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Pre-World Championships Rankings: The Top 25 Female Swimmers in the World With the next edition of the FINA World Championships approaching, it's time to consider who are the best swimmers in the world. Certainly, ranking swimmers across different events is a highly subjective exercise, and we must ...

Maggie Mac Neil Plans Paris Olympics as Final Games Maggie Mac Neil is positioning the 2024 Paris Olympics as her final Games, she revealed in an interview with CBC Sports on Wednesday. The reigning gold medalist in the women’s 100 butterfly turned 24 this week. She is in line to make her second Oly...

FLASH! United States Demolishes World Record In Mixed 4x50 Medley Relay; European Mark For Italy The United States obliterated the world record in the mixed 4x50m medley relay in 1:35.15 at the World Short-Course Championships in Melbourne. Link to results Day 2 Results The quartet of Ryan Murphy, N...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Wednesday, March 13, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: What is more likely to happen at Women's Division I NCAAs? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: 20 point 50 Free (43%) 48 seco...

The Olympic “Quadrennium:” A Look Back and a Look Ahead (From October’s Swimming World Magazine) Swimming World reflects on the last five years since the last Olympic Games in Rio and ponders the questions that lie ahead during the next three years leading up to Paris 2024. ********** Five years ago...

Paris Olympics, Day 1 Prelims: Zhang Yufei Leads Quick 100 Fly Prelims The class of Olympic medal contenders runs pretty deep in the women’s 100 butterfly. Morning prelims at the La Defense Arena in Paris did little to separate them. Zhang Yufei led the way in prelims with a time of 56.50 seconds, b...

Penny Oleksiak, Taylor Ruck Named to Canada’s World Championship Team Penny Oleksiak and Taylor Ruck, both of whom passed on the recent Bell Canadian Trials, were included on Canada’s team for the World Aquatics Championships this summer in Fukuoka, Japan. The Canadian roster consists of 31 swimmers...

Olivia Carter didn’t want her goal to be public knowledge. The Michigan junior is a little superstitious, but also wanted to bottle up all of that energy and unleash it during her best event. But her goal, which she shared with Swimming World before the meet, was to win the 200 butterfly at NCAAs — ...

Olympic Entries: Sarah Sjostrom Adds 100 Free, Summer McIntosh Drops 200 Free The official list of Olympic entries, released by World Aquatics on Friday, brought a couple of surprises in the Olympic programs of stars. Perhaps the biggest change is for Summer McIntosh. She is entered in the 400 frees...

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday, October 1, 2021, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Which of these female world records (LCM) will be broken next? The four options in the discussion were Federica Pellegrini's world record in the 200 fr...

Olivia Carter has been training to be an elite swimmer since before she could walk. Of course, she didn’t know it at the time — she was just having fun. “I am very leg driven,” Carter told Swimming World. “It has always been that way with bigger and stronger legs. My parents would put me on the John...

Canadian Olympic Trials: Reigning Olympic Champ Penny Oleksiak Rips 52.89 100 Free Penny Oleksiak has been gotten messages during Canadian Olympic Trials wondering where she is. Partially, that’s because there’s no “Penny” on the heat sheets. Instead, the swimmer whose mental focus has been on retur...

Races Without Favorites: Maggie Mac Neil, Torri Huske Poised for 100 Fly World Title Clash Less than two months out from the World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, several individual races already have clearly-established favorites, but plenty of others lack an obvious choice for gold. Most countrie...

NCAA Championships Top Performances: Marchand, Douglass Highlight Dazzling Two Weeks of Swimming One week, it was the University of Virginia women putting on a dominant performance for the third consecutive year, riding a three-individual-record performance from Kate Douglass and a sweep of the five...

Three-Time Olympian & European Record-Holder Kira Toussaint Calls Time On Career Three-time Olympian and European 50 back record-holder Kira Toussaint has called time on a career in which she's won world and continental titles. The Netherlands swimmer made the announcement on social media where she ...

FINA World Swimming Championships: (Maggie MacNeil) Gwangju 2019 Day 2 Finals In a race that almost everyone in the venue expected to go Sarah Sjostrom's way, Canada's Maggie MacNeil rose to the occasion and won the 100 fly gold medal at 55.83 on Monday night at the FINA World Swimming Championships...

The 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Championships continued with the final preliminary session of the meet on Saturday. Saturday’s prelim events are the 200 backstroke, 100 freestyle, 200 breaststroke, 200 butterfly and platform diving. The relays are all timed finals and will take pl...

College Swimmers Now Profiting Off Their NIL Rights? Good For Them Generations of star swimmers returned from amazing performances at Olympics with a choice: take the money they earned and capitalize on their marketability, at a premium immediately after the Games, or return for another season or mo...

Emma McKeon, Lydia Jacoby, Maggie MacNeil Lead Field Slated for FINA World Cup in Berlin Emma McKeon is among the leading names entered in the first FINA World Cup stop in Berlin, which will run from Oct. 1-3. In all, some 240 swimmers are entered in the short-course meet, which kicks off the season...

Michigan was hoping for a fast start to the 2019 NCAA Division I Women’s Championships — some momentum that could build toward their goal of reaching third place. But when their best swimmer was disqualified in the 200 IM, they had to rally. The result was more powerful than the points Siobhan Haugh...