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Life as Paralympics Broadcaster a New Challenge for Medalist Michelle Konkoly Michelle Konkoly understands the emotional resonance of making a return. It’s fueled her professional journey, long before her second career in para swimming. Konkoly was a freshman swimmer at Georgetown in 2011 when she f...

Paralympics, Day 10: Jessica Long Adds Epic 100 Fly Gold; Jiang Yuyan Captures 7th Gold China began the final day of swimming at the Paris Paralympics atop the medal table and poised to add more. With a brief interlude from Jessica Long in an epic performance, that’s how the final day at Paris La De...

Paralympics: McKenzie Coan Has Come a Long Way From Garage Pool to Tokyo McKenzie Coan expected to spend part of the summer of 2020 in Tokyo. Instead, the two-time Paralympian spent it far from Japan’s mega-metropolis. Very far, indeed, as in her hometown of Clarkesville, Georgia, with a “teeny, tin...

Paralympic Games (Day 5 Women): McKenzie Coan Repeats as Gold Medalist in 400 Freestyle Already a highly accomplished Paralympian, the United States’ McKenzie Coan added to her legacy on Sunday when she collected another gold medal at the Paralympic Games. Racing at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre, Coan r...

Examining The Differences Between Competition at the Paralympics and Olympics Although the Olympic and Paralympic Games are parallel at their core, there are inherent differences between these pinnacle competitions. Here are some things you may notice on the Para pool deck compared to the Olympic po...

Paralympic Games, Day 3: World Records For Great Britain Duo Stephen Clegg & Will Ellard Great Britain's Stephen Clegg set a world record of 59.02 en-route to gold in the men's S12 100m backstroke on the third day of the Paralympics in Paris. The 28-year-old led throughout, extending his advantage o...

EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, August 4. THE Netherlands' Marc Evers broke his own 100m backstroke S14 world record to retain the European title in front of a noisy home crowd on Monday (4 August) at the 2014 IPC Swimming European Championships in Eindhoven. On a busy first day of competition featuring...

U.S. athletes secured eight medals, including five gold, on the second day of the Indianapolis 2018 World Para Swimming World Series at the Indiana University Natatorium. This second leg of the world series circuit features 198 swimmers from 17 countries. The trio of four-time Paralympic medalist Mi...

BELCONNEN - Australia’s most successful Paralympian Matthew Cowdrey has today announced his retirement from competitive swimming. At just 26-years-of-age Cowdrey has a long list of achievements and a medal collection many would envy. He boasts a total of 23 Paralympic medals from three Paralympic Ga...

Paralympics: Despite Challenges in War-Torn Home, Ukraine Still Shining in the Pool Seven days of swimming competition had transpired at the Paris Paralympics, and the country atop the medal standings continued to astound. It was not China, with its massive population, that has collected the most me...

Tokyo 2020 will take place from 23 July to 8 August 2021, the International Olympic Committee have announced. The Olympic Games were scheduled to start on 24 July 2020 but the relentless march of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic meant they were postponed last week for the first time in their hist...

By James Bossert, Swimming World College Intern When our alarm clock goes off at 5:30 am every morning, we typically groan and wonder why in the world we are waking up so early. Not Dave Denniston, coach of the U.S. Paralympic Resident Swim Team at the United States Olympic Training Center. “These a...

PHOENIX - Mallory Weggemann joins today's edition of The Morning Swim Show to discuss going to Capitol Hill for discussions on the U.N. Disability Treaty, her Redefine Limitations campaign with FINIS, and recovering from a severe hand injury on her road to Rio. Note: YouTube Measures Views Only For ...

Olympic champion Adam Peaty spearheads the first day of the Manchester International Swim Meet when elite competition gets under way in British waters for the first time in nearly a year on Friday. Peaty will compete in a long-course 100m breaststroke for the first time since the Edinburgh Internati...

Paralympic Games (Day 7 Women): Morgan Stickney Completes Rapid Rise to Gold; Mikaela Jenkins Crowned It was another big day for the American women at the Paralympic Games, with Morgan Stickney and Jessica Long leading the way at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre. Stickney and Long captured gold and silver ...

Paralympic Games (Day 3 Men): Robert Griswold Destroys World Record in S8 100 Backstroke; Two Other WRs Fall Robert Griswold knew the feeling of standing on the Paralympic Games podium from his bronze-medal showing at the 2016 competition in Rio de Janeiro. Five years later, the American moved to th...

Paralympic Games (Day 9 Men): William Martin Leads World-Record Assault; Maksym Krypak Claims Fourth Gold Australia’s William Martin put together a brilliant performance in the S9 100-meter butterfly on the ninth night of the Paralympic Games in Tokyo. Martin took nearly a second off his world recor...

Lawrence Sapp Sets Three American Records in Two Events to Close Paralympic Team Trials Lawrence Sapp didn’t just set an American record in the men’s S14 100-meter butterfly at U.S. Paralympic Team Trials Sunday. He somehow managed to set two. The 19-year-old Sapp clocked in at 56.10 seconds in the ...

Three-time Paralympic champion Ollie Hynd will not compete in Tokyo in August as he steps away from the pool for the immediate future. The Briton won the SM8 200IM titles at London 2012 and Rio 2016 and also claimed gold in the S8 400 free in Brazil. His winning times of 2:20.01 in the 200IM and 4:2...

Daichi Suzuki, the current head of the Japanese swimming federation and a 1988 Olympic swimming champion in the 100 backstroke, will become the head of the new Japan Sports Agency in October. The organization’s task is to integrate sports administration into one place, particularly as the country pr...