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• Nowacki 'here for a while' at swimming's top level

  19-08-2026 08:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Filip Nowacki says his European and Commonwealth Games gold medals prove he is at a world class level.
  
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• Bárbara Hernández Makes History as Second Woman To Complete Double Triple Crown of Open Water Swimming

  20-08-2026 08:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam Partner Content on SwimSwam
  Courtesy of Dryrobe®, a SwimSwam partner.
  In a remarkable display of courage, discipline and steely determination, Bárbara Hernández raised the Chilean flag to the highest level of international sport. Known worldwide as “The Ice Mermaid,” the extreme swimmer completed a two-way crossing of the Catalina Channel in California, United States, on August 10, following an uninterrupted battle lasting 23 hours, 42 minutes and 13 sec
  
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• European Champion Nikita Sheremet Did Not Want to be Photographed with Russian Medalist

  20-08-2026 04:15 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  Ukrainian swimmer Nikita Sheremet did not want to be photographed with his Russian competitor Egor Kornev on the podium of the men’s 50 free at the recent European Aquatics Championships. Credentialed photographers at the meet were informed of the request.
  Public political displays in sporting events have been relatively rare in the spotlight of athletics as war rages between the two nations. While Ukraine has been actively lobbying international sporting a
  
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• USA Leads Junior Pan Pacs With 19 Gold, 40 Total Medals Through Day 3

  20-08-2026 04:13 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
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  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2 | Day 3
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3The USA continues to lead the medal standings through three of the four days at the 2026 Junior Pan Pac Championships. The USA has already tallied 19 gold medals and 40 total medals with one day to go.
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• College Swimming League Sells Out Ohio State’s Suites For All Regular Season Matches In Under 24 Hours

  20-08-2026 03:47 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  The College Swimming League (CSL) had its suites go on sale as full buy-outs yesterday, August 18th. In under 24 hours, Ohio State’s designated suites for its two regular season matches have already sold-out.View this post on InstagramEach of the CSL matches will include a suite that is on the opposite side of the pool on-deck, across from its respective team. Ohio State’s suite for their September 24th match and October 2nd match has already sold-out.
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• Luka Mijatovic Smashes Junior Pan Pac Record With 3:43.67 400 Free

  20-08-2026 03:26 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
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  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2 | Day 3
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3BOYS 400 FREESTYLE – FinalsJunior Pan Pacs Record: 3:48.36 – Josh Staples, AUS (2022)
  World Junior Record: 3:42.82 – Zhang Zhanshuo, CHN (2025)Top 10 FinishersLuka Mijatovic (USA) &mdash
  
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• Penn State Adds Division II Champion Jackson Lustig To Coaching Staff As Assistant Coach

  20-08-2026 01:55 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  Penn State has added Division II champion Jackson Lustig to its staff as an assistant coach. Lustig spent his collegiate career at McKendree where he spent this past season as a graduate assistant coach.
  Lustig finished his swimming career at McKendree at the 2025 NCAA Championships where he swam to NCAA titles in the 100 and 200 butterfly events. He touched in a lifetime best 45.85 100 fly and a 1:40.89 200 fly. His 200 fly win defended his title from 2023 and 2024.
  
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• Missouri Undergoing Staff Restructuring, Andrew Grevers Named Director of Swimming and Diving

  20-08-2026 01:37 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  The University of Missouri is the latest Power 4 program undergoing a restructuring on its coaching staff. Head coach Andrew Grevers will take the title Director of Swimming and Diving for the upcoming season, his 8th with the program as head coach.
  Grevers has been with the coaching staff since 2010 when he originally joined as an assistant coach and held that title until 2017 when he was promoted to associate head coach for the 2017-2018 season. He then served the 2
  
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• 2026 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 3 Finals Live Recap

  20-08-2026 01:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Madeline Folsom on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2 | Day 3
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2We have made it to the penultimate finals session of the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships.
  The session will open with the 400 freestyle, where American Vivienne Zangaro is the top seed after she swam 4:11.60 in prelims.
  
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• How to Get The 2026 College Preview SwimSwam Magazine With The Ilya Kharun Cover

  19-08-2026 22:52 via swimswam.com
  
  By Gold Medal Mel Stewart on SwimSwam
  Get The 2026 College Preview SwimSwam MagazineEvery fall, college swimming begins again. New freshmen arrive with big dreams. Olympians return to campus with unfinished business. Coaches reload championship rosters, and somewhere, the next NCAA legend is preparing to announce himself.
  Leading our 2026–27 College Preview is Arizona State’s Ilya Kharun, our No. 1-ranked men’s swimmer. Kharun enters the season as the defending NCAA champion in
  
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• Kelly Palace Crushes Masters World Record in Women’s 65-69 1500 Free by Over 22 Seconds in Cary

  19-08-2026 21:04 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  Kelly Palace, representing UC14 Masters Swimming, clocked the fastest-ever 1500 freestyle in Masters Swimming history in the Women’s 65-69 age group at the Masters Southeast Zone LCM Championships in Cary, North Carolina, last week.
  Palace blasted a major best time of 20:19.05, which tops the former World Aquatics Masters World record time of 20:41.53 by Suzanne Heim-Bowen back in July of 2023.This record marks the 2nd World Aquatics Masters World Record in the
  
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• Combining the 2026 Championship Meets – Men’s Individual Events: Kos & Short Earn a Pair of Golds

  19-08-2026 21:01 via swimswam.com
  
  By Mark Wild on SwimSwam
  This article is the second of three articles in this series; see the first one (women’s individual events) here.
  While Junior Pan-Pacs are still ongoing, the majority of the end-of-season championship meets have concluded. For some, this period is a rest, a break, and a reset before the start of the short-course season, whether in yards or meters. For us here at SwimSwam, the news cycle never ends, and we continue to keep up with the latest information.
  However, we
  
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• Sarah Sjostrom: “It’s Amazing I’ve Managed to Get Back to this Level and Win Two Medals”

  19-08-2026 19:20 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  After a European Championships that saw legendary Swedish sprinter Sarah Sjostrom come away with a pair of medals, the now 30-time European long-course medalist says that, after all she has been through this past year, she is thrilled to still be able to compete at the highest levels of the sport.
  In an interview with SVT, Sjostrom shared her joy of competing again, less than a year after giving birth to her son Adrian in an ambulance outside of a hospital.
  “We
  
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• Bobby Finke After Pan Pacs: “Things didn’t go my way this year”

  19-08-2026 19:02 via swimswam.com
  
  By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam
  2026 PAN PACIFIC CHAMPIONSHIPSAugust 12-15, 2026
  Irvine, California
  William Woollett Jr. Aquatics Center
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  After placing 2nd in the 800 and 3rd in the 1500 and 400 IM at the 2026 Pan Pacific Champs, 3x Olympic champion Bobby Finke seemed less than thrilled. Although the 400 IM seemed like a promising result for the distance ace, his freestyle events were a bit off.
  Although his 7:42.52 was faster than the times he
  
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• How did the New Bob Bowman Swimmers Perform at their End-Of-Season Meets?

  19-08-2026 18:22 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  As Bob Bowman continues to bolster his already powerful Texas pro training group, it’s time to take a look back at some of the newer additions to the loaded training group and see how they performed at some of their end-of-season championships.
  *Disclaimer: We will not be covering the swimmers who have trained under Bowman for some time now (i.e., Leon Marchand, Summer McIntosh, Hubert Kos, Carson Foster, Regan Smith, etc.) as their end-of-season meets have bee
  
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• 2026 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 3 Prelims Live Recap

  19-08-2026 17:50 via swimswam.com
  
  By Spencer Penland on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2Day 3 of the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships is underway. This morning’s action will feature the 400 free, 100 fly, 200 back, and 50 breast.
  The session will kick off with the 400 free, where American Abi Burke comes in
  
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• Florida Gulf Coast Adds Maggie Davenport To Staff As Assistant Coach For 2026-27

  19-08-2026 14:51 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: FGCU Athletics
  FORT MYERS, Fla. – Florida Gulf Coast swimming and diving head coach Dave Rollins announced the addition of assistant coach Maggie Davenport for the 2026-27 season.
  “We are excited to welcome Maggie to the Nest,” Rollins said. “We had tremendous interest in this position and in our program, which is a credit to all those who have been a part of our growth. Maggie will be a tremendous addition, and w
  
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• 2026 European Championships: Men’s Swammy Awards

  19-08-2026 14:30 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sam Blacker on SwimSwam
  2026 European Swimming ChampionshipsAugust 10-16, 2026
  Paris, France – Olympic Aquatics Centre
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Information
  Meet Central
  Entries
  Results
  Live Results
  SwimSwam Preview Index
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  Recaps:Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
  Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5| Day 6 | Day 7We saw some stunn
  
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• WATCH: Race Videos From Night Two Of The 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships

  19-08-2026 11:01 via swimswam.com
  
  By Sean Griffin on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  SwimSwam RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2Watch all of the race videos from night two of the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships, courtesy of CBC Sports’ YouTube channel.
  Girls’ 400m IM FinalBoys’ 400m IM FinalGirls’ 100m Freestyle FinalBoys’ 100
  
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• Rich Burns Receives the 2026 Capt. Ransom J. Arthur M.D. Award

  19-08-2026 08:49 via swimswam.com
  
  By SwimSwam on SwimSwam
  Courtesy: Daniel Paulling / U.S. Masters Swimming
  Rich Burns couldn’t figure out what was happening.
  Several of his teammates in the 1980s would disappear for a few days every September and come back talking about rule changes and national championship locations. He eventually asked where they had gone. Their response: U.S. Masters Swimming’s annual meeting.
  Burns attended the next year, in 1986, starting 40 years of volunteer service with USMS. His longtime d
  
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• Australia’s Ribot De Bresac Drops A 1:07.17 100 Breast En Route to Jr. Pan Pacs Gold and Meet Record

  19-08-2026 08:36 via swimswam.com
  
  By Claire Wong on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2GIRLS’ 100 BREASTSTROKE – FINALWorld Junior Record: 1:04.35, Ruta Meilutyte (LTU) – 2013
  Junior Pan Pac Record: 1:07.45, Kato Kotomi (JPN) – 2024Top 10:Lilla Ribot De Bresac (AUS) – 1:07.17 *JPP Record
  Mana Ishikawa&
  
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• Raito Numata Downs Chase Kalisz’s 14 Old Jr. Pan Pacs Record In The 400 IM With a 4:09.82

  19-08-2026 05:43 via swimswam.com
  
  By Claire Wong on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2BOYS’ 400 IM – FINALWorld Junior Record: 4:08.69, Yumeki Kojima (JPN) – 2026
  Junior Pan Pac Record: 4:12.59, Chase Kalisz (USA) – 2012Top 10:Raito Numata (JPN) – 4:09.82 *JPP Record
  Yi Zheng (USA)
  
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• Raito Numata Downs Chase Kalisz’s 14 Old Jr. Pan Pacs Record In The 400 IM In 4:09.82

  19-08-2026 05:43 via swimswam.com
  
  By Claire Wong on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2BOYS’ 400 IM – FINALWorld Junior Record: 4:08.69, Yumeki Kojima (JPN) – 2026
  Junior Pan Pac Record: 4:12.59, Chase Kalisz (USA) – 2012Top 10:Raito Numata (JPN) – 4:09.82 *JPP Record
  Yi Zheng (USA)
  
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• USA National Team Director Greg Meehan Says Data Confirms That Racing More Is a New Team USA Priority

  19-08-2026 05:02 via swimswam.com
  
  By Braden Keith on SwimSwam
  In a dramatic shift from prior generations, where American coaches seemed to be deemphasizing the importance of racing, USA Swimming National Team Director says that racing more is the new focus for Team USA.
  Speaking with Olympian Katie Hoff on the Unfiltered Waters podcast during the Indianapolis Pro Swim Series meet, Meehan talks about one of the key findings from data scientist Corey Manley since returning to the organization in January.Watch the clip here.Ma
  
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• USA, Japan Still Lead Medal Table Through Day 2 Of 2026 Junior Pan Pac Championships

  19-08-2026 04:51 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1 | Day 2After leading through day 1, the US and Japan still sit at the top of the leaderboard for the 2026 Pan Pac Championships. Japan had a strong start to the evening, sweeping gold medals in the 400 IMs.
  Host nation Canada did not capture any medals
  
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• 2026 European Championships: Final Pick ‘Em Results

  19-08-2026 03:59 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  2026 European Swimming ChampionshipsAugust 10-16, 2026
  Paris, France – Olympic Aquatics Centre
  LCM (50 Meters)
  Meet Information
  Meet Central
  Entries
  Results
  Live Results
  SwimSwam Preview Index
  Live Stream
  Recaps:Prelims: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7
  Finals: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5| Day 6 | Day 7The 20
  
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• Defending NCAA Champs Texas Men Announce 2026-2027 Swim & Dive Schedule

  19-08-2026 01:51 via swimswam.com
  
  By Anya Pelshaw on SwimSwam
  The 2026 NCAA Champions, the Texas men, have announced their schedule for the upcoming 2026-2027 season. The team will kick off their season at home during the Sam Kendricks Dust Off Your Boots Classic and conclude their season at home as well with the 2027 NCAA Championships.
  Over half of the team’s meets are at home this upcoming season as the team will only travel to Indiana for a double dual that also features Northwestern. The only other meets not at home a
  
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• 2026 Junior Pan Pacs: Day 2 Finals Live Recap

  19-08-2026 01:41 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  2026 Junior Pan Pacific ChampionshipsAugust 17-20, 2026
  UBC Aquatic Centre, Vancouver, Canada
  LCM 50 Meters
  Event Page
  Live Results
  Psych Sheets
  Live Stream
  RecapsPrelims: Day 1  | Day 2
  Final: Day 1It’s the 2nd finals session of the 2026 Junior Pan Pacific Championships from Vancouver, featuring the finals in the 400 IM, 100 free, 100 breast, 50 back, and the 4×200 freestyle relays.
  The 400 IM will kick us off as the longest individual eve
  
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• Paralympic Champion Jessica Long Announces Birth of Twin Boys with Husband Lucas Winters

  19-08-2026 00:44 via swimswam.com
  
  By Charlotte Wells on SwimSwam
  Eighteen-time Paralympic champion swimmer Jessica Long and her husband Lucas Winters became first-time parents last week, with Long giving birth to twin boys on August 10th.
  The couple shared the news on Instagram with the caption “Meet Lyle Fyodor Winters + Rhodes Lev Winters” alongside photos of the new additions to the family.View this post on InstagramLong and Winters first announced the news of her pregnancy and the fact that she was expecting twin
  
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• Kristof Milak on If He Likes Swimming Again: “No Comment”

  18-08-2026 22:50 via swimswam.com
  
  By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
  Are there many other swimmers on the planet like Hungary’s Kristof Milak? In short, the answer is no. That is largely due in part to his pure ability to race and produce when it matters, and in part to his relationship with the sport itself.
  Following a European Championships that saw Milak swim some of the best races of his already decorated career, including a near-100 fly world record in 49.48, and delivering a heroic 46.29 anchor split for the Hungarian 4&t
  
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