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How to Get The 2026 SwimSwam Swimsuit Magazine With The Leon Marchand Cover

Give the gift of swimming to your swimmer, swammer or swimming coach. Start with the Leon Marchand cover and the 2026 Swimsuit Issue.

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Naoya Shiota Clocks JPN High School Record In 50 Back & Other Final Day Japan Swim Results

18-year-old Naoya Shiota established a new Japanese National High School Record In the 50m back on the final day of the 2026 Japan Swim.

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Kaito Tabuchi Nabs 1500 Free JPN Record In 14:45.57 For #1 In The World

23-year-old Kaito Tabuchi ripped his former personal best to shreds en route to capturing a new Japanese national record in the me’s 1500m freestyle.

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World Champion Ichika Kajimoto Takes Down Japan’s Oldest Women’s National Record (800 Fr)

22-year-old Ichika Kajimoto, left, just became Japan’s fastest-ever women’s 800m freestyler, downing a record that’s been on the books since 2004.

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Matsushita Blasts 4:06.93 PB In 400 IM, 17-Yr-Old Kojima Crushes 4:08.84 WJR

The final of the men’s 400m IM in Japan set the pool on fire, with Olympic medalist Tomoyuki Matsushita hitting a new PB and Yumeki Kojima posting a WJR.

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2026 China Swimming Open: Day Four Finals Live Recap

Cam McEvoy is back in action on the final day of the China open, as Yu Zidi will go head-to-head with Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass in the 200 IM

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Gretchen Walsh Swims 25.21 to Lead 50 Fly Heats on Final Day of 2026 China Open

Gretchen Walsh swam 25.21 ahead of her training partner Kate Douglass to lead the preliminaries of the women’s 50 fly on Sunday.

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Three-Time Olympian Rikako Ikee Logs Season-Best 50 Fly To Rank #3 This Season

25-year-old Rikako Ikee clocked a season-best of 25.55 tonight in Tokyo to rank 3rd in the world in the women’s 50m butterfly.

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17-Year-Old Yumeki Kojima Fires Off 1:56.53 200 IM World Junior Record

17-year-old Yumeki Kojima clocked a big-time personal best of 1:56.53 in the 200m IM, producing a new World Junior Record.

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18-Yr-Old Zhang Zhanshou Busts Out 3:41.55 In 400 Freestyle

18-year-old Zhang Zhanshuo busted out a new lifetime best on his way to winning 400m free gold at the 2026 Chinese Swimming Open.

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17-Yr-Old Shin Ohashi Rips 2:06.59 LCM 200 Breast World Junior Record, #7 Performer All-Time

17-year-old Shin Ohashi of Japan just ripped a new World Junior Record of 2:06.59 in the 200m breaststroke at the 101st Japan Swim.

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2026 China Swimming Open: Day Three Finals Live Recap

We’ll see what reigning world record holder and Olympic champion Pan Zhanle has in store for us in the men’s 100m free final at the China Swimming Open.

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Gretchen Walsh Swims 55.7 in China Open Prelims, Jack Alexy Takes Top Seed Again

American Gretchen Walsh swam the 13th sub-56 second time of her career on Saturday morning in prelims of the 100 fly at the China Open.

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World Record Alert: Cameron McEvoy Erases Cesar Cielo’s 2009 Mark In 50 Freestyle

He’s done it. 31-year-old Cameron McEvoy of Australia takes down Brazilian Cesar Cielo’s long-standing world record in the men’s 50m freestyle.

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2026 China Swimming Open: Day Two Finals Live Recap

American dynamo Gretchen Walsh will try to carry her prelims momentum into the final of the women’s 50m freestyle tonight at the China Swimming Open.

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