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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. ...

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...

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...

HELSINKI, July 8. Sweden's Therese Alshammar and Russia's Alex Popov led the women's and men's prelims qualifiers in the 50 free at the European Championships today. Using smooth, powerful strokes, Alshammar clocked 24.96, three-quarters of a second ahead of Austria's Judith Drax...

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...

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 David Rieder. You probably heard that Chad le Clos swept the butterfly events for the second-straight Short Course World Championships. It was hard to miss Katinka Hosszu winning seven gold medals and one silver in Windsor. Then there was what went down Sunday night during the last session of the...

After The "Real Struggle" Of 2022, Arno Kamminga Talks Adam Peaty, Exhaustion & Popovici Inspiration This time two years ago, the final countdown was on for the Tokyo Olympics which had been delayed because of Covid-19. The Games in the Japanese capital were like no other: no spectators in the stand...

By Oene Rusticus EINDHOVEN, The Netherlands, June 3. WORLD record-holder Inge De Bruijn remained unbeatable, but Holland's younger generation also flexed its muscles on the second day of the Dutch Nationals. Georgios Dimitras and Nick Van der Zandt swam very impressive times at the 400 IM, and H...

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 ...

Kyle Chalmers and Holly Barratt The Lone Australian Dolphins For World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi Latest world record holder Kyle Chalmers and defending two-time medallist Holly Barratt will be Australia’s lone representatives in next month’s US$2.8 million FINA Short Course World Champ...

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...

European Swimmers of the Early Millennium: Dutch Delight in Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn 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 eno...

Ariarne Titmus Talks All Things Katie Ledecky And Summer McIntosh Revealing Her Hunger For Olympic Gold In Paris  Ariarne Titmus can’t wait to renew her swimming rivalry with Katie Ledecky and Summer McIntosh as the dual Olympic champion starts her competitive comeback at the Queensland Swimming Cha...

Australia vs. World Meet: Will Sprint King Cam McEvoy Rule World For Dolphins? The world’s fastest man Cam McEvoy will be right in his element in Brisbane tonight with the inclusion of a unique 3 x 25m freestyle sprint series when Australia hosts The World in an innovative Duel Meet in the 2032 Oly....

FUKUOKA, Japan, July 26. The following are the results of this morning's prelims. The top 16 swimmers in each event advance to the semifinals, to be swum this evening. Women's 200 meter freestyle 1. Claudia Poll (CRC) 1:59.73 2. Nadezhda Chemezova (RUS) 2:00.07 3. Mette Jacobsen (DEN) 2:00.3...

LIVORNO, ITALY, April 13. WHAT'S a world record worth? If you're an American and you set an individual mark at this year's Goodwill Games in Brisbane come September it's 50 big ones (dollars, that is, not Big Macs!). And if you're Italian Olympic gold medalist Massi Rosolino it&#...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 19. It's the half-way point of the swimming portion of the Olympics. Excitement is still at a fever pitch and every event seems to be a new world or Olympic record, produce a surprise winner, or hold a special story. Tonight's competition at...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 4. HE was not on the way to a medal, the race merely a semi-final among the many finals last night - but Alexander Popov set a mediocre European Championships alight today with a blistering 48.34sec time in the 100m freestyle - the third fastest ever. The double Olympic ...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 6. It was an historical day at the European Championships in Helsinki as Flavia Rigamonti provided Switzerland with its first continental long-course title, Yana Klochkova and Beatrice Coada-Caslaru dead-heated in the final of the 200m medley to provide the first occasio...