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Swimming World Interviews of the Year - United States 2019 has been a great year for the sport of swimming. With less than a year to go until the 2020 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to commemorate the 15 best interviews of the year 2019 from pools across...

Daniel Roy has been in competition with newly crowned National title winner Reece Whitley for several years now, so it was no surprise that the two held a tight race on night two to finish first and second at the 2019 Phillips 66 U.S. National Championships. Later that night, when he met with the me...

Asia Seidt stopped by the media tent after her victory in the women's 200 back to discuss her busy summer, which has included a trip to Italy for the World University Games (WUGs) and the 2019 Phillips 66 U.S. National Championships. Because WUGs took place July 4-10, Seidt tapered for that meet and...

Katinka Hosszu swam five events at the 2019 FINA Champions Series meet in Indianapolis, winning the 200 IM on Saturday night with a 2:08.50 which is the fastest time in the world for 2019. Hosszu was in a really good race with Sydney Pickrem, who broke the Canadian Record with a 2:08.61 after leadin...

Jacob Pebley swam a 1:56.35 on Saturday night at the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis as he said it was the first time he beat former Cal teammate Ryan Murphy in five years. Pebley is now training in San Diego under David Marsh and he said he has enjoyed being on a smaller team around other pro...

Hali Flickinger won the 200 fly on Saturday at the 2019 FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis with a 2:06.40, which is the fastest time of 2019. It is the fastest Flickinger has ever been in-season as she said she had never even broken 2:08 in-season before 2019. She is just ahead of Katinka Hosszu ...

Lithuania's Danas Rapsys talked to the media on Friday night at the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis as he won the 200 free (1:45.56), was second in the 400 free (3:46.23), and was fourth in the 200 back (2:14.02). Rapsys talked about what he enjoyed about the inaugural meet and how he felt in ...

Kelsi Dahlia swam the 100 fly on Friday night at the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis with a 57.55. It was a season best for Dahlia as she now sits eighth in the world rankings in the event. She was second to Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom (56.42), who put up the top time in the world. Dahlia also swa...

Olympic bronze medalist Cody Miller talked briefly with the media on Friday night at the FINA Champions Series in Indianapolis after he won the 100 breast with a 59.26. It was just off his 59.24 from the Bloomington Pro Series a few weeks ago. Miller talked about what it meant to win in front of a "...

Mission Viejo's David Heron was the second highest finishing American in the 10K on Friday at the 2019 Open Water Nationals in Miami. Heron finished fourth overall in the race behind Italy's Gregorio Paltrinieri and Mario Sanzullo but was the second American behind Jordan Wilimovsky. Heron and Wilim...

Two-time Olympian Haley Anderson qualified for her seventh World Championships team on Saturday at the 2019 Open Water National Championships in Miami as she was the second place American on the results. She finished third overall in the race behind Ana Marcela Cunha and Ashley Twichell but the form...

2016 Olympian Jordan Wilimovsky was the highest finishing American in the 10K on Friday at the 2019 US Open Water Nationals in Miami as he punched his ticket for the 2019 World Championships later this summer in South Korea. Wilimovsky actually finished second overall behind 1500 free Olympic Champi...

1500 Free Olympic Champion Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy talked about his win in the 10K at the 2019 Open Water Nationals in Miami on Friday. Paltrinieri won the final by over a minute as he is in the middle of a training camp in the United States. Paltrinieri talked about if he prefers swimming the...

29-year-old Ashley Twichell finished in second in the 10K on Friday at the 2019 Open Water Nationals and was the top finishing American at the event. She punched her ticket to the World Championships with her swim on Friday in Miami and also has a chance to qualify for the 2020 Olympic Games. The to...

Michigan's Felix Aubock entered the 500 free as top seed in the event but shockingly failed to score. He bounced back in a major way Saturday evening as he captured the NCAA title in the 1650 free, rattling the NCAA record in the process. After the race, Aubock explained how he moved past the big di...

Dean Farris wrapped up a breakout week at the men's NCAA championships Saturday night with his second individual title, this one in the 100 free. Farris swam a time of 40.80, making him the third-fastest performer in history, and just fast enough to hold off Minnesota's Bowen Becker. Farris explaine...

Texas fell short in its bid for a fifth straight team championship at NCAAs this week, but the Longhorns went out with a bang on the meet's final night. Texas finished 1-2 in the 200 back with John Shebat and Austin Katz, and Jordan Windle won platform diving before the quartet of Daniel Krueger, Sh...

Cal senior Andrew Seliskar captured a national title in the 200 breast Sunday, his third title of the meet, and became the third-fastest swimmer ever in the event. Seliskar was named national swimmer of the meet for his efforts, and afterwards, he reflected on the week. Seliskar explained that the t...

After the California Golden Bears secured their NCAA championship Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, coach Dave Durden reflected on a week that saw his team score an A-finalist in every event, take four individual and one relay title and utterly dominate each of the meet’s three full days—and, of co...

The 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships from Austin, Texas have officially ended with the Cal Golden Bears claiming the team title, their first in five years. Swimming World has compiled the best quotes from the last night of the meet with quotes from Felix Aubock, John Sheb...