Miron Lifintsev, neutral athlete from Russia (NAB) reacts after winning the men's 100m backstroke final at the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) in Budapest, Hungary, Dec. 11, 2024. (Photo by Attila Volgyi/Xinhua) Qin Haiyang of China competes during the men's 100m breaststroke...
Polina Merzlyakova of Kazakhstan performs during the junior technical solo final of artistic swimming at the 11th Asian Age Group Aquatics Championships in New Clark City, Capas of Tarlac Province, the Philippines, March 3, 2024. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali) Valeriya Stolbunova (L)/Artur Maidanov o...
The world ofswimmingknows the rest of the story. The February 2019 leukemia diagnosis. Her improbable qualification for the Tokyo Games two years later. The struggles since, including those at this summer’sWorld Aquatics Championships, where she reached just one ind...
SwimmingZhang Yufei won her fifth gold medal of the Asian Games 2023 by the smallest of margins in the women's 50m freestyle on Thursday (28 September). On the penultimate night of the swimming competition in Hangzhou, Zhang beat Siobhan Haughey of Hong Kong, China, by a touch to win in...
The 19th Asian Games wrapped up its swimming events tonight in Hangzhou, China, with the host nation tearing up the podiums along the way. However, several other countries’ swimmers raced to their best-ever times, firing off national records before the action was all said and done. ...
Rising starDong Zhihaoset the world junior record this year in the 200m breaststroke at age 18, while the two gold medal favorites in the 400m IM -Yu Yitingof China andMio Naritaof Japan are both teenagers. At the recent World Aquatics Junior Swimming Championships in Israel, five different...
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After having one of its most successful World Aquatics Championships in the pool in July, the Chinese national swim team put on an impressive show in front of its home fans at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, winning 28 gold medals, and putting up some of the fastest times in the entire worl...
China shattered the Asian record with three minutes and 24.47 seconds in preliminary rounds of the mixed 4x100m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships on Saturday.More China intensified efforts to shore up employment i...
Day two of swimming at the 2016 Asian Swimming Championships saw championship records fall in eight of the nine individual events. Rikako Ikee of Japan kickstarted the night with a sizzling 25.74 in t... Read more Record-Breaking Swims Highlight Day One of the 2016 Asian Swimming Championships...