Daniel Zaitsev News Today

Lithuanian racing veteran Danas Rapsys logged a time of 1:45.69 to land atop the men's 200m free podium on day two of the 2023 Swim Open Stockholm.

Ryan Murphy became the first swimmer to sweep the men's backstroke events at SC Worlds since the 50 was introduced in 1999, and also won three relay medals.

Kharun swam a 49.03 to break the world junior record in the SCM 100 fly, and also becomes the seventh-fastest performer of all-time

17 year-old Ilya Kharun could be on pace to set a World Junior Record in a second event this week after his 49.66 Canadian Record in the 100 fly prelims.

In a Friday morning swimoff, Apostolos Christou claimed the last spot in the 50 backstroke final ahead of U.S. swimmer Hunter Armstrong.

Jordan Crooks raced in an early heat at the World Short Course Championships, but still managed to earn the top seed in the 100 freestyle.

In a record-setting 50 butterfly swim-off Estonian Daniel Zaitsev held off Canadian Ilya Kharun for the final spot in the event's final.

After taking out Andrei Minakov's record during prelims, Ilya Kharun delivered a renewed world junior record of 22.32 during semis-finals.

Estonia's Maria Romanjuk came 21st in the preliminaries of the women's 50m breaststroke at the European Aquatics Championships in Rome on Tuesday morning. In the men's 50m freestyle, Alex Ahtiainen finished 27th in the preliminaries, with Daniel Zaitsev in 36th. Armin Evert Lelle was 39th in the 100m backstroke preliminaries.

Estonia's swimmers have been in action in the European Aquatic Championships in Rome.