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Breaking Waves: Unlock Faster Backstroke Breakouts with These 6 Cutting-Edge Drills Umimplavat.cz is a swim analysis company which provided race and technical analysis for individual swimmers, clubs and national teams. The work of Umimplavat.cz is elite, and Swimming World is thrilled to bring you a...

A Taste of Everything: Why Younger Swimmers Should Race Every Event In swimming, the topic of specialization of young athletes is often contentious and controversial. At the beginning of my career, I was extremely fortunate to grow up and participate in a program that put an emphasis on doing all di...

Kate Douglass Races First Long Course 200 IM Since Olympics at Atlanta Classic After winning Olympic bronze in the 200 IM in 2021, Kate Douglass did not race the event at all in 2022, skipping her chance to aim for a spot on the World Championships team last April. But after winning a short course w...

Torri Huske, Claire Curzan Making 2023 Long Course Debut at TYR Pro Swim Series Mission Viejo (Psych Sheet) The last TYR Pro Swim Series meet of the season will be held next week (May 17-20) in Mission Viejo, Calif., and this will serve as the final national-caliber meet prior to the held in the Uni...

Dara Torres has been around the pool her whole life. That hasn't changed. She has done great things in the pool her entire life, too, and that also hasn't changed. Torres is a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) Board of Directors and an active member of the Fort Lauderdale com...

On An Island: A Look At the Statistical Dominance of Katie Ledecky in the 800 Freestyle Statistics have always played a prominent role in sports, highlighted by the pursuit of a .400 batting average on the baseball diamond to the iconic 100-point performance of Wilt Chamberlain on the basketball cou...

Caeleb Dressel, Katie Ledecky, Summer McIntosh, Bobby Finke Lead Loaded Field for Atlanta Classic (Psych Sheet) This year's edition of the Atlanta Classic will feature as strong a field as any non-championship meet on U.S. soil outside of TYR Pro Swim Series. For the first time in almost 11 months, ...

Who Will Win the Men's 100 Freestyle at the World Championships? The men's 100 freestyle has long been considered the blue-ribband of swimming, and when the best swimmers in the world gather to race the event this July in Fukuoka, Japan, look for a showdown between some of the most prominent figures...

Nathan Adrian, FINIS Announce Partnership Based on Smart Goggle FINIS Inc., the international swimming company that designs industry-first, highest-quality products to help swimmers of all ages and levels, today announced a new partnership with world champion swimmer Nathan Adrian centered around th...

Missy Franklin, Cullen Jones, Rowdy Gaines Appear on Today Show Promoting Water Safety A trio of U.S. Olympic gold medalists appeared on NBC's Today Show Friday morning to raise awareness of water safety with the summer quickly approaching and to encourage parents to enroll their young children in s...

Daisy Collins and Dillon Brigman Capture U.S. Junior National 5K Titles After the U.S. Open Water National Championships featured the 10-kilometer races Friday, in which Katie Grimes and Mariah Denigan secured the spots to represent the U.S. women at the World Championships while brothers Brennan Gr...

Katie Grimes, Claire Weinstein Lead Big Night For Sandpipers At Fran Crippen Swim Meet Of Champions While many of the top United States stars are in Illinois this weekend for the latest TYR Pro Series stop, the Sandpipers of Nevada have opted to compete at the annual Fran Crippen Swim Meet of Champi...

Kate Douglass Repeats as Honda Sport Award Winner for Swimming & Diving For the second consecutive year, the University of Virginia's Kate Douglass put on a dominant performance at the NCAA Women's Championships with three individual record-setting victories and four relay wins. This time, she swam ...

Riley Gaines Confronted By Protesters After Speech Against Trans Participation in Women's Sports Former University of Kentucky swimmer Riley Gaines, who was an NCAA finalist in the 200 freestyle in 2021 and 2022, was confronted by protesters after giving a speech at San Francisco State University Th...

David Popovici Wins 50 Free, 100 Back, 50 Fly During First Two Days of Romanian Championships After narrowly missing out on his first trip to an Olympic podium in 2021, Romanian teenager David Popovici emerged as one of the sport's preeminent stars in 2023. At the World Championships in Budapest, he...

Why Leon Marchand Surpasses Caeleb Dressel Among Historic NCAA Performances To ensure proper perspective, historical appreciation — in any sport — is a necessity. Through this approach, the water-based contributions of Mark Spitz will not be forgotten. Nor will those of John Naber and Pablo Morales....

Dong Zhihao Beats 200 Breast World Junior Record at Chinese Spring Champs; Wang Changhao Lowers National Record On the fifth day of China's Spring Championships, veteran Qin Haiyang produced a swim in the 200 breaststroke that would have earned him a silver medal at last year's World Championships, ...

Chinese Teen Wang Haoyu Clocks Sub-48 In 100 Freestyle At Spring Champs; Olympic Titlist Wang Shun Looks Strong Another teenager is making noise in the 100-meter freestyle, as 17-year-old Wang Haoyu broke the 48-second barrier at the Chinese Spring Championships. With the World Championships in Fuku...

Trenton Julian Case in SafeSport Closed, Temporary Measures Lifted Weeks after qualifying for the U.S. team bound for the World Championships, Trenton Julian's name appeared in the U.S. Center for SafeSport’s Centralized Disciplinary Database with a note of "Allegations of Misconduct." Several restr...

How to Win a Championship: Lose a Dual Meet By Ron Blanc, Guest Contributor/Santa Margarita Catholic High School Swim Coach As a boys’ and girls’ high school coach for 35 years, I have been blessed to coach many championship teams...but only on the girls’ side. The boys’ run to titles, however, has ...