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By Jacob Riley, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming has come a long way since the 1980s. Swimmers have gone from having full mustaches and not wearing goggles, to not having a single hair on the body and having fancy goggles that streamline the water. Everything has changed since the 1980s: stro...

With the 2016 Rio Olympic Games less than a week away, anticipation is at its peak for the greatest sporting event that comes around every four years. But while athletes and fans around the world are waiting to watch the best in the world come together to compete, Olympic officials and sport governi...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 22. Olympians Aaron Peirsol, Diana Munz, Megan Quann and Scott Goldblatt all were winners tonight, on the fourth day of competition at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships, being held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Peirsol, who set a world record i...

Viviane Jungblut Misses Brazilian Trials to Support Flood-Ravaged Home State Swimmer Viviane Jungblut is among the high-profile Brazilian athletes taking a step back from their sports to offer support to the flood-ravaged state of Rio Grande do Sul. Jungblut, as well as lightweight double sculls row...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, March 30. THROUGHOUT the four days of competition at the Danish Open, the SwimVortex world rankings took some major hits with some of the top swimmers in attendance. Denmark's Rikke Moller Pedersen vaulted to the top of the world rankings in the women's 100-meter breaststroke wi...

MOSCOW, Russia, June 2. THE Russian sports minister feels his country's swimming federation is one of several sports in danger of suspension from international competition based on recent history of major doping violations. Vitaly Mutko told The Associated Press that the recent high-profile suspensi...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! Brazil's Thiago Pereira now owns the most Pan American Games medals of any athlete in any sport, picking up his 22nd and 23rd medal of his career tonight in Toronto. T...

BARCELONA, May 24. Romania's Camelia Potec, last year's European champion in the 200 meter freestyle, won her favorite event at the XXI Trofeo International Swim Meet in Barcelona today, the second stop on the Mare Nostrum tour. The smooth-stroking 18-year-old touched in 1:59.06, the world&#...

Arena Grand Prix - Santa Clara editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Arena USA. Visit ArenaUSA.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, take a look at some amazing photography in our Facebook photo gallery.  SANTA CLARA, Cali...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 16. WORLD records fell in all four final events on the first night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, five world marks fell in the four events. Women's 400 IM - FINALS GOLD - Klochkova UKR 4:33.59 WORLD RECORD! SI...

Palermo, Sicily (April 30) Russia's Elena Tokoun scored on a power play goal with a minute to play to power Russia to a 6-5 win over the USA in the final game of the World Women's Olympic Qualification Tournament. The game had no effect on qualification for Sydney as the issue was settled in...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of March 10-16, 2020 ...

Olympians Vini Lanza, Annie Lazor Announce Engagement Olympic swimmers Vini Lanza and Annie Lazor announced their engagement on Thursday. Both competed at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and use the University of Indiana as their training base. The swimmers announced their engagement on Instagram. ...

Although there are less than two months until the start of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, several countries are still mired in controversy surrounding their official Olympic rosters. Read below to read about the athletes who are fighting toward Rio despite doping controversies and catch up on a couple ...

By Michael Collins & Phillip Whitten SYDNEY, September 16. OLYMPIC records were set in two events during prelims of the first day of competition at the Olympic Games here in sunny Sydney, Australia. Australia's golden boy, Ian Thorpe, cracked Russia's Evgeny Sadovyi's 1992 mark of 3:45.0...

Commentary by Steven V. Selthoffer, Chief European Columnist RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, June 11. IN a striking turn of events one day ago, Rio de Janiero Mayor Eduardo Paes said the clean-up for Guanabara Bay that will host the Olympic sailing competition “won’t be done in time.” The bay clean-up was p...

LIMA, PERU. On a day when the USA women’s water polo team captured its 58th-straight victory, it was Canadians who wept tears of joy at their regional rival's 31-7 semifinal win over Cuba. That’s because both will meet in Saturday’s finals of the 2019 Pan American Games and—with the U.S. having alre...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

Notre Dame Adds Olympian Joao De Lucca To Coaching Staff Notre Dame on Saturday announced the hiring of Joao De Lucca to its swimming and diving coaching staff. The two-time Olympian from Brazil swam for his new boss, Chris Lindauer, at Louisville. De Lucca swam in the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, the la...

SAO PAULO, Brazil, April 22. TODAY’S competition at the Maria Lenk Trophy meet, the main meet for selecting Brazilian swimmers to the Pan Pacific championship team, was overshadowed by two foreigners who posted speedy times in the women’s 100 butterfly. Jeanette Ottesen Gray, one of the top elite sw...