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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...

Seoul Anniversary: When Matt Biondi Surged to Seven Medals at the 1988 Olympics This week, 37 years ago, Matt Biondi took home seven medals from the Olympic Games in Seoul, an iconic performance that continues to be revered. He had it all. The physique. The pure talent. The inner drive. Add those tr...

A Century Later, Johnny Weissmuller - Champion Ape Man - Remains An Iconic Figure It's been a century since Johnny Weissmuller won the first national title of his illustrious career, and nearly 100 years since his first world record. The legacy of the man who would become Tarzan endures. The way he....

When Jim Montgomery and Jonty Skinner Chased Sub-50: A Unique Summer Pursuit Swimming World's Great Races Series has featured numerous duels between star athletes. In this edition, Jim Montgomery and Jonty Skinner engaged in a great race, albeit one in separate pools. The most iconic barrier-breakin...

Take the Quiz: How Strong is Your Knowledge of the History of Swimming How strong is your knowledge of the sport? Are you an A+ student when it comes to swimming history, or do you require a sharpening of your facts? Swimming World occasionally offers its readers the chance to take quizzes on the hi...

Underappreciated, Don Schollander Was a Legend; And a Star During the First Tokyo Games How can a five-time Olympic champion be underappreciated? How can a man who set double-digit individual world records go overlooked? How can the one-time face of Team USA find himself snubbed on the scale of hist...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Takeoff To Tokyo Series - Johnny Weissmuller: A Star of Swimming... And Hollywood By John Lohn The latest installment of our Takeoff to Tokyo serie...

Olympic Dreams: Assembling History's Greatest Men's Medley Relays The countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, albeit delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is under the 100-day mark. In three months, the cauldron will be lit, kicking off more than two weeks of competition, including nine days of swimmin...

Memorial Day Rewind: How World War II Impacted Yale Great Bob Kiphuth Editor’s note: We are reposting this great feature by Chuck Warner, originally written as part of a series of articles about the great Yale coach Bob Kiphuth, highlighting a moment in Kiphuth’s career that intersected with the ris...

By Michael Randazzo, Swimming World Contributor It’s possible that Brad Schumacher never slows down. Once one of the fastest swimmers in the world, the 43-year-old now races around the globe as president of Kap7, one of the world’s largest suppliers of water polo equipment. His life is a far cry fro...

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...

By Bruce Wigo The list of heroes from our sport's past is long and glorious. One of the most remarkable super-champions of the Golden Age of Sports was Johnny Weissmuller.  If the present generation remembers him at all, it is as a somewhat portly and inarticulate fellow swinging from jungle trees a...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here In this issue of Swimming World, read about Scotland's Duncan Scott, who has been at the heart of Britain's men's swim team's current surge of success.....

"Road to Glory: Olympics" will be broadcast on the History Channel on Thursday, February 26 @ 10:00am PST and 3pm PST. It will cover the growth of Olympic swimming and diving, from Johnny Weissmuller in the 1920s to Mark Spitz in 1972 to the present. Also: the 1956 Australian team, diver Greg Lougan...

MELBOURNE. TWO-TIME Australian Olympian Daniel Kowalski had his second major shoulder operation in three months last week in a bid to become a triple Olympian, The Australian newspaper reported. Kowalski, 25, troubled by over-flexible shoulders, only trained for the 800 meter freestyle relay for the...

Caeleb Dressel: The Work Remaining in His Potentially Historic Olympics Over the course of Olympic history, only two male swimmers have ever accomplished what Caeleb Dressel is trying to do in Tokyo — win three individual gold medals at a single Olympics. At the 1972 Games, Mark Spitz won the 100 fr...

A Superstar Of Swim and Surf: The Dual-Sport Talents Of Duke Kahanamoku The 100 freestyle has long been a revered event on the Olympic schedule, and American Duke Kahanamoku was an early champion. Also a surfing legend, Kahanamoku remains a legend. Throughout history, single names have been enough t...

Paris Olympics Day 5: Silver Lining for Olympic Champions Kyle Chalmers and Zac Stubblety-Cook on a Roller Coaster Day For Aussies The roller coaster that is the Olympic Games was in full swing on a dramatic fifth day of competition for Australia in the pool at the Paris La Defense Arena. A silver.....

Feature by Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, May 26. WE remember on this Memorial Day weekend the lives of those who fought valiantly for the United States in military action. The toll that the two World Wars took on the global population extended beyond the battlefields, with the Olympic Movement tak...

When the Olympic Games Last Visited Paris; A 100-Year Flashback When the Olympic Games return to Paris this summer, it will mark a century since the French capital last served as host of the biggest sporting event on the planet. In 1924, Paris welcomed the finest athletes in the world, including an ...