Leon Marchand crowned men’s World Cup champion with Katarzyna Wasick top European woman in eighth
Leon Marchand was crowned overall men’s champion ahead of Noè Ponti and Duncan Scott as the World Cup wrapped up in Singapore. Marchand won the 400m individual medley to clinch the Triple Crown and the IM treble treble. That saw him finish top with 175.7pts followed by Ponti (171.9pts) and Scott (167.8 As well as the overall title, […]
Noè Ponti smashes his 50m butterfly world record in Singapore
Noè Ponti crushed his 50m butterfly short-course world record with a new mark of 21.50 at the World Cup in Singapore. The Swiss athlete soared to 21.67 at the opening leg in Shanghai where he eclipsed the previous standard of 21.75 held jointly by Szebasztian Szabo of Hungary and Brazil’s Nicholas Santos. On to Singapore prelims […]
Leon Marchand shatters the 200m individual medley world record in Singapore
Leon Marchand crushed the 200m individual medley world record as he took down Ryan Lochte’s long-standing mark at the World Cup in Singapore. The quadruple Olympic champion stopped the clock in 1:48.88 to cut 0.75secs from Lochte’s record of 1:49.63 that had stood for almost 12 years since December 2012. With that Marchand shattered his […]
Leon Marchand sets European and World Cup records en-route to 100IM Triple Crown in Singapore
Leon Marchand closed in on the 100m individual medley world record as he set a European and World Cup mark of 49.92sec at the World Cup in Singapore. The Frenchman joins Caeleb Dressel as the only men inside 50 seconds in the four-length event with the American posting the two fastest times in history of […]
Dario Verani leads European clean sweep at Open Water Swimming World Cup; Ginevra Taddeucci and Lea Boy on the podium
Dario Verani claimed a contentious victory over Italian teammate Marcello Guidi at the penultimate leg of the World Aquatics Open Water Swimming World Cup in Hong Kong. The pair tangled repeatedly down the finishing chute and stopped just shy of the finish with Guidi allowing Verani to touch the panel for victory in 1:57:39.2. Guidi […]
Leon Marchand and Noè Ponti lead the World Cup standings going into final leg
Leon Marchand and Noè Ponti fill the top two slots in the overall World Cup standings after the second leg in Incheon, South Korea. The four-time Olympic champion heads the leaderboard with 116.4 points going into the final leg in Singapore with Ponti breathing down his neck with 115pts and Duncan Scott fifth with 110.9pts. […]
Leon Marchand leads world record-breaking Noè Ponti atop the World Cup standings; Laura Lahtinen is top European woman
Leon Marchand finished top of the standings as the first stop of the World Cup 2024 came to a close in Shanghai, China. The Frenchman swept the three individual medley events, adding victory in the 400IM on the final day to secure 58.3 points and a pay day of 12,000 US dollars. He also set […]
Noè Ponti crushes 50m butterfly short-course world record in Shanghai
Noè Ponti flew into the history books when he lowered the 50m butterfly short-course world record to 21.67 in day three prelims of the World Cup in Shanghai. The Swiss reached the turn in 9.95secs before a blistering 11.72sec second length propelled him into the wall in a new global standard. He took 0.08secs off […]
Leon Marchand on record-breaking form with a European 200IM standard at World Cup
Leon Marchand set a European record in the 200m individual medley as he claimed his second victory in as many days at the World Cup in Shanghai, China. The Frenchman, who soared to four Olympic titles in Paris, returned to international action on Friday when he won the 100IM by 0.01 over Noè Ponti of Switzerlandin […]
Noè Ponti rewrites the history books with European 100m butterfly record at World Cup
Noè Ponti swam the third-fastest 100m butterfly in short-course history as he lowered his European record to 48.40 on the first day of finals at the World Cup in Shanghai, China. The Swiss set the previous continental standard of 48.47 at the European Short-Course Championships 2023 in Otopeni, Romania, where he competed an historic butterfly treble. Seventh […]
