European Championships, Budapest, day 3 finals: world champion keeps challengers at bay in confident fashion to keep the title he craved in this summer of suit switchover; silver for Lobintsev (RUS), on 1:46.51, bronze to Verschuren (NED), on 1:46.91...
European Championships, Budapest, day 3 finals: Jean Taris in 1934 was the last Frenchman to win the Euro 30-lap crown. Sebastien Rouault, on 14:55.17, is the latest 1500m champ. The silver goes to a Faroes brave, Pal Joensen...
European Championships, Budapest, day 3 semi-finals: Camille Muffat (FRA) books lane 4 for short medley final. Either side of her - home hopes Hosszu and Verraszto, with Miley a fingernail away; Gyurta leads 200 breast, 2:10.11...
European Championships, Budapest, day 3 heats: Cieslak , 18, leads way in 200m butterfly as Greek swimmer returns from doping ban; Verraszto leads 200IM; Gyurta on 2:10.70 200 breast; Simmonds backs up in 100m; Murphy L4 for 800m ...
Roman Barnier, suits convert and the Marseilles coach to the Frenchman who rolled through 52.11sec of perpetual motion over 100m backstroke in Budapest today, talks to SwimNews about the missile he is guiding...
European Championships, Budapest, Day 2 finals: Elizabeth Simmonds crushed the 200m backstroke field from the go, her teammate Gemma Spofforth the only woman anywhere close by the finish to produce first Brit 1-2 since 1958...
European Championships, Budapest, Day 2 finals: a critic of shiny suits, the 2008 champion and pioneer for Norway in Eindhoven is 100m breaststroke king once more in Budapest, with a 59.20 championships record...
European Championships, Budapest, day 2 finals: Camille Lacourt (FRA) raced a league to a European record - in textile and the first major mark anywhere in the world here and of the year - of 52.11 and gold...
European Championships, Budapest, day 2 finals: Swedish world record holder claims crown by 0.06sec while a question hangs over Spaniard's 23.17 win, with WADA reviewing case after Spaniard missed three doping tests in the past year...
European Championships, Budapest, Day 2, semi-finals: world 100m fly champ leads 100m free in 54.01 ahead of Halsall and Heemskerk; Efimova tops 100m breast in CR of 1:06.80; Cseh on 1:58.33 200IM; Biedermann on 1:46.88...
Agnel Superstar! screams the massive L'Equipe headline over a picture of the 18-year-old looking heavenward to the aquatic God who granted him the whole of the front page and more inside; pity then that he couldn't race the 200m today...
European Championships, Budapest, day 2 heats: Laszlo Cseh on 1:58 200IM; 200 free - Daniil Izotov, on 1:47.33, Paul Biedermann on 1:48.30 in 5th; Rikke Moeller Pedersen leads way in 100m breaststroke, she and Yulia Efimova below 1:08...
Double Olympic medley champion to travel to Pan Pacs a week late in order to have treatment to a shoulder injury; Patrick Murph out of Pan Pacs and Delhi Commonwealth Games after suffering from virus...
European Championships, Budapest, day 1 finals: Britain's Hannah Miley wins long medley crown in championship record of 4:33.09, ahead of world champion Katinka Hosszu (HUN), on 4:36.43...
European Championships, Budapest, day 1 finals: the world champion held back and drove hard at the end but the home speed of Rome 2009 was not there and the French teenager took the 400m free crown in 3:46.17 to 3:46.30...
European Championships, Budapest, day 1 finals, relays: Russia's men claimed a sensational victory over the French quartet in the sprint free relays; German women win battle with Britain and Sweden...
European Championships, Budapest, day 1 semis: Frenchman sets the best time ever seen in a textile suit to claim lane 4 for the final of the 100m backstroke; Dale Oen dominates 100 breast with 59.26, close to Hansen's Jan 2008 WR...
The World-Anti-Doping Agency has asked FINA for the anti-doping file into the case of Rafael Munoz, of Spain, in order to review a decision to let the swimmer off one of his three missed tests in the past year...
European Champs, day 1 heats: It took a 3:50.95 to make the 400m free final, the Russian on 3:49.92, world champion Paul Biedermann third in, on 3:50.07; Lacourt clocks CR of 53.27 100 back; Miley, Klinar and Hosszu on 4:40 400IM heats...
The shape of world swimming on the eve of racing at the 30th European Championships in Budapest is now clear: top 10 best men and women in Irvine and how that impacted the best 10 efforts among men and women across the world to date...
