At an Italian nationals in Riccione marked by teens keen to break into senior international waters, Samuel Pizzetti struck back for the over 20s with a 3:48.44 to 3:48.51 victory over fast-finisher Gabriele Detti; Pellegrini punches out 2:08 200 back...
Kyle Chalmers, the 14-year-old who caused a storm yesterday with a 50.86sec victory in the 100m freestyle at Australian age-groups, followed up today with a 23.17 age-group record in the 50 free dash; he's the fastest 14 year old ever...
Olympic 200m butterfly champion Chad le Clos is to tell his story in a book that his publisher hopes to have ready by summer 2014; the title will be "Unbelievable", Chad's dad's first word as he went wild in the stands in London...
Olympic bronze medallist Kosuke Hagino took down his own Japanese record for a 4:07.61 victory in the 400m medley on day 1 of 4 at the Daiei Probis Phoenix Pool in Niigata prefecture...
Olympic 200m freestyle champion Yannick Agnel got his French nationals campaign off to a solid start with a 49.05 (23.59) in the heats of the 100m in Rennes this morning; battle lines drawn on 3rd morning at Italian nationals in Riccione...
on the first morning of heats at Japan nationals in Niigata: Kitajima leads way to 100BR final on 1;00.69, 1:01.44 the cut, 17 inside 1:02; Hagino on 4:13 400IM; 6 men inside 50 100FR; 10 women inside 1:10 100Br; generation 2000 starts to bloom...
Jérémy Stravius, Amiens, won the latest domestic duel with joint 2011 world champion Camille Lacourt, a 53.09 to 53.65 100BK at French nationals in Rennes; Florent Manaudou scorches 21.55 in 50FR to keep Fred Bousquet at bay on 21.73...
Matteo Rivolta became the swimmer in 2013 to crack 52sec with his second Italian record of the day, 51.70, on the second day of finals at nationals in Riccione; Federico Turrini on 4:11.55 to lead world this season in 400IM...
14-year-old Kyle Chalmers sets age record Down Under with 50.86 win in 100m free at age nationals; inside the pace of Thorpe, Popov, Magnussen and Adrian at that age, with a big journey ahead...
Matteo Rivolta woke the Riccione crowd up with an Italian national record of 52.06 in the 100 'fly heats; over at French nationals, Olympic champion Florent Manaudou and Frédérick Bousquet set up round two of the family sprint stakes ...
Camille Muffat set off more calmly in 2013 than she did in 2012 ion the way to the Olympic 400m free crown but today she got French nationals off to a cracking start with a 4:04 victory on her way to the world champs; Bousquet - 23.0 50 'fly...
Luca Dotto stole the show at Italian nationals in Riccione with a 48.46 blast in the 100m free for 3rd in the world so far in 2013; Federica Pellegrini 1min 100BK; Gregorio Paltrinieri & Gabriele Detti do battle for 7:48 1-2 in 800FR; Pesce sets 50BR pace...
The third record fell in two days at the 2013 Georgina Hope Swimmers Foundation Australian Age Champs in Adelaide, Victorian Alexander Graham clocking 54.87 in the boy’s 17/18 years 100m backstroke; inside Andrew Lauterstein's 2005 mark...
World champion and record holder Federica Pellegrini scratched from the 400m freestyle at Italian Spring Nationals in Riccione this morning, her focus on the 100m backstroke; deep standards in Italy; Agnel sticks to plan - no 400m...
Mark Anderson has been appointed Swimming Australia Chief Executive Officer, with former performance head of Britain Michael Scott confirmed as Director of High Performance in his own country...
USA Swimming today launched a free online Safe Sport programming for the more than 300,000 athlete members of the organisation...
Hannah Miley's 400m medley effort of 4:34.21 over 400IM at the Swim Cup Eindhoven granted the Scot the top prize ahead of Olympic sprint queen Ranomi Kromowidjojo; how the Dutch are at the cutting edge - catch up with all skills, every race...
Yolane Kukla, Olympic relay gold medallist at London 2012, clocked 25.14 to took the girl’s 17/18 years 50m freestyle on the opening night of the 2013 Georgina Hope Swimmers Foundation Australian Age Championships in Adelaide...
Olympic champions Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen, both Zheijiang, brought their China nationals campaigns to a close with respective efforts of 14:48.10 and 4:34.27 in the 1500m free and 400m IM in Zhengzhou today, Sun's effort a season world-ranks leaders...
News Round-Up: Grant Hackett, retired distance legend, has offered to serve as mentor to the current Aussie team; Alicia Coutts will go where John Fowlie goes; anti-doping - Lance Armstrong attempts to block action for return of millions...