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Can Pan Zhanle Supplement Sprint Arsenal With More Distance Wins? Some of the most unorthodox results on the World Cup circuit thus far belong to China’s Pan Zhanle, the swimmer who crushed the world record in the men’s 100 freestyle on his way to Olympic gold this summer. Three months later and now...

Worldwide Search For Olympic Medal Winning Coach To Spearhead Sydney University Performance Centre New South Wales sporting administrators are confident of attracting a high profile Olympic medal winning coach to spearhead its latest high performance collaboration with Sydney University. The Sydne.....

Week in Review: World Record From Regan Smith a Highlight of World Cup Action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUyEl0oH8to&feature=youtu.be There is one more stop to this year’s World Cup series, with Singapore serving as the host later this week. But before we shift attention to those upcoming three...

Dario Verani & Moesha Johnson Top The Podium At Open Water Swimming World Cup In Hong Kong Dario Verani and Moesha Johnson claimed the respective men's and women's titles at the penultimate leg of the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong. Verani led a European clean sweep of the...

World Cup Incheon, Day Three: Pan Zhanle Takes Down World Cup Record in 800 Free; Regan Smith Claims 200 Back American Record The second of three World Cup meets concluded Saturday in Incheon, Korea, with Pan Zhanle again showing off his distance freestyle skills, adding a World Cup series record in...

World Cup Incheon, Day 2: Pieter Coetze Enjoys Record-Breaking Day, Wins For Haughey & Marchand Pieter Coetze enjoyed two top-three finishes and set an African record in the 50 back on day two of the World Cup in Incheon, South Korea. Leon Marchand and Duncan Scott tussled once more in the 200IM whi...

FLASH! Regan Smith Sets 100 Back S/C World Record At World Cup Regan Smith nailed the 100m backstroke world record with a time of 54.41 at the World Cup in Incheon, South Korea. The US swimmer took 0.15 from Kaylee McKeown's short-lived standard of 54.56 set at the Australian Championships in Septem...

World Cup Incheon: Noe Ponti Does Double, Tying Leon Marchand in 100 IM The first day of the World Aquatics World Cup Incheon stop had a little of everything: A world record for Kate Douglass, double bids by her, Regan Smith and Noe Ponti and a couple of scintillating races. In the latter category, ...

FLASH! Kate Douglass Blasts World Record in 200 Breaststroke at World Cup in Incheon A few months after claiming gold in the 200-meter breaststroke at the Olympic Games in Paris, American Kate Douglass shattered the world record in the short-course version of the event on Thursday during World Cup a...

Swimming & Para Swimming Among 10 Sports At 2026 Commonwealth Games: Diving Misses Out Swimming and para swimming have been confirmed among 10 sports to be contested at the 2026 Commonwealth Games although diving will not be on the scaled-down programme in Glasgow. The programme also includes athlet...

The waters have been smoothed and peace has been restored in the corridors of power at Swimming Australia – and its back to the business of what really matters - trying to win more gold medals than the U.S. at the next Olympics in Los Angeles. Latest CEO, two-time Olympian Rob Woodhouse, has delive....

The World Aquatics World Cup stop in Shanghai concluded on Sunday. The short-course meters (SCM) has seen several world records set and is a tune-up for short-course worlds later this year. Day 1 Recap Day 2 Recap World Cup: Men's 400 IM France's Leon Marchand started the final session with a win .....

FLASH! Noè Ponti Crushes 50m Butterfly S/C World Record Noè Ponti lowered the 50m butterfly short-course world record to 21.67 in prelims on day three of the World Cup in Shanghai. The Swiss reached the turn in 9.95 secs before a blistering 11.72sec second 25 propelled him into the wall in a new gl....

World Cup Shanghai, Day 2 Finals: Regan Smith, Kate Douglass Notch American Records; Leon Marchand Breaks Series Record Five swimmers who won individual medals at the recent Paris Olympics were victorious during Saturday's finals at the World Cup in Shanghai. Among the standout performances, Leon Ma...

‘Absolutely Happy’ Olympic Champ Yui Ohashi Ready for Opportunities of Retirement Japanese Olympic medley gold medalist Yui Ohashi expressed gratitude for her career at a press conference on Friday, her first extended remarks since retiring from the sport in September. Ohashi’s press conference in T...

Kaylee McKeown Pulls Out Of World Cup: "Putting My Mental Health First" Kaylee McKeown has pulled out of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024, in order to put her "mental health first". The Australian made the announcement on social media hours after winning the 50 back in an Oceania record of...

World Cup Shanghai, Day 1 Finals: Continental Records For Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Kaylee McKeown & Noè Ponti Qin Haiyang, Wang Shun, Kaylee McKeown and Noè Ponti set respective continental standards on a fast and furious day one of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024 in Shanghai, China. A bli...

Like most of the world's elite swimmers, Gal Groumi was focused on the Olympics. He was laser focused with tunnel vision, all eyes locked on Paris - and all of the expectations and pressure that comes along with that journey. But now that the Olympics are over, the focus, the pressure and the expect...

Major Potential: South Korea Has Flashed Steady Growth in Freestyle Events Over the course of the last four years, South Korea has quietly built a dangerous 800 freestyle relay. While consistently lowering its national record, South Korea has reached new international heights, with the core of the r...

Marcello Guidi & Lea Boy Claim Maiden World Cup Victories Marcello Guidi and Lea Boy claimed their first victories at the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Setubal, Portugal at the weekend. Olympic champion Kristof Rasovszky traded the lead with Marc-Antoine Olivier early on, only for ...