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Can Anyone Track Down Sarah Sjostrom’s World Record in Women’s 100 Free? When Sarah Sjostrom became the first woman ever under 52 seconds in the 100 freestyle, her world record seemed unlikely to last eight days, let alone eight years. On day one of the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Sjostrom...

Ranking the Best Women'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 2...

Tarnished Gold: How the Success of Kristin Otto Was Smoke and Mirrors This month marks the 35th anniversary of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. It was an Olympiad known for the excellence of Janet Evans and Matt Biondi, but also for the questions that surrounded East German star Kristin Otto, who wa...

Australia’s Forgotten 1980 Olympians Finally Recognized After Divisive and Disastrous Moscow Saga It was a diminished and puzzled Olympic team that left Australian shores in 1980 under a cloak of darkness, some heading off to secret training camps receiving death threats and branded as traitors as ....

Sam Short Wins 400 Freestyle Battle of World Champions Against Woomin Kim at Queensland Championships World championship silver medallist Sam Short has won an enthralling 400m freestyle “battle of the world champions” against Korean rival Woomin Kim on night three of the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Qu....

Tokyo Flashback: Adam Peaty Fuels Great Britain to Inaugural Gold in 400 Mixed Medley Relay 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 championship finals – e...

Swimming Siblings: When Two (or More) Members of One Family Achieved International Success When a child dives into summer league or club swimming for the first time, he or she often has familiar company with a sibling: a few years older, a few years younger or even a twin. When a swimmer reaches eli...

Australia’s Most Decorated Olympian Emma McKeon Hangs Up Her Goggles Australia’s most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon has today officially announced her retirement from all levels of swimming – hanging up her goggles after the most celebrated career of any Australian swimmer. McKeon boasts an unsurpa...

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 2021 World Swimmers of the Year: Caeleb Dressel and Emma McKeon By John Lohn and David Rieder CAELEB DRESSEL Male World and American Swimm...

Australia Claims Mantle as World's Dominant Swim Team in Fukuoka Has Australia ever performed at such a high level at a major swimming competition? Perhaps in 2001, at the first World Championships held in Fukuoka, Japan, when the team had 13 gold medals. That meet was the signature performance of t...

Who Will Win Inaugural Olympic Gold in Mixed Medley Relay? When national coaching staffs are preparing for any relay at an international meet and certainly at the Olympics, they must crunch the numbers, develop a strategy and weigh external factors such as event schedules to determine which four swi...

The Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Centre has been announced today as the host venue for the 2023 Australian World Championship Swimming Trials - returning to the Victorian capital for the first time since 2006. Swimming Australia announced the news on the MSAC pool deck this morning with Birmingham C...

Sydney Sprints: Kaylee McKeown Nudges Her Own 200m Short Course Backstroke World Record Clocking 1:59.48 There is no stopping Kaylee McKeown who has again put the world on notice clocking the equal fifth fastest time in history in winning the women’s 200m backstroke on night two of the Sydney Sprint...

Swimming Australia Lands A Major Coup With Rob Woodhouse Appointed New CEO Dual Olympian, swimming entrepreneur and English Channel conqueror, Rob Woodhouse, will take over as Swimming Australia’s next CEO in April. To say this is a major coup for the sport’s governing body is an understatement ...

Aussie Swim Stars Stand United As Speedo Unveils Green And Gold Suits for Birmingham Commonwealth Games It was a case of “unity wrapped in the green and gold” when Australian swimming’s biggest names were on show on Queensland’s Gold Coast today for Speedo’s unveiling of its Birmingham 2022 Commonwe...

The second day of the Japan Open upped the ante for the host country as two senior national records and one junior record fell in Tokyo. The meet is featuring a contingent of athletes from Australia and Great Britain, while American Anthony Ervin is also in attendance. Satomi Suzuki set the first na...

Sydney Sprints: Cam McEvoy is In The House After A Move To Sydney And The Famous Manly Swimming Club Manly SC is a club steeped in Swimming Australia’s long and proud history and it’s no wonder there were a few eyebrows raised when the fields were released for this week’s Sydney Sprints Meet and Aus...

Sydney Sprints: Lani Pallister Completes Stunning Treble With Australian SC Record of 8:07.37 In The 800m Freestyle Lani Pallister has earned a well deserved two-week break after setting her second Australian record in four days clocking the 10th fastest time in history in the women’s 800m freestyle...

Australian Olympic swim star Emma McKeon has issued an impassioned plea to help those families who have lost their homes to Australia’s worst ever bushfires after her own family survived the utter devastation first hand from a normally majestic Lake Conjola, on the New South Wales (NSW) South Coast....

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 25. THE second night of the Commonwealth Games proved to be exciting with close finishes throughout the evening. Team Australia, meanwhile, had the strongest night of them all with four gold medals by the time all was said and done, including a monster double by Thomas Fraser...