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Flynn Southam Stakes A Claim For New Age Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Team For Paris Olympics The race for what could well be a new look Australian men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team for the Paris Olympics just started to get a whole lot hotter after 18-year-old Flynn Southam unleashed his 1:46....

On This Date: Jason Lezak And His Beijing Anchor For The Ages (Video) When Jason Lezak entered the water for the United States on the anchor leg of the United States’ 400 freestyle relay at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, the race was seemingly over. On August 11, Lezak trailed Frenchman Alain Be...

Eric the Eel: A Unique Tale of Hope and Struggle ... And Lifeguards on Alert The Olympic Games in Paris concluded, Swimming World takes a look back at the tale of Eric Moussambani, dubbed "Eric the Eel." The swimmer from Equatorial Guinea barely made it through his 100-meter freestyle at the 2000 Ga...

Honoring the Greatest World Records In History; Michael Phelps Leads the Celebration The fastest of all-time. It’s a special title to hold, and only a tiny percentage of athletes can make the claim. To own the label of world-record holder elevates an individual to a status that cannot be argued. Whe...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World College Intern. The Super-Suit Era Crafted to enhance hydrodynamic performance, the sleek "rubber suit" truly revolutionized the sport of swimming as we know it: a cumulative total of 74 world records had been shattered after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, while 43 were...

Michael Klim became as synonymous in Sydney in 2000 as the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House – standing tall as the pillars of an Olympic city, brimming in national pride. And the up-comimg 20th Anniversary of the Games will bring an even greater joy as the world comes to terms with the horrors of ...

By Allison Peters, Swimming World College Intern READING – I remember the day I decided to swim in college. I was driving home from practice with my mom my senior year and she told me if I wanted, this could be my last season ever. I told her, “Mom, I’m not finished yet.” I had fallen in love with t...

OBITUARY: Australian Olympian Adam Lucas Pays A Special Tribute To His Celebrated Coach Grant Stoelwinder Australia’s 2004 Athens Olympic medley swimmer Adam Lucas summed up his coach Grant Stoelwinder perfectly when the Western Australian swimming community gave the coach they all called “Stolly” t...

Race Of the Century: When Two Stalwarts and a Rising Star Clashed For History (Video) The 200 freestyle had enough substance at the 2004 Olympics, thanks to a repeat clash between the Netherlands’ Pieter van den Hoogenband and Australia’s Ian Thorpe. But when Michael Phelps entered the fray, too, th...

Anytime an Olympic Games nears, discussion of Michael Phelps and his legendary status is part of the equation. He is, after all, the barometer for Olympic excellence. So, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that identifies the greatest performances from Phelps' career. Phelps' long...

Michelle Ford, David Theile, Sir Frank Beaurepaire and Matthew Cowdrey Inducted Into Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame Olympic gold medallists Michelle Ford and David Theile, prolific Paralympic gold medallist Matthew Cowdrey and six time Olympic medallist Sir Frank Beaurepaire have been inducted into...

Australia Claims Mantle as World's Dominant Swim Team in Fukuoka Has Australia ever performed at such a high level at a major swimming competition? Perhaps in 2001, at the first World Championships held in Fukuoka, Japan, when the team had 13 gold medals. That meet was the signature performance of t...

The Stunning Age-Group Records of Australian Legend Ian Thorpe We had some fun recently looking at the premier National Age Group (NAG) records in the United States, where legendary names like Mary T. Meagher, Sippy Woodhead, Michael Phelps and Aaron Peirsol still have a presence. While working on t...

FLASH! Lukas Märtens Takes Down 400 Freestyle World Record; Lowers 2009 Super-Suited Standard Lukas Märtens has downed the 400 free world record in 3:39.96 at the Swim Open Stockholm to consign to history one of the global standards that had stood since the supersuited era of 2009. The Olympic champ...

By Andy Ross, Swimming World College Intern The Rio Olympics are quickly approaching and the swimming community is buzzing with excitement. Swimmers under the age of 10 will be viewing their first Olympics and people around the world of sports will be paying attention to the sport. Ask any swimmer o...

Mollie O'Callaghan Named Australia's Olympic Program Swimmer Of The Year At Glittering Awards Ceremony in Sydney Teenage sensation Mollie O’Callaghan has tonight beaten an all-star field to be crowned the Australian Olympic Swimmer of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony in Sydney tonight. A nig...

At 2001 World Championships, Ian Thorpe Steered Australia To Its Finest Hour In The Pool It was the first morning in Fukuoka, when all roads led to the pool in preparation for the 2001 World Championships. And as is so often the case, the race to catch the bus in some ways was just as competitive a....

Five members of the Australian Swim Team In Sydney 2000 Slip Down Memory Lane To Tell Us What They Are Up To Now For the Australian Swim Team and so many members of the 2000 Olympic team, Sydney was a dream come true and will be remembered as “The Time Of Their Lives” - a home Games seven years in t...

Which Long Course Super-Suit Era World Record Will Last the Longest? The 2009 World Championships in Rome was one to remember. The swimming world witnessed a whopping 43 world records set at the Foro Italico. Only two events (men’s 400 freestyle relay; men’s 400 IM) survived the record onslaught in ...

World Championships: Elijah Winnington Claims 400 Freestyle After Overhauling Lukas Martens Off Final Turn Elijah Winnington went past Lukas Martens off the final turn to claim the first title of the 2022 World Championships in the men's 400 free in Budapest. The Australian won in 3:41.22 ahead of M...