Matt Richards and Tom Dean punched another historic 1-2 for Great Britain in a global 200m freestyle battle at World Championships two days shy of the second anniversary of Dean and Duncan Scott‘s gold-silver epic at the Tokyo Olympic Games. […]
Katie Ledecky made it a high five of 1500 golds at World Championships this evening in Fukuoka, the American distance ace claiming the crown by an overwhelming 17.04 seconds ahead of Simona Quadarella of Italy and China’s Li Bingjie. That’s […]
Kaylee McKeown tanked the fuel handed to her by a contested disqualification in the 200m medley semis, barring her from a showdown with the Americans who took gold and silver, and burned it off over 57.53 seconds of championship-record speed […]
Ten years after her debut World title in Barcelona, Lithuanian Ruta Meilutyte returned to the top of the podium at the 20th World Championships in Fukuoka with a dominant 1:04.62sec victory that left three other Olympic champions reeling 1.22 seconds […]
Ryan Murphy, Olympic gold (2016) and bronze (2021) medallist for the USA, picked up his first World title in the 100m backstroke by turning tables on last year’s winner and World record holder, Italian Thomas Ceccon, by 0.05sec, 52.22 to […]
Florian Wellbrock is out of the 800m freestyle final, by 0.07. The bond broken to what’s set to be an epic showdown tomorrow at the 20th World Championships in Fukuoka, Wellbrock and Germany may look back at Gwangju 2019 for […]
Kate Douglass delivered the first blow in a USA 1-2 punch with Alex Walsh in a 200m medley final that went without Aussie threat Kaylee McKeown, courtesy of one of three disqualifications (one false-start, two technical checks) in just one […]
Breath easy Adam Peaty, your 56.88 standard remains almost a second ahead of the latest World champion to wear the 100m breaststroke crown in your absence and an Asian record of 57.69 from Qin Haiyang as the latest World champion […]
Thomas Ceccon clocked 52.16 at the helm of 100m backstroke semis in preparation for the defence of the 100m World backstroke crown and then the World record holder turned sprint genes that know no bounds to his new challenge ge […]
Zhang Yufei made it two golds in two finals for China at the start of the second day of showdowns at the Marine Messe in Fukuoka. Her 56.12 victory in the 100m butterfly got the edge on Olympic champion Maggie […]
Léon Marchand made history with a phenomenal 4:02.50 World record in the 400m medley at the 20th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, yesterday. Here’s the SOS take on that; the video of the pioneering pace of Léon Marchand; and […]
World Aquatics are preparing to take the plunge and push ahead with a world-first event for elite transgender competitors as part of the process of defining a new Open category for those ineligible for the female, or women’s, category because […]
The morning after a storm of three World records and four golds for Australia that graced the Marine Messe pool at the 20th World Championships with as thrilling a start as possible in Fukuoka, witnessed the return of Ruta Meilutyte […]
Leon Marchand graced the first day in the pool at World Championships with a magnificent 4:02.50 victory march was heralded as a prospective sub-4-minute 400IMer by Michael Phelps after the American watched his last surviving World record go down in […]
It was billed as a three-way thriller of 3:56 400m freestyle world-record holders past and present, a neck-and-neck to end ’em all … until it wasn’t, because Australia’s Ariarne Titmus made it a 3:55.38 World-record knockout. The 2016 Olympic champion […]
What a day of dominance for the Dolphins! Four golds and two World records for the Australians, courtesy of Ariarne Titmus in the 400m freestyle and the women’s 4x100m freestyle quartet, in the first five finals at the 20th World […]
The tide is not for turning on a flow of three Olympic crowns and four World titles since 2012, Australia’s latest female 4x100m free force Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Meg Harris and Emma McKeon changing the sprint relay game this […]
Sam Short, 19, scorched well inside World record pace for seven of the eight lengths of the 400m freestyle on his way to victory in 3:40.68 in the opening final at World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, a nailed finish delivering […]
