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Brian Goodell vs. Vladimir Salnikov: 'The Duel We Missed' Documentary Receiving Academy Award Consideration Documentary films, at their core, take a deep dive into a specific topic. They are detailed. They offer emotion. They introduce engaging characters and storylines. They take the viewer behind ...

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...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the third day of racing in the pool at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, where Vladimir Salnikov became the first man to race under 15 minutes for the first of his two Olympic titles over 1500m freestyle against a backdrop of politics and boycott, life-changing ch...

American Mark Spitz and Australian Dawn Fraser were named the greatest male and female swimmers, respectively, of the twentieth century by Swimming World Magazine, the sport's magazine of record. The results of a selection by an international panel of experts, are published in the December issue of ...

A Look At the Most Iconic Pool Moments From the Olympic Games In the summer of 2019, one year prior to the original date of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Swimming World designed a series that would pay homage to the history of the sport on its biggest stage. Dubbed Takeoff to Tokyo, the series would f...

'Duel We Missed' Captures Best Feature Film Award at Paladino d'Oro Sport Film Festival As the year nears its end, "The Duel We Missed" has picked up a major film award. The documentary, which highlights the missed opportunity for a 1500-meter freestyle showdown between American Brian Goodell and th...

We end our memories of the boycotted Moscow 1980 Olympic Games with an overview of the swimming events, the truth that emerged down the years and a review of the races over the closing two finals sessions of the meet and where they left the protagonists, at that moment and in the long-term of life ....

Aussie Teenage Olympic Hope Sam Short Sinks A Little Slice Of Swimming History It has taken 30 years but tonight on the Gold Coast a little slice of swimming history fell to a teenager with his own dreams of one day conquering the swimming world. It’s not every day that Kieren Perkins’ name is erase...

What do you think would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would all of that fit in with Olympic swim legends of yesteryear, like … Ian Thorpe, Murray Rose and Vladimir Salnikov…? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have unfolde....

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THORPEMANIA spilled over on to the poolside at the World Championships in Fukuoka tonight as Ian Thorpe was greeted by hundreds of screaming Japanese girls after lowering the world record in the 400 meter freestyle to 3:40.17 and going on to b...

By Emily Thirion, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming is not a sport for wishful thinkers, and there are no golden tickets to success. Swimmers are more than aware of how much hard work is required every day to be the best. Easy victories are not the ones that are celebrated or remembered - it’s...

by Maria Dobysheva Vladimir Salnikov, RUS Swimming President, explained a recent qualification criteria change for those swimmers who weren't able to participate in Trials. Normally, first and second place at Nationals whose results were also under Olympic A Cuts set by RUS Swimming make the team. B...

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...

Olympic gold medalist, former world record holder, and current Russian Swimming President Vladimir Salnikov dished in on the current status of the sport of swimming in a world that has been brought to a halt by the coronavirus pandemic. The Tokyo Olympic Games have been pushed back a year because of...

Honorees and Olympians launch the "One In a Thousand" Challenge for the International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF).  Many ISHOF Honorees such as Mark Spitz, Janet Evans, Dara Torres, Vladimir Salnikov, Jason Lezak and Rowdy Gaines, water polo player Brenda Villa, diver Greg Louganis, synchro swimme...

For the 40th time since what could’ve been the peak of his swimming career, the last week of July passed by Brian Goodell without much of a thought. That it’s such a round anniversary since the American distance star didn’t get a chance to defend his Olympic gold medals at the 1980 Olympics thanks t...

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the fifth day of racing in the pool at the Moscow 1980 Olympic Games, where Barbara Krause led one of two GDR podium sweeps on the day by adding the 200m freestyle title to gold in the 100m freestyle, all of that unfolding without Sippy Woodhead, who at 14 had sto...

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...

The Russian Swimming Federation held their 2016 General Congress today, November 10, 2016, in Kazan. As part of their meeting the Russian Swimming Federation held an election for the next president (a four-year term). Vladimir Salnikov, who ran unopposed, was unanimously re-elected for another four ...

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 6. THE sporting community is celebrating a landmark achievement in sports today: the 60th anniversary of Roger Bannister's 1500-meter run that became the first under four minutes. At a dual meet on May 6, 1954, Bannister ran the mile in 3:59.4, a watershed moment that many thou...