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What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

As Hype Builds for Paris Olympics, Men's 100 Butterfly Could Be a Race to Remember At the last Olympics, the men’s 100 butterfly unfolded as a showdown of two world-record-holding, Olympic-gold-medal-winning swimmers with very different racing styles. The United States’ Caeleb Dressel, already the g...

Ranking the Best Men’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 202...

The Fifth Stroke: Dolphin Kick Drills That Can Improve Performance By Mark McCluskey, Swimming World College Intern In recent years, we have consistently watched the sport of swimming develop and grow as we discover ways to become faster. One of the biggest discoveries is the importance of dolphin k...

Trans Tahoe Relay 2025 Results & Recap: Top Teams, Rivalries, and What’s Next July 21, 2025 Race‑Day Overview At sunrise on July 19, more than 230 relay teams and solo swimmers dove into Lake Tahoe’s 64+ °F water at Sand Harbor, Nevada, to begin the 11‑mile crossing to Skylandia Beach, California. ...

By Caitlin Daday, Swimming World College Intern At the 2013 USA Swimming Winter Junior National Championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, 2016 Olympian Caeleb Dressel was hospitalized in the middle of the meet. The reason? The air quality. The Greensboro Aquatic Center is just one of myriad pools...

How the Underwater Dolphin Kick Evolved and Revolutionized the Sport By J.P. Mortenson (Archive) Underwater dolphin kicking transformed the sport of swimming. These days, swimmers at the NCAA and international level routinely push their kicks to the 15-meter mark. However, this was not always the ca...

A Look at Past Training Sets of Olympic Champion Caeleb Dressel Through the years, a consistent feature of Swimming World Magazine has been the highlighting of specific training programs and sets of various athletes, including the sport's elite performers. Today, we dip into the magazine vault and l...

The Top 15 U.S. Male Swimmers Before World Championship Trials It’s hard to believe it, but the U.S. Trials for this summer’s World Championships are already approaching quickly. While the top meet in the United States usually falls between mid-June and late July, this year’s meet will be held April...

By Devin Javens, Swimming World College Intern. Championship season is one of the most magical times of the year, cultivating great swims and memorable reactions. It's what each swimmer has been working towards the entire season and is something every swimming fan looks forward to. Nothing is as sat...

By Meaghan Raab, Swimming World College Intern.  There was time when I used to teach swimming through a program with my club team. Breaststroke was always the hardest stroke to teach the kids because of the differences in the stroke from the other three strokes. Freestyle and backstroke are essentia...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World Magazine Intern. Only a handful of nations have proven truly invincible in the pool. These teams can be classified as undisputed powerhouses, gravitating towards the top of the podium since the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. How does one account ...

U.S. Open, Day Four Finals (Men's): Hubert Kos, Jack Alexy, Leon Marchand Lower Meet Records; Luka Mijatovic Blasts NAG Hungarian star Hubert Kos concluded what has been a brilliant fall season Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, with a dominant performance in the 200 backstroke at the U.S. Open. Joi...

Noè Ponti Speeds To 50 Fly Title At Swiss Championships; Antonio Djakovic Clinches Golden Double Noè Ponti ended 2024 with world records and world titles and on Thursday he returned to the top of the podium once more with a 22.88 victory in the 50 fly at the 2025 Swiss Championships. The 23-year-old...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

Throwback Thursday: When Caeleb Dressel Went 17.63 in 50 Freestyle; A Swim That Seemed Like Fiction By Dan D’Addona. It starts with a few seconds of unbroken calmness, then explodes into a frenzy of speed unleashed into the water. No record is safe. No swim is truly unbelievable for Caeleb Dressel a...

The 2025 Laureus World Sports Awards have announced their finalists. The list of contenders for the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award is a who’s who of sporting royalty, including France’s Olympic hero Léon Marchand, tennis star Carlos Alcaraz, pole vaulting legend Mondo Duplantis, all-conqu...

Veterans Re-Emerge Ahead of the 2023 U.S. World Championships Trials Although USA Swimming is flooded with young talent, veterans always seem to emerge in the biggest moments. Over the last several months, a group of star-studded veteran swimmers have put together impactful races all over the countr...

By Jake Renie, Swimming World College Intern You may have learned several facts about each U.S. Olympic athlete by now, but maybe you don't know exactly how to recognize them. One of the most prominent identifiers on some of these Olympic swimmers are their tattoos. Drum roll as we prepare to unfurl...

FLASH! Jordan Crooks Blasts 50 Free WR In 20.08 Jordan Crooks lowered the 50m freestyle world record to 20.08 as he cut 0.08 from Caeleb Dressel's time that had stood since November 2020. The Cayman Islands swimmer split 9.78/10.30 out of lane one as he took down Dressel's 20.16 WR which the America...