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Eric the Eel: A Unique Tale of Hope and Struggle ... And Lifeguards on Alert The Olympic Games in Paris concluded, Swimming World takes a look back at the tale of Eric Moussambani, dubbed "Eric the Eel." The swimmer from Equatorial Guinea barely made it through his 100-meter freestyle at the 2000 Ga...

Anytime an Olympic Games nears, discussion of Michael Phelps and his legendary status is part of the equation. He is, after all, the barometer for Olympic excellence. So, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that identifies the greatest performances from Phelps' career. Phelps' long...

By Andy Ross. On April 1, 2007, Michael Phelps won his seventh gold medal of the 2007 World Championships in Melbourne, Australia in the 400 IM. A little over ten years later, Phelps is unanimously known as the greatest swimmer of all time. Almost everyone involved in the swimming community remember...

How the Tsar, Alexander Popov, Claimed the Sprint Throne We take a look at the career of Russian sprint legend Alexander Popov, whose combination of skill and work ethic carried him to greatness. He knew how to play the all-important mental game of high-level sports with the skill of a chess master....

Race Of the Century: When Two Stalwarts and a Rising Star Clashed For History (Video) The 200 freestyle had enough substance at the 2004 Olympics, thanks to a repeat clash between the Netherlands’ Pieter van den Hoogenband and Australia’s Ian Thorpe. But when Michael Phelps entered the fray, too, th...

HOW SWEDE IT IS! KAMMERLING FLYS TO WORLD RECORD! By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - Anna-Karin Kammerling, an 18-year-old student from Sundsvall in Sweden, set the first world record of the 24th European championships in Istanbul, Turkey, to win the inaugural 50m butterfly title in 26.29, 0.1 better ...

(from the August issue of SWIMMING WORLD Magazine) By Phillip Whitten Arguably the most anxiety- and tension-ridden meet in all of swimming, the U.S. Olympic Trials is the one and only opportunity to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. Do it here, at this quadrennial test of body and spirit, and you’...

Australian Legends Lead 'Old-School' Performances That Have Stood Test of Time (Men's Edition) Earlier this week, Swimming World ran the first segment in a two-part series that highlights performances which have stood the test of time. In the initial feature, we profiled the female athletes who stil...

By Bill Bell APRIL 8. WHEN Australian triple Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe set the world record in the 800 free during last week's Australian Nationals/World Championship Trials in Hobart, he joined a rather exclusive group -- consisting of a mere two other swimmers -- who have ever held worl...

By Phillip Whitten BRISBANE, Aug 28. THE Goodwill Games are set to begin tomorrow at Brisbane's Chandler Aquatic Centre, featuring a dual meet/round robin format in which four teams -- the USA, Australia, Europe and the (rest of the) World -- will compete for over half a million dollars in prize...

Michael Klim has been called the best relay swimmer ever.  He is a three-time Olympian, multi-time world champion and 21-time world record holder.  1998 was Klim's year in the sun. In January, the FINA World Aquatics Championships were held in Perth, Western Australia, and in front of a boisterous h...

Each week leading up to the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Swimming World will do a special look-back on some of the most memorable races in World Championships history. Men's 200 Free, 2007 World Championships - Melbourne Michael Phelps had one of the best meets of his life at the 2007 World ...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. IT was a night of celebration in Fukuoka, courtesy of a world record of 59.94 seconds by Roman Sloudnov, of Russia, in the second semi-final of the 100m breaststroke, and two European records in the 200m butterfly. The first of those went to Germany's Annik...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, May. 7. DOUG FROST, the man who has guided Ian Thorpe to the top of the international swimming heap, was tonight awarded international coaching’s highest accolade when he was named the World Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Quadrennium on Australia's Gold Coast. ...

Former Australia team coach Jacco Verhaeren has joined the German national team staff where he will share his sprinting expertise, the national swimming association DSV has announced. Verhaeren guided Pieter van den Hoogenband, Inge de Bruijn and Ranomi Kromowidjojo to a total of 10 Olympic gold med...

Sydney 2000: Dutch Joy with History Making Olympic Haul To Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn While Sydney 2000 was a successful meet for the Lenny Krazelburg-led Americans and Ian Thorpe and the Australian team the small but select group from the Netherlands under coach Jacco Verhaeren no...

Sydney 25th Anniversary: When Pieter van den Hoogenband Took the 100 Freestyle Into Sub-48 Territory Twenty-five years since the Olympic Games too place in Sydney, we celebrate the greatness of Pieter van den Hoogenband. The Dutchman produced a Hall of Fame career that featured seven Olympic medals,...

By Michael Grenon, Swimming World College Intern He's a living legend; the greatest of all time. He’s also human. Michael Phelps has been on the international swimming radar for 15 years—and he's still racing. Nearly half his life ago, Phelps placed fifth in the 200 meter butterfly in his first ...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 24. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, Wednesday, July 25, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. Five finals are up for grabs, including one of the meet’s undoubted highlights: the 200 meter freestyle re-match between Olympic champion...

World/American Swimmers of the Early Millennium: Michael Phelps & Katie Ledecky Were Slam Dunks With the COVID-19 pandemic canceling the most-important competitions of the year, Swimming World made the decision to suspend its Swimmer of the Year selections for 2020. There simply was not enough data ...