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Celebrating the Olympic Trifecta of Debbie Meyer At the 1968 Mexico City Games On this date in 1968, the swimming competition at the Olympics Games in Mexico City started. At those Games, Debbie Meyer completed her freestyle triple, winning gold in the 200, 400 and 800 distances. It was a feat that ...

Commentary by Bruce Wigo, CEO of International Swimming Hall of Fame. From the Middle Ages to the dawn of the 20th century, women were discouraged from participating or even watching physical activity. This view was held because a woman was supposed to be passive, obedient and the “weaker sex." In f...

September 25. THE Ice Bucket Challenge that became the biggest viral sensation of 2014 brought huge awareness – and a lot of money – to the crippling disease that is ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Today, the disease hit the swimming community hard with the release of a video that showed 1968...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

A Look At the Most Iconic Pool Moments From the Olympic Games In the summer of 2019, one year prior to the original date of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Swimming World designed a series that would pay homage to the history of the sport on its biggest stage. Dubbed Takeoff to Tokyo, the series would f...

Don Hill, a former Michigan national champion and United States Masters Swimming (USMS) champion has died. He died Thursday, May 23, and was 87. Hill, who married USA Olympic swimmer Jane Swagerty, toasted his life with champagne, alongside his family the night before he died, according to sources c...

Tokyo Flashback: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus Triumphs in 200 Freestyle In Tokyo Tussle II; Katie Ledecky Fifth 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 champ...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Takeoff To Tokyo: Iconic Moments In Olympic History By John Lohn In October of 2019, nearly a year prior to the original date of the 2020 Olympic...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Janet Evans, Katie Ledecky, Debbie Meyer and Rebecca Adlington? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have ...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here A Voice For The Sport: Teenage Tradition At Trials By John Lohn As much as change is a constant in the world, some things have remained steady throu...

The World Is Still Chasing Debbie Meyer In 1968 16-year-old Debbie Meyer became the first and only person to win the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle events at a single Olympic Games. Now 63, Debbie recently spoke with Swimming World about her story and the historic influence that propelled her to fame d...

By Proteeti Sinha, Swimming World College Intern. While sprinters swim one, two or four lengths of the pool, distance swimmers often swim up to 30 lengths of the pool for one race. That’s a lot of swimming and a lot of staring at the black line. Even though it can sometimes get boring, distance swim...

American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...

By Norm Frauenheim Winnipeg, Canada - Kaitlin Sandeno got to sing an encore Friday night. Her second trip to the medal stand's step was as good as the first. Maybe even better. Sandeno celebrated her Pan American Games gold medal in the women's 800m freestyle with a chorus. After her record-setting ...

Team USA swimmer, Stanford University freshman and two-time Olympian Katie Ledecky, 20, was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame on March 16 at a ceremony held at the Miller Senate Office Building in Annapolis, MD. With her induction she became that Hall of Fame's youngest inductee ever (...

2016 Trials Throwback: Katie Ledecky Takes Victory Lap in 800 Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in...

A Who's Who of Olympic athletes, coaches and others at the helm of the aquatic sports sector sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging him to help get pools reopened across the U.S. as a matter of public health and safety. The letter, which is below, is signed by 36 Olympic swimmers and...

999-The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here The Toughest Workouts, Part 2 By Michael J. Stott Swimming has had its share of taskmasters over the years. In the second of a two-part series ...

By David Rieder. Katie Ledecky had pulled it off. She led wire-to-wire in the final of the women’s 800 free and won the race by more than 11 seconds over silver medalist Jazz Carlin. Ledecky’s time was 8:04.79, crushing the world record of 8:06.68 that she set in Austin, Texas, seven months ago. And...