Freestyle swimming - (Tag)

By Abigail Sheridan, Swimming World College Intern. We’ve all watched that race - where two swimmers are neck and neck, each ferociously fighting back the pain to hit the touch pad first. If these competitors are swimming at the same speed, then the one with a faster flip turn will prevail. Turns ar...

By Dr. G. John Mullen, DPT, CSCS Swimming occurs in all planes of motion. The long-axis strokes (backstroke and freestyle) use rotation. Butterfly requires forward and backward motion, while breaststroke requires side-to-side strength. Side-to-side strength is classified as a frontal plane motion; s...

SARASOTA, Florida, June 19. JACK Groselle is having an amazing year in the pool, already setting five Masters world records in short course meters and long course meters meets. The 60-year-old is definitely not slowing down, taking down two more long course records and helping with two relay records...

SANTA CLARA, California, May 5. SWIMMING World followed up with U.S. Masters Swimming as well as an industry professional concerning the false reporting of Nathan Adrian's 100-yard free American record at Masters Nationals. USMS initially explained in a statement yesterday that the meet had been fol...

By Sarah Lloyd, Swimming World College Intern A couple of weeks ago, one of my campers asked me if I thought Katie Ledecky would break the world record in the 1500 in Rio next year. "No," I said, and as only young children can do, she cocked her head to one side, looking puzzled and asked "Why?" I t...

Guest commentary by Caroline Simmons As I was watching the Southeastern Championships, I had the pleasure of sitting next to an old swimming friend. After watching a few of the events, the conversation began to focus on the rules and regulations of swimming. Throughout the years that I have been inv...

BRISBANE, Australia, June 4. THE 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games swim team will come together once again for the second Grand Prix meet this year, to be held at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Brisbane, from Friday June 6 to Saturday June 7. The 59 Glasgow bound swimmers will be joined by some hig...

CARTHAGE, Wisconsin, January 15. THE CollegeSwimming.com National Swimmers of the Week are out, and it took some gutsy performances right out of training camp to claim top honors this week. Here is CollegeSwimming.com's announcement about the winners! Division I Women Kasey Carlson (Walnut Creek, Ca...

SANTA CLARITA, California, May 29. TWO weeks ago, Canyons' Abbey Weitzeil became the sprint queen of high school swimming by breaking both the 50-yard and 100-yard freestyle national high school records at the CIF Southern Section Championships while representing Saugas High. During the meet, she po...

While there were no new world records tonight at the 2015 European Short Course Championships, there was still plenty of fast swimming. The Italians proved especially strong with wins in the men's 100 freestyle semi-final, the women's 200 freestyle final and the 4x50 mixed freestyle relay. One of se...

PHOENIX, Arizona, April 4. The April issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download to Total Access Subscribers! On pages 8 & 9 of Swimming World Magazine, How To Execute The Back-To-Breast Turn Legally The “Rollover” Transition turn from backstroke to breaststroke in the Individual ...

By Emma Merrill, Swimming World College Intern Katie Ledecky is the most dominate freestyle swimmer in the world right now, male or female. Her fame began when she shocked the swimming world with an obliteration of the field in the 800m freestyle back in the 2012 London Olympics. And while the 2016 ...

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama, January 25. PAIGE McCleary broke the school record in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events on Saturday to lead the University of Alabama to a sweep of Emory on senior day. Alabama won 28 of 32 events to win both the women's and men's dual meets. Alabama Press Release The A...

Ryan Lochte was on pace to win the 200 freestyle at the FINA world championships, but the physical pain was too great to overcome, and he was fifth in the final. After the race, he said things started to go south around the 170-meter mark. “I started going into a scramble,” he said. “As soon as I po...

HONOLULU, Hawaii, January 12. THE University of Minnesota swimming and diving teams wrapped up their training trip to Hawaii with a sweep of the University of Hawaii on Saturday. With the win, the Gopher women are now 6-0 in dual meets this season, while the men are now 5-1. Minnesota Women's Press ...

MOSCOW, Russia, July 5. TODAY at the famed Olympic pool in Moscow, Olympic medalist Vladimir Predkin dipped under 24 seconds in the long course 50 freestyle to break the Masters world record in the 45-49 age group. Predkin, who turned 45 on May 31, posted a 23.98 in the 50 free, beating out the worl...

ATLANTA, Georgia, January 18. THE Emory University swimming and diving teams earned several victories Saturday morning but came up just short against Division I Georgia Tech as the team celebrated its 20 graduating seniors on Senior Day. Ellie Thompson and Annelise Kowalsky each won two individual e...

By Christian Hanselmann We all watched the NCAA Championships last month. We all know about the disqualifications. We know about the records. We know about the intense team races that took place. The speed on display the past two weekends was awe-inspiring. With all that in mind, I re-watched the me...

By Ronald Hehn, Concordia College Head Coach PHOENIX, Arizona, July 2. THIS week's workout approaches each part of the individual Medley, component by component. In the Individual Medley, it is important for the athlete to have Butterfly and Backstroke speed, and Breaststroke and Freestyle endurance...

PHOENIX, Arizona, June 12. SWIMMING World always welcomes volunteer contributions, especially when it comes to workout suggestions for our readers to think about and potentially use. Concord College head coach Ronald Hehn is the latest coach to submit one of his workouts to Swimming World. Hehn is e...