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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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

In this special edition of The Week That Was, we take a look back at the five biggest stories to come out of the year 2016. This includes records, controversies and plenty of gold medals. Welcome to The Year That Was! https://youtu.be/sRImsyhB0q4 The Year That Was #5 - Eddie Reese Wins Record-Settin...

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 David Rieder. All summer, everyone pretended to know what would happen in the medley relay events at the Olympics—just add up the top times this year from all the 100s of each stroke, right. Well, not so much. With five of eight days of Olympic swimming complete, it’s become fairly clear who is p...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...