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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...

PASSAGES: Tributes Flow For Olympian Neil Rogers – the Lord Of The Lanes At Bondi Icebergs Leaves A Lasting Legacy Tributes have flowed like the incoming tides at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach this week following the sad passing of a local legend “Mr Bondi Icebergs” – two-time Olympian, coach, ocean ....

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 how Matt Grevers, who will be 36 by the time Olympic Trials roll around in 2021, has been enjoying the une.....

For Glenn Mills, a Missed Olympic Opportunity in 1980, but a Career of Giving Back Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fourth day of the 1980 United States Olympic Trials, when a team was selected, but did not get the chance to compete at the Moscow Games. Nearly 40 years later, Glenn Mills stil...

2020s Vision - Swimming Culture - science and progress - the thoughts of Jonty Skinner  To mark the retirement from coaching of Jonty Skinner, we recall the man's connection to two watershed moments in swimming history, both involving progress in the sprint shoal, the first his own pioneering pace i...

June 20. ON the final day of the French World Championship Trials in Chamaliers the initial Saturday of last month, Algerian sprinter Salim Iles won the 50 free in a national-record 22.59. And just whom did Mr. Iles beat for the title? None other than Holland's double world record-holder/ double...

Little did a 16-year-old Rohan Taylor realise that he would one day become the latest National Head Coach of the same Australian Olympic Swim Team that showed up in his family backyard in San Jose in 1984. Taylor was born in Melbourne in 1968 but grew up in Hong Kong and the United States with his f...

Matt Richards On Conflicting Olympic Medal Emotions, Pan Zhanle & His "Fantastic" Wedding Day Matt Richards sits at his new home in Manchester reflecting on a momentous few months in which he has added gold and silver to his Olympic medal haul, got married and moved from the English south to the nor...

The major announcement from this week was the retirement of Olympic Champion Ruta Meilutyte, who is ending her competitive career at 22-years-old. Read more about her decision and the other major stories of the week below: The Week That Was #5 - Ryan Held Announces Move To Tuscaloosa [caption id="at...

The top 2 finishers in each event earn a spot on the 1998 World Championship Team. The 3rd and 4th finishers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle will earn a trip to the World Championships as relay members. The 5th and 6th swimmers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle are virtually guarante...

His individual exploits unmatched, Caeleb Dressel took center stage this weekend for the Cali Condors. From the slew of world records, the television interviews or when it came to handing off the International Swimming League trophy after the Grand Final Sunday in Budapest, no one could mistake that...

Jeff Julian, a veteran swim coach currently with Rose Bowl Aquatics and the ISL’s Cali Condors, announced this week via his blog that he’s been hospitalized with adenocarcinoma. Julian first battled cancer in 2015, overcoming long odds to survive Stage 4 lung cancer. He’s broadcast his battle public...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Olympic champion Joseph Schooling has had a rough last few years in his swimming career but he will reunite with coach Sergio Lopez ahead of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Lopez helped guide Schooling, as well as Ryan Murphy and Caeleb Dressel in high school at the...

Late last month, four coaches were inducted into the ASCA Hall of Fame: Charlie Hodgson, Bob Mattson, Jonty Skinner and Jill Sterkel. The four were introduced at the American Swim Coaches Association banquet Aug. 31 at the Washington Hilton.  Each coach was recognized for their contributions to the ...

Boasting a state-of-the-art aquatic facility and top-of-the-line instructors, the Alabama Rising Tide Swim Camp is bound to re-train a swimmer’s brain to overhaul bad habits and cement proper stroke patterns. The camp emphasizes proper technique through drills and a multitude of instructional feedba...

Recent Alabama grad and NCAA 200 medley relay champion Robert Howard told Swimming World he will be moving from Tuscaloosa to Bloomington, Indiana to follow Jonty Skinner in the lead-up to the 2020 Olympic Trials. Skinner recently got the associate head sprint coaching job at Indiana after being the...

Editorial content for the NCAA Division I Championships is sponsored by Nike Swim. For full Swimming World coverage, check out our coverage page. Kristian Gkolomeev is looking to defend his 50 freestyle NCAA title tonight at the men’s championships in Iowa City, and his coach says he’s been putting ...

CHAMALIERES, FRANCE, May 3. FRANCK Esposito says: "Don't write me off just yet." The 30-year-old French record-holder in the 200 fly -- and European Champion in 1997 and '99 -- raced to a continent-leading 1:56.07 and won his specialty on the fourth day of the French Nationals-World Champion...

Bill Palmer, who led Central Jersey Aquatic Club for nearly three decades, passed away on Dec. 30 at the age of 82. Palmer founded Shore Aquatic Club in 1961 as one of the first AAU-affiliated swim clubs in New Jersey and the first in Monmouth County. In the early 1970s, Palmer and Shore Aquatic joi...

The colors may have been different, but the feeling for Sherridon Dressel was similar. Budapest’s Duna Arena is a far cry from Gainesville, Florida. But during the International Swimming League season last month, Dressel appreciated the similarities. The way the Cali Condors bonded, the ability to t...