Read more4Throwback Thursday: South African 12-Year-Old WR Setter Karen Muir Was Overlooked Star04 January 2024Throwback Thursday: South African 12-Year-Old WR Setter Karen Muir Was Overlooked Star **************************** On occasion, we highlight athletes from the past who did not receive their proper recognition, due to no fault of their own. In this installment of the series, we examine the career of...
Read moreSwimming World Magazine April 2022 Presents - Nic Fink: Better With Time - Available Now!01 April 2022The 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 Nic Fink, an elite breaststroker for the United States. In the last year he secured a spot on the Olympic .....
Read more150 Year Lookback of 1968 Mexico City Olympics: Roland Matthes Wins 200 Back Gold on Penultimate Day25 October 2018Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...
Read more4League Of Olympic Swim Legends: Natalie Coughlin Tops the 100m Backstroke Podium With Egerszegi & Muir28 July 2020What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends like Natalie Coughlin, Krisztina Egerszegi and Karen Muir? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolded had the corona...
Spitz, Fraser Named Century's Greatest Swimmers07 December 1999American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...