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A Flying Start: The First World Record of Olympic Legend Michael Phelps In Swimming World Magazine’s latest edition of World Record Flashback, we take a trip to the Jamail Swim Center on the campus of the University of Texas. There, in early 2001, Michael Phelps set the first world record of his car...

Anytime an Olympic Games nears, discussion of Michael Phelps and his legendary status is part of the equation. He is, after all, the barometer for Olympic excellence. So, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that identifies the greatest performances from Phelps' career. Phelps' long...

The Sydney Six: A Group of Teenagers Launched a Special Era for USA Swimming Today, September 15, marks the silver anniversary of the Opening Ceremony of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. Over the next week, Swimming World will celebrate some of the iconic performances from the Olympic Ga...

On This Date: 15-Year-Old Michael Phelps Sets First World Record Twenty years ago, on this date, Michael Phelps became a world-record holder for the first time. That fact was first pointed out by Nick Zaccardi, the superb Olympics writer for NBC Sports. In the years ahead, Phelps would collect 28 me...

By Dylan Evangelista, Swimming World College Intern Since her first Olympic berth back in 2012, it's an understatement to say that Katie Ledecky has made her mark on the sport of competitive swimming. At this year's FINA World Championships in Budapest, it is no surprise that Ledecky was the first m...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 19. It's the half-way point of the swimming portion of the Olympics. Excitement is still at a fever pitch and every event seems to be a new world or Olympic record, produce a surprise winner, or hold a special story. Tonight's competition at...

Craig Beardsley Belonged at the Olympic Games; At Least Now, Hall of Fame Induction Awaits In less than a week, former American star Craig Beardsley will be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. His contemporaries received their due. Rowdy Gaines. Tracy Caulkins. Mary T. Meag...

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...

ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FOR AUSSIE MEN By Stephen J. Thomas The Aussie 800m freestyle relay annihilated their existing world record by more than 3 seconds. Thorpe as part of the team has broken a world record on each night of this meet!!! Tom Malchow (US) swam the 2nd fastest 200 fly in history and Sus...

By Mary Wagner (courtesy of USA Swimming) EAST MEADOW, N.Y., Dec. 1. AFTER Michael Phelps had swum the 400m IM at the 2001 U.S. Open Friday night, he left a field of competitors and a meet record in his wake. Phelps, 16, the world record holder in the 200 fly, won the event with a time of 4:11.95, s...

(Last Saturday, June 17, Tom Malchow broke the world record in the 200 meter butterfly at the Charlotte UltraSwim meet in Charlotte, NC, clocking 1:55.18. His time broke the record of 1:55.22 set five years ago by Russia’s Denis Pankratov. Swiminfo chatted with Tom recently about his record-breaking...

Out of the Pool: John Piersma Found Direction at Michigan, In Pool and Classroom The life of a swimmer extends well beyond the pool. In a new occasional series, Out of the Pool, we talk to former swimmers who’ve gone on to excel in their post-athletic careers. The biggest assist that John Piersma go...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 18. This evening, the third night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games, was destined to belong to Australia. In particular, one seventeen year-old Australian with size 17 feet: Ian Thorpe, the human "Thorpedo." But in a stunning upset, the y...

By Craig Lord HELSINKI, July 6. It was an historical day at the European Championships in Helsinki as Flavia Rigamonti provided Switzerland with its first continental long-course title, Yana Klochkova and Beatrice Coada-Caslaru dead-heated in the final of the 200m medley to provide the first occasio...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan, July 23. IT was a night of celebration in Fukuoka, courtesy of a world record of 59.94 seconds by Roman Sloudnov, of Russia, in the second semi-final of the 100m breaststroke, and two European records in the 200m butterfly. The first of those went to Germany's Annik...

by Phillip Whitten San Antonio, TX - There were several upsets, four meet records and some very fast swimming on the final day of the three-day U.S. Open Swimming Championships, held at Palo Alto College in San Antonio. The very first event of the evening saw the meet's biggest upset when Japan's Sa...

By Gerry Rodrigues and Phil Whitten LOS ANGELES, July 16. Outstanding performances are anticipated here on the final evening of the Janet Evans Invitational,at the MacDonald's Olympic Swim Stadium on the campus of the University of Southern California. In prelims, several impressive performances...

How Will The US Swim Team Fare in Sydney? The U.S. Olympic Trials are over and the US team has made the long trans-Pacific trek. How will the Americans fare at the Olympic Games in Sydney against the world's best? Swimming World has a pretty good idea and offers its predictions for gold, silver...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, May. 7. DOUG FROST, the man who has guided Ian Thorpe to the top of the international swimming heap, was tonight awarded international coaching’s highest accolade when he was named the World Swimming Coaches Association Coach of the Quadrennium on Australia's Gold Coast. ...

STOCKHOLM, Jan 24. American Olympic champion Tom Malchow smashed his own national record in the 200m butterfly tonight on the first day of competition of the FINA World Cup IX meet in Stockholm. Malchow won his specialty in 1:52.97, erasing the U.S. record of 1:53.28 he set last February 5. Former w...