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NCAA Men's Championships: Florida Edges Cal For 400 Freestyle Relay Title As Both Squads Shatter NCAA Record The outcome of the team-championship race was already decided heading into the final event of the NCAA Men’s Championships, the California Golden Bears repeating as titlists. But the 400-yard...

Led By Chelsea Gubecka, Australia Names Open Water Squad For World Championships Australian Champions Chelsea Gubecka (Yeronga Park) and Nick Sloman (Noosa) will lead an eight member Australian Dolphins team named by Swimming Australia to contest the Open Water component of the World Aquatics Champi...

NCAA Men's Championships: Josh Liendo and Florida Take Bite Out Of NCAA Record in 400 Medley Relay; Leon Marchand Continues Show Last month, a sub-3:00 showing at the Southeastern Conference Championships thrust the University of Florida into favorite status for the NCAA Champs in the 400-yard medle...

The Con of Michelle Smith: How the Irish Lass Cheated the Swimming World Her presence on the international stage was inconsequential. She didn’t affect the makeup of podiums. She didn’t influence any championship finals. At least, that’s the way the career of Michelle Smith unfolded for most of the ...

Longtime Bloomsburg Coach Stu Marvin Set to Retire; Will Leave Lasting Legacy After 15 years at the helm of the Bloomsburg men's and women's swimming teams, head coach Stu Marvin has announced his retirement, effective June 2. Coach Marvin will no doubt leave behind a legacy of excellence. "I would ...

Blast From the Past: How Ben Michaelson Shattered the Norm and Became a Pioneer Pioneers change minds. They show what is attainable. They dispel pre-conceived notions. And, perhaps most important, they open doors and provide opportunities for the next generation. Simply, they have a lasting impact. ...

Qin Haiyang and Li BIngjie Dial Up Swift Performances At Chinese Spring Championships Fast times dotted the second day of the Chinese Spring Championships, with Qin Haiyang and Li Bingjie producing the top performances. Coming off a runnerup finish in the 200-meter individual medley, Qin was dominan...

NCAA Women's Championships: Virginia Cruises To Victory in 400 Medley Relay; Closing In On Relay Sweep The outcome of the 400-yard medley relay at the NCAA Women’s Championships was hardly in doubt with the University of Virginia headlining the field. The question was the Cavaliers' margin of victor...

Passages: World-Record Setter and Olympic Medalist Shiro Hashizume Dies at 94 ISHOF Honoree Shiro Hashizume died recently at the age of 94. Up until his death on March 9, 2023, Hashizume was Japan’s oldest living Olympic medalist. Born in 1928, Hashizume should have been at his peak for the 1948 Oly...

World Record Flashback: When Tara Kirk Completed An Undefeated Career In Style In 100 Breaststroke In our latest edition of World Record Flashback, we visit the 2004 college campaign and Tara Kirk’s global standard at the NCAA Championships in the short-course meters version of the 100 breaststroke....

ISHOF Announces Spectacular Class of 2023; Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman Among Honorees The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) is proud to announce its prestigious Class of 2023. This year, ISHOF will induct 13 honorees from eight countries: five swimmers, two coaches, one diver, one water ...

An Appreciation Of 10 Of the Greatest Performances In NCAA History We know what’s coming. It happens every year. Between Knoxville (women) and Minneapolis (men), the sites of this year’s NCAA Division I Championships, there will be no shortage of spectacular performances. Almost surely, American and...

IWD: Celebrating the Olympic Trifecta of Debbie Meyer At the 1968 Mexico City Games Today, March 8, is International Women's Day. At the 1968 Olympic Games, Debbie Meyer completed her freestyle triple in Mexico City. It was a feat that went unmatched until the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, when Kati...

The Book, In Search of Mina Wylie, Examines Life and Career of Early Aussie Female Star Her name might not be as well known as some other female pioneers in the sport, but Mina Wylie had a considerable impact on the sport. The Australian established herself as a legend in the early 20th century, and...

In the Desert, Coach Bob Bowman Using Pitchfork to Sow Fertile Programs In the Northwest corner of the United States, Arizona State celebrated a unique climb to the top of the Pac-12 Conference on Saturday night. Just hours earlier, in the Southeast corner of the U.S., Regan Smith unleashed a pair o...

Summer McIntosh Blitzes World Junior Record in 200 Individual Medley At Fort Lauderdale Three days and three world junior records for Canadian star Summer McIntosh at the TYR Pro Series stop in Fort Lauderdale. Racing at the site of the International Swimming Hall of Fame, McIntosh clocked 2:08.08 i...

Scotty Buff Shatters National High School Record in 100 Butterfly With Sub-45 Blast It’s been a busy weekend for high school record-breaking, with St. Francis’ Scotty Buff the latest athlete to get in on the editing. After a pair of national standards were set in Indiana on Friday night, Buff shatte...

Will Modglin Takes Down Ryan Murphy's National High School Record in 100 Backstroke At Indiana State Champs For more than a decade, Ryan Murphy owned the national high-school record in the 100-yard backstroke, thanks to a performance of 45.34 for the Bolles School during the 2012 season. Given Murph...

Jack Bauerle and Paul Yetter to Speak at Pennsylvania High School Swimming Coaches Association Clinic The Pennsylvania High School Swimming Coaches Association will holds its 22nd annual clinic on April 15 at Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg. The clinic will feature a pair of standout ...

The Qualifying Times For the 2024 United States Olympic Trials in Indianapolis Periodically during the leadup to the next edition of the United States Olympic Trials, Swimming World will republish the qualifying times as a reminder of what athletes are chasing. With less than two years to go until t...