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Olympic Dreams: Assembling History's Greatest Men's Medley Relays The countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, albeit delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is under the 100-day mark. In three months, the cauldron will be lit, kicking off more than two weeks of competition, including nine days of swimmin...

Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing Each week until the start of the swimming competition at the world championships, Swimming World will look back at a previous performance at the world championships that still carries significance. By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Seni...

Each day through August 4, Jeff Commings will take you back 30 years to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, highlighting one of that day’s swimming events that continues to be a benchmark for the current culture of the sport. A full list of medalists from that day’s competition follows at the end of t...

NCAA Championship editorial coverage is proudly sponsored by Competitor Swim. Visit CompetitorSwim.com for more information on our sponsor. For all the latest coverage, check out our event coverage page. Also, make sure to check out our Facebook photo gallery for the latest images from the meet in A...

By Phillip Whitten University of Virginia sophomore Ed Moses swam the second fastest 200 yard breaststroke in history at the ACC Championships last weekend, though you won't find his performance in the official meet results. Disqualified in the prelims of the 200 breast (he did a 1:57+), Moses swam ...

1984 Olympic gold medalist Steve Lundquist has joined the International Swimming Hall of Fame's 'One in a Thousand' campaign, which is designed to help the Hall of Fame thrive during the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic. "This keeps me connected with the Hall of Fame," Steve Lundquist sad. "I ...

Passages: Aleksandr Sidorenko, Moscow Olympic Champion, Age 61 Aleksandr Sidorenko, the Olympic champion in the men’s 400 individual medley at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, died on Feb. 20 at the age of 61. Reports out of his native Ukraine indicate the cause of death as complications from COVID-19. Sid...

Each day through August 4, Jeff Commings will take you back 30 years to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles, highlighting one of that day’s swimming events that continues to be a benchmark for the current culture of the sport. A full list of medalists from that day’s competition follows at the end of t...

The top 2 finishers in each event earn a spot on the 1998 World Championship Team. The 3rd and 4th finishers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle will earn a trip to the World Championships as relay members. The 5th and 6th swimmers in the 100m freestyle and 200m freestyle are virtually guarante...

With Tokyo Games Uncertain, Steve Lundquist Recalls His 1980 Experience Early one morning in 1980, Southern Methodist University freshman swimmer Steve Lundquist walked into practice at 5 a.m., and instead of greeting swimmers, he encountered a barrage of news reporters. “I remember going to the nat...

PHOENIX, Dec. 12. AUSTRALIA'S Ian Thorpe and Holland’s Inge De Bruijn were named male and female "World Swimmers of the Year" by Swimming World magazine, in the December issue on newsstands today. Swimming World is the magazine of record in the sport of swimming. It was the third time the 19 yea...

By Phillip Whitten MOSCOW, June 29. RUSSIA'S Roman Sludnov broke the world record in the men's 100 meter breaststroke today, becoming the first swimmer to dip under the "magic" one minute barrier. When the 21 year-old Sludnov, a university student from Omsk, hit the pads at 59.97 seconds in ...

By Phillip Whitten PHOENIX, Dec. 3. WORLD short course records fell in meets on opposite sides of the globe the last few days, with one mark being broken by two swimmers from the same country who finished in a tie. In Rostock, Germany, Thomas Rupprath broke the world record for the 200 meter butterf...

By Jim Lutz WHILE cleaning out a closest in my "new" digs recently I came across numerous copies of SWIMMING WORLD. Some issues dated back to the late 1960’s when digital stopwatches were nothing more than a vision and a dream. Names like Rothhammer and Schollander graced the pages and in some cases...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the third day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Duncan Goodhew claimed gold in the 100m breaststroke, the message his victory sent to those who had bullied him for his baldness as powerful today as it was back then. Swimming World co...

PHOENIX, Arizona, January 15. THE Oscar nominations will be announced in about 10 hours in Los Angeles. Though many in the movie business say they don’t care about it, claim they don’t wake up for the 5:30 a.m. Pacific time announcement or simply don’t expect to be named, I know they all regard tomo...

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, February 28. THE Harvard men extended their lead after the second day of the Ivy League Championships as the Crimson became the first team to clear 1000 points. Heading into day three, Harvard leads with 1011 points, while Princeton stands second with 929 points. Penn (723)...

CAMBRIDGE, Ma., March 2. SIMILAR to their counterparts at the University of Pacific 3000 miles to the west, the Princeton Tigers' men's team won its seventh Eastern Championship here this evening. Coach Rob Orr's Tigers emulated the record-breaking feat of UOP Tiger coach Ray Looze, whos...

By Phillip Whitten MOSCOW, June 28. RUSSIA'S Roman Sludnov threw down the guantlet today to America's Ed Moses, breaking the American's 100 meter breaststroke world record by three-hundredths of a second. His achievement sets up a dramatic showdown between the world's two top breasts...

By Bill Bell ATLANTA, GA., Feb. 18. AMANDA WEIR is in high school now and the rest of the country had better beware! The Brookwood High freshman just a couple of months ago broke one of the oldest records on the books when she went a blazing 49.53 in the 100-yard freestyle while representing SwimAtl...