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By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern Swimming is a detail-obsessed sport: It’s all about precise qualifying times, strict training schedules, stroke descriptors, a lot of counting and hundredths of a second to crack the podium.  How many of you feel confident you know the history of swimming...

Lukas Martens and Germany Have Promise Heading into World Championships Since 2011, there have been 12 global championships conducted – four Olympic Games and eight World Championships. During that span, Germany has totaled 27 medals in the pool, including a high of six at the depleted 2024 edition ...

HAMBURG, Germany, Feb. 23. SWEDEN'S Glen Christiansen smashed two Masters world records for men 45-49 within a space of 15 minutes in a short course meters Masters meet in Hamburg, Germany today. Chrsitiansen, 45, who works as a coach in Hamburg, began by clocking 30.63 for the 50 meter breastst...

Britta Steffen is one of the fastest female swimmers Germany has ever produced.  She specialized in the sprint freestyle events and won a total of three Olympic medals, two gold and one bronze in two different Olympic Games, eight years apart, 2000, Sydney and 2008, Beijing. Despite periods of healt...

Germany Nominates 24 Pool Swimmers For Paris 2024: Names Team For European Championships In Belgrade Lukas Märtens is among 24 pool swimmers - 15 men and nine women - nominated by the German Swimming Association (DSV) for the Olympic Games in Paris. The German Olympic Confederation will confirm the ...

Florian Wellbrock continued his preparation for a double-pronged attack in Tokyo when he won the 1500 free in 14:46.03 in Magdeburg as Germany continued its short series of Olympic-qualifying competitions The 23-year-old - who won the 400 on Saturday - has already been nominated in the 800, 1500 fre...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Virginia, January 18. THE Virginia Tech men's swimming and diving team swept Harvard and Wisconsin and beat Virginia for the first time in more than 32 years as the Hokies wrapped up a two-day dual meet this afternoon. Meanwhile, Virginia women swept all three of their dual meets ove...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland, May 13. TODAY, FINA released its final decision regarding Russia's Yuliya Efimova and her positive test for 7-keto-DHEA during an out-of-competition test that took place in Los Angeles. FINA elected to imposed a 16-month competition ban retroactive to Oct. 31, 2013 and conclud...

By Jennifer Yoo, Swimming World College Intern. When you hear that there is an event called the “24-Hour Arena Swim,” what do you think of? Most would automatically think it’s an event reserved for professional swimmers who have been training their whole lives – but that’s not true. This German even...

By Bill Bell APRIL 8. WHEN Australian triple Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe set the world record in the 800 free during last week's Australian Nationals/World Championship Trials in Hobart, he joined a rather exclusive group -- consisting of a mere two other swimmers -- who have ever held worl...

By Phillip Whitten Sept. 11. Another day that will live in Infamy. As the news of the despicable and cowardly terrorist attacks today spread around the world, phone calls and e-mail letters of support came pouring in from our swimming friends from almost every corner of the globe: from Australia, Eu...

Lucky Break Helps Kaii Winkler Become German Olympian From the viewpoint of the deck at the Paris Olympics, Kaii Winkler saw a lost summer of 2023 as a lucky break. Winkler broke his arm in the spring of 2023, an injury that kept him out of Nationals and, crucially, prevented him from qualifying to ...

BEIJING, Aug. 28. US men won three of the four finals contested tonight at the Yingdong Natatorium in Beijing at the World University Games, and added a silver and bronze. The American women swam well too, picking up two silvers and bronze medal in the three women's finals. The US notched its fo...

THREE European Junior records wre broken on Day Two of the European junior Championships in Dunkerque, France, bringing to nine the total that have been broken thus far. Croatia's Duje Dragonja breezed to a record in winning the men 50 meter freestyle in 22.68. Israel's Vered Borchovsky set ...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, Wednesday, July 25, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. Five finals are up for grabs, including one of the meet’s undoubted highlights: the 200 meter freestyle re-match between Olympic champion...

Special thanks to ArenaUSA for proudly sponsoring our coverage of the Arena Grand Prix circuit. For all of our coverage and more, please visit our event coverage page AUSTIN, Texas, January 18. THE second night of action at the Arena Grand Prix held in Austin definitely realized the potential from a...

Anna Elendt lowered her German 100m breaststroke record to 1:05.58 in the final at the 2022 Pro Swim Series meet in San Antonio. The 20-year-old, who won 100br bronze among three medals at the 2018 European Junior Championships, had already cracked 1:06 for the first time in the prelims when she wen...

The German Swimming Federation (DSV) has said that it will not be sending a team to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games if they are held in July. The federation called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) run by German Thomas Bach to come to a sift decision on the fate of the Tokyo 2020 Games after...

Memorial Day Rewind: How World War II Impacted Yale Great Bob Kiphuth Editor’s note: We are reposting this great feature by Chuck Warner, originally written as part of a series of articles about the great Yale coach Bob Kiphuth, highlighting a moment in Kiphuth’s career that intersected with the ris...

By Kaylie Williams, Swimming World College Intern. What happened when a group of German adrenaline junkies decided to add their own twist to the finessed sport of diving? Splashdiving was born! Interested? Read on to find out about this odd sport and how it grew into a worldwide competition! What in...