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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....

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...

Celebrating Pride Month: Five LGBTQIA+ Aquatic Athletes As we are in the middle of Pride month, it is important to recognize and celebrate notable members who are a part of both the aquatic sports and LGBTQIA+ community on their accomplishments and pride in their identity. Sharing the stories of tho...

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...

Australian Swimming legend Ian Thorpe believes that his sensational 1:44.06 World record over 200 metres freestyle in 2001 remains one off the three most competitive four-length swims of the past two decades because "everyone in the world is swimming the 200 freestyle wrong." "You can't swim 150 met...

Emerging Australian Swim Star Sam Short Making Waves With His 7:43.85 Short Course 800 Metres Freestyle Exciting Brisbane teenage swim star Sam Short has gate crashed his way into the Australian All-Time Top Ten Short Course Rankings with a stunning 800 metres freestyle swim at the Brisbane Aquatic ...

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...

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...

SYDNEY, Sept. 13. AUSTRALIA'S triple Olympic swimming champion, and six-time 2001 world champion, Ian Thorpe, would have been on the top of the World Trade Center at the time of the attack if he hadn't forgotten his camera, according to a report by Reuters news agency. The Australian teenage...

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....

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...

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 ...

Aussie Rookies Ed Sommerville and Benjamin Goedemans Join Four World Champions For A Freestyling Fesast n Singapore Two rookies will join four world champions as Australia looks to stay in touch with the world in five of the most competitive men’s freestyle events ever swum in World Championship hi....

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 29. GRANT Hackett obliterated the 1,500 meters world record he had targeted for so long as Australia deposed the United States as number one nation on the final day of the world swimming championships on Sunday. Defending champion Hackett demolished the world mark fellow Austral...

As Several U.S. NAG Records Go Down, a Look at the Ridiculous Aussie Age-Group Marks Of Ian Thorpe When Thomas Heilman established a National Age Group (NAG) record in the 100-meter freestyle at the Junior Pan Pacific Championships, he erased a standard from a major name. Heilman’s effort of 49.06 i...

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...

A Look Back at Australia's Epic Olympic Relay Triumph of 2000 and an Air Guitar Concert Today marks the 25th anniversary of the start of the swimming competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. The opening night was a celebratory affair for the host nation, capped by a victory in the 400-meter ...

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 Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A large contingent of over 30 elite Aussie swimmers will cross the Pacific to compete in the US Open Championships starting December 1, in San Antonio, Texas. The Aussies will be participating as part of various state and club swimming affiliations rather tha...

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...