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Women's Swimming Revamp: What Events Are Awaiting New Rising Stars Scan through the women's results from the pool swimming competition at the Paris Olympics, and you will find plenty of big names entering or in the midst of their prime: Canada's Summer McIntosh, the only woman to win three individua...

6 American Male Swimmers Who Could Break Out in Time For 2028 Olympic Games No swimmer younger than 18 years old had qualified to represent the United States on the Olympic level for five consecutive cycles until Thomas Heilman did so in 2024, winning the 200 butterfly and taking second in the 100 f...

Despite Crushing Disqualification, Alex Walsh Still Proud of Paris Performance Ninety-five percent of the way through the women’s 200 IM Olympic final, a gold medal was still within reach. An excruciating final 10 meters turned that gold medal into bronze but still good enough for a spot on the podi...

Chris Guiliano Enters Transfer Portal 'Given Current Uncertainties' at Notre Dame The Notre Dame men's swimming program is under suspension for at least the 2024-25 season after an external review revealed NCAA violations regarding gambling and issues involving team culture. The review absolved head...

Throwback Thursday: Alexander Dale Oen Wins Emotional Gold for Norway at His Final Major Meet The news was a gut punch not just for his family and friends but for the entire swimming community. Late at night on April 30, 2012,  Norwegian breaststroker Alexander Dale Oen passed away suddenly, his cau...

9 Rising Female Stars Who Can Make a Team USA Impact on Road to 2028 Olympic Games As the United States women excelled at the Paris Olympics with 18 total medals, experienced swimmers provided the highlights. Of the nine American women who won individual medals, seven were returners from the Tokyo G...

GoSwim Launches App Designed to Provide Data-Centric Video Feedback For Swimmers For almost two decades, GoSwim has provided videos aimed at helping swimmers improve, with world-class competitors demonstrating skills and drills for a vast audience, as well as other content involving swimming educati...

Paralympic Games, Day 5: Simone Barlaam Sets World Record in S9 50 Free; Two More British Golds As the Paralympic swimming competition in Paris reached its halfway point with 13 finals contested Monday evening, Italy's Simone Barlaam provided the highlight performance as he set a world record for th...

Paralympic Games, Day 4: Mykhailo Serbin, Gabriel Araujo Take Down World Records The swimming portion of the Paralympic Games continued Sunday with 14 gold-medal finals held inside La Défense Arena, and the highlight of the day was Ukraine's Mykhailo Serbin taking down his own world record in the me...

Rylee Erisman Sprinting Through Junior Pan Pacs Toward Senior Level This year, the United States assembled its fastest-ever collection of female 100 freestylers on the way to an American record and silver medal in the 400 freestyle relay at the Paris Olympics. At the U.S. Olympic Trials, a time of 5...

Another Record-Breaking Surge Makes Maximus Williamson Male High School Swimmer of the Year Entering his junior-year high school state meet, Maximus Williamson had conducted his research on the 13-year-old national high school record he was chasing. When David Nolan had clocked 1:41.39 back in 2011,...

Sun Yang Returns to Racing at Chinese Summer Championships One of the most controversial swimmers of the 21st century swam his first official race in more than four years Sunday in Hefei, China, as Sun Yang made his return to competition following a four-year suspension. Sun Yang competed in the 400...

Junior Pan Pacs, Day 4 Prelims: Lilla Bognar, Rylee Erisman, Shin Ohashi Chasing More Gold In six prelims events on the final morning of the Junior Pan Pacific Championships in the Australian capital of Canberra, three swimmers who have already secured individual victories claimed top seeds. Top tim...

Keller H.S. Claims Swimming World Mythical Boys National High School Championship For the first time in program history, the Keller High School boys’ swim team has been named Swimming World’s National High School Champion. Keller completed a dominant performance fueled by Maximus Williamson, respons...

After Olympic Dominance, Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh Secure in Positions as World's Best Hundreds of swimmers competed over the nine days at La Défense Arena, all of whom had poured years of training and focus into ensuring they would be at their best for the Paris Olympics. Fifty-seven depart...

Coaches Corner: Why Are Swimmers Now Able to Produce More Consistently Fast Performances Throughout the Year? In the past, swimmers tended to produce fast times only once or twice per year. Now, we are seeing consistently swift performances across the calendar. Why? In this Coaches Corner, several c...

Paris Olympics: Paige Madden Claiming 800 Freestyle Bronze Was Top Swimming Surprise Paige Madden left U.S. Nationals in 2023 seriously questioning whether she would ever make it back to representing her country at a senior-level international competition. She had missed the A-final in the 200 frees...

Paris Olympics: Summer McIntosh Inspired Canada in Dominant, 'Surreal' Performance Three years earlier, Summer McIntosh had become one of the youngest Olympic swimming finalists in modern memory. In Tokyo, McIntosh was just 14, but she nearly pulled off a medal, swimming in third place behind an epi...

Paris Olympics: U.S.-China Mixed Medley Showdown Was Best Race of Games In the past two Olympic Games, the mixed 400 medley relay has been a wildly entertaining addition to the swimming program, with each nation making slightly different strategy choices to maximize strengths and mask their weakness...

Paris Olympics: U.S. Women Shined, Men Struggled on French Soil For the first time in 20 years, the United States did not reach 30 medals in the pool at the Paris Games. With eight gold medals, the Americans had their lowest number of wins since the 1988 Olympics, and their tally of golds was halved...