Dutch Olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband has been forced out of this year's world championships in Montreal following a slower than expected recovery from a hernia operation. The Olympic 100m freestyle champion in Athens, van den Hoogenband is yet to win an individual world title, and will now have to wait until Melbourne … Continue Reading→
Georgina Lee, British record holder for 200m butterfly and a gold medal winner at the 2002 Commonwealth games has announced that she is retiring from swimming. Lee has been part of the British national team for the past nine years, in an international career that delivered a European short course bronze medal and … Continue Reading→
Chris Nesbit has been appointed as the head coach at the British Swimming offshore program in Australia. Nesbit , the former Portsmouth Northsea coach, is a two-time Olympic coach who oversaw the career of Katy Sexton, the 2003 world champion in the 200m backstroke.
The program, based out of the Southport School near Brisbane, has … Continue Reading→
Ian Edmond, Britain’s top 200m breaststroker for the past few years, has called time on his swimming career to concentrate full time on his medical studies.
Five more swimmers added their names to the Montreal team sheet on the final day of competition in Manchester, swelling the number of selected athletes to 10. The final afternoon of 11 finals didn’t produce any British records but there were some encouraging swims along the way.