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Training for Butterfly: Seven Special Secrets and Sets (From the Archive) The following training sets are designed to help your butterfly. 1. BK – SK – FK – SK (Kick drill) The trick to a great fly kick is to learn to kick with strong, flowing, even power and rhythm in both directions. Try this dril...

Throwback Thursday: Mary T. Meagher and a Standard Decades Ahead of Its Time In this World Record Flashback, we examine the historic 1981 world record of Mary T. Meagher in the 200-meter butterfly. When Madame Butterfly clocked 2:05.96 at the United States National Championships, she produced a stan...

Sydney 25th Anniverdsary: Misty Hyman and Her Epic Olympic Upset in 200 Butterfly (Video) On Sept. 19-20, 2000, Misty Hyman navigated a three-race journey that landed her Olympic glory. Twenty-five years later, we take a look at Hyman's epic upset of Susie O'Neill in the final of the 200-meter butte...

Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer John Konrads has been described as “Mr Unbeatable” as Australian swimming remembers one of its greatest ever champions, following his death on the Sunshine Coast yesterday. [caption id="attachment_470880" align="alignright" width="434"] WORLD RECORD SMILE: John Kon...

By Alec Scott, Swimming World College Intern In light of Katie Ledecky’s recent jaw-dropping performances, I decided to write about the last athlete to have that kind of success and swim times that transcend their era in the sport. Mary T. Meagher exuded a level of dominance and untouchable record-b...

Swimming Australia Lands A Major Coup With Rob Woodhouse Appointed New CEO Dual Olympian, swimming entrepreneur and English Channel conqueror, Rob Woodhouse, will take over as Swimming Australia’s next CEO in April. To say this is a major coup for the sport’s governing body is an understatement ...

WHO is Australia’s youngest and oldest gold medallists at an Australian Open Swimming Championships and who has amassed the most gold medals…and how many sets of siblings have won Australian titles and who has won the most in a distinguished line up in the family ties? Renown Australian author, jour...

Tokyo Flashback: Hail The New Queen - Australia’s Emma McKeon Wins 100m freestyle Gold; Cate Campbell A Proud Bronzed Aussie One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revis...

Great Races: When Mary T Meagher Defied the Imagination During 1981 Butterfly Performances (Video) It was the summer of 1981 and Mary T Meagher was a year removed from heartache. By no fault of her own, Meagher missed the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, and the opportunity to showcase her butterfly ta...

Kareena Lee Olympic Marathon Leads To Tokyo2020 Ticket By Ian Hanson “Nineteen years ago a little girl sat watching the 2000 Olympics and from that day she had a dream to be an Olympian herself. She worked towards that dream every day of her life. She had her ups and downs, but….that dream (has come...

At 2001 World Championships, Ian Thorpe Steered Australia To Its Finest Hour In The Pool It was the first morning in Fukuoka, when all roads led to the pool in preparation for the 2001 World Championships. And as is so often the case, the race to catch the bus in some ways was just as competitive a....

Emma McKeon Wins Top Gong At The Australian Swimmer Of The Year Awards On The Gold Coast Tokyo’s queen of the pool Emma McKeon has tonight joined a who’s who of Australian swimming’s greats after being named the Olympic Program Swimmer of The Year on the Gold Coast. The 27-year-old McKeon beat fello...

Tokyo Flashback: Australia’s Ariarne Titmus Triumphs in 200 Freestyle In Tokyo Tussle II; Katie Ledecky Fifth One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revisiting the champ...

Commentary by Kevin Gill, Swimming World College Intern. Over the course of history in the sport of swimming two nations have proved themselves as the most dominant in the world. Aside from the United States, the Australian national team has consistently been able to collect more medals at major in....

Swimming Australia Inaugural Hall Of Fame Inductees To Be Unveiled In Sydney Next Month The biggest names in Australian swimming including Dawn Fraser, Murray Rose, Shane Gould and Ian Thorpe are expected to join golden pioneers Freddie Lane and Sarah "Fanny Durack" amongst the first inductees into ...

Australian Olympic gold medalist Susie O'Neill took Katie Ledecky's "Got Milk Challenge" on social media on Tuesday, but added her own special twist to the challenge. Ledecky, winner of four individual Olympic gold medals, swam an entire 50 long course meters with a glass of chocolate milk on her he...

'Old School' Swim Performances That Have Endured the Test of Time (Female Edition) Scan through the top-25 historical performers in all events and a few highlights stand out. As expected, many of the marks are from recent years, a reflection that swim performances continue to evolve. Never has the s...

Andrew "Boy"Charlton, Kieren Perkins And Priya Cooper Inducted Into Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame Olympic 1500m freestyle legends, Manly’s pioneering powerhouse Andrew “Boy” Charlton and Queensland “Superfish” Kieren Perkins with WA’s Paralympic golden girl Priya Cooper have today been unveiled a....

Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of January 6-12, 2020   Sunday, January 12 Tokyo 2020 Golden Shot Mats...

Remembering Dr. Bob Treffene – A man At The Heartbeat Of  Swimming  For Five Decades Dr. Bob Treffene, a pioneer in the often complex world of sports science, was “a one of a kind” who helped transform the world of swimming. Swimming in Australia, Great Britain and around the world is saddened this ...