Olympic champion Florian Wellbrock and teammate Leonie Beck ruled the open-water waves with 10km marathon and 5km doubles apiece at the 2023 World Championships in Fukuoka last July. They are...

The SOS Courage Cup for 2023 goes to Sharron Davies, the first swimmer unaided by male steroids to stop the clock in the 1980 Olympic 400m medley final and athlete-voice...

Leon Marchand, Mollie O’Callaghan and Kaylee McKeown, the star turns at the World Championships in Fukuoka last July, are the picks for Swimmers of the Year in our State of...

Lewis Clareburt, New Zealand’s top swimmer, has been let down by authorities in Wellington in a saga from the ark of amateurism that has forced the all-round ace to quit...

Evgeny Rylov, the double Olympic backstroke champion of Tokyo 2020ne, has ruled himself out of the defence of his crowns at Paris 2024 if his only ticket back to global...

Poor water quality in the River Seine, where the Olympic swimming marathon will take place a year and two days from now, has forced cancellation of the World Aquatics Open...

There’s more than a touch of tongue in cheek about the moment Cate Campbell took a swipe at the USA and labelled the Americans “sore losers” after the official U.S....

Summer McIntosh, a World champion at 15 last year and again at 16 this year over 400m medley in a Championship record 4:27.11sec at the Marine Messe in Fukuoka refers...

Ahmed Hafnaoui, the 6ft 5 Olympic 400m champion, fell just shy of the World record with a 14:31.54 win by just 0.05sec over Olympic champion Bobby Finke in a boiling...

Cameron McEvoy has a new lasting image of self as super sprinter eight years after walking away from the Olympic deck at Rio 2016 empty handed, a gracious hand holding...

Maxime Grousset rocketed his first World title in his pantheon in a 50.14 French record  over 100m butterfly at the 20th World Championships today, his time the fifth fastest in...

Summer McIntosh, 16, was spot on when she cited experience and process as the driving forces in the art of ‘keep calm and focus on the next target” after she...

Mollie O’Callaghan goes down in history as the swimmer who got the better of legendary Italian queen of 200m free racing Federica Pellegrini on the clock: 1:52.98 is gone, replaced...

Billed as one of the thrillers of the 20th Championships, the 800m freestyle did not disappoint on the way to gold for Olympic 400m champion Ahmed Hafnaoui in an African...

Matt Richards and Tom Dean punched another historic 1-2 for Great Britain in a global 200m freestyle battle at World Championships two days shy of the second anniversary of Dean...

Léon Marchand made history with a phenomenal 4:02.50 World record in the 400m medley at the 20th World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, yesterday. Here’s the SOS take on that;...

Leon Marchand graced the first day in the pool at World Championships with a magnificent 4:02.50 victory march was heralded as a prospective sub-4-minute 400IMer by Michael Phelps after the...

It was billed as a three-way thriller of 3:56 400m freestyle world-record holders past and present, a neck-and-neck to end ’em all … until it wasn’t, because Australia’s Ariarne Titmus...