Budapest, Hungary – December 15, 2024 – Senegalese swimmers Steven Aimable and Oumy Diop delivered outstanding performances at the 17th World Aquatics Championships (25m) in Budapest, Hungary, breaking a total of four national records. Aimable began his record-breaking spree on the second day of competition (December 12, 2024), obliterating the nine-year-old national record in the 200m Butterfly. His time of 2:01.15 eclipsed the previous record of 2:14.41, set by Ismaël Kane in Sierre, Switzerland, on November 7, 2015, by ... Read More

14 December 2024 – Rising South African swimming star Chris Smith sprung a surprise on Michael Houlie in the 50m breaststroke semifinals at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Saturday night, beating his more experienced teammate to victory. Houlie led for much of the race but was pipped to the win right at the death with 18-year-old Smith taking the victory in a massive personal best and new world junior record of 25.66 seconds. Houlie finished third in 25.69 seconds with both men making it through to Sunday night&rsqu... Read More

13 December 2024 – It was a busy night for South Africa’s standout performer at the World Short Course Swimming Championships in Budapest, Rebecca Meder, on Friday, lining up in the finals of two events. Meder’s first final of the evening was the 200m breaststroke, an event which is quickly becoming a favourite for the medley swimmer. The 22-year-old had earlier booked her spot in the final by finishing second in her morning heat in a time of 2:18.79 to progress as the fourth-fastest qualifier. She then went even quicker in... Read More

12 December 2024 – Rebecca Meder finished sixth in her second final of the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Thursday before breaking her second African record of the day just a few races later. The 22-year-old produced a personal best time of 1:03.93 for sixth place in the 100m breaststroke final, just four hundredths of a second off SA breaststroke queen Tatjana Smith’s continental record. The race was won by China’s Qianting Tang who finished two hundredths of a second off the world record in 1:02.38. Ar... Read More

11 December 2024 – Ruard van Renen swam the fastest race of his career so far to finish eighth in his first international final at the World Short Course Championships in Budapest on Wednesday. Van Renen had a great start to the 100m backstroke final, which was won by Russian Miron Lifintsev in a new world junior record of 48.76 seconds, with the South African eventually finishing eighth in 49.61 seconds – just his third sub-50 second time after the heats and semifinals. Van Renen had earlier swum in the heats of the 100m free... Read More