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Obituary - Roland Matthes (17 November 1950 – 20 December 2019) Roland Matthes, the most decorated backstroke ace in history, the G.OA.T. of the stroke, died on Friday in Wertheim, Baden-Württemberg, after a short, severe illness. He was 69. His wife Daniela confirmed the sad news to the German pres...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

In a post on his Facebook page following the death of backstroke legend Roland Matthes, five-time Olympic medalist John Naber penned a beautiful tribute to a man that first was his idol and "guide in swimming," and then became a good friend. John has given permission to Swimming World to reprint his...

Today is the 47th anniversary of the first of Kornelia Ender's 29 World Records in just four years. She was 14 years old and goes down in history as the first Wundermädchen of the German Democratic Republic's medals machine in swimming. Ender set a staggering 23 solo world records in the pool betwee...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World took you back 50 years to the Olympic Games in Mexico City, and re-told the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps through the Swimming World Vault. Below is the summary of those Games from the November 1968 issue. Mexico City, Mexico – On Oct...

If 2019 started with the news of coach Jim Wood's passing, it ended with the world of swimming mourning the loss of Roland Matthes, the most decorated Olympic backstroke champion in history, gone after a short, severe illness at 69 but never to be forgotten. [caption id="attachment_408449" align="al...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. The first season of the International Swimming League came to a close over the weekend with Energy Standard taking the team title, Sarah Sjostrom winning the season MVP, and Daiya Seto and Caeleb Dressel breaking individual world records. The league also anno...

Mark Spitz topped the swim poll of the week as the top male swimmer of all-time among retired athletes after Michael Phelps. This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Thursday August 20, 2020, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Who is the greatest male ...

World Cup, Round 7, Doha, day 1 Cate Campbell hurtled towards the US$150,000 World Cup series top prize with a 24.11 blast over 50m freestyle in Doha on the first day of the concluding round of a season drowning in a depth of mediocrity. The Australian sprinter has done a fine job for self and bank ...

Minna Atherton World Record - Will FINA allow it? John Devitt: if you're out there tuning into the League, fellow Aussie Minna Atherton just swam the 100m backstroke a fingernail slower than your first World record over 100m freestyle back in 1957. Her efforts helped London Roar to dominate the four...

By Craig Lord THE company was illustrious indeed at a heated poolside debate in Helsinki last month in which the thorny issue of the backstroke turn rule was thrashed about. Roland Matthes and Stefan Pfeiffer were at the helm of a German press pack that had Nico van Dam, the Dutch referee on the rop...

ISL Match Three Notes: Ryan Murphy Riding the Jackpot Current The third week of the International Swimming League season marked the debuts of the league’s two expansion franchises, the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans, and the new entries carried themselves in fine fashion at the Duna Arena in Bu...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Roland Matthes, Aaron Peirsol and John Naber ? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolded had the ...

By David Rieder. On the night Ryan Murphy won his first Olympic gold medal in the 100 back, posting the second-fastest time ever at 51.97 in the process, his American teammate and bronze medalist David Plummer said that he knew all along what the then-21-year-old was capable of. “Absolutely. I think...

Tokyo Vision: Ryan Murphy Looks to Continue His, America’s Dominance in Men’s 100 Backstroke Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are i...

Last week, Swimming World Editors Craig Lord and John Lohn put together an event-by-event League of Olympic Swim Legends in which the likes of Michael Phelps excelled, to the surprise of no-one (we hope). The rest of the SW team, Liz Byrnes, Ian Hanson, Matt de George and Andy Ross, aided by the wa....

Tokyo Vision: Evgeny Rylov And Ryan Murphy Set For Clash Of The Titans In The 200 Back Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a co...

American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 7. The company was illustrious indeed at a heated poolside debate in which the thorny issue of the backstroke turn rule was thrashed about. Roland Matthes and Stefan Pfeiffer were at the helm of a German press pack that had Nico van Dam, the Dutch referee on the ropes af...