Japanese swimmer Kosuke Kitajima has broken the 10-year-old 200m world breaststroke record at the Asian Games in Busan. The world championship bronze medallist, who is also the Asian record holder came home in 2:09.97. He won by a massive 3.5 seconds to smash the mark of 2:10.16 set by American Mike Barrowman in Barcelona in … Continue Reading→
The 2002 Asian Games swimming programme got underway yesterday, with Japan dominating the opening exchanges. This meet has a profound impact on British swimming, as it may affect funding for many of our top swimmers. Funding will not be confirmed until the year's world long course rankings are finalised and this meet represents … Continue Reading→
The 2002 British Short Course Championships closed with a bang tonight in Cambridge as the last 11 titles were decided. This championship has been varied in its success in terms of swimming performances, but has never been anything other than entertaining. The final session more than lived up to that premise.
The final day of competition got underway this morning, with the last session of heats talking place in the competition pool at Parkside. Once again, several of Britain