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Great Races: When Michael Phelps Nearly Broke the World Record in the 100 Backstroke With 28 Olympic titles on the ledger, the career of Michael Phelps is well-documented. He is known as the greatest swimmer in history, one of those rare athletes where there is no debate about his status as the GOAT...

Returning Kliment Kolesnikov Plus New Contenders Poised to Lead 100 Back in Singapore Twenty-seven months after Aaron Peirsol became the first swimmer under 53 seconds in the 100 backstroke, he smashed through another barrier by clocking 51.94. This was at the height of the polyurethane suit era in ...

This week’s LumaLanes Performance of the Week goes to one of the USA Swimming’s biggest stars, who made a triumphant return to the competition pool this weekend at the 2017 Arena Pro Swim Series in Austin, Texas. Matt Grevers finished his weekend with a gold medal in his signature event, the 100 bac...

Kathleen Baker stunned the crowd with the first world record of the 2018 Nationals meet, nearly becoming the first woman under 58 seconds with a 58.00. Baker was out very fast, flipping nearly 6-tenths under world record pace at 27.90. She was able to hold on down the stretch to get to the wall in 5...

This week’s ZUMO Performance of the Week goes to Mitch Larkin for his 100 backstroke at the 2019 Australian World Championship Trials in Brisbane. The 25-year-old was just .27 off his own Australian and Commonwealth record this weekend, punching his ticket to South Korea with a 52.38. That time bro...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Kathleen Baker, who stunned the crowd at the Woollett Aquatic Center in Irvine, CA with a new world record in the 100 backstroke at the 2018 Phillips 66 US National Championships. Baker’s swim was nothing if not aggressive, with th...

Women’s 100 Backstroke: The Best Race of Olympic Trials Just Got Even Faster For almost two years, the women’s 100 backstroke at the United States Olympic Trials has been billed as the showdown of showdowns, a clash with just two Olympic berths available and multiple medal contenders certain to be l...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Veteran Ryan Murphy, Newcomer Hunter Armstrong Punch 100 Back Tickets For nearly three decades, the equation for American men’s backstroke has been plug and play. With stars like Aaron Peirsol, Ryan Lochte, Lenny Krayzelburg and now Ryan Murphy, that second spot hasn’t just been...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 2: Kaylee McKeown, Regan Smith Set For Rematches in 100 and 200 Backstroke The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Be...

Olympic Swimming Top Races, No. 7: Ryan Murphy, Thomas Ceccon Will Face Off Again in 100 Backstroke The Olympic swimming competition will begin Saturday, July 27, with the best swimmers in the world competing for medals in 28 individual races and seven relays over nine days of competition. Before th...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Hannah Stevens, a rising senior at the University of Missouri. Stevens posted the fifth fastest time in the world this year in the 100 backstroke, touching in 59.40 at the UMiz Invite to win the event and make her the fastest Ameri...

By Rick Madge Javier Acevedo of the Markham Aquatic Club had just finished becoming the first Canadian male to beat the Olympic Qualifying time at these trials (100 Back). And while he was celebrating, you could also tell in the post-race interviews that he was having trouble keeping the emotion out...

This week was the second stop of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series in Des Moines, Iowa, with some of the best swimmers around the United States and the world converging to shuffle around the world rankings for 2019, but it was ultimately teenager Regan Smith who made the biggest waves this week at Cary S...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Kliment Kolesnikov who broke the world record in the short course 100 meter backstroke at the the Vladimir Salnikov Cup in St. Petersburg, Russia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGZL3_fhjXA The 17-year-old posted a time of 48.90 a...

This week featured lots of stateside racing, with elite swimmers across the country hitting the pool to gear up for the U.S. Olympic Trials, starting in less than three weeks. While every swimmer is in a slightly different phase of their rest for Trials, the results from these meets still gave an in...

University of Georgia standout Olivia Smoliga entered as the fastest American this year in the 100 backstroke with a world's sixth 59.41 swum earlier this month in Indianapolis. This morning she swam a 59.65 for the top seed at Trials. Amy Bilquist of Cal posted a 59.67 to launch her to a tie for te...

This week’s Performance of the Week goes to Wisconsin’s Beata Nelson for breaking the American record in the 100 backstroke this weekend at the Texas Invitational. The Wisconsin junior touched the wall in 49.67 to break Ally Howe’s 2017 record of 49.69 that she set at the Pac-12 Championships. Nelso...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to American Justin Ress, who captured a gold medal in the 100 backstroke at the 2017 World University Games on Monday in Taipei, Taiwan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EOjoh74Bh4 The American led from the start and never looked back...