Ben Proud became the first British swimmer ever to claim the 50m freestyle World title with a 21.32 sec blast in Budapest’s Duna Arena pool this evening. The 27-year-old emerged from a battle with American Michael Andrew, second in 21.41, […]
There’s a lot to unpack in the World-titles bull run of Katie Ledecky over 800m freestyle after her latest victory, in 8:08.04, at the Duna Arena in Budapest , such as: the record five crowns in a row, a match […]
Kaylee McKeown added the World 200m backstroke crown to the Olympic gold she claimed in Tokyo last year in the heady days of the biggest Dolphin leap in Games history. It was a close call that ended with McKeown taking […]
Sarah Sjostrom claimed her fourth straight World title in the ‘fly dash at the Duna Arena in Budapest today with a dominant 24.95 victory. Sjostrom, who also has four 100m World long-course crowns to her credit, had a solid start […]
Kristof Milak became only the third man in history to claim the 100-200m butterfly double when he dominated the two-length battle in 50.14sec at his home Duna Arena pool in Budapest today. Yes, Caeleb Dressel was missing, having withdrawn from […]
The Vortex, SOS’ weekly day-by-day digest of developments in swimming, turns into our World Championships Diary for the coming couple of weeks as Budapest hosts the FINA showcase. Beyond our coverage of swimming finals from the Hungarian capital and its […]
The World Swimming Championships have been rocked by a Covid outbreak, with eight swimmers, including Australian Lani Pallister, officially confirmed to have tested positive and at least as many coaches and officials affected too, with two days of pool swimming […]
Women’s 100m freestyle – The biggest Australian sprinters, including Olympic champion Emma McKeon, stayed away but the next Dolphin wave was ready to step up, Mollie O’Callaghan making hay with a 52.67 victory after she turned sixth at half-way in […]
Day 6 at the World Swimming Championships here in Budapest was marked by two gold medals for Australia and three more gold medals for the United States, topped by victories for Ryan Murphy in the 200m backstroke, Lilly King in […]
When Ian Thorpe, the Pope of 200m freestyle swimming, honoured a promise to 17-year-old David Popovici to show up and hand him the gold medal should he win the World title at 17 here in Budapest this week, it felt […]
Leon Marchand, double World medley champion, a nice ring to it, one that’s chimed for three world-class all-rounders to have counted Bob Bowman among their coaches. The 20-year-old Frenchman from a family of Olympic swimmers joined an exclusive club of […]
David Popovici, the 17-year-old Romanian super-swimmer, is only the second man ever to claim the 100-200m freestyle double at the World Championships, his 47.58 victory unfolding 49 years after American Jim Montgomery took both golds at the inaugural 1973 event. […]
Summer McIntosh and Kylie Masse each won gold for Canada at the Duna Arena today while Joshua Liendo and the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay, McIntosh playing a pivotal role, snared bronzes on day 5 of the World Swimming Championships. Swimming […]
The flutter furious, the swim a soar, the might and fight in Kristof Milak mesmerising as the Hungarian flew towards a World record more sensational than the promise of unimaginable and otherworldly splits allowed us to fathom, the very notion […]
Ukraine distance-freestyle ace Mykhailo Romanchuk urged sports organisations around the world to stick to their ban on Russians because he had been “ready to go and kill” his former friend Evgeny Rylov, the double Olympic backstroke champion, after seeing photographs […]
Men’s 800m freestyle – Bobby Finke became the first American winner of the 800m title since the event was introduced to World titles in 2001. The American won it with the same tactic that granted him Olympic 800 and 1500m […]
International Rugby League (IRL) has become the first sport to follow FINA’s lead in barring transgender athletes from women’s competition if they have experienced any part of male puberty in their development years – and World Athletics has indicated that […]
Two towering teenage talents who finished behind Tom Dean in Tokyo last year turned tables on the Olympic champion last night in Budapest, the sensational 1:43.21 speed of 17-year-old Romanian David Popovici a pivotal moment that drew comparisons with Australian […]
