Swimming

12/9/2024 |  Orlando Welcomes U.S. Paralympics Swimming National Championships (SportsTravel) The best Paralympic swimmers in the nation are headed to Orlando as U.S. Paralympics Swimming will host its National Championships at the Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center from December 13–15, 2024.
It will be the second time U.S. Paralympics Swimming has hosted an event in Orlando, following the 2023 edition. The Rosen Aquatic & Fitness Center features an indoor 8-lane 50-meter competition pool, a dive well with four lap lanes and a heated teaching and training pool with seven lanes.

12/9/2024 |  2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships Moved to Irvine (SportsTravel) One of the bigger international swimming events in 2026, the Pan Pacific Championships, will be held at William Woollett Junior Aquatics Center in Irvine, California.
The event was announced as moving to Southern California from Canada in October 2023 to lay the foundation ahead of the 2028 Summer Olympic Games. Canada had been set to host in 2022, but the meet was postponed to 2026 because of the pandemic. The pool competition is set for August 12-15, while the Open Water competition date will be announced later.

9/28/2024 |  USA Swimming Announces 2025 Domestic Schedule (SportsTravel) USA Swimming will hold the 2025 Open Water National and Junior National Championships April 4-6 in Sarasota, Florida, while Indianapolis will host the 2025 National Championships, June 3-7 and the U.S. Open will take place December 3-6 in Austin, Texas.
The 2025 event schedule also features Open Water Nationals and Junior Nationals, Speedo Winter Juniors, three TYR Pro Swim Series events, the Toyota U.S. Open and National Championships, June 3–7 in Indianapolis, which recently hosted the 2024 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials at Lucas Oil Stadium.

9/13/2024 |  Investigator backs WADA's handling of Chinese swimmers case (Reuters Sports) Sept 12 (Reuters) - An investigator has backed the World Anti-Doping Agency's handling of a case involving 23 Chinese swimmers who failed drug tests weeks before the Tokyo Games and said WADA had not been complacent nor shown bias towards China.

9/5/2024 |  Australian swimmer celebrates gold after fortune teller prediction (Reuters Sports) PARIS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Three years after surviving a horrific bike accident, Australian Paralympic swimmer Alexa Leary claimed her second gold medal in a world record time in Paris on Wednesday.
Leary's swim of 59.53 seconds in the 100 metres freestyle final broke her world record in the heats of the S9 category which includes swimmers with severe weakness in one leg.