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The Longest-Lasting World Records in Each Event (Men's Edition) What are the longest-standing world records in each event? Swimming World analyzed the sport's world-record progressions to present that data, which can be found below. It turns out that several current world records are also the most-e...

Kevin Ring Guiding USA Swimming Into New Era With LA Olympics on the Horizon A protracted search led USA Swimming to hiring Kevin Ring as the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. Ring officially took over September 17 after a career working in marketing and corporate sponsorships, most recent...

Ross Stevens Planning to Pay $200,000 to each U.S. Olympian and Paralympian Billionaire financier Ross Stevens has committed to paying awards of $200,000 to each Olympic and Paralympic athlete, beginning with this year’s Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina. The gifts will be known as Stevens Financial ...

 The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) announced the Men’s and Women’s Swimming Athletes of the Week. A pair of West Chester swimmers earned the honors this week, with Lenya Ryan selected as the Women's Swimming Athlete of the Week and Kolos Nagy earning Men's Swimming Athlete of the Wee...

Olympian Jordan Raney Joins Harvard Women’s Water Polo Staff Harvard’s women’s water polo team hired U.S. Olympian Jordan Raney as an assistant coach on Tuesday. Raney joins the staff of coach Ted Minnis. Raney was a member of the U.S. women’s team that finished fourth at the 2024 Olympics in Paris....

Ryder Dodd, Robert Lopez-Duart, Mihailo Vukazic Named Cutino Award Finalists UCLA’s Ryder Dodd and the USC duo of Robert Lopez-Duart and Mihailo Vukazic were named finalists Tuesday for the Cutino Award by the Olympic Club in San Francisco. Dodd won the award last year. Vukazic was a finalist last y...

In the 13th set of weekly honors for the 2025-26 Atlantic Coast Conference Swimming & Diving season, NC State’s Max Carlsen was named the ACC Men's Swimmer of the Week, while Georgia Tech’s Max Fowler earned Men's Diver of the Week honors. Louisville’s Anastasia Gorbenko was named the ACC Women’s Sw...

The 2027 U.S. Masters Swimming Summer National Championship will be Aug. 4–8, 2027, at SwimRVA in Richmond, Virginia. The facility will be hosting its second USMS national championship, joining the 2022 USMS Summer National Championship. Competitors at that meet broke nearly five dozen AQUA Masters ...

The SEC announced its weekly swimming and diving awards. Here is a look at the honorees: SEC Men’s Swimmer of the Week: Hubert Kós, Texas Texas’ Hubert Kós, a senior from Telki, Hungary, earned multiple podium finishes during the Eddie Reese Texas Showdown against No. 9 Louisville and No. 10 Ohio S....

Camille Spink, Tennessee Women Pushing for Third Straight National Top-Five Finish The University of Tennessee swimming program gets the most attention for the exploits of its male sprinters. Jordan Crooks recently completed an incredible run with the Volunteers in which he joined Caeleb Dressel as ...

What Ilya Kharun’s Swap Means for the American, Canadian Programs Ilya Kharun fell into the lap of Swimming Canada in 2022, a program-changing talent the Canadians didn’t know they could count on. Four years later, he’s a similarly stunning surprise for the Americans, the Arizona State star switchin...

10 Years After Retirement, Michael Phelps Still Highly Ranked in Variety of Events Nearly a decade has passed since Michael Phelps bid farewell to the sport. His exclamation point was the 28th medal of his Olympic career at the Rio de Janeiro Games, gold claimed by the United States in the 400-meter...

An Explanation Of How Tech Suits Benefit Swimmers When it comes time to race, many swimmers, especially those racing in high-level competitions, wear specialized knee-length swimsuits known as tech suits. They're everywhere in the swimming world. But how do tech suits work? And do they actually make...

Ilya Kharun Announces Decision to Shift from Canada to United States for International Competition After years of representing Canada at the international level, including as an Olympic medalist, Ilya Kharun took to social media on Monday to announce that he is changing his international representat...

The Longest Current Medal Streaks in International Swimming At last summer’s World Championships, Katie Ledecky continued one of the all-time great streaks in athletic competition. In the women’s 800 freestyle final, Ledecky held off spirited charges from Lani Pallister and Summer McIntosh to secure...

10 Things 'Swammers' Miss About the Sport There’s something about swimming that never really leaves you. Even after the early mornings end and the goggles are packed away for good, the sport lingers in muscle memory, daily routines and nostalgia. For former swimmers or “swammers,” as some like to sa...

Double Duty: Van Mathias Balancing Roles as Surging Breaststroke Star and Indiana Director of Ops A typical workday for Van Mathias looks similar to most of us. The University of Indiana Swimming’s Director of Operations works on answering emails, coordinating travel for the Hoosiers, and ensuring e...

The Excellent Swim Coach (From the Archive) Swimming is very much a sport of observation. Swimmers observe others' strokes underwater during practice and have a lot of time on deck during meets to watch the coach-swimmer dynamics surrounding us. I had 12 swim coaches in my 18 years of swimming. It's...

South Carolina Women Finish Unbeaten Dual Meet Season vs. Georgia Tech South Carolina finished a first unbeaten dual meet season since 1985 on Friday with a win over Georgia Tech in a cross-conference clash. The Gamecocks women’s team claimed a 197-102 victory down in Atlanta to go 7-0 on the season...

Anita Gastaldi Lowers 10-Year 200 Fly Meet Mark In Geneva; Clean Sweeps for Angiolini & Corbeau Results Day 1 report Day 2 report Anita Gastaldi lowered the 10-year meet record in the 200 fly as the Geneva International Challenge wrapped up. The Italian was neck and neck with Laura Cabanes Garzas at...