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Flashback: Michael Andrew as a 10-Year-Old in Swimming World Magazine These days, Michael Andrew ranks as one of the top athletes in the sport, a 2020 Olympian who capped the Tokyo Games by helping the United States to the gold medal in the 400-meter medley relay. First known for his record-breaking...

A Look at Past Swim Sets From Legendary Texas Coach Eddie Reese Today, Swimming World continues to offer past workouts that have appeared in the magazine to its readership. This time, we share several past workouts designed by legendary University of Texas coach Eddie Reese and shared with Michael J...

Memorial Day Rewind: How World War II Impacted Yale Great Bob Kiphuth Editor’s note: We are reposting this great feature by Chuck Warner, originally written as part of a series of articles about the great Yale coach Bob Kiphuth, highlighting a moment in Kiphuth’s career that intersected with the ris...

'Below the Surface:' As Olympics Approach, New Book Offers Chance to Dive Into Sport's History & Iconic Moments Just ahead of this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Rowman & Littlefield Publishing has released Below the Surface: The History of Competitive Swimming. The title, written by Swimming Worl...

Training of Katie Ledecky: A Glance At Workouts That Led to First Olympic Title Before Katie Ledecky became an Olympian and captured the gold medal in the 800-meter freestyle at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, her coach Yuri Suguiyama (now the head coach at Wisconsin) shared some of his pupil's wo...

Editor's Note: Following is statement released Monday by USA Water Polo regarding a settlement in a civil action against Bahram Hojreh, the Anaheim Unified School District, the Irvine Unified School District, the International Water Polo Club, USA Water Polo and USAWP CEO Christopher Ramsey and USAW...

Editor's Note: Following is statement released Monday by the law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi who represented 13 former female water polo in a civil action against Bahram Hojreh, the Anaheim Unified School District, the Irvine Unified School District, the International Water Polo Club, USA Water Po...

A settlement—the largest ever levied against an American water polo organization—has been reached in the civil suit involving water polo coach Bahram Hojreh, a one-time age group water polo coach in Southern California. While head coach for his International Water Polo Club (IWPC), Hojreh is alleged...

John Lohn Discusses New Book, Olympic Trials on Inside With Brett Hawke In the latest episode of Inside With Brett Hawke, the popular podcast hosted by the two-time Australian Olympian, Swimming World Associate Editor-in-Chief John Lohn joins the show. During the episode, Hawke and Lohn discuss Lohn...

NISCA Extends Deadline For All-America Applications The NISCA All America program application deadline for swimming, diving, water polo, para swimming, academic and scholar ceam has been extended to July 1 at 11:59pm EST. All applications must be received by then in order for your athlete to earn Al...

12-Year-Old Kayla Han Set to Make Olympic Trials Debut on Saturday in 400 IM The United States Olympic Trials' pre-teen qualifier, Kayla Han, will make her debut in Omaha on Saturday. The rising age-group standout will contest the 400-meter individual medley at the CHI Health Center. At the Speedo G...

Canadian 14-Year-Old Summer McIntosh Blasts 4:05 in 400 Freestyle The scene was the 2012 United States Olympic Trials and a 15-year-old wowed the crowd in Omaha. In addition to qualifying for that summer’s Olympic Games in London, where she would go on to win gold in the 800-meter freestyle, this yo...

Opportunity to Win Adam Peaty Olympic Swim Cap and Support 3-Year-Old Fighting Leukemia Three-year-old Oliver Goings and his family are going through a medical ordeal that no young boy and his parents should experience, as Oliver was recently diagnosed with Leukemia. But the Swimming World, always g...

FINIS Inc. is proud to announce the re-signing of 2017 World Champion and 2016 Olympic Medalist James Guy. Guy was first introduced to FINIS at age 13 while attending Millfield School. James was given an original monofin by a friend, which happened to be signed by FINIS Co-Founders, Pablo Morales an...

The International Swimming Hall of Fame (ISHOF) unanimously voted to bring Dale Neuburger onto its Board of Directors Dale Neuburger is currently in his fifth term as Vice President of FINA, beginning his tenure on the FINA (Fédération Internationale de Natation) Bureau at the Sydney Olympic Games i...

The above press release was posted by Swimming World in conjunction with FINISSwim.com. For press releases and advertising inquiries please contact Advertising@SwimmingWorld.com. It is National Water Safety Month! With summer approaching, and pools reopening, more and more people are headed back to ...

3 Reasons Why Ryan Lochte Will be a Factor at the United States Olympic Trials A recent Swimming World column by David Rieder examined the chances of Ryan Lochte qualifying for a fifth Olympic Games. The analysis conducted by Rieder suggested two primary points: 1) Although he was a 2016 Olympian, L...

Chinese Federation Opens Door For Sun Yang to Race at Tokyo Olympics As the Chinese Olympic Trials started on Friday, the controversial Sun Yang was missing from action, his status for this summer’s Olympic Games in Tokyo still in limbo. Yet, the Chinese Swimming Federation has instituted a measure ...

In New Documentary, Michael Phelps Reveals How Swimming World Photo Served as Motivation In the new Peacock-released documentary, “Michael Phelps: Medals, Memories & More,” the 28-time Olympic medalist reveals that he used an image from Swimming World Magazine as motivation following the 2003 World ...

Carson Foster Delivers Strong Marker in 400 IM as Olympic Trials Prep Continues Since he was a high school star and one of the top recruits in the country, Carson Foster has been pegged as a future star for Team USA. He has already served in that role at the global level in the junior ranks. And thi...