Europe

Turkey Topped 2019 Multinations Youth Swimming Meet Medal Table

Competing last month in Austria, 16-year-old Sarp Can Tezel took the men’s 200m fly in a time of 2:03.89, becoming the 2nd fastest man from Turkey this year.

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Stockport Metro Swimmers Take Down Guinness Record For 100 x 50m Relay

A unique relay went down over the weekend at Stockport’s Life Leisure Grand Central Swimming Pool outside Manchester, England, where Stockport Metro swimmers past and present combined to break the Guinness Book of World Records in the 100 x 50m relay.

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Ostrava Grand Prix Sees Mix Of Czechs, Hungarians

The Ostrava Grand Prix took place this weekend in Czech Republic, but several other international stars made their way to the city to compete.

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Trieste Wraps Up With Additional Wins By Cseh, Jakabos, Megli

Filippo Megli represented just 1 of 2 swimmers who dipped under the 1:50 threshold in the men’s 200m free tonight in Trieste, Italy.

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Veteran Cseh Pulls Off The 100 Fly/400 IM Double In Trieste

Hungarian Olympic icon Laszlo Cseh pulled off a dirty double of the men’s 100m fly and 400m IM in the morning, claiming gold medals in each this morning in Trieste, Italy.

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Pellegrini Produces Another 1:56 200 Free; Sabo Wins Twice In Trieste

Federica Pellegrini put up a 1:56.98 200 freestyle today in Triest, Italy.

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Luca Dotto Signs with Aqua Centurions of ISL

Dotto, the first Italian man under 48 seconds in the 100 Long Course Meters freestyle, will join his home-country team in the first season of the ISL.

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Germany Announces Roster for 2019 World Championships

29 swimmers have been selected to represent team Germany at the 2019 FINA World Championships this summer, the German Swimming…

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Pellegrini, Detti Will Race Alongside Paralympians In Trieste

Federica Pellegrini, Gabriele Detti, Marco De Tullio, Ilaria Cusinato, Mattia Zuin and Filippo Megli are among the Italian stars set to take to the B. Bianchi Pool in Trieste, Italy this weekend at the Trofeo della Triestina Nuoto.

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Sweden Names Nine Swimmers To European Youth Olympic Festival Team

Sweden will send nine swimmers to the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival in Baku, Azerbaijan.

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UK’s GLL Sport Foundation Hands Out Largest Annual Athlete Award

The UK’s largest leisure and culture social enterprise, the GLL Sport Foundation (GSF), has announced it will be doling out £297,000 (~$387,000 USD) to over 577 aquatic athletes in 2019, representing the organization’s largest ever annual athlete award.

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Duncan Scott Changes Tune, Joins London Roar Along With Sarah Vasey

Two more big guns were added to International Swimming League (ISL) team London Roar, as Duncan Scott and Sarah Vasey each announced they are joining the Adam Peaty-led squad.

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WADA Successfully Retrieves Russian Doping Samples for Re-Analysis

After missing a previous deadline to turn over Data, this time Russia was 2 months ahead of the deadline to produce the samples to WADA.

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Murilo Sartori Leads 16 Brazilians to 2019 World Junior Championships

Sartori (above) is the Brazilian Junior Record holder in the men’s 400 free.

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Bonnie The Seal Unveiled As 2019 SC European C’ships Mascot

Helping to kick-off the countdown to the 20th edition of the Short Course European Championships will be the just-unveiled official mascot, Bonnie the Seal.

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