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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND, June 25. BILL Sweetenham may be a stern taskmaster but apparently his brand of "tough love" is having a major impact on the fortunes of British swimming. At this weekend's Scottish Nationals and Youth Championships, the final qualifying competition for Great Britain's Worl...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan. July 25. THE Living Legend that is Ian Thorpe continued to grow tonight in Fukuoka after the young Australian clocked an astounding 1:44.06 world record over 200m freestyle to avenge his only Olympic defeat last year. Pieter van den Hoogenband, the Dut...

Each year Swimming World Magazine selects the top male and female swimmers for the following regions: Africa, the Pacific Rim, Europe, America, and World. Starting today, Swimming World will announce the top athletes in each region leading up to the announcement of the Male and Female World Swimmers...

By Craig Lord SHEFFIELD, England. July 26. DARREN Mew leapt 28 places to ninth on the world rankings to qualify for his first Olympic Games at Ponds Forge pool in Sheffield, England, his 1min 01.78sec and three British records elsewhere were symptomatic of the new dawn of which Deryk Snelling, natio...

America's Carrie Steinseifer and Russia's Evgeny Sadovy highlight the list of inductees at the 35th annual International Swimming Hall of Fame induction ceremonies held in Ft. Lauderdale on May 7 and 8. Steinseifer won two gold medals at the 1984 Olympic Games, including a tie (with Nancy Hogshead) ...

Liz Byrnes, Swimming World's new European Correspondent, hones in on the achievements of Adam Peaty, one of the most outstanding pioneers on the pool in swimming history, as her No1 pick in our series looking back at our favourite moments of the decade about to end. Liz's list is rich with some of t...

PHOENIX, Dec. 12. AUSTRALIA'S Ian Thorpe and Holland’s Inge De Bruijn were named male and female "World Swimmers of the Year" by Swimming World magazine, in the December issue on newsstands today. Swimming World is the magazine of record in the sport of swimming. It was the third time the 19 yea...

By David Rieder Two years ago, few outside of Great Britain knew the name Adam Peaty. Just 19 years old, Peaty had never competed at a major international meet, and he entered his first Commonwealth Games as definitively not the favorite in the men’s 100 breast with World Champion Christian Sprenger...

By Phillip Whitten MOSCOW, June 29. RUSSIA'S Roman Sludnov broke the world record in the men's 100 meter breaststroke today, becoming the first swimmer to dip under the "magic" one minute barrier. When the 21 year-old Sludnov, a university student from Omsk, hit the pads at 59.97 seconds in ...

By Phillip Whitten MOSCOW, June 28. RUSSIA'S Roman Sludnov threw down the guantlet today to America's Ed Moses, breaking the American's 100 meter breaststroke world record by three-hundredths of a second. His achievement sets up a dramatic showdown between the world's two top breasts...

Each year Swimming World Magazine selects the top male and female swimmers for the following regions: Africa, the Pacific Rim, Europe, America, and World. Starting today, Swimming World will announce the top athletes in each region leading up to the announcement of the Male and Female World Swimmers...