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With 6 World Championships in 3 Years, Who Has Won the Most Medals? It’s been a busy three years of international swimming. The sport, like much else, came to a screeching halt in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. International meets, including the Tokyo Olympics, were postponed, and the backlog...

Marcel Wouda Appointed Netherlands Coach For Distance Swimming Marcel Wouda has been appointed head coach of distance swimming as the Netherlands steps up its preparations for the Olympic cycle into the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Wouda started his new role at the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZ...

Wiffen Brothers Film Entertaining Recruiting Visit to Cal-Berkeley; Could Olympic Champ Daniel Join Nathan as a Golden Bear Last fall, Irish distance standout Nathan Wiffen revealed that he will attend Cal-Berkeley and pursue a college career in the NCAA ranks. Could his twin brother, Olympic champi...

Adam Peaty Returns To Training At Repton School With Coach Jamie Main Adam Peaty is back in the water under the watchful eye of coach Jamie Main at Repton School, where he trained with Mel Marshall at the start of his glittering career. There’ve been many questions about his future and whether he pl...

Leon Marchand & Sarah Sjöström Take Top Honours At European Aquatics Athlete Of The Year Awards Leon Marchand and Sarah Sjöström have been named best male and female swimmer of 2024 in the European Aquatics Awards. The Frenchman finished ahead of David Popovici, Thomas Ceccon, Kristof Milak and Dani...

Hubert Kós & Zsófia Konkoly Win Top Honours At Hungarian Athlete Of The Year Awards Olympic 200 back champion Hubert Kós and Zsófia Konkoly, double Paris 2024 Paralympic gold medallist, won top honours at the Hungarian Athlete of the Year gala. Kós won the best male athlete award with Konkoly named ...

Triple Olympic Champion Katinka Hosszu Retires With 97 Medals & A World Record Still Intact After Stellar Career Three-time Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu has announced her retirement after a career that saw her claim 97 international medals across 18 years, a record haul for a European swimmer. Th...

Tickets on Sale for 2025 Aquatics GB Championships at London Aquatic Centre The London Aquatics Centre, which served as a focal point of the 2012 Olympic Games, will again feature top-flight action when the 2025 Aquatics GB Championships are held at the venue this spring. The best athletes in Britis...

Happy New Year! Winter Issue of Swimming World Magazine Available for Free - Plus Special Trial Subscription Offer! It's official! 2025 is upon us, and we’ve got something incredible to help you start the year strong. For a limited time, the Winter Digital Edition of Swimming World is available for ...

Duncan Scott Awarded OBE In New Year's Honours List Duncan Scott has been awarded an OBE in the New Year's Honours List following a year in which he became Scotland's most-decorated Olympic athlete. The University of Stirling swimmer, who was awarded an MBE in 2021, won two medals in Paris bringing ...

Bob Bowman Talks Leon Marchand & Life In The Spotlight Bob Bowman knew from experience how the life of Leon Marchand would change after he won four gold medals in Paris. The Frenchman won the 200 and 400IM double, the 200m breaststroke and the 200 fly in front of an ecstatic home crowd at La Défense...

Sarah Sjostrom Planning to Bypass Competition During 2025; A Sixth Olympics Still Possible Swedish superstar Sarah Sjostrom, who swept the sprint-freestyle events at last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, has revealed that she has no plans to compete during 2025. The news was broken by Dagens Nyheter...

Daniel Wiffen: No Regrets About Taking To The River Seine Despite "Violent" 10k Debut Daniel Wiffen stepped out of the River Seine at the end of the 10k and promptly declared it would be his first and last open water race. The Irishman’s words went viral, read and watched by thousands across the wor...

World Male Relay of the Year: British 800 Freestyle Relay Made History with Gold at Paris Games When Great Britain captured the gold medal in the men’s 800-meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (held in 2021), the achievement snapped a 113-year drought. Prior to that victory by the quar...

Boglárka Kapás On The Inspiration Of Krisztina Egerszegi, Standout Career Moments & "Remembering Everything" Boglárka Kapás was five when she watched a film about Krisztina Egerszegi, her fellow Hungarian and five-time Olympic champion. It lit a fire in the youngster who would go on to win Olympic b...

Hubert Kos Caps Standout Year With World Title at Home in Budapest During both previous occasions in which a global championship meet took place at Duna Arena, a Hungarian was among the stars of the competition, much to the delight of the biased fans in attendance. In 2017, Katinka Hosszu swept the ...

Olympic Mixed Relay Champion Anna Hopkin Retires After Career "Beyond Her Wildest Dreams" Anna Hopkin has announced her retirement after a decorated career in which she has won Olympic and European titles and paid visits to world and Commonwealth podiums. The 28-year-old posted to social media on Mo...

Freya Colbert & Charlie Hutchison Clinch Golden Trebles In Sheffield The Swim England National Winter Championships (25m) wrapped up in Sheffield with golden hat-tricks for Freya Colbert and Charlie Hutchison. After gold in the 200IM on the opening day, Colbert posted two new lifetime bests in the f...

Katie Shanahan & Matthew Ward Claim More Silverware As Scottish Nationals Wrap Up The Scottish National & Open Short Course Swimming Championships came to an end in Edinburgh with more trips to the podium for Katie Shanahan and Matthew Ward. Shanahan, who finished fifth in the 200 back on her Olympi...

Olympic Silver Medallist Ben Proud Pulls Out Of World Short-Course Championships Olympic silver medallist Ben Proud has withdrawn from the World Short-Course Championships that begin in Budapest on Tuesday 10 December. The 30-year-old is instead continuing to build back into post-Olympic training fo...