijah Wi...

Budapest 2024, Day 3 Finals: Tang Qianting Wins 100 Breast as WR Survives Again Tang Qianting has done everything in the women’s 100 breaststroke except break the world record. She’s not alone in that. One of the most oddly resilient world records on the books survived yet another buzzing from the y...

American Athletic Conference Adds Liberty, Marshall, James Madison for 2025 Season The American Athletic Conference on Thursday announced three women’s swimming programs as affiliate members for the 2025-26 season. Liberty University, Marshall University and James Madison will join the conference as...

Budapest 2024, Day 3 Finals: Gretchen Walsh Adds Another Gold in 50.31 100 Free It’s Gretchen Walsh’s sprinting world, and the rest of us are just swimming in it, at a considerable distance behind her. The UVA speedster added another gold medal at the 2024 World Short-Course Championships in Budapes...