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Last-Minute Gift Guide for Swimmers, Coaches, and Parents Swimmers live and die by the clock—whether it’s hitting their splits or making intervals. With the holidays speeding closer, it’s time to dive in and find last-minute gifts! Here are trending gift ideas to delight swimmers, coaches, and paren...

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

FLASH! Regan Smith Breaks 100 Back WR, Leads American Women to Clobbering Medley Relay WR The American women have flexed their dominance throughout the six days of the Budapest World Championships: Gretchen Walsh won five individual golds while Regan Smith had three and Kate Douglass two. In their i...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Does It Again, Sets Ninth World Record & Wins Sixth Gold in 50 Free No one had stopped Gretchen Walsh in her first four individual finals at the Short Course World Championships, and a victory in the 50 freestyle final was seen as a near certainty. But would she again lower the...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Maximus Williamson, Teagan O'Dell Add More Victories on Final Day The Winter Junior Nationals careers for Maximus Williamson and Teagan O'Dell concluded Saturday evening in Austin, Texas, with both swimmers adding their fourth wins of the competition while Williamson late...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman, Rylee Erisman Take Down National Age Group Records One day after becoming the first 18-and-under swimmer to swim under 44 in the 100 butterfly, Thomas Heilman has again posted a groundbreaking effort in a butterfly race, this time over double the distance....

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Takes Down Eighth WR, Takes Down Kromowidjojo's 50 Free Mark In a down-and-back flash, Gretchen Walsh stormed to eighth individual world record of the Short Course World Championships, this time taking down the all-time standard in the 50 freestyle. After clocking 23.02 in prel...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Takes Down Seventh World Record of Week For 100 Fly Gold In less than 36 hours, Gretchen Walsh of the United States has redefined the imaginable in the short course meters edition of the 100 butterfly. No woman had ever been under 54 seconds before Walsh arrived at Duna Arena f...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Teagan O'Dell, Maximus Williamson Win Two Events Apiece High school seniors Teagan O'Dell and Maximus Williamson continued to impress at their final Winter Juniors meet, with both swimmers capturing first place in their respective 200 freestyle and 100 backstroke races Fr...

Budapest 2024, Day 4 Finals: Luke Hobson Downs Paul Biedermann 200 Free WR; U.S. Wins 800 FR Whatever else has befallen the American men’s program, the relays seem gloriously unaffected. And in Luke Hobson, the U.S. has another tentpole to build the future around. Hobson blasted away the last super-...

Speedo Winter Juniors East: Thomas Heilman Wins 200 IM, 50 Free on Second Night Following a lifetime-best performance leading off his club's 800 freestyle relay Wednesday evening, Thomas Heilman of Cavalier Aquatic Club kicked off his individual slate of events at the eastern site of Speedo Junior N...

Budapest 2024, Day 3 Finals: Gretchen Walsh Adds Another Gold in 50.31 100 Free It’s Gretchen Walsh’s sprinting world, and the rest of us are just swimming in it, at a considerable distance behind her. The UVA speedster added another gold medal at the 2024 World Short-Course Championships in Budapes...

Q&A with Coach Gary Taylor: Guiding Age-Group Star Thomas Heilman With Thomas Heilman set to race at Speedo Juniors East, Swimming World is running this piece from the archive that includes discussion of Heilman's training under the watch of coach Gary Taylor. A seasoned college and club coach, Cava...

FLASH! USA Women's 4x100 Free Relay Crush  Australia's WR In Budapest The USA women's 4x100 free relay took 0.42 off Australia's WR as the records kept tumbling at the short-course worlds in Budapest. The quartet of Kate Douglass, Katharine Berkoff, Alex Shackell and Gretchen Walsh were inside WR pa...

Budapest 2024, Day 1 Finals: Shaine Casas Lowers Ryan Lochte's Championship & American Records For 200IM Gold Shaine Casas posted the second-fastest 200 IM in history as he lowered Ryan Lochte's Championship and American records en-route to gold at the short-course worlds in Budapest. The USA swimme...

FLASH! Gretchen Walsh Lowers 50 Fly Record; First Woman Inside 24 Secs Gretchen Walsh lowered the 50 fly WR she set in prelims to 23.94 to become the first woman through the 24-second barrier in Budapest. The USA athlete went 24.02 in prelims to slice 0.36 from Therese Alshammar's record that had st...

SwimMAC Making History with Ultra Finals Long Course/Short Course Meet One of the hottest topics in swimming is making non-championship meets more fun and interesting. College dual meets are limited in number and not the focus of the season, and club meets can have the same feel at times. SwimMAC Ca...

Thomas Heilman, Maximus Williamson Headline Strong Fields for U.S. Winter Junior Nationals (Psych Sheets) Many of the top teenage swimmers in the United States will race in short course yards this week as USA Swimming holds its always-well-attended Junior Nationals, with the meet split between two s...

U.S. Open: Olympian Rhyan White Adds Second Win of Meet Rhyan White picked up her second win of the U.S. Open with a wire-to-wire victory in the 200 backstroke Saturday night. The American Olympian went 1:51.37 to take the race at the Greensboro Aquatic Center on the fourth and final night of the me...

U.S. Open: Drew Kibler, Rhyan White Secure Wins Friday Night The two high-profile American swimmers competing at the U.S. Open each picked up a win among 10 individual events contested in Greensboro, N.C., during Friday's finals, with Drew Kibler pulling away from Bradley Dunham to win the men's 200...