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Tonight, October 19th, the Women's Sports Foundation held their 37th Women's Sport Federation Annual Salute where water polo's own Ashleigh Johnson was crowned Sportswoman of the Year in the team category. Johnson, a native of Miami, FL, was a key member of the USA women's water polo team at the 201...

A study by a Stanford postdoctoral fellow published last week finds that Olympic swimmers are more than a third of a second faster, on average, in the evening than in the morning. The study is titled, “Gold, silver or bronze: circadian variation strongly affects performance in Olympic athletes.” It ...

Sarah Sjostrom made history last summer at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games when she became the first Swede to earn an Olympic gold medal for swimming. Recently, the 23-year-old was honored by the Swedish King Carl SVI Gustaf alongside fellow Rio gold medalist Jenny Rissveds, who took home gold in the wom...

Peter Hürzeler is the master of Swiss timekeeping technology – Swiss Timing. Since 1969, his organizational and creative skills have successfully delivered innovation, technology and timekeeping to Swimming. Throughout the decades, Hürzeler and his colleagues have invented and created many innovatio...

This morning FINA released the entry lists for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. Canada's Santo Condorelli is a surprise entrant in the 100 butterfly. At Canadian Olympic Trials in March, Condorelli was disqualified in prelims for a non-simultaneous touch. His time then was a 52.32 and he would have retur...

This week’s performance of the week goes to Cal sophomore and Olympic gold medalist from this summer Kathleen Baker, who was crowned Queen of the Pool at the Bears first competition of the season. The Cal women’s team opened the season this weekend against Cal Poly, holding their traditional short f...

Olympic Finalist Yasuhiro Koseki Announces Retirement Japanese swimmer Yasuhiro Koseki, who made three Olympic finals at the 2016 Olympics, announced his retirement from swimming on Tuesday. The 30-year-old made the announcement on Instagram. He cited arm surgery to repair a long-nagging injury in M...

Olympic legend and new father Michael Phelps was featured with Matt Lauer’s “On Assignment” Sunday night, opening up to the journalist about his relationship with his father, the inner demons he’s battled over the last years, and his experience becoming a new father himself. Matt Lauer joined him on...

By David Rieder. Winning four Olympic gold medals and one silver at her first Olympic Games was far from easy, Missy Franklin insists, because preparing to reach the sport’s highest level requires such intense dedication and focus. But back then, everything in Franklin’s life was smooth, straightfor...

Sarah Mardini, Inspiration for ‘The Swimmers,’ Eager to Testify in Greek Court Case Sarah Mardini, the Syrian refugee who along with Refugee Olympic swimmer Yusra Mardini inspired the movie ‘The Swimmers,’ is hoping for the chance to prove her innocence against charges in a Greek court. The Mardini ...

Three-Time Olympian Haley Anderson Announces Retirement Haley Anderson, a three-time Olympian and the silver medalist in the 10-kilometer swim at the London Olympics, has announced her retirement. The 30-year-old made the announcement via social media. View this post on Instagram ...

Netflix has begun production on a film called “The Swimmers,” which tells the story of Syrian refugees Yusra and Sarah Mardini. Yusra Mardini swam for the Refugee Olympic team at the 2016 Olympics in Rio. Variety reports that Netflix and Working Title Films are collaborating on the project. Welsh-bo...

The Performance of the Week comes from the 2016 German Nationals, where Marco Koch continued his dominance in the 200 breaststroke. Touching in 2:07.88, Koch just missed his top-ranked time of 2:07.69 from the Luxembourg Euro Meet back in January (which, you may remember, was also the Performance of...

In this episode of the Morning Swim Show, Coach David Marsh, the newly appointed Head Women’s Olympic swim coach for the United States, sits down with Swimming World Publisher Brent Rutemiller to talk about his journey to the top and the challenges that USA will have going into the 2016 Rio Olympics...

Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in 2021. The world was first introduced to a fresh-faced 15-year...

Singapore Olympic champion Joseph Schooling Tuesday received a new service deferment, which clears the way for him to compete in next summer’s Tokyo Olympics. All male citizens and permanent residents of Singapore over the age of 18 have to serve two years in the military, police or emergency servic...

Singapore Swimming Association Looks Inward in Naming Gary Tan New Coach Gary Tan has been named the national swimming coach by the Singapore Swimming Association, the organization announced this week. Tan, 39, competed in the pool for Singapore. He has been the head coach of the National Training C...

David Marsh is the Head Coach of Team Elite Aquatics, located in San Diego, California. Marsh was the 2016 Head U.S. Olympic Women's Swim Coach in Rio, leading Team USA to the most medals in USA Swimming's already storied history. [caption id="attachment_147048" align="aligncenter" width="835"] Phot...

PHOENIX – USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus stopped by the SwimmingWorld.TV studio recently and spoke with Swimming World Publisher Brent Rutemiller about the many highlights of his 18 years leading the world’s top swimming country. SwimmingWorld.TV Interview Wielgus talks about his pr.....

Commentary By Eamonn Keenan, Swimming World College Intern. The world of professional swimming has been accustomed to both volatility and stagnation. Throughout the course of swimming history, we’ve witnessed absolute domination from household names like Michael Phelps, Janet Evans and Ian Thorpe, t...