Ryuichi Shibata and Takeshi Matsuda lock Olympic and world silver medallist Takashi Yamamoto off the Japan squad in the 200 'fly for the Beijing Olympic Games at trials and nationals in Tokyo as five add name to the squad bound for China

Elizabeth Simmonds, a 17-year-old on a minute and 2:08 on backstroke, is stepping up from the local club programme that nurtured her to the national-team camp at Loughborough under the guidance of GB head women's coach Ben Titley

The top 12 on the all-time list are all under the minute and every single one of those efforts was clocked in the past two months; Japanese pair sign up at Olympic trials in Tokyo

Olympic champion qualifies for Beijing at Tokyo trials along with Tomomi Morita, Yuta Suenaga, Junichi Miyashita Yuko Nakanishi and Yuka Kato

One of the key players in Britain's journey to renewed excellence has retired aged 24. Rebecca Cooke's role will not be forgotten

In an interview with SwimNews, Alan Thompson, head coach to Australia, talks of preparations for Beijing, speedy trials, outstanding performances and how the picture will be blurred until the USA has confirmed intentions at trials just ahead of the Battle

Olympic 800m freestyle champion and 2007 world bronze medallist in the 400m will not race over eight lengths in Beijing after winning at trials in Tokyo's Tatsumi International Pool but falling shy of her target time; Kitajima on form

Britain has added two swimmers - Simon Burnett and Adam Brown - to its Olympic team roster to help to build relay strength in the build-up for London 2012

If I hear one more person ask me where they might look for scientific proof of any gain to be had from a suit whose makers claim their product enhances performance I will feel duty bound to scream back at them: 'it's in the water stupid'

The Russian A team took the last crown of the 2008 world s/c championships ahead of the USA C team as both teams inside world record

Dutch sprinter sizzles on a world record of 23.25 in the 50m freestyle

Austrian fells Ryan Lochte by 0.07sec as two men shatter the previous world record at Manchester 2008

The Italian world l/c champion almost got his revenge wearing a fabric Arena as rookie American claims 100m freestyle crown from lane 1

Felicity Galvez (AUS) took down the 100m butterfly world record with a 55.89 that confined the 55.95 of fellow Dolphin Libby Lenton to history

Ryan Lochte walloped the world record for six with a storming 51.15sec victory in the 100m medley just 29 minutes after taking silver in the 200m backstroke inside his previous world record pace

Sanja Jovanovic of Croatia took the 50m backstroke title at the world short-course championships in Manchester in a world record of 26.37

Battle of the bodysuits: the Italian sprinter may appear in an updated version of the Arena Revolution in the final of the 100m freestyle tomorrow after FINA gave the all-clear for the Speedo LZR to be copied by other suit makers

The oldest world short-course record has gone. Kirsty Coventry (ZIM) raced 2.74sec inside the pace of Alison Wagner (USA) from 1994 on her way to a 2:06.13 victory ahead of a European record of 2:07.47 for Mireia Belmonte (ESP) and a Commonwealth record o

The Dutch quartet of Hinkelien Schreuder, Femke Heemskerk, Inge Dekker and Marleen Veldhuis destroyed their own world record in the 4x100m freestyle final at Manchester 2008, in 3:29.42. Their old mark, from December, was 3:30.85

American blasts to second world record of the meet in semis; Jessica Hardy (USA) raced 0.45sec inside the world-record pace of Leisel Jones (AUS) on her way to a 1:04.22 championship-record victory in the 100m breaststroke