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Fueled by Katie Ledecky, the 800 Freestyle Has Risen to Special Heights As 2025 ticks down, we'll occasionally assess the past 11-plus months and select highlights from the year to showcase. Unquestionably, the women's 800-meter freestyle offered a number of fireworks. There was Katie Ledecky's worl...

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...

The Con of Michelle Smith: How the Irish Lass Cheated the Swimming World Her presence on the international stage was inconsequential. She didn’t affect the makeup of podiums. She didn’t influence any championship finals. At least, that’s the way the career of Michelle Smith unfolded for most of the ...

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...

Janet Evans - Ahead of Her Time On September 22, 1988, Janet Evans delivered a performance that was well ahead of its time. Racing at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Evans claimed victory in the 400-meter freestyle with a finish that was awe-inspiring. When Janet Evans stepped onto the blocks for t...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., March 22. Olympians Aaron Peirsol, Diana Munz, Megan Quann and Scott Goldblatt all were winners tonight, on the fourth day of competition at the USA Swimming Spring National Championships, being held at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Peirsol, who set a world record i...

By Dan.D'Addona. Stanford has been waiting for more than a year to see Katie Ledecky swim with the Cardinal cap on. The Olympic gold medalist and face of women's swimming made her home debut at Stanford on Thursday and didn't disappoint. Ledecky set two Avery Aquatic Center records and another was s...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here The Greatest World Records In History By John Lohn The fastest of all-time. It’s a special title to hold, and only a tiny percentage of athletes ...

By Phil Whitten INDIANAPOLIS, August 16. More vignettes... THOUGHTFUL BROOKE Brooke Bennett, who established herself last night as the worthy successor to Janet Evans as queen of distance swimming with her impressive win in the 800, is as thoughtful out of the water as she is dominant in the water...

Out of the Pool: Molly Sullivan on Distance DQs, Bad Basketball and Swim Parenting When Molly Sullivan graduated from the University of North Carolina, she was looking for a place close to home to start her career in TV journalism. Being a sideline reporter for Mountain West college sports sounded l...

By Phillip Whitten AUSTIN, April 1. OLYMPIANS Diana Munz and Ian Crocker both won their signature events on the final night of competition at the US National Swimming Championships in Austin, Texas. In winning, the two 18 year-olds earned berths on the US team that will compete at the World champion...

In what came as no surprise, Stanford sophomore Katie Ledecky easily defended her NCAA title in the 500 with a 4:26.57. She was a little off her NCAA record of 4:24.06 from last season, but she defended her title and led a 1-2 finish with Stanford teammate and fellow sophomore Katie Drabot. Drabot f...

Each day through August 4, Jeff Commings will take you back 30 years to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, highlighting one of that day’s swimming events that continues to be a benchmark for the current culture of the sport. A full list of medalists from that day’s competition follows at the end of t...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the partnership between USA Swimming and Speedo USA, the organizations announced the “30 Most Influential People in Swimming over the Past 30 Years” to recognize those who have made a significant impact to propel swimming into the p...

By Josh Jeffrey FT. LAUDERDALE, Nov. 16. CHRISTINA Swindle, Swimming World's reigning 'Female High School Swimmer of the Year' set the ISHOF swimming complex on fire last night at Florida's District 1A State High School Swimming and Diving Championships. Swindle, a junior at Miami...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 17. THREE world records were washed away beneath the waves of the Homebush Aquatic Centre in Sydney on the second night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games. In all, eight world marks have fallen victim to the unprecedented aquatic assault w...

Photo Courtesy: Griffin Scott BOYDS - Katie Ledecky is famous for her aggressive pacing during her distance freestyle races, taking the race out so fast that her splits at 200 yards would often win or place very high in the actual 200-yard event. At last weekend's DC Metro championships, Ledecky exp...

It's official: The International Olympic Committee has selected Los Angeles as the Host City of the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The City of Angels has also hosted the Games in 1932 and 1984, spreading pride and tradition through American Olympic athletes for the last eight decades. Some of th...

By Proteeti Sinha, Swimming World College Intern. While sprinters swim one, two or four lengths of the pool, distance swimmers often swim up to 30 lengths of the pool for one race. That’s a lot of swimming and a lot of staring at the black line. Even though it can sometimes get boring, distance swim...

LOS ANGELES, May 7. EL TORO High senior Kaitlin Sandeno has done it all in her rather abbreviated but highly productive swimming career. She's been an Olympian, finaled in the "Big Show" and won Olympic bronze, set innumerable records and won innumerable races. But the future Trojan has yet to s...