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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...

COLLEGE PARK, MD., Jan. 26. THE University of Maryland men's and women's swimming and diving teams lost to North Carolina in ACC dual meet action Saturday afternoon at the Campus Recreation Center Natatorium in College Park. The Carolina women's team, ranked No. 12 in the latest CSCAA Co...

By Jacob Riley, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming has come a long way since the 1980s. Swimmers have gone from having full mustaches and not wearing goggles, to not having a single hair on the body and having fancy goggles that streamline the water. Everything has changed since the 1980s: stro...

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...

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...

Berlin, Germany - The former head of East Germany's swimming federation and two coaches were given suspended jail terms by a Berlin court on Wednesday for their participation in the communist state's systematic doping policy. Former German Swimming Sport Federation (DSSV) general secretary Egon Muel...

By Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, May 15. AUSTRALIAN teen phenom Ian Thorpe turned in his third world record in three days when he won the 200 meter freestyle in 1:45.51 at the Australian National Championships and Olympic Trials at the Homebush Aquatic Centre in Sydney. On Day One of the eight-day compe...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan. July 25. THE Living Legend that is Ian Thorpe continued to grow tonight in Fukuoka after the young Australian clocked an astounding 1:44.06 world record over 200m freestyle to avenge his only Olympic defeat last year. Pieter van den Hoogenband, the Dut...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 20. On the fifth night of competition, America decided to spoil the Aussie party. In perhaps the biggest upset in a meet with more than its share of upsets, Misty Hyman defeated both Australians: world record holder Susie O'Neill and Petria ...

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 Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins Women's 100 Back Prelims Top 16 advancing to Semi-Finals: 1. Nakamura JPN 1:00.88 2. Mocanu ROM 1:01.18 3. Maracineanu FRA 1:01.66 4. Bedford USA 1:01.70 5. Zhivanevskaya ESP 1:01.97 6. Ornstedt DEN 1:01.98 7. Zhan CHN 1:02.19 7. Inada JPN 1:02.19 --- 9. Busc...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24. IAN Thorpe was back on his blocks just 15 minutes after qualifying for the final of the 200m freestyle against Pieter van den Hoogenband. Before that boiling battle, there was another one to tackle, over 800m against teammate Grant Hackett, the Olympic 1,500m c...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, Tuesday, July 24, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. For more information on the meet, take advantage of Swimming World and Jr. Swimmer Magazine's Special Subscription Offer Only four fina...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 16. WORLD records fell in all four final events on the first night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, five world marks fell in the four events. Women's 400 IM - FINALS GOLD - Klochkova UKR 4:33.59 WORLD RECORD! SI...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, July 23, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. For more information on the meet, take advantage of Swimming World and Jr. Swimmer Magazine's Special Subscription Offer Women’s 200 meter butte...

Update: Sandra Völker first auctioned her 1996 medals back in 2014 to clear debts. Today, her Olympic medals from the 100m freestyle and the 4x100m freestyle at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for Germany fetched €26,000 at auction in Kassel. The Auction, by Agon Sportsworld, raised €15,000 for th...

By Phillip Whitten PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain. July 4. SEVEN women's Masters world records were shattered - five in the 50 meter breaststroke - to highlight competition on Day Two of the European Masters Swimming Championships in Palma on the sunny island paradise of Mallorca, Spain. Seventeen Eur...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - The end of the longest, largest meet I have ever been to has finally come. A full week of swimming. I think my butt hurts the most from sitting on hard seats so many hours. The only event of the day was the 800 Free. 40 heats of women and 48 heats of men. At leas...

By Michael Collins & Phillip Whitten SYDNEY, September 16. OLYMPIC records were set in two events during prelims of the first day of competition at the Olympic Games here in sunny Sydney, Australia. Australia's golden boy, Ian Thorpe, cracked Russia's Evgeny Sadovyi's 1992 mark of 3:45.0...

MONACO, June 13. AUSTRALIA'S Ian Thorpe missed breaking his own world record in the 200 meter freestyle but still won handily with a time, 1:45.75, only he and Holland's Pieter van den Hoogenband have ever bettered on the second day of the two-day Monaco stop in the Mare Nostrum tour today. ...