Gabrielle Fa'amausili has successfully defended her title with a superb swim at the Fina World Junior Championships in Singapore.

New Zealand's men face a struggle to sustain medal parity with the country's best women at the Rio Olympics and next year's Games could see women win more medals than men for the second time.

The Kiwi swimmer is among the world's elite freestylers and says she won't throw in the towel.

After a "very frustrating" week for Marina Macartney - who had her surf lifesaving gear stolen - she finally has something small to celebrate.

Lauren Boyle has collected her fifth world championship medal with another great swim today.

Lauren Boyle is through to another final at the world swimming championships in Kazan, Russia.

The Aucklander produced a season best time of 1min 58.22s, eclipsing his fastest time by 1.41s, to be 14th quickest overall and take his place in the semis in a few hours' time.

Breaststroke swimmer Glenn Snyders produced a top class swim on the third morning of the world champs

American swimming sensation Katie Ledecky has set a world record mark - without intending to do so.

Lauren Boyle is through to her second world championship final but she was overshadowed by a world record time.

Lauren Boyle has her own high grade ambitions at the world swimming championships starting in Kazan, Russia, late tomorrow night.

As the swimming world championships commence in Russia tomorrow, the Olympic hopes of several New Zealand swimmers remain up in the air.

Early in 2012 a group of friends chatting around a table agreed Nic McCloy could probably do an ocean swim race - if she spent a couple of years training to do so.

You won't get New Zealand's best swimmer Lauren Boyle shouting the odds about herself any time soon.

Nearly three decades after breaking five world records in 28 hours, Philip Rush has no intention of slowing down.

The national body have made a late change to their 2016 Olympic qualification schedule which could jeopardise the Rio prospects of some nationally-ranked swimmers.

Wilrich Coetzee is preparing for a big month of top-class competitive swimming.

Thirty budding young Kiwi swimming stars have been selected to take part in a three-day training camp in Auckland this month.

A major showdown looms at the State King of the Bays today, with six swimmers who have qualified for this year's World Championships set to dive into the surf at Takapuna.

Hundreds of swimmers will race in the King of the Bays event on Auckland's North Shore today, but one competitor has a special motivation for taking part.