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Spain pick up four golds at World Triathlon Para Cup in A Coruña

  • Triathlon News

Four Spanish Para triathletes managed to win gold at the latest World Triathlon Para Cup event, with several winning streaks kept intact.

saw Spain's Lionel Morales go one better than last year and also take gold, with a hugely impressive swimming


FINA blocks transgender swimmers from female competition

  • Aquatics

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) Extraordinary Congress has approved a significant change

Sharron Davies, a long-time campaigner against the inclusion of transgender competitors in women’s swimming

Swimming will always welcome everyone no matter how you identify but fairness is the cornerstone of sport

, but FINA's updated regulations would rule this out.In April, the Australian Olympic Committee and Swimming

Australia last month threatened legal action after an activist group used pictures of three Olympic swimming


Budapest’s sporting supremo Fürjes hails special relationship with aquatic sports as FINA World Championships return

  • Swimming

Balázs Fürjes, the man behind Budapest’s development of sporting facilities and attraction of international events in recent years, has hailed the special relationship his country has with aquatics.

Speaking on the weekend when Hungary’s capital began the staging of its second International Swimming

Viktor Orbán, recalled that the first hosting, in 2017, had been described by the then International Swimming

sports that are followed and liked and watched everywhere - football, tennis, basketball, athletics and swimming

we will have a future Olympic tennis player, but for a long time it has been wholly and exclusively swimming

At the 1896 Athens Olympics the first ever gold medal in swimming was won by our Alfred Hajos."




Italy top standings at World Para Swimming Championships

  • Swimming News

Italy has ended the World Para Swimming Championships on top of the medals table after winning another

The Italians set two new world records at the Funchal Swimming Pools Complex as they concluded the event



Ledecky and Marchand set FINA World Championships records on first day in Budapest

  • Swimming

Two International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships records were set on the first day here

the top three in the heats, where Marchand also impressed with a 4:09.09 effort.The other individual swimming

#FINA #swimming pic.twitter.com/oP8TTG3urq— FINA (@fina1908) June 18, 2022Third-placed Italy clocked

2022 World Championships.Her score of 92.8662 helped her to win the women's solo technical artistic swimming

women's 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley.The duet technical final is also scheduled in artistic swimming


Countdown to 2023 European Masters Games in Tampere begins

  • Multi-Sport Games

There is just over one year to go until the 2023 European Masters Games are set to take place in Tampere in Finland from June 26 to July 9, with a provisional programme of 29 sports and disciplines.

football, floorball, golf, handball, inline hockey, judo, karate, orienteering, padel, petanque, rowing, swimming


Fürjes master of the Rubik’s Cube of events and facilities in Budapest as FINA World Championships return

  • The Big Read

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships - last held in 2019 - got underway this

year’s World Athletics Championships.As for aquatics, Budapest, which also hosted the 2021 European Swimming

Championships, can count itself the world capital.The assessment given by the former International Swimming

we will have a future Olympic tennis player, but for a long time it has been wholly and exclusively swimming

At the 1896 Athens Olympics the first ever gold medal in swimming was won by our Alfred Hajos."

A keen sportsman, Fürjes particularly enjoys swimming, road cycling, football and skiing."



Return of FINA World Championships to Budapest set to mark start of busy schedule

  • Aquatics

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) World Championships are set to return to the Hungarian capital

Transgender Taskforce is also due to be heard, with rules on transgender and non-binary participation in swimming

Olympic gold medallist Caeleb Dressel of the United States is among the stars set to feature in the swimming

marking the first time the event has been held since Gwangju in 2019.The Duna Arena is set to host swimming

events from tomorrow until the following Saturday (June 25).Swimming medals are on offer tomorrow in

Complex is due to host artistic swimming and water polo matches, including the host nation Hungary's


Reid, Murdoch and Scott included in Scotland's Birmingham 2022 aquatics team

  • Birmingham 2022

Experienced diver Grace Reid has been selected as part of Scotland's 31-strong aquatics team for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games. 

Eleven of Scotland's 44 total medals at Gold Coast 2018 were in either swimming or diving.The Swimming

and Para-swimming competitions are due to run from July 29 to August 3 and diving from August 4 to 8