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Ranking the Best Women's Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 2...

Swimming World Interviews of the Year - United States 2019 has been a great year for the sport of swimming. With less than a year to go until the 2020 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, we decided to take a trip down memory lane to commemorate the 15 best interviews of the year 2019 from pools across...

Mark Schubert Steps Down as Head Coach at Mission Viejo Nadadores Mark Schubert has been through the drill nearly a dozen times, perhaps more than any coach in swimming history. When an Olympic cycle culminates, there’s a rest and a re-evaluation before committing to the next four years. There’s a r...

Ahead of U.S. Trials, the Top-15 Female Swimmers in the Country With the U.S. Trials for this summer's World Championships coming up in less than a week, it is time to assess the best American female swimmers. We previously discussed the top-15 men, and now we will rank the top-15 American female sw...

U.S. International Team Trials: Lilly King Edges Kate Douglass, Annie Lazor in 200 Breaststroke Heats At the Tokyo Olympics, Lilly King was the silver medalist in the 200 breaststroke, and training partner Annie Lazor claimed bronze. That duo was favored to capture the American spots in the 200 brea...

Swimming World's Pre-Olympic Female Rankings: The Top-25 Ahead of Tokyo Ranking the top swimmers in the world involves comparing swimmers from one event, how a 50 freestyler stacks up next to a 200 butterflyer and a 100 breaststroker to a miler. It’s always subjective, depending on what qualities on...

2021 Golden Goggles Award Winners and Nominees The 2021 Golden Goggle Awards showcased many of the “golden” accomplishments of the past year- both in and out of the pool. Some of the most elite Team USA athletes were honored by USA Swimming for their achievements, with an emphasis on their performan...

Weeks after she swam the signature race of her career, Annie Lazor cannot remember much from those two minutes, 20 seconds of the 200 breaststroke that Sunday evening in Bloomington, Indiana. It’s the reaction of her oft-stoic coach, Mike Westphal, that she can’t get out of her head. After that race...

The final session of the 2019 TYR Pro Swim Series at Knoxville featured ten events including the 1500 free, 200 IM, 200 back, 50 breast and 100 free. Athens Bulldogs' Nic Fink led the way with a new TYR Pro Swim Series Record in the 50 breaststroke. He was able to narrowly edge out his competition, ...

U.S. Nationals: Lilly King Edges Kate Douglass in Women's 200 Breaststroke With Kate Douglass coming off a stunning 100 freestyle win, she was the favorite in the 200 breaststroke after taking the top seed. But Lilly King proved why she is the queen of the breaststroke with a perfectly executed race...

The 2023 TYR Pro Swim Series stop in Fort Lauderdale concluded with the Day 4 finals from Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center at the site of the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) on Saturday. The events of the day are the 800 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 breaststroke, 100 butterfly, 200 IM an...

Tokyo Flashback: Tatjana Schoenmaker Supplies First Individual World Record in 200 Breast 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 championship finals – eac...

By Grant Anger, College Swimming World Intern. Annie Lazor has been a familiar face to many on the U.S. National Team. She has had a solid career as a breaststroke specialist and recently took third at the nationals. Even though USA Swimming has not announced the Pan-American Games line up, Lazor wi...

Olympics: South African Tatjana Schoenmaker Just Misses World Record in Prelims of 200 Breaststroke It is evident South Africa's Tatjana Schoenmaker is carrying significant confidence. Coming off a silver medal in the 100-meter breaststroke earlier in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Schoenmaker just mis...

Rising Alaskan Star Lydia Jacoby Confident, Ready to Contend at Olympic Trials As the new kid on the American women’s breaststroke block, Lydia Jacoby has to remind herself not to be daunted. When she’s in the same ready room as Lilly King and Annie Lazor and Molly Hannis and the rest of the leading...

During the 2021 USA Olympic Swimming Trials in Omaha, Nebraska, each athlete signed a drum to signify becoming an official member of the Tokyo Olympic Team. While watching this monumental moment, some may have just considered this a right of passage. But Swimming World was curious to investigate:  H...

Reigning Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Lilly King took care of business on Friday morning at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Mission Viejo with a 1:05.70 in the 100 breaststroke. King went faster in the heats last night with a 1:05.32 which is the fastest time in the world this year (tied...

Photo Courtesy: Mike Comer/ProSwimVisuals.com AUBURN - In the annual SEC rivalry meet between Florida and Auburn, the Florida men's and women's swim and dive teams each pulled out a narrow victory on Saturday afternoon at the James E. Martin Aquatics Center. The Florida men edged Auburn 158-142, whi...

The 2019 Fran Crippen Memorial Swim Meet of Champions wrapped up its final night of competition in Mission Viejo. After a grueling four days of competition, the athletes exhibited resilience and grit, finishing strong in a stellar show of endurance. With an eclectic 14-event lineup, the country's be...

Tokyo Olympic Predictions: On Day Six, Michael Andrew Will Carry Banner in 200 Medley Can Australia place two women on the podium in the 100-meter freestyle? Who will follow Michael Phelps as the new champion of the 200 individual medley? Which athlete will emerge victorious in a tightly packed wome...