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ISHOF is sad to announce that Terry Sayring, the 2017 Paragon Award recipient for water polo, passed away on March 16, 2020, after a courageous battle against cancer. Terry was 81 years old. Sayring first became involved in water polo when, upon being discharged from the Marine Corp in California, h...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) Induction Weekend has been postponed to the fall of this year (2020) due to the Coronavirus Pandemic. A tentative date of October 2nd and 3rd has been selected pending the availability of honorees, award winners, and successful negotiations with Marrio...

Voice for the Sport (Craig Beardsley) The March issue of Swimming World Magazine features a Voice for the Sport column on Craig Beardsley, a great in the 200-meter butterfly who was one of the victims of the 1980 Olympic boycott, instituted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. Because of the boycott, Bea...

The mayor of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Dean Trantalis, announced in a press conference on Friday that the city has no plans to cancel any events due to the coronavirus outbreak, including the upcoming International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The enshrinement proceedings, along with the P...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced today the recipients of the ISHOF Specialty Awards.  The ISHOF Specialty Awards are presented annually to individuals for outstanding contributions to aquatics.  This year’s awards will be presented on Friday evening April in conjunction with...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) announced the recipients of the 25th Annual Paragon Awards, sponsored by Pentair Aquatic Systems.  The Paragon Awards are presented annually to individuals or organizations for outstanding contributions to aquatics in six categories. This year’s recipi...

Bob Duenkel’s greatest contribution to swimming, was his 40+ years of dedication and service to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, which he began in 1976. As ISHOF CEO, Buck Dawson’s assistant, he absorbed the history of swimming like a sponge, and not just from Dawson, but from the real great...

Get one free ticket to the 2020 ISHOF Induction ceremony! We want to celebrate our aquatics friends and family all over the world with an International Swimming Hall of Fame Family Hugs Special.  Sign up for an ISHOF Family Membership and receive one free ticket to the 2020 Honoree Induction (N...

Peter Hürzeler is the master of Swiss timekeeping technology – Swiss Timing. Since 1969, his organizational and creative skills have successfully delivered innovation, technology and timekeeping to Swimming. Throughout the decades, Hürzeler and his colleagues have invented and created many innovatio...

David Marsh is the Head Coach of Team Elite Aquatics, located in San Diego, California. Marsh was the 2016 Head U.S. Olympic Women's Swim Coach in Rio, leading Team USA to the most medals in USA Swimming's already storied history. [caption id="attachment_147048" align="aligncenter" width="835"] Phot...

ISHOF is proud to announce that this year, we will have co-Master of Ceremonies for the 2020 Induction Class of Honorees. Rowdy Gaines and Debbie Meyer will both be with us. Florida’s own, Rowdy Gaines, is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time world record holder and everyone’s favorite swi...

Australian Diver, Matthew Mitcham is credited with having received the highest single-dive score in Olympic history.  At the 2008 Olympic Games, in Beijing, China, Mitcham chose to execute a two-and-one-half somersault with two-and-one-half twists in the pike position for his last dive.  The dive ha...

Just a few miles east of Hard Rock Stadium, where the 54th Super Bowl will be played, is the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF). Among the world’s greatest collection of artifacts and memorabilia covering 20,000 years of swimming history - from Egypt’s Cave of the Swimmers to the modern Oly...

Michael Klim has been called the best relay swimmer ever.  He is a three-time Olympian, multi-time world champion and 21-time world record holder.  1998 was Klim's year in the sun. In January, the FINA World Aquatics Championships were held in Perth, Western Australia, and in front of a boisterous h...

Get your tickets now to attend the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) 2020 induction weekend in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.   This year ISHOF will induct thirteen honorees from seven countries; five swimmers, two coaches, one diver, one water polo player, one synchronized swimmer, one open wa...

For more than half a century, Ursula Carlile, teamed up with her husband, Forbes, to form swimming’s first internationally-prominent husband and wife coaching team.  The two collaborated at every level of the sport by sharing teaching, coaching, filming and administrative duties at their own Ryde Sw...

Aussie Jon Sieben set the world record with a blistering 1:57.04 in the 200m butterfly, winning the event in Los Angeles, in the major upset of the 1984 Olympic Games.  He surprised everyone and beat Michael Gross of Germany. The record stood for 11 months until Gross regained it in 1985.  Sieben co...

ISHOF seeks nominations for the 2020 Paragon Awards presented by Pentair Aquatic Systems The International Swimming Hall of Fame announces the call for nominations for the 2020 Paragon Awards to be presented at the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Honors Weekend, April 24, 2020 in Fort L...

Brendan Hansen is a six-time Olympic medalist, and also a former world record-holder in both the 100 and 200m breaststroke events (long course). [caption id="attachment_409856" align="aligncenter" width="702"] Brendan Hansen post-race Photo Courtesy: Brendan Hansen[/caption] He has won a total of 25...

Mirko Vičević has won gold at every major event on the water polo world stage; the Olympic Games, the World Championships and the FINA World Cup.  His original club was Primorac of Kotor, Montenegro (formerly Yugoslavia), where he played from 1982 to 1989. After that, he played for several teams, Ja...