2014 Swimmers of the Year – The Contenders
After an excellent year for Britain’s swimmers there’s any number of athletes who are in the frame for a swimmer of the year award – this video above highlights the main contenders for the male and...
View ArticleFlashback: Swim4Leukaemia – The Last Leg
It’s World Cancer Day and just over a year since the Swim4Leukamia world record breaking relay. A perfect time to relive the last leg, complete with over-excited commentary. Watch →
View ArticleFifteen Years: 15 World Records
Since pullbuoy opened its digital doors in May 2000, there have been, fittingly courtesy of Adam Peaty’s recent effort, 15 world records set by British Swimmers; 10 in the long course pool and 5 in the...
View ArticleFifteen Years: Swimmer of the Year Roll of Honour
Pullbuoy has been awarding Swimmer of the Year honours for the past 15 years, this video shows the roll of honour. Watch →
View ArticleFifteen Years: The First World Title
This is the story of one of the most controversial world titles ever won by Britain’s swimmers, the women’s 4×200 freestyle relay at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka. Watch →
View ArticleASA launches Swim Safe Campaign for Open Water
Open water swimming has experienced something of a surge in popularity recently, and while it’s not an inherently unsafe activity, there’s little doubt that getting into trouble in a lake or the sea...
View ArticleSpeedy Proud grabs headlines at BUCS
There was no doubt over who was the star of the show at the British Universities’ championship in Sheffield over the weekend as Plymouth’s Ben Proud, swimming here for the University of St Mark and St...
View ArticlePatching on the Double at SEC Championships
British swimming were represented on the victory podium at the SEC championships at the Mizzou Aquatic Centre in Columbia Missouri, as University of Florida took the men's overall title, in the form of...
View ArticleAdidas launches swimwear made from reclaimed ocean plastic
To help highlight the risk to our oceans from discarded plastic, adidas has launched its SS17 Parley swim range made from up-cycled ocean plastic generated from used fishing nets and debris intercepted...
View ArticleFilm short: Beneath the Surface
Many swimmers will have at some point experienced the difficuties of training in public lanes. Beneath the Surface, a new short film from writer and director Alex Osman, tells the darkly comic tale of...
View ArticlePeaty shares Tenerife training camp tales
Adam Peaty, along with his Loughborough squad mates, spent part of this winter training away from base in the Canary Islands. Now their hosts at Tenerife Top Training have shared some details of this...
View ArticleShining Light: Polar OH1+ Review
I vividly recall my first test set wearing a heart rate monitor as an age grouper. It entailed wearing a bulky plastic chest strap that needed a crop top to hold it in place, and there was a lot of...
View Article20 at 20: Swim4Leukaemia, 2014
Sometimes an event comes along that just entirely captivates. In the case of the Swim4Leukaemia charity relay back in 2014, there was an added personal dimension and the sense of a higher purpose that...
View Article20 at 20: Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth Games Men’s 4 x 200 Relay – Ross Davenport
For the next in the series of "20 at 20" favourite moments from the last 20 years, we journey back to 2006 and the Melbourne Commonwealth Games. Specifically to the men's 4 x 200m freestyle relay which...
View Article20 at 20: Adam Peaty Cracks 58 Seconds
It’s the race also known as the world record we all watched on Nick Hope’s phone. There was no TV coverage or streaming available for the 2015 World Championship Trials held at the London Aquatic...
View Article20 at 20: Dramatic Relay World Title For GB in Fukuoka
The women’s 4×200 freestyle relay at the 2001 World Championships in Fukuoka was the first swimming world title ever won by Britain's ladies. In a refresh of a video produced for Pullbuoy's 15th...
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