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Tokyo Flashback: In Long-Awaited Showdown, Caeleb Dressel Seizes 100 Freestyle Crown From Kyle Chalmers One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championshi...

Tie Game: The 20th Anniversary of Gary Hall Jr. and Anthony Ervin Sharing Olympic Gold Training together at the Phoenix Swim Club and living as roommates in the Olympic Village, veteran Gary Hall Jr. and upstart Anthony Ervin wrote an intriguing chapter in the history of sprinting when they shared t...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern. As we’ve touched on before, swimming is an evolutionary sport. Constantly improving, changing and growing in popularity, our sport has never seen a breadth of talent quite as wide as the one which it currently witnesses. That being said, some question...

Triple Olympic Champion Katinka Hosszu Retires With 97 Medals & A World Record Still Intact After Stellar Career Three-time Olympic champion Katinka Hosszu has announced her retirement after a career that saw her claim 97 international medals across 18 years, a record haul for a European swimmer. Th...

Some heavy-hitters within Russian swimming are rallying around the hashtag #MichaelSwim4Russia in hopes that Michael Phelps will show up at the 2015 World Championships this year. Dmitry Volkov, one of the top ambassadors of Russian swimming and an Olympic bronze medalist in the 100 breast at the 19...

How the Tsar, Alexander Popov, Claimed the Sprint Throne We take a look at the career of Russian sprint legend Alexander Popov, whose combination of skill and work ethic carried him to greatness. He knew how to play the all-important mental game of high-level sports with the skill of a chess master....

Legendary swim coach Gennadi Touretski passed away on Friday at his home in Switzerland, according to a report from the Russian Swimming Newsletter. Touretski was 71 and suffered a fatal stroke. [caption id="attachment_443202" align="alignleft" width="259"] Photo Courtesy: Darrin Braybrook / Swimmin...

Olympic Dreams: Assembling History's Greatest Men's Medley Relays The countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, albeit delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is under the 100-day mark. In three months, the cauldron will be lit, kicking off more than two weeks of competition, including nine days of swimmin...

The sport of swimming lost one of its giants in coaching on Friday, when Gennadi Touretski died at 71 following a stroke at his home in Switzerland. The loss has been felt around the world, as Touretski's reach was wide. Not only did he mentor some of the greats in the sport, most notably Alexander ...

Can Caeleb Dressel Pull Off Historic 50 Free-100 free-100 Fly Triple in Tokyo? Assessing His Chances in Each Event There is little Caeleb Dressel hasn’t done in his swimming career so far. Next summer’s Olympic Games present him with an opportunity to add yet another otherworldly achievement to his ...

MOSCOW, Russia, October 6. The FINA World Cup stop in Moscow was certainly loaded with some fan favorites, and Maria Dobysheva was there photographing the whole thing! Dobysheva, a friend of Swimming World, just sent in another batch of great pictures of the best swimmers that attended, including cl...

A Look Back at the Aquatic Events of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics By Kate Walter, Swimming World Intern.  With the summer of Tokyo a little less than a year away, it’s time to take a look back at one of the most pivotal modern Olympics, the 1992 Games in Barcelona, Spain. A total of 169 countries par...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the 21.64 World record set by Alexander Popov over 50m freestyle. The Russian Sprint Tsar, two historic doubles and four Olympic 50-100m freestyle crowns in the treasury, set the new dash pace at nationals and trials in Moscow heading for a third Olympic Games at ...

Earlier this month, four-time Olympic gold medalist and current International Swimming Hall of Fame member Alexander Popov was nominated to become the president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). On May 29, Popov was defeated in the race by Stanislav Pozdnyakov, the current Vice-President of th...

Alexander Popov, the Olympic 50 and 100m freestyle champion at the 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games, has been cited among prominent members of the International Olympic Committee accused by the former governor of Rio de Janeiro of having received a cut of US $2 million in return for votes that granted Br...

Brett Hawke Podcast Continues To Be Can't-Miss Stop For Top-Tier Engagement In Sport Here’s the deal. Brett Hawke could sit down and discuss his career with anyone for hours. As a two-time Olympian for Australia and multi-time NCAA champion at Auburn University, finding tales to share is not difficu...

Olympic gold medalist Gary Hall Jr. appeared on the Inside with Brett Hawke podcast to talk about his career where he won back to back Olympic gold medals in the 50 freestyle in 2000 and 2004, and also won individual medals in the 100 freestyle in 1996 and 2000. Hawke started the interview by asking...

Russian Olympic champion Alexander Popov will likely stop the show at the FINA World Masters Championships when he competes in Kazan, Russia, alongside thousands of athletes from ages 25 to 94. Popov, the winner of nine Olympic medals including gold in the 50 and 100 freestyles in 1992 and 1996, wil...

Swimming World shines its spotlight on some of swimming’s most historic male athletes who broke barriers that were jaw-dropping at the time.  Twenty-seven athletes, dating back to 1924 through today, are featured in this timeless issue. (See feature, pages 26-31.)  Scroll down to look at the entire ...

David Popovici and Sarah Sjostrom are among the nominees for the 2022 LEN Awards with 54 athletes nominated across 12 categories. There will be a public vote which will count for 30% of the total voting with LEN members and the technical committee of each discipline making up the other 70%. Vote her...