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European Championships: Italy's Thomas Ceccon Claims 50 Butterfly Title The 2022 European Championships continued with the finals of the men’s 50 butterfly from Rome. The event provided an extremely fast field, and a few surprises in a little more than a blink of an eye. The 50 butterfly seems to le...

World Triathlon Adopts Policy That Will Allow Transgender Athletes in Women's Competition World Triathlon, the global governing body of the sport, announced its transgender policy on Wednesday. The decision by World Triathlon will allow transgender athletes to compete in the women’s category, a deci...

Gutter Talk: The World's Elite Reflect On Their World Championships Experience In the latest edition of Gutter Talk, the monthly feature in Swimming World Magazine, some of the best athletes in the world reflect on their experiences and performances from the recent World Championships in Budapest. S...

A Look At the Most-Decorated Swimming Medalists On the International Stage; Katinka Hosszu Chasing 100 Heading into the European Championships in Rome, Hungarian star Katinka Hosszu sits just four medals shy of 100 for her career in major international competition. With 96 medals, Hosszu has excelle...

The History of Swimming: From the Maya to the Aztecs...And More Swimming is universal to all races and cultures. However, in these times, we see very few representatives from the indigenous populations of Africa, the Americas or Oceania competing in aquatic sports at the Olympic Games. This fact has...

How the Underwater Dolphin Kick Evolved and Revolutionized the Sport By J.P. Mortenson (Archive) Underwater dolphin kicking transformed the sport of swimming. These days, swimmers at the NCAA and international level routinely push their kicks to the 15-meter mark. However, this was not always the ca...

Growing in Experience, Hwang Sun-Woo Aiming to Be Best Self by Paris Hwang Sun-Woo doesn’t have to be told about the pressure that comes with being a star athlete in South Korea. He knows the historical context, from his performance at the Tokyo Olympics last summer to his medal at the 2022 World Ch...

The Pros and Cons of the Stroke 50s Being Added to the Olympics? By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern More and more events have been added to the Olympic program since the first Modern Games in 1896. At those Athens Games, four events were contested, solely with men. The 100-meter freestyle, 500-me...

Historical Dive: When Chinese Doping Mirrored the Systematic Program of East Germany The similarities could not be overlooked. Sudden, and massive, drops in time. A revolving cadre of new names. Deep voices. Extraordinary musculature. And, perhaps most important, whispers around the deck. Just as th...

After Commonwealth Games, Australian Women in Command of All Three Relays One year ago, Australia’s women were dominant at the Olympics. The swimming-obsessed nation had won just a single women’s gold medal in both London and Rio, but Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown and Emma McKeon led an Aussie revi...

Column: Beyond Talent in the Water, Adam Peaty Exhibits Gold-Medal Spirit and Character There is something special about Adam Peaty, and it has nothing to do with his status as the greatest athlete his events have seen. Sure, respect and reverence are paid to the British star, who – in the 50 breast...

Summer McIntosh Shows Speed, Fulfills Promise With Six Medals at Commonwealth Games For two years, we have seen glimpses of what Summer McIntosh could be. A 14-year-old narrowly missing the podium in an individual event at the Olympics makes the world take notice, and after she debuted as primarily ...

Commonwealth Games: Australian Women Dominate 400 Medley Relay to Cap Off Dominant Week In almost every swimming event this week at the Commonwealth Games, the Australian women were simply too strong for every other nation. The Aussies won gold in 12 out of 19 events in Birmingham, England, includin...

Commonwealth Games: Despite Charge of Kyle Chalmers, England Snaps Australia's Relay Dominance With 400 Medley Win Sweeping the relay events is always a target for Australia at the Commonwealth Games, and as the men's 400 medley relay was set to begin on Wednesday, the Dolphins were one victory shy ...

Commonwealth Games: Ariarne Titmus Holds Summer McIntosh at Bay in 400 Free for Fourth Gold Medal In a highly-anticipated showdown between the world-record holder and the teenage sensation who has taken women's swimming by storm this year, Ariarne Titmus reminded the world of her skills in the 400 f...

Commonwealth Games: In Search of Rekindling Aussie Tradition, Sam Short Mines Gold in 1500 Freestyle The tradition of Australian distance swimming is well-documented. The country pays great respect to all of its champions, but the 1500-meter freestyle has always held special recognition. Plenty of l...

Commonwealth Games: Kylie Masse Sets Games Record for 50 Back Gold; Mollie O'Callaghan Takes Silver for Sixth Birmingham Medal Four years ago on the Gold Coast, Kylie Masse won Commonwealth Games gold medals in the 100 and 200 backstroke. Although she ended up second in both of those events this tim...

Commonwealth Games: Sprint Maven Ben Proud Registers Three-Peat in the 50 Freestyle The goal when England's Ben Proud stepped onto the blocks earlier in the week for the 50-meter butterfly at the Commonwealth Games was redemption. Following a disqualification in the event at the last edition of the ...

Commonwealth Games: Duncan Scott Again Fights Off Tom Dean, This Time in 200 Individual Medley There's something about gold-silver finishes that appeal to Duncan Scott and Tom Dean, the British stars who are competing separately at the Commonwealth Games for Scotland and England. For the third time ...

If Swimming Added New Events to the Olympic Lineup, What Could They Be? The women's 1500 freestyle, men's 800 free and the mixed medley relay made their debuts at the Olympic Games in Tokyo, bringing the total number of events in the pool to 35. Previously, the last time an event was added to t...