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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...

Tokyo Flashback: Zach Apple Punctuates Title in 400 Freestyle Relay As American Dominance Grows 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...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault Non-subscribers can download this issue here - only $.99 for a limited time! In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about how the U.S. men's and women's relay teams are stacked up for World Championsh.....

Despite Turbulent Tokyo Olympics, Zach Apple Still Proves Himself as Dependable Relay Star In the span of 48 hours, Zach Apple experienced the full spectrum of emotions a swimmer can go through, from the most impressive and dramatic triumph that brings about Olympic gold to the most gutting disappoi...

Men's 50 Free (Ryan Held) Defending his top seed from this mornings prelims session and taking home a national title in the men's 50 free was 2016 Olympian Ryan Held. Held swam a quick time of 21.87, dropping one hundredth of a second off of his personal best. Held is now 13th in the world for 2019 ...

After a dominant performance in the 100 butterfly, Caeleb Dressel returned his focus to the 50 freestyle for the semifinals, aiming to make one more final at the U.S. Olympic Trials. Dressel was about three tenths of a second off the world record in the butterfly and had about 40 minutes between rac...

By Matthew Barnard, Swimming World College Intern. The University of Minnesota Golden Gophers had a strong showing last weekend at the 2016 AT&T Winter National Championships. The women's team led by junior Brooke Zeiger, who snagged wins in the 400 medley and 1,650 freestyle, took first place in al...

U.S. Olympic Trials: Caeleb Dressel, Zach Apple Ready to Clash in 100 Freestyle Final It was an event that was expected to be a barn burner in each of the three rounds of the 100 freestyle and round two proved to be just that - with some big names in the A-Final and some big names left out. Two-time...

Olympic Gold Medalist Bowe Becker Announces Retirement Bowe Becker, an Olympic gold medalist from the 400 freestyle relay in Tokyo, announced his retirement from the sport on Wednesday. Becker made the announcement on social media. View this post on Instagram ...

The Event Lineup of Team USA For the Tokyo Games; Home-State Breakdown The squad that will represent the United States at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is currently taking part in training camp in Hawaii. Here is a reminder of who will swim which individual events when the Games get underway later this...

Olympics: Prelims-Leading Italians, Dressel-Led Americans and Outside Smoke Russians to Battle for Gold in Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay Prior to the 2000 Olympics, the American men were undefeated in Olympic competition in the men’s 400 freestyle relay. But since then, every time we have seen this even...

Bowe Becker Joins Minnesota Swimming Staff as Volunteer Assistant Olympic gold medalist Bowe Becker is joining the staff as a volunteer assistant coach for the Golden Gophers swimming and diving programs, head coach Kelly Kremer announced Monday. "We are excited to have Bowe on staff this season," K...

U.S. International Team Trials: 400 IM Showdown, Dressel in 100 Freestyle Among Top Men's Races This week's U.S. International Team Trials in Greensboro, N.C., might be missing some of the drama of a typical qualification meet. In the men's breaststroke events, for instance, Olympian Andrew Wilson h...

Three-time Olympian Allison Schmitt of the United States will officially join the Cali Condors roster for Budapest this season, as she will make her ISL debut in replacing Mallory Comerford. The International Swimming League published its final rosters for the core four American teams: LA Current, C...

Roster Crunch: Will Anyone Miss the Cut for the Olympic Team? Just two days of finals (and six total individual finals) remain at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Omaha, and there's still a lot of uncertainty about who will make it onto the Olympic team for Tokyo. Only 26 women and 26 men can actually be ...

America's favorite men's swimming star Caeleb Dressel gave the Omaha crowd something to cheer about on the final night of the 2021 US Olympic Trials as he tied his own American record of 21.04 in the 50 freestyle, extending his lead on the rest of the world. Dressel had the top time in the world wit...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Special Sets: "Bowe Knows Swimming" By Michael J. Stott A lightly recruited top-15 national prospect out of Faith Lutheran High School in Las Vegas,...

The Week That Was, Sponsored by Suitmate The Week That Was featured a flashback to the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, an Olympian getting engaged, a collegiate contract extension, and more. The Week That Was #1: Race Of the Century: When Two Stalwarts and a Rising Star Clashed For History [caption id="a...

Team USA Rookies Share Experiences, Provide Inside Look At Olympic Games in Tokyo The Closing Ceremony marked the end of the Olympic Games in Tokyo and Team USA is back on American soil. USA Swimming athletes brought home 30 medals: 11 gold, 10 silver, and 9 bronze. Many of the team’s rookies earned...

Split Time for the 50 Short Course Meters Freestyle Skins races is sponsored by LumaLanes. Today we look at the  International Swimming League's (ISL) Skins races, specifically highlighting Caeleb Dressel and some of his male competitors he will most likely be facing off against in Las Vegas. First ...