2025 in prospect: Women’s swimming
Sarah Sjöström extended her record number of world titles to 23 last year. Will she further extend that figure in 2025, where another World Aquatics Championships is scheduled for Singapore from July 11 to August 3? The 31-year-old Swede, who set her World Championship record at the Fukuoka edition of 2023 -where she surpassed the […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Nominees for best female swimmer
At 31, Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström has had another stupendous year in the pool and is in contention to win a sixth award as the European Aquatics Female Athlete of the Year. Her season peaked at the Paris Olympics, where she won gold in the 50m and 100m freestyle events, eight years after winning the 100m […]
Budapest 2024: Europe’s female Olympic and world medallists ready to make their mark at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m)
Three of Europe’s Paris 2024 women’s medallists will return to global competition this week at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) which start in Budapest tomorrow. France’s Anastasiya Kirpichnikova, the Olympic 1500m freestyle silver medallist, Isabel Marie Gose of Germany, who took bronze behind her, and Dutch swimmer Tes Schouten, who finished third in the […]
