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Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky was named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year on Tuesday according to a report by NBC Washington. Ledecky is the eighth female swimmer to win the award ...

The big news from this week was from Down Under, where Australian Cate Campbell made a triumphant return to racing in a dramatic fashion. Catch up on all of the races from that meet and more in The We...

The Pac-12 Conference Team came away with the win in the second annual USA College Challenge at USC this week, defeating a slimmed down USA National Team. Read about the results from that meet and the...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. Back in 2015, mixed relays were novelty events when they debuted at the World Championships. Why? Because most swimmers did not grow up swimming mixed relays on a regul...

The 200 free final, with Katie Ledecky, Emma McKeon, Veronika Popova and the current world record holder Federica Pellegrini was the most anticipated race at the FINA World Championships.  Each athlet...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Japanese sprinter Rikako Ikee, who lowered her own World Junior Record in the 50 meter freestyle this week at the National Sports F...

By David Rieder. Ask Eddie Reese and Jack Bauerle about their experiences as assistant coaches for the U.S. team at this summer’s FINA World Championships, and both will admit: they had no intentions ...

The 2017 FINA World Junior Championships came to a dramatic close this past Monday in Indianapolis, with two more world junior records falling amid tight relay races. Catch up on the final day of resu...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to American Regan Smith for her world junior record and national age group record at the 2017 FINA World Junior Championships in India...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor It's been a busy week for Maggie Steffens, arguably the world’s best female water polo player. On Wednesday it was announced that the 24 year-old Califo...

By Jason Tillotson, Swimming World College Intern. The World Swimming Championships this past month was filled with excitement, surprises and insanely fast swimming. It was also the meet where we saw,...

The 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest, Hungary delighted and awed the world with awe-inspiring swims for a full eight days, setting the stage for an exciting quadrennial as swimmers begin thei...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor Attila Biro, head coach for the Hungarian women’s team, could not be better suited to leading one of the world’s top women’s water polo programs. With a...

While the FINA World Championships just came to a close last week there was no shortage of fast swimming over the last seven days with the start of the 2017 FINA World Cup Circuit. Read about the reco...

Beyond all expectations, fans turned out in extremely huge numbers at the 17th FINA World Championships. Budapest 2017 Organising Committee President and Minister of National Development Miklos Seszta...

Commentary and Analysis by TritonWear. The ever-exciting World Championships has come to a close. With many new records set and new players clutching key medals, it is a great opportunity for everyone...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor As I wend my way across the Atlantic by air returning to Brooklyn, it seemed appropriate to wrap up my experience of Budapest and the 2017 FINA World Wa...

Check out quotes and audio interviews from athletes who posted impressive performances during the final day of the 2017 FINA World Championships in Budapest! "Like I said after the 200 IM, I thou...

On the final day of the World Championships in Budapest, Lilly King and Yulia Efimova looked to face off one last time. Lilly coming to the race having won the gold in the 100m distance of this race a...

The highlight of this week was undoubtedly the swimming competition of the 2017 FINA World Championships, which saw Team USA lead the medal table with 18 golds and 38 total medals and several world re...