Paris 2026: Women’s preview – Steenbergen set for five events
Marrit Steenbergen could make the same kind of impact at the European Aquatics Championships Paris 2026 as she did last December at the EA Short Course Championships in Lublin, where she earned five golds and set five European records. The 26-year-old Dutch swimmer, who retained her world 100m freestyle title last year and set a […]
Sjostrom gets Paris 2026 boost in Rome behind 50m freestyle world record-breaker Walsh
Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom, on the comeback trail after giving birth to a son last August, clocked 23.86 for the women’s 50m freestyle at the Sette Colli International in Rome as she finished second to Gretchen Walsh, who swam 23.55 to take 0.40 off the world record set by fellow American Kate Douglass nine days earlier. […]
Steenbergen beats Sjostrom’s women’s 100m freestyle world record with 51.68 clocking in Rome – as Marchand swims season’s world best in St Etienne
Marrit Steenbergen set a women’s 100m freestyle world record of 51.68 tonight at the Sette Colli International in Rome. The 26-year-old Dutch athlete was out in 24.98 and home in 26.70 to better the record of 51.71 set by Sweden’s Olympic champion Sarah Sjostrom at the 2017 World Championships. Meanwhile France’s quadruple Paris 2024 champion […]
Douglass beats Sjostrom’s world 50m freestyle record as Grousset set for Paris 2026 recovery race after breaking foot
Sarah Sjostrom’s women’s 50m freestyle world record has been broken by Kate Douglass of the United States, who clocked 23.59 at the Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis. Douglass, who had a previous personal best of 23.91 from 2024, secured her first world record as she finished ahead of her Virginia training partner Gretchen Walsh, who […]
Steenbergen moves to second on women’s 100m freestyle all-time list with 51.86 clocking at Canet leg of Mare Nostrum
Marrit Steenbergen moved to second on the all-time list for the women’s 100m freestyle as she clocked 51.86 at the second stop in the Mare Nostrum series at Canet in France. The 26-year-old Dutch athlete, who retained her world 100m freestyle record last year, had lowered her national record to 52.13 on May 23 at […]
Liebmann sets European 800m freestyle record and Sjostrom is back with silver at Malmsten Swim Open
Germany’s 19-year-old Johannes Liebmann lowered the men’s European 800m freestyle record to 7:37.94 at the Malmsten Swim Open Stockholm, where home idol Sarah Sjostrom marked her return to action with 50m freestyle silver. Liebmann took more than 12 seconds off his personal best to eclipse the time of 7:38.12 set by fellow German Sven Schwarz […]
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: Sarah Sjöström voted best female swimmer
Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström has been named Best Female Swimmer in the 2024 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards, taking the honour for the sixth time in her career. At 31, Sjöström put together another year of illustrious achievement. She began in February with two golds at the World Aquatics Championships in Doha, taking her […]
2024 in review: Europe’s female swimmers make global impact, Sjöström wins double Olympic gold
Europe’s female swimmers earned a welter of world long and short course medals in 2024 either side of the Paris Olympics, where Sweden’s Sarah Sjöström won two golds and others from the continent secured a silver and three bronzes. Sjöström, 31, won gold in the 50m and 100m freestyle events, eight years after winning 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 […]
