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The Brazilian Swimming Championships opened Monday from Rio de Janeiro as two swimmers achieved the desired FINA A standard to qualify for the Olympic Games. Results Guilherme Costa was the first official qualifier with a 3:45.85 in the 400 freestyle, which put him eighth in the world rankings this ...

United States Aquatic Sports (USAS) congratulates Dale Neuburger on his recent appointment by the FINA Bureau to serve as FINA Treasurer, following the resignation of Pipat Paniangvait who had served in this position since 2009. “I am very pleased that Dale Neuburger will serve in this important rol...

Gretchen Walsh has been one of the top high school swimmers in the country for the past four years. Her final meet for Harpeth Hall High School will be at this weekend’s Tennessee state championships. Walsh is the favorite to win the 50- and 100-yard freestyle events as she hopes to lead Harpeth Hal...

Ahead of Tokyo Games, Katie Ledecky vs. Ariarne Titmus Showdowns Taking Form With the countdown to the Olympic Games at fewer than 100 days, greater hype will be placed on several impending individual showdowns in Tokyo. Caeleb Dressel vs. Kyle Chalmers. Lilly King vs. Yuliya Efimova. Shoma Sato vs....

Ashley Twichell & David Heron won the 5K on Sunday at the US Open Water Nationals meet in Fort Myers, Florida as Heron swept the 5 & 10K races while Twichell upgraded her silver in the 10K to gold in the 5. Twichell pounced on the third lap, passing 10K champ and Texas commit Erica Sullivan to win a...

What Would it Mean if Ryan Lochte Made Another Olympic Team? By any measure, Ryan Lochte is one of the greatest swimmers in history, a part of any reasonable list of the top 10 male performers ever. His already impressive résumé—12 Olympic medals, six of them gold, plus 18 long course world titles—w...

Shy of an opening relay DQ, it took until Day 4 of the Atlantic 10 Championships for a men’s swimming race that didn’t feature a George Washington swimmer in the top two. It was that dominant of a performance from the Colonials on the way to their fourth title. A much more balanced women’s meet prod...

David Abrahams set an American Para Swimming record in the SB-13 100-meter breaststroke this week at the Para Swimming World Series. Abrahams went 1:04.14 in prelims to break the record, then sped up in finals to go 1:04.07. The world record for SB13 was set in 2013 by Oleksii Fedyna at 1:03.58. Abr...

Mexican National Team Athletes Pleading For Support; Olympic Dreams Hang in Balance By Daniela Navarrete A group of 14 national team members are desperate for support from the Mexican Swimming Federation (FMN) and the National Commission for Physical Culture and Sports (CONADE) Many of the athletes ...

Erica Sullivan and David Heron took the 10K open water national titles on Friday morning in Fort Myers, Florida as this meet served as qualification for the open water national team status as the Olympic roster has already been selected from the placings at the 2019 World Championships. Results Sull...

Lilly King, the Killer Instinct Competitor and the Goofball (From April’s Swimming World Magazine) Five years after her public introduction to the world at the Rio Olympics, little has changed about Lilly King. She will still speak her mind, she will still tell you how she really feels, and she’s st...

The start lists for the Open Water Nationals have been released for this weekend's meet in Fort Myers, Florida as the two Olympians for 2021 - Ashley Twichell & Haley Anderson will lead the women's field along with Texas commit Erica Sullivan in what will be an intriguing race in both the 10K on Fri...

Mallory Weggemann: Her 'Limitless' Journey from Obstacles to Inspiration By Sadie Jones, Swimming World Intern Throughout her life, Mallory Weggemann has faced obstacle after obstacle, including paralysis at the age of 18 and losing partial use of one of her arms due to a freak accident. She has mad...

Michael Phelps, widely regarded as the greatest Olympic athlete of all-time, dissected all of his finals swims from his five trips to the Olympics in a new docu-series, "Michael Phelps: Medals, Memories and More," only available on Peacock. Phelps sits down with the two men who called each of his 28...

There are more than 65,000 Masters swimmers in the United States representing nearly 1,500 swimming teams across the country, and as with so many other organizations, meets have been postponed multiple times and even canceled altogether. Swimmers around the country have been missing out on competing...

Garrett McCaffrey has stepped down as head coach of the Phoenix Swim Club (PSC). He announced his departure on Wednesday, April 14 via an email to the club membership after a meeting by the Board of Directors.  An official notification went out hours later from club management. McCaffrey has been wi...

TYR Sport on Thursday announced the signing of Michael Andrew, adding the world champion American swimmer to its ranks of athletes. “We are thrilled to partner with Michael Andrew on his road to Tokyo,” Matt DiLorenzo, CEO of TYR Sport, said in a press release. “Michael is an incredibly talented and...

Texas A&M’s Shaine Casas and Alabama’s Rhyan White were named the SEC Swimmers of the Year Wednesday in the postseason All-SEC Awards. Seven schools split the 12 swimmer and coaching honors, including six different schools on the men’s side. Leading the way was A&M with three – Casas, Female Diver o...

The countdown to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics has reached 100 days. That in itself is a representation of the hopes of athletes after the games were postponed by the COVID-19 pandemic last year. In 2020, the 100-day-countdown mark never happened as the pandemic postponed the games by a year before the st...

As Evan Austin mounted a charge for what he hoped would be a third Paralympics, he recognized that he needed a change. It was the fall of 2019, and Austin was fresh off arguably his greatest accomplishment in the pool, a gold medal in the 50-meter butterfly at the 2019 World Championships. A veteran...