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The Australia Day Long Weekend came to a close in Adelaide today with the cream of Australia’s open water swimmers and Olympic hopefuls putting the finishing touches to three spectacular days of racing at SA’s Brighton Beach. Noosa’s individual brilliance at the Australian Open Water Swimming Champi...

Noosa’s three-time Australian 10km open water champion Nick Sloman will headline a six-strong group of Australians to Doha next month. They will contest the 2020 Marathon Swim World Series Event on February 15 –the next stop on the road to Tokyo Olympic selection. It’s a big deal – the top two from ...

Sarah Sjostrom fired a shot across the bows of her rivals with a thunderous 53.02 in the 100m free as she claimed her fourth gold medal and second meet record on the final day of the Euro Meet 2020 in Luxembourg. The Swede had already taken down her own meet mark in the 100 fly to 56.71 and there we...

Shoma Sato put the cat among the pigeons in the curtain-closing 200m breaststroke at Kosuke Kitajima Cup in Tokyo with a a cracking 2:07.58 victory over former world-record holder Ippei Watanabe, on 2:07.86. That rocketed Sato, 18, from 10th to 5th in the all-time Japanese 200m breaststroke rankings...

Flying Dutchman Ferry Weertman certainly showed no ill-effects from his 10km victory on Saturday to back up to complete the Brighton Beach double with a commanding Australian 5km Championship victory on Australia Day in Adelaide today. [caption id="attachment_412574" align="alignnone" width="700"] R...

Daiya Seto (Staying on Fire) It might not be the intention of Daiya Seto each time he enters the water, but the Japanese star is firing off warning shots with regularity during the early stages of this Olympic season. Seto’s latest attention-grabbing performance arrived on Saturday at the Kitajima C...

Sarah Sjostrom unleashed an eye-watering 56.71secs in the 100m butterfly and Florent Manaudou hit the wall after just 21.56secs in the 50 free on the second day of the 22nd Euro Meet 2020 in Luxembourg. Both were meet records and Sjostrom, who had warmed up with second in the 50m backstroke, then re...

2020s Vision - Matt Biondi & The International Swimmers' Alliance, Part 2 Part 1: Matt Biondi’s Mission To Enrich & Educate Swimmers "It's not a union", says Matt Biondi. Change. Demands. Speaking out. Insisting sports bosses engage, listen, act on the word of the athlete. Moving in numbers. Acting ...

Olympic champion Ferry Weertman has caught the field by surprise, swimming a wider line to the finish to capture the Australian Open Water 10km Championship in perfect conditions at SA’s Brighton Beach today. The 27-year-old Dutchman showed all his endurance and in the end his incredible speed to st...

Vladislav Bukhov set a new junior world record of 23.14 in the 50m butterfly and Sarah Sjostrom scorched to victory in the women's race as the 22nd edition of the Euro Meet got under way on Friday in Luxembourg. There were also meet records for Mykhaylo Romanchuk and Thomas Ceccon in the 1500m frees...

Matt Biondi has cited Adam Peaty as “the more mature model of the athlete” that swimming needs as it enters a new professional era in which the director of the International Swimmers’ Alliance will ask Olympic bosses to cough up $2m in prizes for every final at the Games. In our first look at The At...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about Regan Smith's scorching 58.26 performance in the 100 backstroke at the TYR Pro Series stop in Knoxville, fueling massive expectations around this su...

A dramatic finish Wednesday to a men’s quarterfinal match at the 34th LEN European Water Polo Championships may signal the end of an unprecedented reign of success. When Spain’s Alvaro Granados Ortega beat Serbian goalie Branislav Mitrovic in a shootout, it gave the Spaniards a dramatic 10-9 win and...

The road to Tokyo hots for Australia’s open water marathon men at the Australian 10km Championships off Brighton Beach in Adelaide on Saturday. There is one remaining spot on the 2020 Olympic team for open water - an event that was introduced back in 2008 – the year legendary waterman Ky Hurst joine...

Former Australian Olympic swim coach Scott Volkers is fighting to have historic sex charges against him dropped. Volkers launched an appeal in a Brisbane Court yesterday. The New Limited papers, the Courier Mail and The Australian carried the stories on the court hearings in their pages today. Volke...

Swimming World presents the reprise of the Ross Report, which was formerly a video series on various athletes from around the world. This year, it will be a bi-weekly analysis feature from US Correspondent Andy Ross as he observes and analyses the ebb and flow of  the swimming world. It is officiall...

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has provisionally removed the official approved status of the National Anti-Doping Laboratory of Moscow in Russia, "with immediate effect, pending formal disciplinary action". WADA issued the following statement moments ago: Montreal, 22 January 2020 – The World A...

2020s Vision. Do we have it? Do you have it? Do the athletes and coaches have it? Do parents have it? Do politicians have it? Do investors and sponsors have it? Do guardians and governors have it? Does the swimming community have it? Not always easy but as everyone seeking to unlock the best version...

The LEN Swimming Cup returns for a second season at the 22nd Euro Meet in Luxembourg from 24-26 January where a strong line-up including Olympic and world champions will include a battle royale featuring Florent Manaudou, Ben Proud and Bruno Fratus in the 50m free. Olympic champion Pernille Blume an...

Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers has kick started his Olympic defence in style– winning his specialist 100m freestyle in the fastest time of the year so far – 47.99 at the South Australian State Championships tonight. [caption id="attachment_399855" align="alignnone" width="700"] PUMPED: Kyle Chalmers...