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World Aquatics Championships

World Aquatics Championships
The World Aquatics Championships, formerly the FINA World Championships, are the world championships for six aquatic disciplines: swimming, diving, high diving, open water swimming, artistic swimming, and water polo.
Shauna Krkalo won six gold medals and set two world records at the World Aquatics Masters Championships in Singapore. Photo: Shauna Krkalo
Swimming

Hong Kong swimmer returns after 20 years, wins 6 golds, sets 2 world records

Shauna Krkalo stars at World Aquatics Masters Championships in Singapore after watching her kids swim and thinking ‘I could still beat them’.

World Aquatics

Chinese prodigy Yu Zidi eyes emulating swimming great Summer McIntosh

Swimming

Yu Zidi close to medal again as McIntosh, US relay women rule at swimming worlds

Swimming

Pan Zhanle can’t repeat Olympic relay defeat of US, but Yu, 12, has medal chance

Yu swims in 400 metres medley at World Championships, while China’s team fail to reach relay final a year after ending American monopoly.

Pan Zhanle has finished out of the running in several events in Singapore. Photo: Xinhua
Swimming

Ledecky wins 800m freestyle, US set relay world record, more gold for China

Chen Yiwen and Chen Jia finish first and second in women’s 3m springboard diving, while Ledecky takes seventh world title in thriller.

Swimming

Qin Haiyang bags world 200 metres breaststroke gold in ‘lane 8 miracle’

Breaststroke king hits form in Singapore after also winning 100m gold and 50m bronze, before China’s men’s 4x200m freestyle team win silver.

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Swimming

China’s women claim relay bronze, handing Yu Zidi first medal in Singapore

12-year-old helps team qualify third fastest for final of women’s 4x200m freestyle relay in Singapore; finishes fourth in 200m butterfly.

China’s women (from left) Liu Yaxin, Yu Yiting, Li Bingjie, and Yang Peiqi celebrate after finishing third place in the final of the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay. Photo: AFP
Swimming

Pan Zhanle fails to reach 100m freestyle final at World Aquatics Championships

Olympic champion off pace in semi-finals, Qin Haiyang loses 50m breaststroke crown, but 12-year-old Yu Zidi reaches 200m butterfly final.

Trending in China

Quan Hongchan skipped World Aquatics Championships. Where is China’s diving ace?

Does growth spurt and ankle injury mean we are now in the twilight of Olympian’s glittering career?

Swimming

World Aquatics Championships: China’s divers win 2 more golds, swimmers win bronze

Men win 10m platform synchronised event while women win 3m springboard, but Tang Qianting fails to defend 100m breaststroke title.

Cheng Zilong (left) and Zhu Zifeng on their way to winning the 10m platform synchronised diving final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua
Swimming

Pan Zhanle predicts ‘amazing support’ as Beijing named host of swimming worlds

Olympic champion expects ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’ when China stages short-course World Aquatics Swimming Championships for third time.

China’s Pan Zhanle, pictured winning 100m freestyle gold at last year’s Paris Olympics, could compete at home in 2026. Photo: Kyodo
Swimming

Qin wins China’s first swimming gold of world championships, Yu Zidi fourth

Chinese 12-year-old prodigy Yu misses out on medley bronze by just 0.06 seconds as Summer McIntosh wins second gold in Singapore.

Water sports

World Aquatics Championships: China win men’s 3m, women’s 10m synchronised diving

Wang Zongyuan, Zheng Jiuyuan are pushed in Singapore by Mexico’s Osmar Olvera, Juan Celaya, while Chen Yuxi and Zhang Minjie have easier time.

Swimming

Profile | Who is Yu Zidi, the Chinese 12-year-old making waves at World Aquatics Championships?

Swimmer can make history on Monday as the youngest person to win a medal at an international event since 1936.

China’s Yu Zidi competes in the heats of the 200m individual medley at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Water sports

China claim trio of golds to continue diving dominance at world championships

Zhu and Xie win mixed synchro 10-metre platform and Zheng the 1m springboard event, a day after China’s mixed 3m and 10m team gold.

Zhu Yongxin (top) and Xie Peiling compete during the final of the mixed 10M synchronized event at the World Aquatics Championships. Photo: EPA
Swimming

Chinese swimmer Yu, 12, makes debut on world stage, McIntosh wins first gold

Yu qualifies for 200m individual medley final on first day in Singapore as compatriot Li Bingjie pips Katie Ledecky for 400m freestyle silver.

Swimming

Chinese record under threat from Canada’s McIntosh at swimming worlds

Singapore-bound teen is first swimmer to set three world records in different events since Michael Phelps did it at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

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Injured Haughey out of World Aquatics Championships, still eyeing National Games

Hong Kong Olympian Siobhan Haughey says back injury has forced her withdrawal, says ‘I have to do what’s best for me’.

Swimmer Siobhan Haughey with her Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards trophy. Photo: Elson Li
Swimming

Artistic swimmer Xu claims China’s first gold of World Aquatics Championships

The multiple World Cup winner continued her dominance of the women’s solo technical event at the WAC Arena in Singapore.

Swimming

Wellbrock claims third World Aquatics gold, Kajimoto takes new 3km sprint crown

Ichika Kajimoto and Florian Wellbrock win titles in new event that involves athletes swimming 1,500m, 1,000m and 500m in quick succession.

Swimming

Xu, Lin twins make strong start to artistic events at World Aquatics Championships

Solo technical favourite Xu Huiyan dominates, Lin Yanhan and Lin Yanjun brush off nerves as artistic swimming gets under way in Singapore.

Xu Huiyan competes during the women’s solo technical preliminary round in Singapore. Photo: Xinhua
Swimming

All eyes on China swimmer Yu, 12, who takes stunning times to world championships

World will be eagerly watching preteen swimmer, whose times in May would have come close to winning medals at Paris Olympics last year.

Twelve-year-old Chinese swimmer Yu Zidi celebrates on the podium after winning the 400m individual medley at the National Swimming Championships in Shenzhen in May. Photo: AP
Swimming

World Aquatics Championships: German Wellbrock wins 10km after water quality delay

Australia’s Moesha Johnson wins women’s race in Singapore after open water events had been postponed because of high E coli bacteria levels.

Swimming

Singapore hopes World Aquatics Championships can help inspire next Schooling

The championships are being hosted in Southeast Asia for the first time and officials want it to leave a lasting legacy.

Swimming

Chinese swimmers tested most, based on independent risk assessments: global body

Athletes from China were tested 8.8 times on average this year, in lead-up to World Aquatics Championships starting in Singapore on Friday.

Brent Nowicki (left), World Aquatics’ executive director, and Husain Al Musallam, the body’s president, at the opening press conference of the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Thursday. Photo: EPA
Swimming

Olympian Ho targeting record run at World Aquatics Championships

Ian Ho wants another crack at 50m freestyle record at Singapore competition, and has sights set on National Games test.

Adam Mak took home the title of top men’s swimmer at the Hong Kong time trial this weekend. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Swimming

World Aquatics Swimming Championships: Tam makes fine start with 2 Hong Kong records

The 2-time Olympian beat her personal best in the 50m butterfly to break a 10-year-old record before helping freestyle relay team set new mark.

Swimming

Hong Kong to send 15 to World Aquatics Swimming Championships; Chinese stars out

Siobhan Haughey will be out to win her fifth world title, while the Adams Chillingworth and Mak will be out to extend their ‘friendly rivalry’.

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