swimming

    An Australian coach who works with the Chinese Swimming Association has rejected claims of systemic state-run doping, saying it is "so far from anything I have seen". The sport was rocked at the weekend by revelations that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for prescription heart drug trimetazidine (TMZ) -- which can enhance performance -- ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. But they were allowed to compete after […]

  Seven-time Olympic gold medallist launched his 2024 campaign aimed at the Paris Olympics with a 100m butterfly victory at the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Illinois, on Thursday. Dressel, the world record-holder in the event, is racing this week for the first time this year after withdrawing from the Pro Swim stop in Knoxville in January to prepare for for the birth of his son last month. Third at […]

  Swedish sprint queen Sarah Sjostrom secured her 14th world title and Ireland's Daniel Wiffen lit up the 1500m freestyle and won a bet with his coach in the process as the curtain came down on the 2024 world aquatics championships on Sunday. Elsewhere in the pool in Doha, Isaac Cooper became the first Australian to win the men's 50m backstroke title and Ruta Meilutyte claimed her third straight 50m […]

  US swimmer Nic Fink claimed gold in the men's 100m breaststroke as British star Adam Peaty had to settle for bronze on his world championships return in Doha on Monday. Fink, a silver and bronze medallist at the past two editions, won in 58.57 seconds, with Italy's 2022 world champion Nicolo Martinenghi taking silver, 0.27sec adrift. Double Olympic champion and world record holder Peaty rounded out the podium, clocking […]

  Katie Ledecky launched the Olympic year with another dominant victory in the women's 1,500m freestyle on Wednesday at the Pro Swim series meeting in Knoxville, Tennessee. Ledecky's time of 15min, 38.81sec is the 17th-fastest in history. She owns all of the 16 faster times with the second-fastest performer ever, Denmark's Lotte Friis, now holding the 18th-fastest time ever of 15:38.88. Ledecky, who owns five world titles in the event […]