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London will stage the final leg of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup on 29-31 October 2027 where athletes can qualify for the LA 2028 Games in the men’s 50m breaststroke and women’s 50m backstroke. The meet will take place at the London Aquatics Centre in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park and marks t...

IOC Sets Out Seven Candidates, Next Steps for Hosting 2036 Olympics The International Olympic Committee has set forth a handbook for potential hosts of the 2036 Olympics, of which seven candidates have stepped forward. The IOC has set an Oct. 31, 2026, deadline for interested parties. Each intereste...

World Aquatics Announces Open Water World Cup Schedule World Aquatics has today unveiled the schedule for the Open Water Swimming World Cup 2026/27, where the world's best open water swimmers will compete across five stops spanning Mexico, Egypt, Italy and Portugal as momentum builds toward the Worl...

World Cup Data Gives Cam McEvoy Starting Point in Consideration of 100 Freestyle There's a reason Cam McEvoy is nicknamed, "The Professor." The Australian veteran operates via an analytical approach, constantly digesting data. The method has proven successful for the four-time Olympian, who is the r...

Pieter Coetze, Marrit Steenbergen Claim World Cup Titles; Land $100k Bonuses After three weeks of competition along the Silk Road, the Netherlands' Marrit Steenbergen and South Africa's Pieter Coetze have been crowned the overall titlists for the 2026 World Cup campaign. Steenbergen and Coetze were ...

World Cup Astana, Day 3 Finals: Marrit Steenbergen Doubles; Yu Yiting Drops Asian Record in 200 IM Following three weeks of competition, highlighted by several world-record performances, the 2026 edition of the World Aquatics World Cup wraps up on Saturday in Astana, Kazakhstan. This year's tour was...

World Cup Astana, Day 2 Finals: Cameron McEvoy Captures 50 Free Crown in 20.19 In the name of conserving energy, Cameron McEvoy almost got things disastrously wrong in prelims of the 50 freestyle on Friday. Out of Lane 1 in the final, he got things very, very right. McEvoy clocked in at a time of 20...

Marrit Steenbergen continued her record-breaking golden bull run and Gan Ching Hwee lowered the Asian 1500 free record on the first day of the final World Cup stop in Astana, Kazakhstan. Seven swimmers - five women and two men - completed Triple Crowns with a sweep of a single event over the three s...

Leon Marchand, Ilya Kharun to Lead Pursuit of Sizzling 200 Butterfly Short Course World Record Four years ago this month, Tomoru Honda brought the short course world record in the men's 200 butterfly to a new plane of competitiveness. The Japanese swimmer had already established himself as a key int...

Brazilian Olympic Medalist Fernando Scheffer at Peace with Decision to Retire; Eager for Next Chapter On August 30, Brazilian swimmer Fernando Scheffer announced his retirement from competitive swimming on social media. A bronze medalist in the men’s 200-meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo...

Final Stop of World Cup Headed for Kazakhstan; Who Will Claim Triple Crowns? The final stop of this year's World Cup series will take place from Thursday through Saturday, with the Silk Road tour making its way to Astana, Kazakhstan. The first two legs of the short-course circuit have provided plent...

World Record Recap: 17 Global Standards Have Been Set This Year; How Many More Will Fall? (Full List) With the final leg of the World Cup beginning later this week and the World Short Course Championships scheduled for early December, the likelihood of additional world records during the 2026 campai...

While Setting World Records, Egor Kornev Battling Back Injury; Cam McEvoy Expects Big Things from Russian Rival Despite equaling the world record in the 100-meter freestyle and breaking a global standard in the 50 butterfly during the first two stops of the World Cup circuit, Russia's Egor Kornev ha...

Shin Ohashi Pops Asian Record in the Short-Course 200 Breaststroke; Tomoyuki Matsushita Also Breaks Continental Mark Fresh off a world record in the long-course version of the 200-meter breaststroke, 17-year-old Japanese star Shin Ohashi notched the second-fastest time in history in the short-course...

Tomoyuki Matsushita Fires Off World Record in 400 IM; Breaks Daiya Seto Standard Nearly seven years after Daiya Seto took the world record in the short-course version of the 400-meter individual medley to 3:54.81, another Japanese star has established a global standard in the event. Racing at the Ja...

Pieter Coetze Riding World Record Wave into Final Stop of World Cup; Pleased to Have Remained Home for Training Two months ago, Pieter Coetze made a pair of runs at the long-course world record in the 100-meter backstroke. Behind times of 51.77 and 51.71 at the Commonwealth Games, Coetze notched the...

Egor Kornev Blasts World Record in 50 Butterfly at World Cup Stop in Tashkent The first two stops of the World Cup circuit have been good to Russia's Egor Kornev, who established his second world record during Saturday action in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. One week after he tied the world record in the 10...

World Cup Tashkent, Day 3 Finals: Marrit Steenbergen Blisters European Record in 100 Free; Pieter Coetze Just Misses WR in 100 Back A world record from South African star Pieter Coetze was the highlight of the second day of the World Cup stop in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Can the 22-year-old maintain his...

FLASH! Pieter Coetze Soars to 50 Back World Record at World Cup in Tashkent Pieter Coetze blazed to a 50 back world record of 22.09 at the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The South African cut 0.02 from the previous standard of 22.11 held by Kliment Kolesnikov since November 2022. Second at the t...

World Cup Tashkent, Day 2 Finals: Cam McEvoy & Egor Kornev to Renew Battle Cameron McEvoy and Egor Kornev shared the 100 free title on the second day of the World Cup in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. It was a second trip to the top of the podium in as many days for McEvoy after his 20.13 victory in the 50 f...