The United States broke the world record for the mixed 4x100m medley relay at the world aquatic championships in Wednesday’s heats. The US quartet of Ryan Murphy, Kevin Cordes, Kelsei Worrell and Mallory Comerford clocked 3mins 40.28secs to break the previous record of 3:41.71 set by Great Britain two years ago in Kazan. This is … Read more
Britain’s Adam Peaty warned the men’s 50m breaststroke world record could fall again in a fierce battle over the sprint distance in Wednesday’s final. The British ace broke his own world record from 2015 by clocking 26.10 seconds in Tuesday’s heats, then lowered it again to 25.95sec in the evening’s semi-finals. The record is under … Read more
Olympic champion Mack Horton set up a showdown with Chinese superstar Sun Yang on Sunday after the Australian squeezed into the men’s 400m freestyle final at the world aquatic championships. Horton dethroned Sun as Olympic champion over 400m at last year’s Rio Games, branding the Chinese superstar a “drugs cheat” after his three-month doping ban … Read more
Five-time Olympic champion Katie Ledecky won her fourth US 400-meter freestyle title Friday at the US Swim Championships while Kevin Cordes set an American record in the 100 breaststroke. Ledecky, who had already won the 200 and 800 free titles this week, captured her third crown of the meet in 3:58.44, beating runner-up Leah Smith … Read more