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Throwback Thursday: The Early Training That Led Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman to Legendary Status (Sample Sets) Together, Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman  forged the most successful athlete-coach relationship in the history of the sport. Here is a look at some of the early workouts that led to Phelps'...

$50,000 Prizemoney On Offer As Olympians And Weekend Warriors Line Up For Australian Open Water Championships In WA Paris Olympic medallists and a host of world champions will headline this year’s $50,000 Australian Open Water Championships and Ocean Swim Festival at Busselton in Western Australia.....

Jordan Crooks Shares How Consistency Leads to Victory: 'Get Out, Stay Out, Finish Out In Front' No swimmer may face more pressure than a sprint freestyler. Every moment of hard training comes down to just milliseconds, defeat and victory separated by a blink. It’s heavy stress for the athlete, requi...

The quality of the 2024 Olympic medals is under scrutiny after more than 100 athletes have returned them because of damage and rust just months after the Games, according to a Daily Mail report. The scrutiny started during the Paris Games after U.S. skateboarder Nyjah Huston posted on social media a...

Paris Golden Girl Lani Pallister Claims Record-Equaling Sixth Lorne Pier To Pub; Nic Sloman Wins Men’s Thriller  Queensland’s Olympic and world champion Lani Pallister just keeps on keeping on after adding her record equaling sixth Powercor Pier To Pub classic at Lorne on Victoria’s surf coast yest....

Throwback Thursday: Ahead of His Time, Mike Barrowman Revolutionized the 200 Breaststroke World records take on iconic status due to a multitude of factors, ranging from the stage on which they were produced to the gap stretching to the No. 2 athlete in history. Of course, duration plays an integral...

Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun Lighting the Way for Surge by Canadian Men's Program What Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun did in Paris last summer—winning three Olympic medals between them—was historic for a Canadian men’s program that has so long been fallow at the highest levels of international competiti...

Happy New Year! Winter Issue of Swimming World Magazine Available for Free - Plus Special Trial Subscription Offer! It's official! 2025 is upon us, and we’ve got something incredible to help you start the year strong. For a limited time, the Winter Digital Edition of Swimming World is available for ...

The Men's 200 Backstroke World Records Have Stood the Test of Time Backstroke events have seen generational talents take center stage year after year. In 2024, it was Thomas Ceccon and Hubert Kos who swept the available men's Olympic gold medals, while the women's events were swept by Kaylee McKeown...

World Coach of the Year: Bob Bowman Has Mentored a Global Gathering of Champions Bob Bowman leapt into the pool at the IU Natatorium in late March, and somehow his year was just starting. Unspool the rest of the 2024 and it seemed that Bowman leading Arizona State to its first NCAA men’s championshi...

Top Swim Meets to Watch in 2025: World Championships Head to Singapore in July The post-Olympic year will usher in a new quadrennium, with swimmers aiming to build toward a peak at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Elite swimmers will take varying approaches to 2025, with some of the stars of the Pa...

Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice...

WADA 2025 List of Banned Substances Now in Effect (Links Here) With the start of a new year, the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances for 2025 has gone into effect. The list can be found here and below, and is made available to assist athletes by providing knowledge of what is an ill...

World Newcomer of the Year: Tomoyuki Matsushita Upholding Japanese Tradition in 400 IM Held less than a year ahead of the Olympic Games, the 2023 World Junior Championships featured several medalists who made an impact in Paris. While Flynn Southam helped Australia to a pair of relay medals at the O...

The 2024 campaign was filled with elite competition, with the Olympic Games in Paris serving as the highlight of the past 12 months. Additionally, spectacular performances were produced at the World Championships, NCAA Championships, various Olympic Trials and the World Short Course Championships. I...

Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this ye...

Female World Record of the Year: Summer McIntosh Dazzled in 400 Individual Medley As recently as early 2023, Hungarian superstar Katinka Hosszu was still the world-record holder in the 400-meter individual medley. Behind her global mark of 4:26.36, posted en route to the gold medal at the 2016 Olymp...

Male World Record of the Year: Pan Zhanle Took the 100 Freestyle to Stunning Place Upon touching the wall at the conclusion of the final of the 100-meter freestyle at last summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, Pan Zhanle turned toward the scoreboard inside La Defense Arena. Once he saw the numbers next t...

Catching Up With ... Aussie Olympic Champ Jodie Henry Making a Difference for New Generation After a record-breaking week in the pool back in 2004 at Athens, Australia’s Jodie Henry left the birthplace of the Modern Olympic Games as a triple Olympic gold medalist and triple world record holder, hera...

World Male Relay of the Year: British 800 Freestyle Relay Made History with Gold at Paris Games When Great Britain captured the gold medal in the men’s 800-meter freestyle at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo (held in 2021), the achievement snapped a 113-year drought. Prior to that victory by the quar...