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Eight lanes and eight finalists have been part of swimming for decades. At the 2026 Short Course World Championships in Beijing, that principle will be broken: World Aquatics is testing finals and semifinals with ten swimmers.
In 2026 researchers presented a triboelectric sensor that monitors movement in water while generating its electrical energy from the movement itself.
A new human-pose-estimation study attempts to automate biomechanical swimming analysis—despite an environment that is particularly challenging for computer vision.
A validation study compared optical pulse measurement at the temple with a swimming chest strap—and found surprisingly good agreement for average heart rate.
New wearable research measures forces at the hand in three spatial directions and investigates which of them are associated with freestyle sprint performance.
Fourteen elite swimmers were monitored across three intensive training cycles using HRV, sleep, motivation and performance data—then Explainable AI searched for patterns.
Artificial intelligence can create training plans—but how good are those plans really?
Nutrition and sleep are often considered separately in elite sport. In reality, the two can be closely connected.
A new bibliometric analysis provides, for the first time, a broad picture of international swimming sports medicine.
