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By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. In her first meet as a professional swimmer, Katie Ledecky stunned the world with remarkable swims and silenced a lot of her recent critics at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianpolis. She put up a new world record in the 1500 freestyle and strong worl...

Photo by Peter H. Bick JACKSONVILLE, Florida, September 17. THE wait is over, and now the work begins. USA Swimming released the qualifying times for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials today, making the announcement for the first time via live webcast from the United States Aquatic Sports Convent...

40 Years in the Making: The Evolution of Olympic Racing Suits from 1984 to 2024 Over the years, racing suits in the sport of swimming have evolved to continually push the boundaries of speed and efficiency. Initially, suits were simple, functional, and made from materials like Lycra and nylon. These...

Photo Courtesy: Brendan Maloney - USA Today Sports SYDNEY – Television broadcasters appear to be affecting the time schedule for the 2016 Olympics, with news this week that swimming finals at the Games could start at 10 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro to fit with NBC’s plan to air races live to American view...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their hist...

By Kevin Donnelly, Swimming World College Intern. In college swimming, we commonly see swimmers and teams from the Power Five conferences (the Big Ten, the ACC, the Pac-12, the Big 12, and the SEC) dominate the ranks at the Division I NCAA Championships. At the 2017 Women’s NCAA Championship Meet fo...

Photo by Peter H. Bick PHOENIX, Arizona, September 18. EARLIER today, the qualifying times for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials were released in a special webcast, the first time USA Swimming has done so. All of the cuts are faster than they were in 2012, with 12 of the 26 events improving by m...

This past year showered the swimming community with a wealth of excitement as the swimming community celebrated boundaries being broken across several major national and international meets, including the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Swimming World continued to produce iconic covers throughout the year b...

Top 5 Stories of 2016: With 2016 now located in the rear-view mirror, Swimming World Magazine's David Rieder took a closer look at what some of the top stories of 2016 were. Olympians Katie Ledecky and Michael Phelps made the charts for their awe-inspiring performances in Rio, while Texas' Eddie Ree...