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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...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Andrea Pollack passed away March 13 after a battle with cancer. She was 57. Pollack won the gold medal in the 200 butterfly in the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games for East Germany when she was just 15. She also swam the butterfly leg on East Germany's gold medal 4x100 me...

Event 7 (200 medley relay - FINAL) Stanford set a new NCAA record in the 200 medley relay with a time of 1:37.80 breaking the mark of 1:38.56 set earlier this season by Auburn (Katie Ryan, Brook Monroe, Mimi Bowen, Katie Taylor) at the SEC championships. The Cardinal squad consisted of Catherine Fox...

Sydney Games Anniversary: The Rivalry Between Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres In September 2000, the United States went to work at the Olympic Games in Sydney with a star-studded lineup. Among the members of Team USA were Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres, whose rivalry had several intriguing storylines...

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...

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...

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...

Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick FEDERAL WAY - Abbey Weitzeil has transformed from being a sprinter to watch into the fastest American swimmer in history, all in a span of about six months. When she broke the American record in the 100-yard freestyle Saturday night, she put herself into the history boo...

AUSTIN, Tx., March 8. SWIM Atlanta's Amanda Weir must enjoy foreign travel, because she's quickly becoming an excellent prospect to tour a very prominentand very ancient European capital that begins with the first letter of the alphabet in just two more years. Athens, of course, site of the ...

By Bruce Wigo The list of heroes from our sport's past is long and glorious. One of the most remarkable super-champions of the Golden Age of Sports was Johnny Weissmuller.  If the present generation remembers him at all, it is as a somewhat portly and inarticulate fellow swinging from jungle trees a...

In A Major Coup, Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) Dumped As President From Swimming Australia Board In a major shake up, Swimming Australia membership stakeholders have voted to dump  Tracy Stockwell from the SA board after serving as president for just nine months. Her exit from the board opened up the p...

The 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials Represented a Road to Nowhere Today marks the 40th anniversary of the final day of the 1980 United States Olympic Trials. The competition was held after the conclusion of the swimming events at the Moscow Games, an unusual circumstance for athletes who were robbed of the...

With the World Championships Trials recently concluded, it’s never too early to start thinking about the next Olympics Trials, scheduled just two short years away. On March 29, USA Swimming & the Indiana Sports Corp. officially announced that the U.S. Olympic Team Trials-Swimming would be held at Lu...

World Champions and Olympians joined by “Sons And Daughters” As Record Entries Line Up For Queensland State Short Course Championships The who’s who of Queensland swimming, including individual world champions Emily Seebohm (Griffith University), Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western) and Mitch Larkin (...

Did You Know?  Fun Facts of Aquatics From ISHOF Tracy Caulkins Tracy Caulkins holds the record for most individual NCAA championship titles in a single year with five. She won the 100 and 200 yard fly plus the 100, 200 and 400 IM at the inaugural NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming and Diving Champio.....

This is the Swim Poll of the Week for Friday, May 31, 2019, sponsored by Strechcordz Swim Training Products. In our last poll, we wanted to know: Who is the best female swimmer of all-time? We asked and you answered with… Here are the answers: Katie Ledecky (47%) Tracy Caulkins (28%) Krisztin...

Courtesy www.usswim.org Jenny Thompson was named the 1998 Swimmer of the Year and also received the Phillips Performance Award, sweeping the top honors at the USA Swimming convention in Cincinnati, Ohio. Thompson (Dover, N.H./Stanford Swimming) became the first American since Tracy Caulkins in 1978 ...

Sunday Essay: Anniversaries are usually celebrated not for the loss but the gain of something. This day marks a 40th milestone graced with the name Tracy Caulkins on it because of the status she relinquished, one that changed the face of women's medley swimming for almost three decades. Consider thi...

USA vs. Australia Duel In The Pool Returns To Sydney's Pool Of Dreams and Iconic Bondi Beach (Updated) Sydney's "Pool Of Dreams" and one of the world's iconic surfing beaches, Bondi, will see the return of the fourth Duel In The Pool between swimming's super powers the USA and Australia in August. A...

Last week, Swimming World Editors Craig Lord and John Lohn put together an event-by-event League of Olympic Swim Legends in which we considered the impact of the likes of Shane Gould, Krisztina Egerszegi, Katie Ledecky, Janet Evans, Dawn Fraser, Mary T. Meagher, Tracy Caulkins and many other pioneer...