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Vedaant swam to five gold medals at the Malaysian Invitational Age Group Swimming Championships 2023 in Kuala Lumpur.
World and Olympic 400 metres freestyle champion Park Tae-hwan of South Korea was disqualified on Saturday in the first big shock of the swimming competition at the London Games.
'Never say never. National Junior Record for 1500m freestyle broken'
Sixty-one-year-old American swimmer Diana Nyad was forced to end her bid to become the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage in mid-trip on Tuesday, CNN reported.
In a sport which rarely gives India any highs to talk about in any given year, 19-year-old Virdhawal Khade produced a performance to remember by ending Indian swimming's 24-year-old medal drought in the Asian Games, holding out promise for a better future.
US swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, said on Sunday he would take a break from swimming and undergo treatment after his recent arrest for drunken driving.
Alzain Tareq finished a distant last among the 64 competitors in the women's 50-metre butterfly, reaching the end of the pool in a time of 41.13 seconds but the Bahraini says she wants to swim at the Rio Olympics
His appeal came a day after three boys drowned in a ditch while bathing in floodwaters in northwest Delhi's Mukundpur Chowk area.
Indian swimmers Virdhawal Khade and Sandeep Sejwal won eight medals including four golds, between them at the seventh Singapore Open Swimming Championships on Saturday.
Nada Albedwawi dreams of one day swimming on a relay team but she knows that can only happen if enough other Emirati women take the plunge. In a socially conservative region, where women's competitive sport faces significant cultural obstacles, the only female swimmer competing for the United Arab Emirates at the Rio Olympics remained undaunted on Friday. "My main goal is to break down these barriers, these gender barriers, and pave the way for other female swimmers," said Albedwawi after her 50m freestyle heat. "Especially in our country, people are reluctant to start something new.
Olympic champion Leisel Jones and former world champion Geoff Huegill will lead a 52-strong Australian swimming contingent, including 31 debutants, in the Delhi Commonwealth Games this October.
Hitesh Harisinghani captures glimpses from Mumbai's famous Juhu beach.
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Indian contingent cross 50-medal mark at Special Olympics World Summer Games
The International Cricket Council said any player who had been through male puberty would not be able to compete in the women's game at the elite level.
Lithuanian teenager Ruta Meilutyte shot to fame during the second day of action at the world swimming championships in Barcelona's will look to create more history on Tuesday.
Natalia Ishchenko and Svetlana Romashina had the crowd cheering before they even entered the pool on Tuesday, extending Russia's monopoly of the sport with a dominating duet win. The team competition begins on Thursday, and the Russians are overwhelming favorites to win in that event, too.
Cricket happened accidentally as she would keep scores for her ancestral club Rajendra Smriti Sangha, near Hooghly Mohsin College in Chinsurah.
Villages, towns, roads and highways in several regions of southern Tamil Nadu including Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi just resemble rivers in spate.
Australia's triple Olympic gold medallist Stephanie Rice announced her retirement from competitive swimming at the age of 25 on Wednesday.
Fans who bought tickets for synchronised swimming at this year's London Olympics could end up going instead to glamour events such as the showcase men's 100 metres athletics final because of an administrative error.
Hungary's Katinka Hosszu set a world record for the women's 200 metres individual medley at the world swimming championships on Monday.
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Seventy two years ago, a newly independent India ventured to hold the the first Asian Games in Delhi with meager resources.
American Katie Ledecky set a world record for the women's 1500 metres freestyle at the world swimming championships on Tuesday.
Katie Ledecky claimed a stunning gold in the women's 200 metres and also won the 1,500m freestyle gold with a world record.
Australians Matt Welsh and Leisel Jones claimed the first two and Japan's Kosuke Kitajima concluded the hectic spree with the third.
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Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom set a world record for the women's 100 metres butterfly at the world swimming championships on Monday.
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