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Each\u00a0year\u00a0Swimming World Magazine<\/em>\u00a0selects the top male and female swimmers from the following regions: Africa, the Pacific Rim, Europe, the Americas, and World.<\/p>\n

Starting on November 28th,\u00a0Swimming World<\/em>\u00a0began announcing the top athletes in each region leading up to the announcement of the Male and Female World Swimmer of the Year on December 1st.<\/p>\n

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Male World and European Swimmer of the Year<\/h2>\n
\"PEATY

Adam Peaty\u00a0Photo Courtesy: Giorgio Scala\/Deepbluemedia\/Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n

When Adam Peaty<\/strong> first started training with the City of Derby Swimming Club 10 years ago, head coach and former Olympic swimmer Melanie Marshall<\/strong> was underwhelmed by three of his four strokes. The 14-year-old was raw, but he had a naturally powerful breaststroke. With Marshall\u2019s astute technical coaching, Peaty became one of the top breaststrokers in the world by 2014.<\/p>\n

At that year\u2019s Commonwealth Games, Peaty upset 2012 Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh<\/strong> in the 100 meter breaststroke by 3-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n

In 2015, Peaty bettered van der Burgh\u2019s world record in the event by half a second (57.92), becoming the first man ever to dip under 58 seconds. The next year in his Olympic debut, Peaty broke the world record in prelims of the 100 breast (57.55) and again in finals (57.13).<\/p>\n

In a matter of three years, Peaty had become the best breaststroker in swimming history.<\/p>\n

At the 2017 World Championships, Peaty handily won the 100 again (57.47)…but this time, it was the 50 in which he lowered the world record\u2014first in prelims (26.10), then in semis (25.95), becoming the first swimmer to break the 26-second barrier.<\/p>\n

At this year\u2019s Commonwealth Games, Peaty won the 100 breast (58.84) and set a Games record in the semifinal of the event (58.59)\u2014more than a second off his world record. In the 50, he finished second behind van der Burgh\u2014the first time in four years that he had not won that race.<\/p>\n

It seemed, perhaps, that Peaty\u2019s steady upward trajectory was beginning its descent…that is, until the 2018 European Championships in August, when he set another WR in the 100 breast (57.10) and came away with four gold medals (100 breast, mixed 4×100 medley relay, 50 breast, men\u2019s 4×100 medley relay). He was Britain\u2019s first three-time quadruple champion at Europeans. At the end of 2018\u2019s long course season, Peaty held the 11 top times ever swum in the 50 breast and the 14 fastest times ever swum in the 100 breast.<\/p>\n

Peaty\u2019s beastly efforts earned him Swimming World\u2019s Male World Swimmer of the Year honor for the second time in his career (2015, 2018). But the 23-year-old (who will turn 24 at the end of this month) is not satisfied being far and away the best breaststroker in the world\u2014he wants to be the first man to dip under 57 seconds in the 100. And he\u2019s proven time and again that he doesn\u2019t need anyone to race but the clock.<\/p>\n

Female World and American Swimmer of the Year<\/h2>\n
\"katie-ledecky-\"

Katie Ledecky Photo Courtesy: Peter H. Bick<\/p><\/div>\n

Over a stretch of pure dominance from 2013 to 2016, Katie Ledecky<\/strong> set 13 individual world records and twice swept World Championship titles in the 400, 800 and 1500 meter free. She added a fourth individual gold at the 2015 Worlds in the 200 free, and in 2016, she became just the second woman ever to sweep Olympic gold medals in the 200, 400 and 800 free\u2014behind Debbie Meyer<\/strong>, who accomplished that feat in 1968.<\/p>\n

Ledecky was named Swimming World\u2019s World Swimmer of the Year in each of those four years, but her streak was broken by Sarah Sjostrom<\/strong> in 2017\u2014not that Ledecky had a poor year, but Sjostrom was just too good in the sprints.<\/p>\n

Now, the 21-year-old Ledecky is back on top. This World Swimmer of the Year honor is her fifth\u2014more than any other women\u2014and her American Swimmer of the Year honor is her sixth straight, breaking a tie for most all-time with Janet Evans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Her highlight moment of 2018 came not at either of her primary target meets, the women\u2019s NCAA Championships (SCY) in March or the Pan Pacific Championships in August, but at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Indianapolis in May, when Ledecky shocked everyone in attendance and around the world by chopping five seconds off her world record in the 1500 free (15:20.48).<\/p>\n

During the summer, it was business as usual for Ledecky in the distance events, as she swept the 400, 800 and 1500 gold medals at Pan Pacs. She also posted her second fastest 200 free relay split ever (1:53.84), as she anchored the Americans to silver in the 4×200 free relay\u2014and nearly made up a huge gap (nearly three seconds) to catch Australia for gold.<\/p>\n

Ledecky also began her professional career in 2018, making her decision in late March after defending her NCAA titles in the 500 and 1650 yard free and leading Stanford to a second straight team championship.<\/p>\n

Ledecky was still an easy and obvious choice for World Swimmer of the Year, if for no other reason than this: she finished the year ranked first in three individual Olympic events (400-800-1500) and second in a fourth (200). No one else can claim that distinction.<\/p>\n

Beyond all that, we got a reminder of Ledecky\u2019s greatest talent\u2014the ability to pull off astounding, historic swims when they are least expected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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