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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Thomas Ceccon looked stunned as he soaked up the numbers on the scoreboard: there was a 1 and beyond his name and the time of his life – 51.60. No Italian had ever held the World record there and back […]
Katie Ledecky produced the second-fastest of her four World titles over 1500 metres freestyle for a 15:30.15 victory racing at a pace about 1sec to just over per 100m swifter than those who followed her on to the podium. First […]
Australian Olympic flagbearer and sprinter supreme Cate Campbell followed American fellow Olympic champion Summer Sanders at the lecture to address FINA Congress as the last speaker before an historic vote to attempt to persuade delegates from around the world that […]
The United States took the lion’s share of all honours on the second day of racing at the World Championships, a 22.57 blast from Caeleb Dressel in the ‘fly dash and an American record of 55.64 from Torri Huske capped […]
Transgender swimmers will be barred from competing in elite races for women if they have gone through any part of male puberty following a vote by the sport’s world governing body FINA. The policy, which comes into effect Monday June […]
Double Olympic backstroke and 4×100 medley champion of Tokyo, Kaylee McKeown produced a last-minute shock withdrawal from the 100m backstroke here at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest this morning. World record holder and favourite for the 100m title after […]
400m Medley final – Leon Marchand, 4:04.28, World-Championship and European record but more than that and both of those standards, the first Frenchman to claim the global crown in an event at the top of the food chain of grind […]
400m Freestyle final – Comebacks sometimes mean a swimmer was never away, as Australian Elijah Winnington proved in a terrific and tactical 3:41.22 triumph in the first final at World Championships in Budapest. In textile, only fellow Australian Ian Thorpe, […]
Women’s 400m freestyle final – Katie Ledecky did not have Ariarne Titmus by her side this time round, the Australian Olympic champion who broke the American’s World 400m record last month having opted to bypass Budapest, but she did have […]
