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What Makes the Perfect Swimmer's Body? Although swimmers with a wide variety of body types have found success in the sport, most at the international level tend to look similar, sporting tall and muscular bodies - typically with long torsos, long arms and short legs. This begs the question: If you c...

Ranking the Best Men’s Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 202...

Commentary By Kelsey Mitchell, Swimming World College Intern. When people hear the phrase "pump up song," a few legendary songs immediately come to mind. Songs such as Survivor's Eye of the Tiger, Eminem's Lose Yourself and Europe's The Final Countdown have all become motivational classics in both p...

The Top 15 U.S. Male Swimmers Before World Championship Trials It’s hard to believe it, but the U.S. Trials for this summer’s World Championships are already approaching quickly. While the top meet in the United States usually falls between mid-June and late July, this year’s meet will be held April...

By Giulia Filocca, Swimming World Magazine Intern. Only a handful of nations have proven truly invincible in the pool. These teams can be classified as undisputed powerhouses, gravitating towards the top of the podium since the first modern Olympic Games held in Athens in 1896. How does one account ...

Pre-World Championships Rankings: The 25 Best Male Swimmers in the World Right Now Since Michael Phelps walked away from swimming for good after the 2016 Olympics, one individual has held the title of "world's best male swimmer" for almost six years. Regular readers of this website will have no trou...

Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this ye...

Champion's Mojo Podcast - Ryan Murphy Ryan Murphy is a three-time Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder in the men’s 100-meter backstroke. He swept the backstroke events at the 2016 Olympic Games and also broke Aaron Peirsol’s seven-year-old world record in the 100 back while leading off the...

By Patrick Murphy, Swimming World Intern At the Charlotte Arena Pro Series, Michael Phelps swam his first 200 fly in years. He was asked about the status of the 200 fly. “It’s interesting watching the world in this event. If you look at what Malchow won in 2000, still what everyone is going nowadays...

Ryan Murphy Will Not Compete This Summer, 'Will Keep the Door Open' for Future Return The top men's backstroker in the United States for the past decade will not be part of the team bound for this summer's World Championships in Singapore. Ryan Murphy revealed on social media Tuesday that he will si...

By Jacob Riley, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming has come a long way since the 1980s. Swimmers have gone from having full mustaches and not wearing goggles, to not having a single hair on the body and having fancy goggles that streamline the water. Everything has changed since the 1980s: stro...

Caeleb Dressel Blasts 48.00 in 100 Freestyle at Atlanta Classic The last day of men’s prelims at the Atlanta Classic set the stage for an evening of final tuneups ahead of next month’s United States Olympic Trials in Omaha. Some of the leading names in the sport will be in action during the evening ...

U.S. Men's Swimming Tiers, Part 1: Why It's Lonely at the Top It was a banner 2024 for American swimming. Wait, let’s try that again. It was a banner 2024 for American female swimming. The men’s side of the equation, well, not so much. At each of the three biggest meets that brought together America...

By Andrew Ross, Swimming World College Intern I've always wondered what and how swimmers would be rated if there was a swimming video game. ESPN has been doing NBA rankings the last four years where they rate all the players on a scale of 1-10 and rank their score to get an accurate depiction of who...

Post Olympics Rankings: Swimming World’s Top 25 Male Swimmers The title of the top female swimmer in the world has shifted on several occasions this year. Katie Ledecky, Ariarne Titmus and Kaylee McKeown have all been considered for that spot throughout the past several months, but at the Olympics, ...

By Courtney Mykkanen, Swimming World College Intern. Olympians Ryan Murphy and Jacob Pebley recently coached the first ever Back2Back Swim Camp in Palo Alto, Calif. The two-day backstroke camp consisted of 60 swimmers nationally who met the qualifying time standards. These qualifying swimmers not on...

Paris Olympics, Day 5 Prelims: Roman Mityukov Top Seed in 200 Back After Luke Greenbank's Dramatic DQ For the first time at the Paris Olympics, a key disqualification has rocked the pool as Great Britain's Luke Greenbank, seemingly the top qualifier out of the men's 200 backstroke heats was hit with...

Under the direction of Jon Sakovich, swim coach of The Bolles School swimming program, The Bolles School Swim Camps are developmental camps designed to provide quality instruction and training to swimmers of all abilities.  All training and instruction will take place on The Bolles School’s San Jose...

Prior to the third night of finals at the men's NCAA Championships in Atlanta, Ga., Louisville head coach Arthur Albiero joined Swimming World's David Rieder to discuss his team's impressive performance in the day's preliminaries, where Nolan Tesone, Carlos Claverie and Grigory Tarasevich all qualif...

Morning Splash by David Rieder. There was a time when Ryan Lochte was the undisputed No. 1 swimmer in the world—in 2011, for instance, when the then-26-year-old won four individual golds at the Shanghai World Championships. One year later, he stormed to Olympic gold in the 400 IM in London, arguably...