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After Superb Argentine Tango, Adam Peaty and Katya Jones Advance on Reality Dance Show Following back-to-back weeks in which they struggled on the British reality television show, Strictly Come Dancing, Adam Peaty and professional partner Katya Jones unleashed a superb performance on Saturday night....

Indiana had no trouble sweeping its Big Ten Conference dual meet with Northwestern on Saturday, as the Hoosier won the women's meet, 175-125, and the men emerged on top, 173-120. Indiana is ranked 11th on the women's side and fifth on the men's scene. Full Results Indiana Press Release HOOSIER WINNE...

Coming Off Redshirt Season, Arizona State Returns to Action With Decisive Triumph Over Washington State The No. 22 Arizona State women's swimming team hardly looked like a squad that hasn't competed since March 2020, opening the 2021-22 campaign with a resounding 157-105 win on the road at Washingto...

Penn State Men Post Road Victory Over West Virginia; Will Roberson Shines Ranked 25th in the College Swimming Coaches Association preseason poll, Penn State won its second straight meet to open the season with a 161-132 victory over West Virginia on Saturday. Full Results Penn State Press Release To...

Great Races: When Michael Phelps Nearly Broke the World Record in the 100 Backstroke With 28 Olympic titles on the ledger, the career of Michael Phelps is well-documented. He is known as the greatest swimmer in history, one of those rare athletes where there is no debate about his status as the GOAT...

Star-Powered Field On Tap As FINA World Cup Series Set For Move to Doha The next stop of the FINA World Cup Series is scheduled for next week, with short-course competition taking place in Doha from Oct. 21-23. The three-day event follows the first two stops of the series, which took place in Berlin...

As FINA Prepares to Investigate Doping Days of GDR, A Look At the Dagger Of Kristin Otto (From February's Issue of Swimming World Magazine) The image is iconic in Olympic lore. As he crossed the finish line, index finger pointing to the sky, Canadian Ben Johnson was the most-celebrated athlete on th...

N.C. State Sweeps Tennessee; Katharine Berkoff and Nyls Korstanje Shine For Wolfpack North Carolina State kept its early-season roll going as it registered a sweep of Tennessee. The Wolfpack men claimed a 205-95 decision over the Volunteers while the women cruised to a triumph of 182-118. N.C. State...

Auburn Women Take Down Florida State; Seminoles Better Tigers in Men's Meet Auburn and Florida State split a dual meet on Friday, with the 23rd-ranked Auburn women registering a 177-123 win over the Seminoles. Meanwhile, 15th0-ranked Florida State edged the Tigers in the men's meet, 153-147. Full Re...

Olympian Andrei Minakov Makes Stanford Debut As Cardinal Topple Utah Stanford men's swimming and diving opened the season with a 191-104 victory over Pac-12 rival Utah on Friday. The Cardinal placed first in 14 of 16 events in the dual meet and featured four swimmers winning multiple events. 2020 Ol...

Stanford Opens Pac-12 Action With Victory Behind Regan Smith and Torri Huske Stanford women's swimming and diving (2-0, 1-0 Pac-12) opened Pac-12 competition with a 192-105 victory at Utah, Friday. The Cardinal improved to 9-1 in conference openers under coach Greg Meehan. Stanford swept both relays...

Tyler Clary Breaks Down Open-Heart Surgery on Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast In the 199th episode of the Inside with Brett Hawke Podcast, Olympic champion Tyler Clary joined the host, a two-time Australian Olympian, and discussed the recent open-heart surgery he underwent. Clary had to have the pro...

Sunwoo Hwang Smashes Korean Record in 200 Individual Medley; Teen Adds Depth to Arsenal South Korean teenager Sunwoo Hwang, who threatened the podium in a pair of freestyle events at last summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, has demonstrated his talent extends to multiple strokes. According to the Yonha...

David Popovici: The Boy Who Might Be King (Full Article) Let’s play a game. It’s the 2024 Olympic Games, the French capital of Paris serving as the focal point of the sporting world. Three years after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a spectator-free Games in Tokyo, boisterous fans have returned to the ...

Great Races: The End of the Michael Phelps-Ryan Lochte Rivalry; When Phelps Managed the Quad As part of Swimming World's Great Races Series, we take a trip back to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and the night Michael Phelps won a fourth consecutive Olympic title in the 200-meter individual...

Florida State Opens Season With Sweep Of Team Titles at TYR Classic The Florida State swimming and diving teams opened the 2021-22 season by winning the TYR Classic at the Biscayne Bay Campus Aquatics Center on Saturday. Heading into the second and final day of competition, the ladies (217) held a s...

Coaching Great Jacco Verhaeren Discusses Career and Approach on Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast When the name Jacco Verhaeren is spoken, high-level success on the international stage comes to mind. Verhaeren is one of the elite coaches and administrators in the world, with his latest role serving as...

Olympians Katie Grimes, Michael Brinegar Capture Titles at Las Vegas Open Water Cup A pair of United States Olympians from the Tokyo Games last summer captured titles at the Las Vegas Open Water Champions Cup on Friday. Katie Grimes and Michael Brinegar won their respective 10K races, which were hel...

Road to the Hall of Fame: When Brendan Hansen Captured the 'Shinest Bronze Medal Ever' This column was written from the 2012 Olympic Games in London, following Brendan Hansen's bronze-medal showing in the 100-meter breaststroke. Swimming World is re-running the piece as Hansen will be inducted into ...

Great Races: Krisztina Egerszegi Makes History With Three-Peat in 200 Backstroke (Video) As Swimming World continues its series on some of the great races in history, attention is turned to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. At the Centennial Games, Hungarian legend Krisztina Egerszegi pulled off on...