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Duke Kahanamoku Deserves to be in World's Greatest Athlete Conversation When my parents decided to take a family trip to Hawaii for their 50th anniversary, they asked each of us what the most important thing we wanted to do was. Mine was easy. I wanted my picture taken with the Duke Kahanamoku statu...

A Century Later, Johnny Weissmuller - Champion Ape Man - Remains An Iconic Figure It's been a century since Johnny Weissmuller won the first national title of his illustrious career, and nearly 100 years since his first world record. The legacy of the man who would become Tarzan endures. The way he....

In his first Remembrance Day tribute in Canberra today, Australian Governor-General David Hurley AC DSC, has paid tribute to legendary Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy – who remains the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to lose his life in the line of duty. And sadly a man whose extr...

Today marks the start of the swimming competition at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp 100 years ago, Hawaiian Warren Paoa Kealoha the first gold medalist in the pool when he claimed the first of his career 100m backstroke titles. Swimmers from twenty one nations raced at the Bassin du Natation betw...

When Jim Montgomery and Jonty Skinner Chased Sub-50: A Unique Summer Pursuit Swimming World's Great Races Series has featured numerous duels between star athletes. In this edition, Jim Montgomery and Jonty Skinner engaged in a great race, albeit one in separate pools. The most iconic barrier-breakin...

The Paris Olympic Century: 100 Years Makes a Major Difference in U.S. Olympic Qualification America’s best swimmers will descend on Indianapolis next week for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. By the end of June 23, the swimmers will know who will travel to Paris and, almost down to the minute, when and...

Epic Swim Maui Will Circumnavigate Island While Pushing For Ocean Health, Honoring Duke Kahanamoku Over the next few weeks, 14 open water swimmers from around the world will circumnavigate the island of Maui. The event, entitled Epic Swim Maui, is the first event in the Global Expedition Swim Series...

ISHOF's First Honorees: A Sports Spectacular The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted its first class on Dec. 27, 1965. The $1,190,000 swimming pool complex in Fort Lauderdale had just been completed, and swimmers, coaches and fans alike were on hand to pay homage to the 20 men and women as ...

Olympic Dreams: Assembling History's Greatest Men's Medley Relays The countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, albeit delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is under the 100-day mark. In three months, the cauldron will be lit, kicking off more than two weeks of competition, including nine days of swimmin...

It isn't quite an Olympic record if you take a ship but as the crow flies the 15,706km distance between Paris, where the biggest multi-sports event on the planet will be staged in summer 2024 and Tahiti, set to host new surfing events, would be the biggest gap between Olympic venues at one Games. Th...

The latest issue of Swimming World Biweekly is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault Non-subscribers can download this issue here - only $.99 for a limited time! In this issue of SW Biweekly, read about Regan Smith- the three-time Olympic medalist and four-time World Championshi...

The Week That Was, Sponsored by Suitmate The Week That Was featured an incredible women's NCAA championships in both the DI and DIII conferences. The Division I championship saw an incredible production, producing a plethoera of new American records. The Week That Was #1: Kate Douglass Builds Legacy...

A Superstar Of Swim and Surf: The Dual-Sport Talents Of Duke Kahanamoku The 100 freestyle has long been a revered event on the Olympic schedule, and American Duke Kahanamoku was an early champion. Also a surfing legend, Kahanamoku remains a legend. Throughout history, single names have been enough t...

In ‘Three Kings,’ Todd Balf Tells Story of Leading Lights of 1924 Paris Olympics Todd Balf has visited the era between World Wars many times in his work. In looking for a new book project, the former senior editor of Outside magazine was drawn back there not just by the era’s mystique but by the con...

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 Duke Kahanamoku, Johnny Weissmuller and Alex Popov? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolded had...

(courtesy of the US Olympic Committee) COLORADO SPINGS, Colo., April 26. THE United States Olympic Committee has been informed that Hal Haig Prieste, America's oldest Olympian and the world's oldest Olympic medal-winner, has passed away at the age of 104. A bronze medalist in platform diving...

Alex Popov on Olympic Double Defense: 'It's Probably Twice as Hard' No matter what unfolds in the sprint events at next summer’s delayed Olympic Games in Tokyo, another Olympiad will pass with Alex Popov standing alone, his career celebrated in our 20th anniversary feature this month. The Russian se...

Paris Olympics Day 5: Silver Lining for Olympic Champions Kyle Chalmers and Zac Stubblety-Cook on a Roller Coaster Day For Aussies The roller coaster that is the Olympic Games was in full swing on a dramatic fifth day of competition for Australia in the pool at the Paris La Defense Arena. A silver.....

By Bruce Wigo The swimming stars of the 1920 Olympic Games were Duke Kahanamoku, Norman Ross and Ethelda Bleibtrey. While Duke was the Hawaiian Marvel who had kicked water in the faces of the best water sharks of Europe at the 1912 Olympic Games, it was Stanford's Norman Ross who was regarded as bei...

Feature by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, May 26. WE remember on this Memorial Day weekend the lives of those who fought valiantly for the United States in military action. The toll that the two World Wars took on the global population extended beyond the battlefields, with the Olympic Movement tak...