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Can Women Beat Men in Marathon Swimming? By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Swimmers have biological differences that affect their performance according to their sex. Women have lower hemoglobin levels, oxygen supply, and do not develop as much muscular power. Therefore, in sprint ...

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...

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...

Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Gertrude Ederle and Her English Channel Crossing Now that 2026 has arrived, we can embark on a year-long celebration of Gertrude Ederle, who became the first woman to cross the English Channel a century ago. One hundred years ago, Gertrude Ederle became the first...

National Girls & Women in Sports Day: The Greatness of Gertrude Ederle By Lianne McCluskey, Swimming World Intern. Gertrude Ederle showed the world what grit and tenacity can do: make swimming history. On August 6, 1926, 19-year-old Trudy became not only the first woman to complete the English Chann...

Marathon Swimming: Where Women Have Outperformed the Men 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 run several features throughout the day which celebrate some of the great...

Barrier Breakers: Women Who Have Elevated the Sport By Gigi Picard Swimming World College Intern It is easy to look back on the year 2020 in sports and feel a measure of disappointment: seasons were cut short, championships were canceled, stands stood empty, athletes were quarantined. It all felt a ...

Commentary by Bruce Wigo, CEO of International Swimming Hall of Fame. From the Middle Ages to the dawn of the 20th century, women were discouraged from participating or even watching physical activity. This view was held because a woman was supposed to be passive, obedient and the “weaker sex." In f...

A Look at English Channel Crossing Speed Progressions The English Channel is the standard test for traditional marathon swimmers. As of the end of 2020, 2,157 individuals had completed the swim, compared to 5,788 who had summited Mount Everest. Many of the elite marathon racers (for example, those i...

American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...

When She Beat the Boys: Celebrating Anniversary of Gertrude Ederle's Historic English Channel Crossing Today leaves us six years shy of the centenary of Getrude Ederle's pioneering swim across the English Channel as the first woman to conquer the most famous stretch of open water in the world, court...

A Guide to Swimming Halls of Fame: Where History Is Celebrated This article will provide an overview of swimming Halls of Fame (international, national and local), the various disciplines that are celebrated, their purpose, how they operate, how to start one and a look at general Halls of Fame that ...

By Erin Keaveny, Swimming World College Intern Today, swimmers like Katie Ledecky, Natalie Coughlin and Missy Franklin are renowned for their accomplishments as athletes. Parents don't think twice about whether or not their daughter should learn to swim, however it wasn't always this way. Until arou...

ISHOF's First Honorees: A Sports Spectacular The International Swimming Hall of Fame inducted its first class on Dec. 27, 1965. The $1,190,000 swimming pool complex in Fort Lauderdale had just been completed, and swimmers, coaches and fans alike were on hand to pay homage to the 20 men and women as ...

Siobhan O'Connor On Training Daisy Ridley For 'Young Woman and the Sea' Amid The Cold Waters Of The Black Sea Less than a year after retiring from swimming, Siobhan O’Connor found herself travelling to the Black Sea, Bulgaria, to shoot a film about Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the Englis...

By Daniela Navarrete, Swimming World College Intern. Regular competitive swimmers fall into one of two camps: the ones who refuse to swim in the ocean, and the ones who love it. Throughout open water swimming history, several individuals have accomplished what many would think impossible - just for ...

Gertrude Ederle Biopic ‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Set for May Release (Trailer) Young Woman and the Sea, a Gertrude Ederle biopic of the first woman to swim the English Channel, is set for a May release date, with the trailer revealed this week. It will star Daisy Ridley and be given a theatrical rel...

Barrier Busters: Fierce Female Firsts In a sport that obsesses over milliseconds, time barriers matter. Most swimmers remember breaking a minute for the first time in the 100 free. What a rush! Then you move on to getting under that threshold in the other strokes. But many of swimming's greats have ...

The Paris Olympic Century: 100 Years Makes a Major Difference in U.S. Olympic Qualification America’s best swimmers will descend on Indianapolis next week for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. By the end of June 23, the swimmers will know who will travel to Paris and, almost down to the minute, when and...

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...