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USA Men’s Water Polo To Host Australia in Two-Game January Series The USA men’s water polo team will host Australia for two games in January to start 2026. The U.S. and the Aussies will square off Jan. 10 at the Woollett Aquatics Center at Irvine, Calif., at 6 p.m. PT and Jan. 11 at Mt. San Antonio ...

Better With Age: French Star Beryl Gastaldello Continues to Shine, as Recent French Records Indicate It’s considered a common piece of social etiquette to not ask a woman her age. To ask is societally viewed as insensitive, offensive, even. That is, unless you’re Beryl Gastaldello.  At the recent Eu...

What Is the Most Overlooked Swimming Performance of 2025? The results from last summer's World Championships in Singapore list Katie Ledecky as a dominant victor in the final of the 1500-meter freestyle. The American prevailed in the 30-lap event by five-plus seconds, and followed a few days later w...

A Breakdown of Women's World Top-10 Rankings for the 2025 Season; USA Dominates Over the past 12 months, the American women have proven themselves well-positioned for the push toward the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. While Team USA's veteran contingent is rock solid, the latest rising crop of y...

Paralympic Champion Benjamin Hance Takes World Record Tally To Three At Queensland Championships Not satisfied with one world record on Wednesday, Australian Paralympic man-of-the- moment, Benjamin Hance has gone one step further in Brisbane today, breaking a further  two world records in one day a....

Australian Paralympic Star Benjamin Hance Continues World Record Assault At Queensland Championships There is no stopping Australian Paralympic golden boy Benjamin Hance who has continued his world record breaking assault on the 50m backstroke at the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championshi.....

U.S. Women's Water Polo Celebrates 25 Years of Olympic Inclusion (Plus: Where Are They Now?) By Aimee Berg In 2000, women’s water polo finally made its official Olympic debut – a century after the men’s game. “We thought for sure (the International Olympic Committee) would add it to the Olympics in ...

CSCAA Assembles College Swimming and Diving Advocacy Council The College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America on Wednesday announced the formation of the College Swimming and Diving Advocacy Council. The initiative is designed to strengthen and expand the impact of collegiate swimming ...

Cold Water and the Mind Behind Speed There is nothing worse than one of those first outdoor summer practices in May when the air has not touched 80 degrees yet. The pool sits there cold. Colder than cold. Jumping in feels like punishment, and getting through the set becomes the hardest part of the d...

Neutral Power: Russian Swimmers Had Impressive International Return in 2025 For three years, Russian swimmers were largely absent from international swimming competition, exiled as a result of their country’s illegal invasion of Ukraine. The International Olympic Committee opened pathways for Russia...

A Half-Century Apart, Katie Ledecky and Casey Converse Are Now Linked By Their Distance Greatness The Site: Cleveland, Ohio. The Meet: The 1977 NCAA Championships. The Event: The 1650-yard freestyle. On March 26, 1977, Casey Converse made history in the pool. Less than a year removed from representi...

'Duel We Missed' Captures Best Feature Film Award at Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival As the year nears its end, "The Duel We Missed" has picked up a major film award. The documentary, which highlights the missed opportunity for a 1500-meter freestyle showdown between American Brian Goodell and th...

David Popovici, Jack Alexy Chasing World Record of Enigmatic Pan Zhanle in Men’s 100 Freestyle Like many world records in men’s swimming, the mark in the 100 freestyle stood untouched for years following the polyurethane suit era. In a two-year stretch when the suits were legal, the long-standing wo...

Latest Queensland Distance Prodigy Lincoln Wearing Breaks Kieren Perkins 35-year-old 800m Freestyle Record Queensland’s latest distance freestyle prodigy, Lincoln Wearing, has tonight taken down a 35-year-old Kieren Perkins record, set by the former king of the pool at the 1990 Commonwealth Games. ....

A Breakdown of Men's World Top-10 Rankings for the 2025 Season; 31 Nations Represented In major international competition, 17 individual events are found on the program. Consequently, there are 170 opportunities to register a top-10 performance in the world rankings. During the 2025 season, which fe...

Can Anyone Track Down Sarah Sjostrom’s World Record in Women’s 100 Free? When Sarah Sjostrom became the first woman ever under 52 seconds in the 100 freestyle, her world record seemed unlikely to last eight days, let alone eight years. On day one of the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Sjostrom...

Miss Versatility: The Sensational Talent and Range of Summer McIntosh Spoiler Alert: In the coming weeks, Swimming World will announce its annual winners of various awards. When it comes time to reveal the World Female Swimmer of the Year, there is no mystery. It will be Summer McIntosh, the Canadia...

Sam Short Wins 400 Freestyle Battle of World Champions Against Woomin Kim at Queensland Championships World championship silver medallist Sam Short has won an enthralling 400m freestyle “battle of the world champions” against Korean rival Woomin Kim on night three of the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Qu....

Ed Mildred Downs British 200 Fly Record From Supersuit Era & Tyler Melbourne-Smith Crushes 800 Mark Results Tyler Melbourne-Smith Tops 400 Free Rankings In Time Swifter Than European Gold Filip Nowacki Posts His Second Fastest 200 Breaststroke In Short Course Pool Amalie Smith Sets 400IM European Ju...

Katie Ledecky Goes Sub-15:00 in 1650-Yard Freestyle at Namesake Meet A few months ago, organizers announced that the Nation's Capital Invitational was being renamed the Katie Ledecky Invitational, in honor of the distance-freestyle legend who emerged as a future star in Potomac Valley Swimming. Well...