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Olympic Medalist Bruno Fratus Announces Retirement Brazilian Olympic medalist Bruno Fratus announced his retirement from competitive swimming this week. Fratus made the announcement on social media, with posting confirmation of his formal withdrawal from the International Testing Agency’s list of ac...

Mary-Sophie Harvey had dreamed about being on the podium for an individual race at a major international competition. She was so close at the 2024 Paris Olympics - heartbreakingly close - finishing fourth four times. Instead of letting that sink her, the 25-year-old Canadian star got back to work an...

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...

Budapest 2024, Day 6: Jordan Crooks Backs Big Week With Gold in 50 Free It’s gotten to the point in Budapest this week that any race not ending in a world record seems an outlier. For Jordan Crooks, one ending with him getting a gold medal is just fine by him. Crooks didn’t quite match his world rec...

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...

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...

Speedo Winter Juniors West: Maximus Williamson Helps Lakeside Scare 800 Free Record Maximus Williamson was the only holdover from the quartet that set a Speedo Winter Juniors record last year. Turns out, they’re still pretty fast thanks largely to Williamson. Williamson went 1:32.28 off the front of...

As USA Swimming heads into a new year with new leadership, something that has been questioned for the future is the way coaches are named for Team USA events. The American Swim Coaches Association (ASCA) has voiced concerns about the selection process and transparency within that process. "ASCA supp...

Swim Like A. Fish: How to Maximize Butterfly Breakouts (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erjXI7lhqgY What is one way to cut time in the butterfly events? Maximize your breakout. In the latest video by Abbie Fish, a Swimming World partner who travels the world providing coaching advice, the but...

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! Summer McIntosh Shatters 400 Free WR In 3:50.25 Summer McIntosh shattered Li Bingjie's 400 free world record in 3:50.25 at the World Short-Course Championships in Budapest. It was the second WR of the meet so far following Gretchen Walsh's shuddering effort in the 50 fly prelims. With that, M...

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: 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...