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Sara Curtis 50 Free Record Highlights Four Wins at Italian Championships Sara Curtis set the Italian record in the women’s 50 freestyle on Sunday to cap a four-win performance at the Italian Short-Course Championships. Curtis’ started the final session of the three-day meet at the Swimming Stadium R...

Carles Coll Marti Sets Three National Records at Spanish Short-Course Championships Carles Coll Marti came out of the weekend’s Spanish Short-Course Championships with three Spanish records in a bravura performance in Madrid. Coll Marti reset marks in the men’s 50 breaststroke, 100 breast and 100 in...

No Trip To Short-Course Worlds For Daniel Wiffen Daniel Wiffen will not be competing as part of the Swim Ireland team at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The Irishman has had a memorable 2024 in which he’s won Olympic gold and bronze as well becoming double world champion in Doha. T...

Duncan Scott & Matt Richards Share Athlete of the Year Crown At Aquatics GB Awards Duncan Scott and Matt Richards shared the Swimming Athlete of the Year crown at the Aquatics GB Awards in London. The pair each won gold and silver at the Olympics in Paris, combining with Tom Dean and James Guy as th...

Daniel Wiffen Completes Treble & Freya Colbert Makes It Five As BUCS Championships End Daniel Wiffen completed the freestyle treble and Freya Colbert left Sheffield with five individual titles as the BUCS Championships wrapped up. Wiffen had already clinched the 800 and 1500 during the opening two d...

National Records For Noè Ponti & Louis Droupy As Swiss Short Course Championships Wrap Up The Swiss Short-Course Championships came to an end with Noè Ponti again rewriting the national history books in Oberkirch. The Tokyo Olympic bronze 100 fly medallist went 21.18 leading off the SC Uster 4x50 fr...

Freya Colbert Claims Third Title & Daniel Wiffen Does Distance Double At BUCS Championships Freya Colbert claimed her third title of the meet and Daniel Wiffen completed the distance double on day two of the BUCS Championships (25m) in Sheffield). Colbert won the 200 free and 200IM on the opening da...

Noè Ponti Talks Military Service, World Records & Taking A Break From The 200 Fly Noè Ponti is on a train returning home from his first week of military service after a whirlwind few weeks in which he twice lowered the 50 fly short-course world record before reporting for duty. Military service is m...

Daniel Wiffen Dominates 1500 Free At BUCS Championships To Go Top Of The Rankings Daniel Wiffen enjoyed a 28-second victory in the 1500 free and Freya Colbert was a double winner on day one of the BUCS (British Universities and Colleges Sport) Championships (25m) in Sheffield. Wiffen clocked 14:31.8...

Ben Proud Spearheads Aquatics GB Team For Budapest; Goodburn, Blocksidge & Okaro Also Selected Ben Proud, Archie Goodburn, Amelie Blocksidge and Eva Okaro are among an Aquatics GB team of 11 selected for the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The team - comprising six men and five women -...

Nyls Korstanje, Caspar Corbeau & Kira Toussaint Among Eight-Strong Netherlands Team For Short-Course Worlds Nyls Korstanje and Caspar Corbeau were named on an eight-strong Netherlands for next month's World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. The team comprises four men and four women for the me...

Hubert Kós Among 34-Strong Hungary Squad For Short-Course Worlds As Boglárka Kapás Prepares To Bid Farewell Olympic champion Hubert Kós is among a 34-strong Hungary squad set for the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest where Boglárka Kapás will bring her fine career to a close. Eighteen men...

European Aquatics Announce Details Of 2025 Open Water Cup The schedule has been released for the 2025 European Aquatics Open Water Cup which runs from May to September next year. The five-stop series begins on 3 May in Protaras, Cyprus, before heading to Setubal, Portugal, on 22 June with Paris host...

Matt Richards On Conflicting Olympic Medal Emotions, Pan Zhanle & His "Fantastic" Wedding Day Matt Richards sits at his new home in Manchester reflecting on a momentous few months in which he has added gold and silver to his Olympic medal haul, got married and moved from the English south to the nor...

Double Olympic Champion Kristóf Milák To Be Coached By Álmos Szabó With Eyes On Singapore Worlds Two-time Olympic champion Kristóf Milák  will be coached by Álmos Szabó after he parted ways with his former trainer Balázs Virth following Paris 2024. Milak won gold in the 100 fly at the Games which fo...

Panna Ugrai Wraps Up Hungarian Championships With Two Golds In 40 Minutes And Six In Total The Hungarian Short-Course Championships wrapped up on Saturday with Panna Ugrai claiming two more golds in the space of 40 minutes to take her total to six following the four-day competition in Kaposvár. Ugra...

Daniel Wiffen Named Swimmer Of The Year At Swim Ireland Awards After Golden 2024 Daniel Wiffen was named Swimmer of the Year at the 2024 Swim Ireland Awards after 12 memorable months in which he became Olympic and world champion. Róisín NíRiain (para swimming) and Jake Passmore (diving) were also ho...

Boglarka Kapas Bids Tearful Farewell At Final Hungarian Championships Boglarka Kapas was overcome with emotion as the crowd at the Hungarian s/c Championships in Kaposvár rose to give her a two-minute standing ovation as she bade farewell to national competition, 14 years after reaching her first in...

Leon Marchand Among A France Team Of 13 Selected for World Short-Course Championships Leon Marchand, Maxime Grousset and Beryl Gastaldello are among a 13-strong France team selected for the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. Eight men and five women will travel to the Hungarian capital fo...

Hungarian Championships Underway In Final Qualification Bid For Short-Course Worlds Next Month In Budapest The Hungarian Short-Course Championships got under way in Kaposvar ahead of next month's short-course worlds in Budapest. Ajna Kesely and Vivien Jackl dead-heated on the opening night in the 15...