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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...

By Sarah Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern Day in and day out, as thousands and thousands of swimmers churn out countless numbers of yards--a physical feat in itself--there are thousands more who complete the same task at physical disadvantages. These athletes compete with a range of disabilities...

Katie Ledecky Wins ESPY Award for Best Athlete in Female Sports; Caeleb Dressel Also Wins ESPY The best swimmer in the world over the past decade has been recognized as the top female athlete in the United States over the past year. At the ESPY Awards held Wednesday evening in Los Angeles, Katie Led...

Swimming World Biweekly Magazine is now available for readers to download for FREE to read the latest swimming news from around the world. Catch up on the rosters for the upcoming Duel in the Pool, see how your favorite Division I swim team ranks and learn how a teenage swimmer is helping rid the wo...

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...

ESPN has announced its list of ESPY awards and swimming had several representations and one surprising omission. Katie Ledecky was nominated as a finalist for two ESPYs, the top Olympic female athlete and the best athlete in women's sports overall. Caeleb Dressel is a finalist for top men's Olympic ...

How a Simple Conversation Began a New Wave of Training Back in 2007, Philip Scholz, a high school senior at the time, walked into Loyola University of Maryland’s head coach Brian Loeffler’s office. Scholz was desperate for an opportunity to swim. As a blind athlete he was searching for a coach to gi...

Japan's Keiichi Kimura Eager to Mine Gold on Home Soil at Paralympic Games As the Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games approach, Japan’s “Golden Boy” Keiichi Kimura is hard at work preparing to compete in front of a home crowd, and he is hungry for a gold medal. Kimura, who started swimming at 10 year...

The 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro had no shortage of amazing performances and world records over the 10 days of the swimming competition. Among those performances was Brad Snyder’s world record in the S11 100 freestyle, which shattered a mark that has been on the books for 30 years, the lo...

The story of Brad Snyder’s journey from Navy hero to Paralympic swimming star is made for the movies, and starting next summer, that is exactly what will happen. Screenwriter Robert Knott (Appaloosa) has agreed to write the script for the yet-to-be-named film that will chronicle Snyder’s life, accor...

TORONTO — The final day of the 2015 CanAm Para-Swimming Championships featured seven broken American and Pan American records at the Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre on Sunday. Team USA closed out the three days of competition with a total of 28 records: one world, 17 American and 10 Pan American record...

This week saw the return of the 2016 FINA World Cup Circuit, with many international stars returning to competition at the Beijing stop of the series. Check out the recaps of both days of the meet below as well as the biggest stories from The Week That Was! The Week That Was #5 - Kosuke Hagino Und.....

U.S. President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed the members of the American Olympic and Paralympic teams to the White House to celebrate their accomplishments over the past two months in Rio. The visit took place Thursday as athletes had the opportunity to mingle with the Obamas a...

This week would be Para Swimming Championship host Mexico City was rocked with a devastating earthquake, forcing the IPC to postpone the event for the first time in it's history. Read about the IPC's decision and all of the biggest stories of the week in The Week That Was. https://youtu.be/Y0V3zn1MZ...

Five-time Paralympic gold medalist Brad Snyder completed the 2.1-mile swim from Alcatraz Island to San Francisco Bay Sunday. Snyder, who lost his eyesight in an explosion while serving in Afghanistan, completed the crossing from the federal prison-turned-tourist attraction to the city in just under ...

PASADENA, California, August 7. PARALYMPIC swimmers took a hammer to the Pan Pacific Championship record book during night one of the meet.  Here's a sampling of what the different countries saw out of their own swimmers: USA Release Team USA's Ian Silverman smashed a nearly 13-year-old world record...

Success In The Face Of Adversity: Jessica Long and Brad Snyder share their inspiring stories about the challenges they’ve had to overcome in becoming successful Paralympians. Swimming World's Annie Grevers and David Rieder interviewed Long and Snyder respectively to tell their incredible stories. Lo...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado, April 9. THE United States will send 45 athletes (27 women, 18 men) to the 2014 Pan Pacific Para-Swimming Championships, U.S. Paralympics, a division of the United States Olympic Committee, announced today. Athletes were selected for the meet, Aug. 6-10 in Pasadena, Calif...

Sports Illustrated recently compiled a list of the 50 most fit men and the 50 most fit women in the world of sports right now. Swimmers Katie Ledecky and Paralympian Brad Snyder both made the list as Ledecky was in the top five for the women's list. Ledecky was ranked third on the list behind only t...

IPC Swimming has announced that all seven days of action from the 2015 World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain, will be shown live at www.Glasgow2015.com from 13-19 July. The final competition schedule has also been published at www.Glasgow2015.com following the close of final entries. Heats w...