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Tokyo Vision: Katinka Hosszu Hoping To Stand Alongside Yana Klochkova With 400 IM Defense Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a...

BARCELONA, May 24. Romania's Camelia Potec, last year's European champion in the 200 meter freestyle, won her favorite event at the XXI Trofeo International Swim Meet in Barcelona today, the second stop on the Mare Nostrum tour. The smooth-stroking 18-year-old touched in 1:59.06, the world&#...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 22. The seventh, and next to last day of swimming in the Olympics produced one world record and three Olympic marks. Meanwhile, Team USA continued to dominate the medal count, winning three of five events. Women's 200 Backstroke Final Gold - Moc...

This week’s Performance Of The Week, sponsored by LumaLanes, goes to Andriy Govorov for his stunning world record performance in the men’s 50 butterfly at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome, Italy this week. Swimming on the last day of competition, Govorov absolutely smashed Rafael Munoz’s world re...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, July 27. THE faulty electronic timing pads at the center of a storm that ended in happy news for Great Britain's women yesterday, caused mayhem at the end of the men's 100m freestyle final tonight. It was clear that Anthony Ervin, of the US, having cl...

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...

VALETTA, Malta, July 9. THE kids have arrived! On the third day of the 2001 European Junior Championships here today, Greece's Ioannis Drymonakos and Hungary's Viktor Bodrogi were the stars of the show on the boys' side. Among the ladies Ukraine's Aliaksandra Herasimenia was a double...

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 ANTWERP, BELGIUM, Dec. 15. THE billboards and TV stations had it scheduled as the highlight: 100m freestyle, Pieter van den Hoogenband aims for world record in race with Stefan Nystrand at the European Short Course Championships. In the end, the blue ribbon event in which the Swede bea...

PORTO, Portugal, June 8. TWO meet records fell and Barbora Zavadova picked up her third and fourth wins of the meet to close out the second and final night of finals at the 31st International Meeting of Porto in Portugal. Taki M’Rabet of SF Olympique kicked off the final session with a win in the me...

By Phillip Whitten FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THIS is our preview of the events to be contested tomorrow, July 23, at the World Championships in Fukuoka. For more information on the meet, take advantage of Swimming World and Jr. Swimmer Magazine's Special Subscription Offer Women’s 200 meter butte...

By Hideki Mochizuki TOKYO, July 4. YASUKO TAJIMA, 20, silver medalist in the 400 IM at the 2000 Olympic Games in a national record 4:35.96, has decided to retire from competitive swimming. Tajima has been taking a break since the Olympics, but at the end of June she asked the Japanese federation to ...

By Craig Lord Istanbul, Turkey - The records started to fall on the first day of the 24th European Swimming Championships in Istanbul, the Dutch men's 4x100m freestyle relay setting a European record of 3:16.27 and both women's finals producing championship records that replaced the best that the GD...

European Swimmers of the Early Millennium: Dutch Delight in Pieter van den Hoogenband and Inge de Bruijn With the COVID-19 pandemic canceling the most-important competitions of the year, Swimming World made the decision to suspend its Swimmer of the Year selections for 2020. There simply was not eno...

Throwback Thursday: Flashback to Fukuoka...When the World Championships First Visited Japan The World Championships in Fukuoka are less than two weeks away and the meet will signify a return to the Japanese city that first served as a World Champs host more than two decades ago. It was 2001 when FIN...

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...

Paris Olympics: Historic Day For Cam McEvoy and Kaylee McKeown on Australian Swim Team Doused In Parisian Gold Like the world’ fastest man on water, Cam McEvoy, Australia held its collective breath for 21.25 seconds in the early hours of Saturday morning. A nation then catching its breath, before i....

June 20. ON the final day of the French World Championship Trials in Chamaliers the initial Saturday of last month, Algerian sprinter Salim Iles won the 50 free in a national-record 22.59. And just whom did Mr. Iles beat for the title? None other than Holland's double world record-holder/ double...

By Michael Collins & Phillip Whitten SYDNEY, September 16. OLYMPIC records were set in two events during prelims of the first day of competition at the Olympic Games here in sunny Sydney, Australia. Australia's golden boy, Ian Thorpe, cracked Russia's Evgeny Sadovyi's 1992 mark of 3:45.0...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 16. WORLD records fell in all four final events on the first night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, five world marks fell in the four events. Women's 400 IM - FINALS GOLD - Klochkova UKR 4:33.59 WORLD RECORD! SI...