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World Swimming Championships (Adam Peaty) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals Men's 100 Breast Great Britain's Adam Peaty has completed one of his ultimate career goals, taking down the 57-second barrier i...

World Swimming Championships (Ledecky vs Titmus) Gwangju 2019 Day 1 finals Women's 400m freestyle It was billed as a thriller. It surely was. And it marked the moment of doubt about Katie Ledecky and ...

The day was going to come. It’s just the way sports works. No matter how long an athlete goes untouched, at some point the reign will end. So it went on Sunday night that Katie Ledecky – on the first ...

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indica...

World Swimming Championships (Nathan Adrian) Gwangju 2019 Day 1 finals Men's 4x100m Freestyle Relay Flash back to the beginning of this year. As the calendar flipped through the early pages of 2019, N...

World Swimming Championships (Women's 4x100 Free Relay) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals Women's 4x100 Free Relay Australia closed the first night of the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju, S...

World Swimming Championships Gwangju 2019  Day 1 semifinals An exciting slate of semifinals on day one of the FINA World Swimming Championships included a world record from Adam Peaty in the men's 100...

World Swimming Championships (Sun Yang and Mack Horton) Gwangju 2019  Day 1 finals  Men's 400m Freestyle Sun Yang won his fourth consecutive title in the 400m freestyle as his presence loomed large at...

The opening morning of the 2019 FINA World Championships in Gwangju got off to a fast start with 400m freestyle title defenders Katie Ledecky, of the United States, and Chinese controversy Sun Yang cl...

The 2025 and 2027 versions of the World Championships will return to familiar territory, as FINA announced on Sunday that Kazan and Budapest will serve as hosts of those respective events. FINA Presid...

The final event of the 2019 FINA World Championships will be the men's 4x100 medley relay. The United States has won six of the last eight World titles in this event, and the years they did not win we...

Five years ago, 17-year-old American Caeleb Dressel and 16-year-old Australian Kyle Chalmers each had big plans for their athletic futures. Dressel, long considered a future star in American swimming,...

Australia notably won all three women's relays last year at the Pan Pacific Championships in Tokyo over the United States. Will they be able to repeat that in 2019? The Aussies are favorites to win th...

The 2019 FINA World Championships begin Sunday morning in Gwangju, South Korea at 10 a.m. local time with many of the world's best swimmers in attendance at the eight day long "dress rehearsal" for th...

Chinese swimmer Sun Yang has asked the Court of Arbitration for Sport for the hearing into events and outcomes surrounding an acrimonious out-of-competition visit by anti-doping testers near his home ...

The men's 400 IM gold medal is likely going to come down to Japan's Daiya Seto and USA's Chase Kalisz. Kalisz is the reigning world champion and the third-fastest performer in history in the event. He...

Through the years, watching Katinka Hosszu win major titles in the 400 IM title has become the norm. She has won four world titles in the event and is looking to be the first woman to win the same eve...

There’s a time and a place to shine, to take all the hours in the pool and work in the gym and translate that dedication to one all-important week. As far as Ryan Murphy is concerned, this week’s FINA...

It's gold to Lilly King before the gun goes off in Gwangju's pool at FINA World Championships on Sunday, as far as the vast wave of swimmers weighing in on the Sun Yang controversy goes. At t...

Canada's women claimed a tremendous six medals in the pool at Rio 2016, topped by gold for Penny Oleksiak in the 100m freestyle, with Kylie Masse, Hilary Caldwell and the two freestyle relays adding t...