Olympic swimmers who challenged the sport's governing body in a United States court are set to get a multimillion-dollar settlement for athletes who took part in a breakaway series.

"World Aquatics is setting up a fund of $4.6 million US that will be distributed to swimmers who signed contracts to compete at the International Swimming League (ISL) event in Turin in 2018 and in the 2019 ISL season," the governing body said Monday in a statement.

Three Olympic and world champion swimmers — Katinka Hosszu of Hungary and Americans Tom Shields and Michael Andrew — filed an antitrust suit in California in 2018 after the governing body then known as FINA tried to stop the ISL operating outside its control.

The Lausanne-based governing body had at first threatened to ban swimmers who competed

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