Swimmer's Daily

  • The Swim England Artistic Swimming Virtual National Senior and Masters Championships 2021 has seen swimmers across the country complete their routines within the comforts of their clubs and then submit videos of their routines for judges to score virtually.

    Athletes have competed in the Technical Solo, Technical Duet, and Technical Team events.

  • Dozens of people have been attacked by piranhas at a popular swimming spot in Santa Fe, Argentina.

    Images of the attack were published by local news websites. One 13-year-old girl had her toe torn off. Another image showed a chunk of flesh missing from a woman’s finger. One of the victims had a large section of flesh from her foot taken, while a fourth had a hole in her big toe.

    Reports suggest up to 30 people were injured.

    Read Newsweek

  • Kitty Smith spent one summer in her new dream backyard before tragedy struck, turning her swimming pool into a pile of rubble.

  • A French trio of swimmers swam for 11 days from Bolivia to Peru across Lake Titicaca to encourage people not to pollute the lake.

  • Matthew Sates is emerging as one of South Africa’s most promising swimmers.

  • FINA is delighted to announce that the FINA World Championships (25m) 2022 in Kazan (RUS) will be held from 17-22 December 2022 at the Aquatics Palace in Kazan, Russia.

    Hosts of the 16th FINA World Championships 2015 and the recent FINA Swimming World Cup 2021, Kazan will welcome over 1,200 athletes from more than 180 countries around the world to compete over six action-packed days of competition.

    “We are absolutely delighted to be returning to Kazan for the FINA World Championships (25m) 2022 in Kazan (RUS). This city loves aquatics sports. The facilities are world class and provide the ultimate environment for the athletes to perform at the very highest level,” said FINA President Captain Husain Al-Musallam.

    In addition to the competitions held in Kazan, the city is well known to the swimming world as home of the FINA Development Centre. The Centre provides the opportunity for FINA National Federations to have access to high-performance training facilities, thus ensuring greater equality of opportunity for swimmers. The Centre is a project of Kazan’s Directorate for Sports and Social Projects, which links elite events with development programmes and tangible legacy benefits for the local community.

    “As home to the state-of-the-art Kazan FINA Development Centre, Kazan is already doing so much for the development and education of future swimming stars. Hosting the FINA World Championships will be an opportunity to continue this journey and develop the next generation of aquatics athletes in the Republic of Tatarstan and beyond.”

    “Our collaboration with FINA continues to go from strength to strength following the incredibly successful FINA World Championships in 2015,” said Vladimir Leonov, Minister of Sport of the Republic of Tatarstan. â€œKazan is incredibly passionate about sport, especially aquatics. Therefore, I know that the athletes travelling to Kazan from around the world will receive the warmest of welcomes. We look forward to hosting a memorable event for the athletes, fans and officials, an event that will encourage people all of ages in the Republic of Tatarstan to take to the water.”

    Press release from FINA

    Kazan. Image courtesy of gazrock / pixabay

  • On Tuesday night, Michael Phelps spoke with KTVB Sports Director Jay Tust at the Boise Centre to help raise money for construction on the Greater Boise Aquatic Center (GBAC).

    GBAC will be a state-of-the-art swimming complex built in southeast Boise with year-round Olympic-style pools. Having an aquatic center of such size in the City of Trees will open up opportunities for championship-level swimming competitions, as well as promote swimming lessons and safety.

    During the event, Phelps discussed how drowning is the second most common cause of death in children and how having more access to pools and swimming lessons can dramatically decrease the number of drownings.

    Along with swimming safety, Phelps and Tust discussed the importance of mental health and how Phelps has struggled with his own mental health. Tust mentioned how in the past Phelps has even considered suicide.

    See KTVB

  • Retired swimming superstar Ian Thorpe has been elevated to Legend status in the prestigious Sport Australia Hall of Fame.

    During an interview about the incredible honour on Sunrise, which you can watch above, the five-time Olympic gold medalist joked that the news ‘definitely made my day”.

    “I was asked whether I was willing to accept the award and of course I said yes,” he told David Koch and Natalie Barr.

    Read 7NEWS
    https://youtu.be/QUZWMS2dm5A

  • Check out some exercises that swimmers do to warm up before a Swimming World Cup ft. Matt Sates

    https://youtu.be/7MdSLIYaAyc