Walsh smashes 100m butterfly short course world record
BUDAPEST: Gretchen Walsh continued her outstanding form at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Friday as she broke the world record for the 100m butterfly.
BUDAPEST: Gretchen Walsh continued her outstanding form at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Friday as she broke the world record for the 100m butterfly.
PARIS: Paris Olympics organisers said Tuesday that training for open water swimming in the River Seine had been cancelled due to pollution, raising questions over why triathletes were allowed to use the waterway the day before.
PARIS: Triathletes fresh from their second swim in the Seine generally shrugged off the risk of waste in the river making them sick, but highlighted the stress they were put through as the levels of bacteria in the waterway caused repeated disruption.
PARIS: China’s Pan Zhanle smashed the world record as he stormed to victory in the men’s 100m freestyle at the Paris Olympics on Wednesday.
BEIJING: Beijing on Monday called reports about 23 Chinese swimmers testing positive for a banned substance ahead of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 “fake news.”
LOS ANGELES: Regan Smith produced an impressive double with wins in the 200m butterfly and 100m backstroke on Friday at the Pro Swim Series in Westmont, Illinois, where Caeleb Dressel nabbed a second win of the week.
DOHA: With six months to go until the Olympic Games, China ended the World Aquatics Championships diving events on Saturday with a ninth gold medal thanks to Yang Hao.
LONDON: An Australian long-distance swimmer on Wednesday broke the world record for the most number of swims across the Channel between England and France.
He broke his right hand while swimming...