10 questions: Daniel Wiffen on his proudest moment, the inspiration of Grant Hackett and the comfort of being a twin
Houdini said to get out of bed was the hardest thing he could do. What is the hardest thing about your day? The hardest thing for me about my day is when I must balance university with swimming. I swim for about five hours a day and on top of that I have about four […]
10 questions: Sarah Sjostrom on sporting inspirations, combating burn-out and how Paris 2024 involved her proudest moment
Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, 31, won the 50m and 100m freestyle titles at the Paris 2024 Olympics, eight years after winning the 100m butterfly at the Rio 2016 Games. Earlier in the year she won two golds at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, taking her record number of world titles to 23. Sjostrom was named […]
Apologetic Milák breaks silence and sets sights on World Championships in Singapore – and a third Olympic title in Los Angeles
Kristóf Milák, who caused a stir when he refused to engage with the media after winning gold at the Paris 2024 Games, has apologised – and signalled his intention of competing in this year’s World Aquatics Championships as well as earning a third Olympic title in Los Angeles. The 24-year-old Hungarian, who won the 100m […]
European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards 2024: Sharon van Rouwendaal voted best female open water swimmer
Sharon van Rouwendaal has been named best female open water swimmer in the 2024 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards, thus claiming the honour for a sixth time. The 30-year-old Dutch athlete became the first swimmer, male or female, to win two Olympic 10k titles when she claimed gold at the Paris 2024 Games. […]
2024 in review: The Netherlands’ van Rouwendaal creates open swimming history at the Olympics after world title wins
Sharon van Rouwendaal became the first swimmer, male or female, to win two Olympic 10k titles when she claimed gold at the Paris Games with a late charge in the River Seine. The 30-year-old Dutch athlete, who had begun her year by winning the world 5km and 10km titles in Doha, outsprinted her Australian rival […]
2024 in review: Rasovszky earns Olympic and world gold as European men rule in open water swimming
Kristof Rasovszky earned Olympic and world titles in a year where European men’s open water swimmers once again demonstrated their dominance of the event. The 27-year-old Hungarian began his season by taking a second world gold over 10km, five years after his first win over 5km in Gwangju. And while he missed out on a […]
2024 in review: Britain, The Netherlands and Spain earn historic Olympic honours in women’s artistic swimming
Britain and The Netherlands did Europe proud at the Paris 2024 Games as they secured silver and bronze respectively in the women’s duet event, thus claiming their nation’s first Olympic medals in artistic swimming. British pairing Kate Shortman and Isabelle Thorpe totalled 558.5367 points behind China’s world champions Wang Qianyi and Wang Liuyi, who scored […]
2024 in review: Mixed diving events enable Daley to maintain gold standard on return to competition
Tom Daley’s return to diving competition for the first time since victory in the Tokyo 2020 men’s 10m synchro got off to a golden start in the mixed Team event on the opening day of the World Aquatics Championships in Doha. The 29-year-old Briton partnered Daniel Goodfellow, Scarlett Mew Jensen and Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix to take […]
