Nic Fink

2025 Pro Swim Series – Ft. Lauderdale: Six Storylines (& Some Bonuses) to Follow

Summer McIntosh is one of seven individual Olympic Champions entered in the meet, but interestingly she isn’t entered in any of her gold medal events.

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Wild Speculation: Who Will Steer the Ship for the Wisconsin Badgers Swim Team?

Like the Stanford women a few weeks ago, the Wisconsin Badgers don’t have to look far for an obvious successor candidate for head coach.

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2025 Italian Championships Day 2 Prelims Recap: Martinenghi Is On The Prowl

Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi led the men’s 100m breaststroke field out of the heats on day two of the 2025 Italian Championships.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2025: Men’s #50-41

Guiliano and Dressel had their best meets of 2024 at U.S. Trials. Guiliano made his debut Olympic team and Dressel completed his comeback to make his third.

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SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2025: Men’s #90-81

After winning an upset SC world title in the 200 breast in 2024, Carles Coll Marti will aim to take the next step in the long course pool in 2025.

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Reviewing SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024

Tomoyuki Matsushita (left) was unranked last year but won silver in the 400 IM in Paris, while Leon Marchand (center) backed up is #1 ranking with four golds.

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2024 Swammy Awards: U.S. Male Swimmer of the Year – Bobby Finke

With a new World Record and Olympic Gold Medal in the 1500, Bobby Finke takes home the Swammy for U.S. Male Swimmer of the Year.

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Neutral Athletes ‘B’ Break World Record In Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay With 3:18.68

The record set by neutral athletes from Russia broke the previous record of a 3:18.98 that both the US and Australia set in 2022.

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arena Swim of the Week: Coll Marti Downs Super-Suited Spanish Record For Upset World Title

Coll Marti touched in 2:01.55 to win his first world title and erase the 15-year-old Spanish Record of 2:02.67 set by Melquiades Alvarez in 2009.

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Qin Haiyang Breaks Championship, Asian Records In 100 Breast To Claim SC World Title

Qin clocked 55.47 to lower the World Championship Record of 55.70, set by Ilya Shymanovich in 2021, and broke his own Asian and Chinese Records of 55.61.

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Neutral Athlete Kirill Prigoda Breaks Russian Record in the 100 Breast at World Championships

Russian Kiril Prigoda, competing under a neutral banner this week, has broken the National Record in the 100 breaststroke in prelims.

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2024 SC Worlds Event Preview: With No Front Runners Predicting Mixed Relays Is Nigh Impossible

With no nation at full capacity the mixed relays are a messy affair in trying to deduce best possible line-ups and see how they will play out.

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Who Won’t Defend Melbourne 2022’s Titles At SCM Worlds In Budapest?

Which of the champions who reigned in Melbourne 2022 will be able to reclaim the throne? And won’t be in Budapest?

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Chi Non Difenderà Il Titolo Di Melbourne 2022 Ai Mondiali In Vasca Corta Di Budapest 2024

Quali tra i campioni che hanno regnato ai mondiali di Melbourne 2022 potranno reclamare il trono? Chi sono gli assenti invece?

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Which Olympic Medalists Are “In” and Which Are “Out” for the 2024 SC World Championships?

Young German phenom Lukas Maertens is one of just four individual Olympic gold medalists from Paris who is currently committed to race in Budapest later this month.

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