Naoki Mizunuma rattled the 12-year-old Japanese record with a 51.03sec ticket to a home Olympic Games over 100m butterfly today, the final featuring a blanket finish of six 51s. The...

Evgeny Rylov threw down a big gauntlet as he rocketed to a Russian and European record 1:53.23 for the national 200m backstroke title and ticket to the Covid-delayed Tokyo Olympic...

Daiya Seto and Kosuke Hagino will take to their blocks once more in medley battle at the Olympic Games in July after their latest spar left them with Tokyo tickets...

Commentary by guest writer Brian McGuinness, Executive Director, British Swimming Coaches Association (BSCA), penned in light of the resignation of the entire pool coaching staff of the City of Oxford...

The Danish Swimming Union has lost 18,517 members, or just shy of 10 per cent of its aquatics family, as a result of pool closures forced by the Covid-19 pandemic....

Russian rockets were at the ready today in Kazan for solo and relay action at the Tokyo Olympics come July, the best burners on Kliment Kolesnikov, a 47.31 Russian-record victory...

Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, the Olympic silver medallist for Great Britain at the Rio 2016 Games, has confirmed that she will miss her nation’s Olympic Trials in London next week and, therefore,...

Shoma Sato took down the Asian 200m breaststroke record with a 2:06.40 triumph at Tokyo Olympic trials and national swimming championships in a final that continued the roller-coaster drama of...

Kliment Kolesnikov arrived at Russian Swimming Championships in Kazan this week as 16th fastest all-time in his nation over 100m freestyle with the 48.52 career high in solo racing and...

Tomoru Honda replaced Daiya Seto on the Tokyo Frog Kings squad last year and joined the pro-swimming International Swimming League (ISL) party with a mantra – “Never forget to have...

Evgeny Rylov struck back at Kliment Kolesnikov with a 52.12 national record in the 100m backstroke at Russian Championships in Kazan today, the challenger also inside the previous standard, on...

Katsuhiro Matsumoto took a big stroke towards living his dream at a Tokyo home Olympics this July when he raced to a 1:44.65 national-record victory over 200m freestyle at the...

Ryosuke Irie will race for Japan at the Olympics for a fourth time this July at a home Games in Tokyo after taking the Japanese 100m backstroke title for an...

The entire pool coaching staff of City of Oxford Swimming Club in England has resigned en masse in a dispute with the club’s management, with both sides denying the allegations...

Rikako Ikee was planning on Paris 2024 on the road to recovery from a 2019 diagnosis for leukaemia but a 57.77sec victory in the 100m butterfly at the Japan Open...

After matching Evgeny Rylov‘s 52.44 solo-race best in morning heats of the 100m backstroke at Russian nationals, Kliment Kolesnikov snapped the snap this evening in semi-finals in Kazan, with a...

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Olympic 400m freestyle champion Mack Horton would repeat his peaceful podium protest of 2019 at the Tokyo Games this summer if Sun Yang* or similar circumstances as those in which...