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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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

Brett Hawke sat down a second time with legendary sprinter Alexander Popov due to popular demand for Hawke's 100th episode. Popov recently lost his long-time personal coach Gennadi Touretski, who died this year, and reflected on his career under him (3:00) and how he reacted to the shocking news. Po...

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...

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...

Following the death of Gennadi Touretski, Swimming World is reposting this podcast interview by Brett Hawke with Alexander Popov, who was mentored by Touretski. Alexander Popov talked to Brett Hawke on his podcast about his successful career, where he won the 50 & 100 free at the 1992 & 1996 Olympic...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Alex Popov on Olympic Double Defense: 'It's Probably Twice as Hard' No matter what unfolds in the sprint events at next summer’s delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo, another Olympiad will pass with Alex Popov standing alone, his career celebrated in our 20th anniversary feature this month. The Russian se...

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 ...

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 latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Takeoff To Tokyo: Sprint Tsar Alexander Popov By John Lohn As Swimming World continues its "Takeoff to Tokyo" series, the opportunity to examine t...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 30. THOUSANDS of swimmers have used the USA Swimming junior nationals as a Launchpad for future stardom. This week’s edition in Irvine, Calif., should be no different. Many of the best swimmers who made their national-level racing debut at junior nationals went on to do great ...