Swimming

Antani Ivanov made an extraordinary record of a 100 meter butterfly in a small pool during the state swimming championship at the Sports Palace in Sofia. Bulgaria's No. 4 athlete for 2017 won the gold for 51.85 seconds and became the first Bulgarian to swim under 52 seconds in the discipline.

Andreas Vazaios added a second silver medal to his tally at the European Short Course Championship in Copenhagen on Sunday, finishing second at the 200-meter butterfly final.

Two days after earning silver at the 200-m. medley final, the Greek champion won his career's third medal in the Short Course Europeans with a national record.

Greek swimming champion Andreas Vazaios won silver at the European Short Course Championship on Friday, finishing second at the men's 200-meter medley final.

The Argyroupoli swimmer clocked one minute and 53.27 seconds to register a new national short-course record that was six tenths of a second better than the one he had recorded in the morning's qualifiers.

Caeleb Dressel and Katie Ledecky were honored as USA Swimming's top male and female athletes of 2017 at the Golden Goggles awards on Nov. 19.

The Tokyo Gulf water, in which some competitions have to happen at the Olympic Games in 2020, is too dirty and does not meet the standards of international federations. A water survey in the Odaya area has shown that at least for the time being there will not be any competitions.

Michael Phelps, the most successful Olympian of all time, lost the battle with his fastest opponent so far. The 32-year-old American faced a white shark and lost. Reports Washington Post.

The Youth and Sports Ministry has used a picture of U.S. gold medalist swimmer Dana Vollmer in one of its posters but digitally changed the U.S. flag on her cap with a Turkish one, daily Sözcü reported on July 6.

We all love water, swimming in lakes, the sea, rivers, and pools, at Outdoor Revival we try to get into the water as much as possible but we’re also cautious, if we weren’t we might not be here to give you all this lovely information each day!

Sometimes some caution needs to be applied to the most beautiful looking pools, rivers, and seas…

The Hellenic Financial Stability Fund has rejected former Piraeus Bank chief executive Anthimos Thomopoulos's candidacy for his old post, opting instead to propose Christos Papadopoulos and Stelios Papadopoulos (who are not related) for the position at the lender of which the bank bailout fund controls 26 percent.

Participants in the "Swim the Canal" event take part in the race through the 6,346-meter-long Corinth Canal that separates the Peloponnese from mainland Greece, Tuesday. It was the first swimming race since the construction of the canal in 1893. The swimmers covered a distance of 6 kilometers. [Valerie Gache/AFP]