Joseph Schooling claimed Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal here tonight on an evening in which two of the great swimmers of Rio 2016 finally faltered - and the third triumphed like never before.

Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi has become the first athlete to fail an in-competition drugs test at the Olympic Games after testing positive following a fourth place finish in the women's 100 metres butterfly final.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has uncovered “no sufficient evidence” of intentional misrepresentation in swimming after they conducted a “thorough examination” of 16 cases, the governing body has announced.

Simone Manuel and Penny Oleksiak tied for gold in the women's 100 metres freestyle on another enthralling night of swimming action also topped by a 22nd Olympic gold medal for the irrepressible Michael Phelps.

Sweden's Sarah Sjöström, Britain's Adam Peaty and United States' Katie Ledecky each broke world records in the pool before Michael Phelps brought the curtain down on a thrilling night of swimming action by helping his team to a 4x100 metres freestyle relay gold medal.

As the Rio 2016 swimming programme got underway this weekend, the ripples were still spreading from the August 1 premiere airing at the Los Angeles Film Festival of The Last Gold.

This is a documentary on the victory earned by the United States women’s 4x100 metre freestyle team at the 1976 Montreal Olympics, against the East German athletes who otherwise swept the board at those Games through what we now know were illegal means.

Hungary's Katinka Hosszu produced one of the great Olympic swimming performances to shatter a four-year-old world record by over two seconds in the 400 metres individual medley final here this evening.

The US record of five consecutive wins in the men’s 400m individual medley is under extreme pressure from the Japanese pair of Kosuke Hagino and Daiya Seto as the Rio 2016 swimming programme gets underway tomorrow.

Australian swimming coach Forbes Carlile has died at the age of 95.

Shelley Taylor-Smith was the celebrity guest swimmer for the Bosphorus Cross-Continental race after being unveiled by the Turkish Olympic Committee (TOC).

Controversial swimming coach Scott Volkers will be part of the Brazilian national team’s pre-Olympic training camp despite being barred from Rio 2016.

Olympic swimming champion Chad le Clos has revealed that both of his parents are battling cancer as he prepares for Rio 2016.

France’s Aurelie Muller and Italy’s Rachele Bruni shared gold on the first day of the European Open Water Swimming Championships after touching home in the same time in Hoorn.

Budapest will continue its growing status as a host of major swimming events after being awarded the 2020 European Aquatics Championships.

Sharon van Rouwendaal has claimed the European Open Water Swimming Championships will offer a “good chance” to swim against Olympic rivals on the eve of the event getting underway in Hoorn tomorrow.