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A Who's Who of Olympic athletes, coaches and others at the helm of the aquatic sports sector sent a letter Tuesday to President Donald Trump urging him to help get pools reopened across the U.S. as a matter of public health and safety. The letter, which is below, is signed by 36 Olympic swimmers and...

Celebrating the Olympic Trifecta of Debbie Meyer At the 1968 Mexico City Games This week marks the 56th anniversary of the start of the 1968 Olympics Games in Mexico City. At those Games, Debbie Meyer completed her freestyle triple, winning gold in the 200, 400 and 800 distances. It was a feat that ...

ISHOF is proud to announce that this year, we will have co-Master of Ceremonies for the 2020 Induction Class of Honorees. Rowdy Gaines and Debbie Meyer will both be with us. Florida’s own, Rowdy Gaines, is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, eight-time world record holder and everyone’s favorite swi...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here Takeoff To Tokyo: Iconic Moments In Olympic History By John Lohn In October of 2019, nearly a year prior to the original date of the 2020 Olympic...

999-The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here The Toughest Workouts, Part 2 By Michael J. Stott Swimming has had its share of taskmasters over the years. In the second of a two-part series ...

What would have unfolded had Tokyo 2020 gone ahead as planned this week – and where would it all have fit in the thread of Olympic swim legends and pioneers like Janet Evans, Katie Ledecky, Debbie Meyer and Rebecca Adlington? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have ...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

2016 Trials Throwback: Katie Ledecky Takes Victory Lap in 800 Each day during the pre-scheduled days of the 2020 US Olympic Trials, Swimming World will take its readers back four years to the 2016 Trials in Omaha to recap each event, and will offer some insight into what the events will look like in...

It is 50 years ago today that a 16-year-old Sydney schoolgirl Karen Moras stunned a packed crowd at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh to smash her own world record in the 800m freestyle. Her stunning solo swim in a time of 9:02.45 was the major highlight of Australia’s dominance in the pool a...

By Craig Lord SYDNEY, Sept. 20. PENNY Heyns, the South African who is the only woman ever to win both the 100 and 200 metres Olympic breaststroke titles, announced her retirement from international swimming today after failing to make it through to the semi-finals of the 200 metres breaststroke. Ask...

September 25. THE Ice Bucket Challenge that became the biggest viral sensation of 2014 brought huge awareness – and a lot of money – to the crippling disease that is ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Today, the disease hit the swimming community hard with the release of a video that showed 1968...

Lessons With The Legends: Sherm Chavoor Swimming World continues its “Lessons With the Legends,” a series in which top coaches share secrets of their success, in the September issue with a feature on Sherm Chavoor, notable coach. The Hawaiian native founded the Arden Hills Swim and Tennis Club in Ca...

Each day through October 26, Swimming World will take you back 50 years to the 1968 Mexico City Olympics, and will re-tell the stories of those Games through archived meet recaps via the Swimming World Vault. Read More on the 1968 Olympics Mark Spitz’s first gold medal Micki King hits board in 3m sp...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida, March 11. WORLD and Olympic champions David Boudia and Katie Ledecky, as well as star water polo player Rachel Fattal, are nominated for the Amateur Athletic Union’s prestigious James E. Sullivan Award, which is given annually to, according to the AAU, “the nation’s outsta...

By Tarrah J. Smith (Courtesy of USA Swimming) ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 17. THE Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) has announced the names of the fourteen finalists for the 72nd Annual AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Award which recognizes the top amateur athlete in the nation. Among the finalists is Natalie Cou...

Don Hill, a former Michigan national champion and United States Masters Swimming (USMS) champion has died. He died Thursday, May 23, and was 87. Hill, who married USA Olympic swimmer Jane Swagerty, toasted his life with champagne, alongside his family the night before he died, according to sources c...

By David Rieder. All summer, everyone pretended to know what would happen in the medley relay events at the Olympics—just add up the top times this year from all the 100s of each stroke, right. Well, not so much. With five of eight days of Olympic swimming complete, it’s become fairly clear who is p...

By Bill Bell AUSTIN, TX., Dec. 2 -- Who's the greatest woman swimmer in American history? Debbie Meyer? She was queen of the distances in the '60s and an Olympic gold medalist. Or how about Tracy Caulkins? Certainly one of the greatest collegtiate swimmers in history, holder of more AAU-U.S....

ATLANTA – Five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky (Bethesda, Md./Nation’s Capital Swim Club) was named USA Swimming Athlete of the Year for a record fourth consecutive year and earned the Phillips 66 Performance Award for the fifth straight occasion after a world-record swim in the 800-meter f...

The World Is Still Chasing Debbie Meyer In 1968 16-year-old Debbie Meyer became the first and only person to win the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle events at a single Olympic Games. Now 63, Debbie recently spoke with Swimming World about her story and the historic influence that propelled her to fame d...