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IWD: Setting the Pace: 5 Women Who Changed the Sport of Swimming Today, March 8, we celebrate International Women's Day. As a tribute to the women who have contributed to, grown and defined excellence in the sport, Swimming World will recognize some of the great women and achievements in swimming hi...

Vicki Draves, a double Olympic gold medal-winning diver and International Swimming Hall of Fame inductee, was honored Monday as the subject of the Google Doodle. The Aug. 3 date marks the 72nd anniversary of Draves becoming the first Asian American to win an Olympic gold medal. Draves claimed gold i...

Stan Tinkham, the 1956 USA Women’s Olympic Team swim coach has passed away in suburban Maryland at the age of 87 on April 9, 2019. He had been suffering from Alzheimer’s disease for several years. Stan Tinkham was Born on Nov 24, 1931 in Yankton, SD. When he was seven years old his family relocated ...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor New York City, the city that spawned stickball, may seem the least hospitable of venues for an activity like synchronized swimming, remembered here mostly for Martin Short and Harry Shearer’s hilarious send-up on Saturday Night Live. Evidence is growin...

Artistic Swimming: Ancient Roman Spectacle to Modern Olympic Sport By Vicki Valosik Most people think of synchronized swimming, which gained Olympic status in 1984 and was renamed “artistic swimming” in 2017, as a newcomer sport dating back only as far as Esther Williams' mid-century movies. But the...

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...

Bob Duenkel’s greatest contribution to swimming, was his 40+ years of dedication and service to the International Swimming Hall of Fame, which he began in 1976. As ISHOF CEO, Buck Dawson’s assistant, he absorbed the history of swimming like a sponge, and not just from Dawson, but from the real great...

TIBURON, Calif., Oct. 3. THE Third Annual RCP Tiburon Mile Open Water Swim, scheduled for Saturday, October 6, will feature the greatest cast of international open water swimmers in history, according to meet organizer and director, Robert Placak. Set against one of the most beautiful panoramic view...