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Tarnished Gold: How the Success of Kristin Otto Was Smoke and Mirrors This month marks the 35th anniversary of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. It was an Olympiad known for the excellence of Janet Evans and Matt Biondi, but also for the questions that surrounded East German star Kristin Otto, who wa...

GDR 30 Years On Germany today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the end of the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We'll be celebrating the moment in our family, too, it having made it possible for me to meet my wife and for us to know our sons and the lives we lead. The Peaceful Rev...

Without NCAA Action, the Effects of Lia Thomas Case Are Akin to Doping As the NCAA Board of Governors prepares to meet to discuss, among other topics, its policy regarding the inclusion of transgender athletes, Swimming World is re-running this column that was previously posted in response to the Li...

Swimming World Presents -Tarnished Gold: East Germany's Kristin Otto - Sponsored By S.R. Smith The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Tarnished Gold: East Germany's Kristin Otto By John L...

By Dylan Evangelista, Swimming World College Intern Since her first Olympic berth back in 2012, it's an understatement to say that Katie Ledecky has made her mark on the sport of competitive swimming. At this year's FINA World Championships in Budapest, it is no surprise that Ledecky was the first m...

Tokyo Flashback: Caeleb Dressel Destroys Field For 50 Freestyle Gold Behind Olympic-Record 21.07 One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the championship final...

FINA reportedly had planned to honor past Olympians in Perth, headlined by East Germany's Kristin Otto, who attended the meet as a German reporter. However in the light of the ongoing doping trials in Germany and the Chinese doping scandal, the plan was apparently shelved.

11 Iconic Moments in World Championships History; Michael Phelps' Seven Golds in Melbourne Dazzled Since FINA introduced the World Championships in 1973, hundreds of athletes have been crowned as global titlists. Beyond capturing Olympic gold or setting a world record, earning a world championship i...

By Josh Jeffrey In what is setting up to be a very fast summer for European swimmers, Anna Karin Kammerling broke Inge De Bruijn's 50m butterfly world best at the Swedish National Championships, held July 1st through the 4th in Halmstad. The teenager blazed to a 26.39 finish, erasing the new record ...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Read the five biggest stories of the past week in The Week That Was, sponsored by Suitmate. This week featured a new world record, multiple American records, Adam Peaty news, and more. The Week That Was #1: Siobhan Haughey Takes Down Sarah Sjostrom’s 200 Free...

Can Caeleb Dressel Pull Off Historic 50 Free-100 free-100 Fly Triple in Tokyo? Assessing His Chances in Each Event There is little Caeleb Dressel hasn’t done in his swimming career so far. Next summer’s Olympic Games present him with an opportunity to add yet another otherworldly achievement to his ...

Pre-coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a previous performance at the world championships that still carries significance. By Jeff Commings, Swimming World...

PHOENIX, Dec. 12. AUSTRALIA'S Ian Thorpe and Holland’s Inge De Bruijn were named male and female "World Swimmers of the Year" by Swimming World magazine, in the December issue on newsstands today. Swimming World is the magazine of record in the sport of swimming. It was the third time the 19 yea...

Pre-Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing.  Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a previous performance at the world championships that still carries significance. By Jeff Commings, Swimming Worl...

FINA--swimming's international governing body--intends to honor several outstanding swimmers of the past at the World Championships next month. No announcement has been made, but the list is headed by Kristin Otto of East Germany, a six-time gold medalist at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. Another ...

Photo by Joao Marc Bosch BERLIN, Germany, August 24. AFTER announcing a 10-event schedule for the European championships, Katinka Hosszu's odds were good to make history with the most medals won by a female in one European championships. In her way was Sweden's Sarah Sjostrom, who was in line to cle...

By Craig Lord JUST 24 hours after Sydney bid farewell to the 2000 Olympic Games in a celebratory flood of fireworks, color and noise, a far darker chapter in Olympic history came to a much quieter close, one that will left 384 medals forever tainted. At midnight on Monday, October 2, all pending cas...