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Summer McIntosh Dominant in 200 Butterfly as She Chases World Record, With Regan Smith the Clear No. 2 When she touched the wall to earn her third consecutive world title in the women’s 200 butterfly, Summer McIntosh made no secret of her displeasure. McIntosh had given chase to the oldest world rec...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World College Intern. The Super-Suit Era Crafted to enhance hydrodynamic performance, the sleek "rubber suit" truly revolutionized the sport of swimming as we know it: a cumulative total of 74 world records had been shattered after the 2008 Beijing Olympics, while 43 were...

Summer McIntosh Scares World Record in 200 Butterfly; Sets Canadian Record with No. 2 Performance in History In late 2009, just before the sport's ban on supersuits went into effect, Liu Zige packaged a stunning performance in the 200-meter butterfly. Racing at the Chinese National Games, the 2008 O...

The Australian Swim Coaches and Teachers Association have announced the passing of legendary coach Ken Wood. Wood was the coach of a number of Australian and Chinese athletes, including ISHOF inductee Leisel Jones, former World Record holder Ye Shiwen, Olympian Kylie Palmer, Olympian and World Recor...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday, November 21, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know:  Which 2009 LCM World Record Will Last the Longest? It has been 10 years since the supersuit era of 2009 when 33 of the 40 world records in swimmin...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern. Hello, and welcome back to “Should World Records be Faster?” Last week, we talked about the progression of world records since the mid-nineties and made predictions about what we can expect to see at the 2028 L.A. Olympic Games. This week, however, we...

Which Long Course Super-Suit Era World Record Will Last the Longest? The 2009 World Championships in Rome was one to remember. The swimming world witnessed a whopping 43 world records set at the Foro Italico. Only two events (men’s 400 freestyle relay; men’s 400 IM) survived the record onslaught in ...

What Remains? A Look at the Lasting Supersuit Records; Which Will Go Next and Which are Untouchable What’s left? What are the remains of the calamity that was the two-year stretch in 2008 and 2009 when ability, fine-tuned via dedicated training and coaching, ran into the buzzsaw that was technology?...

Olympics: With Relay Medals, China Announces New Era of Swim Prowess China’s swim program is too weighed down with medals to count as emerging any more. But at the very least, China’s performance at the Tokyo Olympics marks a potential inflection point. Absent from these Games were arguably the two ...

The Women’s World Records Most Likely to be Broken at the Tokyo Olympics So far in 2021, only three swimmers have set long course world records, and two of those were at the European Championships in 50-meter events that will not be contested at the Olympics. So the only record-setter preparing to g...

Women's World Records: Which Are Safe and Which Are In Jeopardy? While five men's long course world records have been broken in 2022, with Hunter Armstrong, Zac Stubblety-Cook, Thomas Ceccon, Kristof Milak and David Popovici all recording history-making swims between April and August. But on the wom...

The curse that is keeping some of the top swimming medal contenders out of this summer’s world championships has hit the Chinese swim team. Jiao Liuyang, the reigning 2012 Olympic champion in the 200 butterfly and 2011 world champion, has been suffering from serious stomach ailments and has not been...

The Four World Records Not Going Away Anytime Soon (Video) As we rapidly approach the summer, which will feature several major competitions, eyes will be on world-record pursuits. Some at the World Championships. Some at the Commonwealth Games. Some at the European Championships. How many global mar...

Once Untouchable, Summer McIntosh Has Placed Target on 200 Butterfly World Record Sift through the list of world records and two – one male and one female – inarguably stand out as the most daunting. On the men’s side, there is the 800-meter freestyle standard of China’s Zhang Lin, who clocked 7:32....

Each day during the FINA World Swimming Championships, Swimming World will present “Rieder’s Richter Scale,” an analysis of the impact of each swimming final on the sport’s wider landscape: “1” indicates just a minor tremor, while a “10” means a race brought massive upheaval. freestyle relay Even te...

Sun Yang captured his third national title in as many days with a winning effort in the men's 800-meter free at the Chinese National Championships. Sun Yang won his third title of the week with a 7:47.58 in the men's 800-meter free. That swim put him second in the world behind only Mack Horton's bli...