2023 World Cup Athens Day 1 Prelims Recap: Clash Of The Women’s 50 Free Titans
World Record holder Sarah Sjostrom looks primed to repeat her 50m freestyle gold medal-worthy performance from the first stop of the World Cup series.
Seto, Matsumoto & Ohashi Head Up Japan SC Championships Entries
National record holder Daiya Seto is among the entrants headed to the Japanese Short Course Championships which begin on October 21st in Tokyo.
IOC Suspends Russian Olympic Committee for Absorbing Ukrainian Sports Organizations
The ROC lost access to IOC funding after breaching the Olympic Charter by absorbing Olympic Councils in Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia.
United States, Host Nation Greece Beef Up Rosters For 2023 World Cup In Athens
U23 Championships gold medalist Stergios-Marios Bilas is among the host nation swimmers expected to race at the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Athens.
LIVEBARN Race of the Week: Qin Haiyang Ties His Own Asian Record in the 100 Breast
Qin Haiyang ripped a 57.69 100 breast as part of his Berlin breaststroke sweep. The time tied his Asian record and set a new World Cup record.
32-Yr-Old Satomi Suzuki Lowers Women’s 50 Breast Japanese Record To 30.10
After reaping two individual silvers at this year’s Asian Games, Satomi Suzuki raced domestically and posted a new 50m breast national record.
Zhang Yufei & Qin Haiyang Both Named MVP Of 19th Asian Games
Chinese swimming powerhouses Zhang Yufei and Qin Haiyang were both named overall MVP of the Asian Games which just concluded in Hangzhou.
Siobhan Haughey Smashes 52.02 Asian Record In 100 Free, #3 Performer All-Time
Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong just fired off the fastest 100m freestyle of her career, a time of 52.02 to break her own Asian Record.
Scoring Leaders, Likely Winners After Day 2 of the Berlin Swimming World Cup
Australian Kaylee McKeown (above) is the front-runner to win the $12,000 first place prize in Berlin, though Sarah Sjostrom has an outside chance.
Jefimova Breaks a World Cup Record, Kohler Leads a Loaded Field at Berlin Day 3 Prelims
Teenager Jeneli Efimova took out a 2015 World Cup Record in the 50 breast that was previously held by World Cup queen Alia Atkinson.
Sarah Sjostrom Holds Off Zhang Yufei for New World Cup Record in 50 Fly (25.06)
Sarah Sjostrom just barely edged out Zhang Yufei (25.14) with a winning time of 25.06, taking down her own World Cup record of 25.22 from 2018.
Siobhan Haughey Breaks Katinka Hosszu’s World Cup Record in 200 Free (1:55.10)
25-year-old Olympic silver medalist Siobhan Haughey erased Katinka Hosszu’s World Cup record in the 200 free on Saturday with a winning time of 1:55.10.
2023 World Cup Berlin Day 2 Prelims Recap: Zhang & Sjostrom To Face-Off In 50 Fly
Zhang Yufei of China is coming off a monster Asian Games and the Olympic champion holds the top seed in the women’s 50m fly in Berlin.
World Cup Berlin: Qin Haiyang Fires Off 26.30 World Cup Record In 50 Breaststroke Heats
China’s multi-gold medalist in Fukuoka, Qin Haiyang, fired off a time of 26.30 to take the top seed in the men’s 50m breaststroke in Berlin.
arena Swim of the Week: Letitia Sim Shatters 11-Day-Old Singaporean Record In 200 Breast
Sim has broken the Singaporean Record in the women’s 200 breaststroke five times in 2023, bringing it down from 2:28-high to 2:24-low in a matter of months.
