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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...

Sabrina Knoll, Swimming World's Germany correspondent, called Jacob Heidtmann at his base in San Diego with Coach David Marsh. It was 9.30am for the medley ace and normally he'd be in the pool working hard at that time of day. Not in coronavirus season. A member of the German Olympic team in Rio 201...

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...

EAST LANSING, Mich., Dec. 9. AN early lead helped the Michigan State swimming and diving teams overcome Ball State Saturday afternoon in East Lansing. The women won the meet 146 to 95, while the men scored 135 against the Cardinals' 108. The Spartans jumped to an early lead within the first ten ...

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...

By Eric Bugby, Swimming World Contributor Kate Kinley is a rising Firstie, or senior, at the United States Military Academy (USMA). Her story of service is not stereotypical. She wasn’t an Army brat, traveling from one base to another, learning the life from her parents. She never dreamed of being t...

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 ...

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 ...

HELSINKI, July 6. THE favorites in this morning's six events breezed through the prelims, easily qualifying for the semi-finals and, in the case of the men's 1500 meters, the finals tonight and tomorrow. Italy's Massi Rosolino, who won the 200 IM last night, posted a 1:49.06 in the 200 f...

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...

For complete coverage of the Arena Grand Prix in Austin, including interviews, recaps and links to live results and stream, check out our event coverage page. AUSTIN, Texas, January 17. WITH 40 Olympics medals owned by finalists tonight at the Arena Grand Prix stop in Austin, there was no doubt that...

VALETTA, Malta, July 9. THE kids have arrived! On the third day of the 2001 European Junior Championships here today, Greece's Ioannis Drymonakos and Hungary's Viktor Bodrogi were the stars of the show on the boys' side. Among the ladies Ukraine's Aliaksandra Herasimenia was a double...

CHRISTIANSBURG, Virginia, January 17. AFTER one day of competition in Christiansburg, the Virginia Tech men's swimming diving team leads Harvard, Virginia and Wisconsin, while the Virginia Tech women are up on Miami in a five-team dual meet hosted by the Hokies. Virginia Tech Press Release The Virgi...

By Michael Collins MUNICH, Germany - Team scoring, it's not necessarily what you think. When the small, but extremely strong, team from Alaska found out they weren't keeping score at the meet - they took things into their own hands. They made score cards 1-10 and graded each of their swimmer...

Women's History Month: Celebrating Four Legends In the Sport As part of Women’s History Month, this article honors four female swimmers who made history at past Olympic Games. These swimmers competed from the mid-1980s and into the 2010s. Specifically, from Los Angeles 1984 to London 2012. Due to th...

ROME, Italy, June 14. THE Sette Colli meet continues to produce some of the top swims in the world this year, and tonight was no different when Lithuania's Ruta Meiltutyte provided a spark in the women's 50-meter breast. Meilutyte grabbed the spotlight from the rest of the swimmer with a scorching t...

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 ORLANDO, Florida, February 14. GERMANY's Yannick Lebherz survived a hard charge by Wisconsin's Michael Weiss in the men's 200-meter f...

PERHAPS one day swimmers in the Olympics will be able to contest the 50 stroke events (although one presume Denny Pursley shudders at such a possibility!) but for Athens, at least, it ain't agonna happen. Laast month the International Olympic Committee put paid to such notions when it rejected t...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 23. The final night of swimming at the Sydney Aquatic Centre. A total of 14 world records were set during the meet including 2 on the final day - both by American relays. Australia, too, had plenty to cheer about on the final night. In the most anti...