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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...

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...

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...

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....

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 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...

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...

Exaggerated Reports of Incident Between Adam Peaty and Luke Greenbank Lead to Unfair Treatment of Anna Hopkin Adam Peaty has criticised as “totally unfair” Anna Hopkin being dragged into the spotlight following an incident involving the three-time Olympic champion and Luke Greenbank. Reports through...

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: 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...

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...

NSW Championships, Night 2: Absence Makes The Arms Go Faster for Tara Kinder Who Drops A 200m Breaststroke Rankings Buster Of 2:23.84 Melbourne University student Tara Kinder quit swimming two years ago, the former Victorian Age group star spending 14 months away from the sport. And by her own adm.....

19-year-old Japanese superstar Rikako Ikee was released from the hospital this week after a long fight with leukemia, the Japanese champion announced via her website. Ikee was diagnosed with leukemia in February 2019 and was forced out of the water this year to fight the disease after coming off a w...

FINA World Cup Doha: Emma McKeon, Daiya Seto Each Win Two Events on Day Three The third day of the FINA World Cup stop in Doha saw the world's most prolific female swimmer in 2021, Australia's Emma McKeon, pick up two more victories in two of her best events, while rebounding Japanese star Daiya Set...

Eight “Next Gen” Aussie Women To Watch In New Look Dolphins Team For Singapore The Australian women’s team for the Singapore World Championships will take on a whole new look with the next breed of young girls coming in to make their World’s debuts and others who have stepped up from relay swimmers....

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 ....

Olympics: After Mixed Medley Fiasco, Americans Need Relay Redemption in Finale The four-person swimming relay debuted at the fourth edition of the modern Olympics, at the 1908 Games in London. Men competed in the 800 freestyle relay in 1908, while the first women’s relay came with the addition of th...

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...

By J.P. Mortenson, Swimming World College Intern. As swimmers, we all have days when we show up to practice and are completely fatigued before even getting in the water. Days when making even the warmup interval is a struggle. Your body just can’t do what you want it to, and you feel like you aren’t...

Commentary by Kevin Gill, Swimming World College Intern. Over the course of history in the sport of swimming two nations have proved themselves as the most dominant in the world. Aside from the United States, the Australian national team has consistently been able to collect more medals at major in....