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Photo Courtesy: Paul Cunningham-USA TODAY Sports PASADENA, California, August 11. NEWCOMER Michelle Konkoly helped the United States close the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships on a golden note, breaking away from Australia as the anchor of the women's 4x100-meter 34 point freestyle relay...

Roy Perkins, a three-time Paralympian and 10-time medalist, took to social media to hit back at “nonsense” claims by fellow Paralympian Becca Meyers over her allegations of mistreatment by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee. Meyers recently withdrew from the Paralympics in Tokyo, which was sl...

By Jasmine Rose DeLeon, Swimming World Intern. Becca Meyers woke up early Saturday morning to swim in the 2019 Winter Invitational at Rutgers University. The meet is packed with swimmers up to high-school age, but Meyers is 24—and the most accomplished athlete in the pool this weekend. She is a two-...

Three-time Paralympic champion Becca Meyers (Baltimore, Maryland) was a force to be reckoned with in the pool on the second day of the 2019 World Para Swimming World Series, setting two Pan American records at IU Natatorium in Indianapolis on Friday. Meyers started the day in record-setting fashion,...

Photo by Andrew Fielding-USA TODAY Sports PASADENA, California, August 9. ANOTHER spate of amazing times were set during the third day of action at the Para Pan Pacific Championships in Pasadena. U.S. Release Highlighted by gold medal performance from rookie Roderick Sewell, the 2014 U.S. Pan Pacifi...

Swimming Without the Black Line: How Blind Athletes Adapt This article from the Swimming World archive, written by Paralympian McClain Hermes, details the approaches used by visually impaired swimmers. By McClain Hermes, Swimming World Intern When I began swimming at the age of four, I told my paren...

Anastasia Pagonis twice lowered the world record in the women’s S11 400-meter freestyle at the U.S. Paralympic Trials Friday in Minneapolis. Pagonis swam a time of 4 minutes, 59.28 seconds in prelims, then lowered it to 4:56.16 in the finals. That trounced the world record of 5:02.19 set by the Neth...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The United States Olympic Committee today announced finalists for the Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of August, which recognize the outstanding achievements of Team USA athletes from last month. Fans are invited to vote for their favorite athletes and teams at TeamU...

Two-time Paralympian Becca Meyers was crowned Best Female Athlete with a Disability at the 25th ESPY Awards yesterday. This is the second time that she has won the award in 2015. Meyers won the award for her performances at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, where she took home three gold medals (400 free S1...

Splashbacks 2021 - July-Aug.: Ian Thorpe Doping Leak Revealed; Russia Answers Accusations Swimming World continues to look at 2021 with a breakdown of the most-read articles from July and August, which not surprisingly were led by Olympic-themed storylines. Swimming World set record numbers during t...

Team USA put on a show in Cairns, Australia, for the 2018 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships, which was held Aug. 9-13. The team, comprised of 15 women and five men, took home 65 medals, including 33 gold, 19 silver and 13 bronze.  Becca Meyers (Baltimore, Maryland) kicked off the first day of ...

The World University Games started in Taipei, Taiwan, over the weekend, with several records coming down in the first two days of competition. Check in on the results from WUGs and the biggest news of the week in The Week That Was! https://youtu.be/pOs7HAvJbHE The Week That Was #5 - Ledecky, Meyers ...

On the final day of competition at the Indianapolis 2018 World Para Swimming World Series, Team USA tallied eight medals, including five gold, to finish the event with 26 medals overall. This world series stop at Indiana University Natatorium featured 198 swimmers from 17 countries. To kick off the ...

The Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of the Games, kicked off today at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Athletes from a wide variety of sports were on hand for a walk down the red carpet with three-time Olympic swimmers Elizabeth Beisel and Allison Schmitt playing host. The dynamic du...

U.S. Paralympics Swimming today announced its roster of 17 athletes who will represent Team USA at the 2019 World Para Swimming Championships in London from Sept. 9-15. The team, which is comprised of 14 women and 3 men, includes 11 Paralympians and seven defending world champions. “We’re excited to...

Senator Maggie Hassan Calls for USOPC Action after Becca Meyers’ Withdrawal from Paralympics Senator Maggie Hassan (D-New Hampshire) has written a letter to the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) urging it to address inequities in its treatment of athletes. The letter was prompte...

The United States pulled off a resurgent performance at the Pan American Games to win the most swimming events in a drama-filled meet in Toronto, while disabled swimming world record fell at the world championships. Those were just two of the top headlines that dominated a busy week in and out of th...

By David Rieder. Beginning this weekend, the world’s best disabled swimmers will be in Mexico City for the IPC Swimming World Championships—the meet originally scheduled for early October but delayed after two large earthquakes devastated the city. Compared to the tragedy the host city has faced, th...

MEXICO CITY - The women of Team USA claimed the spotlight on Monday at the World Para Swimming Championships. Four different athletes swam onto the podium, bringing Team USA’s overall medal count to 23 at the Francisco Marquez Olympic Swimming Pool heading into the fourth day of competition. With a ...

World Para Swimming announced yesterday that a new World Series of swimming will be introduced in 2017 giving Paralympic athletes the chance to compete in a dedicated circuit for the first time in history. The circuit, referred to as the World Para Swimming World Series, will begin in March with a s...