Steenbergen set for further glory as three-leg Swimming World Cup starts in Baku
Marrit Steenbergen will be one of the European swimmers from whom most will be expected when the three-leg World Aquatics Swimming World Cup starts in the Azerbaijan capital of Baku tomorrow and finishes on Saturday (October 3). The 26-year-old Dutch athlete, who retained her world 100m freestyle title last year before setting a world record […]
Marchand handed extra events as France, Italy, Greece and Netherlands name swimming teams for European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026
Leon Marchand may have left the French Elite Championships with just one qualified event to his name, but the world record holder is on course to arrive at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 with a considerably busier schedule. Marchand won the 400m individual medley on day one of the French Championships in Saint-Etienne in […]
Steenbergen misses 100m freestyle world record at Barcelona Mare Nostrum stop but is first woman to set two sub-52 times
Marrit Steenbergen, whose outstanding form in the women’s 100m freestyle encouraged her to take a shot at the world record in Barcelona tonight, narrowly missed as she won in 51.97 – 0.26 off the 2017 mark set by Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom. Steenbergen’s performance in the third leg of this year’s Mare Nostrum series came just […]
Ponti and Grousset on collision course in men’s events at Lublin 2025
The convergence of Switzerland’s Noe Ponti and Maxime Grousset of France promises to be one of the highlights of the European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships which start in Lublin on Tuesday (December 2). Ponti has been a short course sensation in the last two years and he will have every reason to be confident […]
Great Britain, France, Ireland and The Netherlands name strong teams for European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships Lublin 2025
Great Britain, which topped the medals table at the 2023 European Aquatics Short Course Swimming Championships in Otopeni, has signalled its high ambitions for next month’s 2025 edition in Lublin by naming a team stacked with talent. Matt Richards, Duncan Scott and Tom Dean, Olympic men’s 4x200m freestyle champions at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 […]
Kos and Corbeau set world records on dazzling final night of WA World Cup 2025 series in Toronto
Hungary’s Hubert Kos and Caspar Corbeau of The Netherlands provided a spectacular European finale on the last day of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025 series in Toronto as they set respective world records in the 100m backstroke and 200m breaststroke. Kos – who also set a world record in the 200m backstroke on […]
Kos leads men’s rankings after three wins in opening World Aquatics Swimming World Cup in Carmel, Indiana
Hungary’s Olympic and world 200m backstroke champion Hubert Kos leads the men’s overall standings after the first of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2025 legs in Carmel, Indiana, where he won all three of his races. The highlight of meeting, which ran from October 10 to 12, was the women’s 50m butterfly world record […]
