Paolo Barelli, the former president of the European Swimming League (LEN), ex-vice-president and member of the FINA executive and current president of the Italian Swimming Federation, has been slapped with...

David Popovici has surely earned a rest – two global, two European championships in two months, two weeks and two days, each one delivering confirmation that the Romanian teenager who...

José Fernando Baltar Leite, known to the swimming community, friends and family in Portugal as Zé Nando, passed away late last week after battling cancer. He is survived by his...

Born on the eve of Independence Day, July 3, 1947, Michael Burton, of Sacramento, California, would grow into one of the greats of distance freestyle: he won three Olympic gold...

On this day 50 years ago in Munich, The United States 4x100m medley quartet of Melissa Belote, Cathy Carr, Deena Deardurff and Sandy Neilson dominated the Olympic final for gold in...

Melissa Louise Belote, of Washington, D.C., sat and watched four days of racing at the Munich 1972 Olympic Games before her turn came: after heats and semi-finals of the 100m...

Chad Le Clos, London 2012 Olympic 200m butterfly champion, is to join coach Dirk Lange’s Frankfurt program to prepare for a fourth Olympics campaign at Paris 2024. Now 30, Le...

This day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 16-year-old Rick DeMont and 18-year-old Brad Cooper were split by 0.01sec as first and second home in the 400m...

On his day 50 years ago at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, Mark Spitz claimed golds No4 and 5 of a record seven-titles campaign and the women’s crowns went to...

It would be the first and last time that Olympic swimming gold would be won by such an infinitesimal margin – 4:31.981 and 4:31.983, Gunnar Larsson the victor, Tim McKee...

Roland Matthes did not live to see the 50th anniversary of a towering week at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 but his achievement remains unique in swimming history to...

Shane Gould claimed the first of three golds and five solo medals on this day 50 years ago in Munich at the 1972 Olympic Games, the feat of the “Goldfisch...

On this day 50 years ago in 1972, Mark Spitz was preparing to race in Munich at his second Olympic Games: the eve of action, seven targets ahead, all of...

Editorial – When Kieren Perkins speaks, decision-makers (of which he is one), policy and rule setters, funders, sponsors and government folk listen, not because he had fun, enjoyed time in...

David Wright has passed away after a struggle with illness, and, under such sad circumstances, one might expect all of New Zealand Swimming (and many beyond) to mourn. Some may...

Editorial. Italy would have topped the medals table ahead of Britain and Germany, 38 to 34 and 32 gold medals respectively, on the basis of the Rome 2022 medals table...

Rome 2022 drew to a close with two golds for the hosts Italy in the men’s 5km and 10km, landed respectively by Gregorio Paltrinieri and his training partner Domenico Acerenza...

Britain’s Ben Proud delivered his third knockout of the summer in the 50m freestyle with a 21.58 blast into the pantheon of speedsters as the first man in history to...