If the world swimming championships in Gwangju were just a taste of what is to come at the 2020 Olympics, then in the words of recently retired Australian sprinter James Magnussen – "Brace yourselves".
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Duncan Scott swam the second-fastest relay split of all time in the anchor leg of the men's 4x100m medley on Sunday, overhauling his US and Russian rivals to secure gold for Britain and deny Caeleb Dressel a seventh world title in Gwangju.
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The executive director of swimming' s governing body FINA Cornel Marculescu said on Sunday he hoped there would be no repeat of the podium protests that marred the world championships this week and that athletes would lose their medals if there (...)
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu moved a step closer to becoming the first woman to win five world titles in a single event after qualifying fastest for the 400 meters individual medley in Sunday's heats.
The "Iron Lady", who won her first gold medal in the (...)
Caeleb Dressel is already earning comparisons to the great Michael Phelps and the best is yet to come, the 22-year-old from Florida said after winning three more events at the world championships on Saturday.
Dressel took his tally at the meet to (...)
Caeleb Dressel lit up the pool by winning his fourth, fifth and sixth gold medals on Saturday but even his electric performance failed to brighten the mood on a dark day at the world swimming championships in Gwangju.
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Shayna Jack, who withdrew from the Australia team ahead of the world swimming championships, said she had tested positive for a banned substance on Saturday.
"It is with great sadness and heartache that I had to leave due to allegations of having a (...)
Italy won the men's water polo gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships after an effervescent performance gave them a 10-5 win over rivals Spain in Saturday's final.
It was the fourth world title for the Italians, who pulled away after a (...)
China's Sun Yang says he does not deserve "insult and slander" from his rival swimmers, insisting he did not violate any rules during a controversial doping test last year and that the stand he took was in the interest of his fellow athletes.
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World record holder and defending champion Lilly King was upstaged by 14-year-old Italian Benedetta Pilato in the women's 50 meters breaststroke heats at the world swimming championships on Saturday in Gwangju.
Pilato was the only swimmer to dip (...)
American swimmers smashed records and grabbed gold at the world championships on Friday, with sprint king Caeleb Dressel taking down Michael Phelps' 100 meters butterfly world record and teenager Regan Smith lowering the women's 200 backstroke (...)
American Caeleb Dressel almost set a world record in the 100 freestyle at the world championships on Thursday, and said he could not have done it without being pushed to the very end by his Australian rival Kyle Chalmers.
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USA Swimming have filed an appeal following the disqualification of Lilly King from the women's 200 meters breaststroke heats on Thursday at the world championships in Gwangju.
King, the Olympic and world 100 champion, came home first in her heat (...)
Britain's Adam Peaty has said a new rule aimed at preventing a repeat of the podium protests that have shook up the world championships in Gwangju will not stop him speaking out on issues such as doping, The Times reported on Thursday.
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Holders the United States and former winners Spain romped into the women's water polo final at the World Aquatics Championships and qualified for the 2020 Olympics after emphatic wins over their respective rivals on Wednesday.
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China's Sun Yang was handed the men's 200 meters freestyle world title on Tuesday after Lithuanian Danas Rapsys was disqualified, while Britain's Duncan Scott, who finished joint third, refused to shake hands with the Chinese winner on the (...)
Mack Horton has received a warning from swimming's world governing body FINA over his refusal to share a podium with China's Sun Yang in protest of the gold medalist's doping history.
Sun, who had served a doping ban in 2014 and was labelled a "drug (...)
Triple Olympic champion Sun Yang has asked sport's highest tribunal to hold a public hearing of his doping case in order to give him the chance to clear his name, lawyers for the Chinese swimmer have said.
Sun, currently in South Korea to compete at (...)
Losing is not something Adam Peaty does, or thinks about, very often but even if the Olympic breaststroke champion comes up short at the world swimming championships in South Korea it is unlikely to dent his confidence one little bit.
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