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Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! Commentary by Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer Being a part of the 1991 Pan American swim team for the United States has remained the highlight of my 37-yea...

Oklahoma City, OK - Four-time 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Amy Van Dyken and 1996 double Gold Medalist Gary Hall, Jr., and 1992 and 1996 Olympic Gold Medalist Jenny Thompson top off a field of over 570 competing December 18-21, 1997, at the 6th Annual Kerr-McGee Corporation Elite Pro-Am swim meet at O...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! Brazil's Thiago Pereira now owns the most Pan American Games medals of any athlete in any sport, picking up his 22nd and 23rd medal of his career tonight in Toronto. T...

By Phillip Whitten PARIS, Jan 19. CHINA's Luo Xuejuan took back the 50 meter breaststroke mark she had formerly shared, when she clocked 30.47 seconds for the event on the second day of the World Cup VII meet in Paris today. Luo, 17, lowered the mark of 30.51 set by Britain's Zoe Baker on Ja...

IMPERIA, Italy, Jan. 15. A world record in the women's 50 meter breast by Great Britain's New Zealand-based Zoe Baker highlighted the second day of competition at the FINA World Cup here this evening. In the final day of action at the sixth round of the series, Baker clocked 30.51 -- topplin...

By Gerry Rodrigues July 14. LOS ANGELES. JENNY Thompson destroyed her own eight year-old American record in the 100 meter freestyle tonight, the second night of competition at the Janet Evans Invitational at the Olympic Pool on the USC campus. Thompson, 27, wearing a Speedo bodysuit, clocked 54.27 s...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! Brazil put together a blazing fast men's 400-meter medley relay en route to a Pan American Games record as well as a medal record for Thiago Pereira. Brazil's Guilherm...

Olympic silver medalist Gustavo Borges from Brazil sat down with Brett Hawke on his podcast to talk about his career and how the world of professional swimming has changed since his era in the 1990s. Borges went over the 1995 World Short Course Championships (7:00) that was held in his home country ...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

Coverage of the 2015 Pan American Games is sponsored by Triton Wear. Visit Swimming World’s event landing page for results and more! Brazil's Thiago Pereira claimed the bronze medal in the 200 breaststroke at the 2015 Pan American Games, winning the 20th medal in his fourth Pan American Games appear...

FEDERAL WAY, March 29. THIRTY-TWO-year-old Dara Torres led all qualifiers in the women's 100m freestyle when she clocked a lifetime best 55.03 this morning at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships being held in Kings County Aquatic Center in Federal Way, Washington. Torres led the next ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, July 18. AS part of our 11-day series highlighting the National Interscholastic Swim Coaches Association’s release of the 2013-14 All-America lists, Swimming World will also be looking at the history of each event that is part of the high school schedule. Today, we're end the serie...

By Norm Frauenheim Winnipeg, Canada - She stood on the medal stand's top pedestal as if she never wanted to leave. The recorded national anthem was cut short. But she finished the lyrics, anyway. Kaitlin Sandeno wanted the music to play on. The moment to continue. "I thought, 'Wow, this song is play...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 2. MINNESOTA'S Golden Gophers more than lived up to their nickname, splashing to their second-consecutive Big 10 Swimming and Diving Championship at the Counsilman/Billingsley Aquatioc Cenmter Pool here. Coach Dennis Dale's Gophers outpointed Coach Jon Urbancek's...

With 399 days until the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the event organizers unveiled the design of the torch that will carry the Olympic flame on its journey from Athens, Greece, to Brazil. The website for the Rio Olympics says the torch design “unites movement, innovation ...

SAO PAOLO, BRAZIL, Dec. 23. A half-dozen of South American short-course meters records highlighted the Jose Finkel Invitational here this weekend. The meet was held Dec. 19-23 and also served as the selection trials for the Brazilian team which will compete at next spring/s World sc Championships in...

MAR DEL PLATA, ARGENTINA. Brazil's Rogerio Romero and Venezuela's Oswaldo Quevedo were the top swimmers at the South American Swimming Championships, held April 12-15 in Mar del Plata, Argentina, site of the 1995 Pan American Games. In the absence of teammate Leonardo Costa, Romero, 30, bree...

PHILADELPHIA – This year marks the 115th annual Eastern Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships, and the meet will once again feature some of the best athletes from independent schools around the nation in one of the most prestigious high school meets in the country. The meet will take pla...

By Jorge Aguado (Swimming World's South American Correspondent) BELEM DO PARA, Brazil, March 14. EDUARDO Aquiles Fischer (BRA) broke the South American record in the 100 meter breaststroke on the first day of competition at the South American Long Course Championships. The meet continues through...

How Will The US Swim Team Fare in Sydney? The U.S. Olympic Trials are over and the US team has made the long trans-Pacific trek. How will the Americans fare at the Olympic Games in Sydney against the world's best? Swimming World has a pretty good idea and offers its predictions for gold, silver...