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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...

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 (...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 like Janet Evans, Martha Norelius, Debbie Meyer, Katie Ledecky and Shane Gould? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have un...

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...

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...

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...

It is 50 years ago today that a 16-year-old Sydney schoolgirl Karen Moras stunned a packed crowd at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh to smash her own world record in the 800m freestyle. Her stunning solo swim in a time of 9:02.45 was the major highlight of Australia’s dominance in the pool a...

By Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, May 28. THE Olympic Games begins in 800 days in Rio de Janeiro. It seems like a lifetime from now, but as every athlete knows, the Opening Ceremony will be here in the blink of an eye. In swimming, we still have this summer's international meets and next year's wor...

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...

Lessons With The Legends: Sherm Chavoor Swimming World continues its “Lessons With the Legends,” a series in which top coaches share secrets of their success, in the September issue with a feature on Sherm Chavoor, notable coach. The Hawaiian native founded the Arden Hills Swim and Tennis Club in Ca...

After making history at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games by becoming the second woman in history to win the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle individual events five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky has been making the rounds visiting various media outlets. Ledecky's most recent appearance was on The Ell...

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...

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...

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...