David Popovici wins 100m freestyle and Summer McIntosh takes 200m butterfly. Caeleb Dressel quits competition for medical reasons. Teenager Bethany McIntosh broke the world record. After Caeleb Dressel, one of the veterans expected to dominate the World Swimming Championships, quit the competition on Wednesday, two teenagers, 17-year-old David Popovici and Summer McIntosh, 15, leapt to … Read more
Swimming’s governing body adds an extra edition of its long-course world championships. Covid pandemic caused chaos with swimming’s world championships now held in odd-numbered years. Russia and Ukraine will be there but their form is a mystery. After three years in turbulent waters, swimming starts to regain some stability with an extra edition of its … Read more
Hunter Armstrong qualified for the 2022 swimming World Championships by setting a world record of 23.71 seconds in the 50m backstrokes in the US trials in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Thursday. At the European Championships in Budapest on May 18, 2021, Armstrong, 21, smashed the previous world record of 23.80 set by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov. … Read more
With a strong 200m freestyle victory at the US trials on Wednesday, Katie Ledecky stamped her ticket to a second individual event at the 2022 World Championships. Ledecky, the 2016 Olympic gold medalist in the 200m freestyle, swam 1min 55.15sec to win by nearly two seconds over 15-year-old Claire Weinstein (1:57.08). Ledecky’s time placed her … Read more
