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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...

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...

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 ...

IWD: Celebrating the Olympic Trifecta of Debbie Meyer At the 1968 Mexico City Games Today, March 8, is International Women's Day. At the 1968 Olympic Games, Debbie Meyer completed her freestyle triple in Mexico City. It was a feat that went unmatched until the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, when Kati...

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...

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...

By David Rieder. Katie Ledecky had pulled it off. She led wire-to-wire in the final of the women’s 800 free and won the race by more than 11 seconds over silver medalist Jazz Carlin. Ledecky’s time was 8:04.79, crushing the world record of 8:06.68 that she set in Austin, Texas, seven months ago. And...

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...

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...

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...

Bill George has always enjoyed getting to know more about the cities he has lived in. From Chicago to Detroit to Sacramento, each place has plenty of untold stories. In Sacramento, that story involved the Arden Hills Swim Club, and the Olympic glory that would follow. "Victory in the Pool: How a Mav...

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 like Janet Evans, Martha Norelius, Debbie Meyer, Katie Ledecky and Shane Gould? To mark the eight days over which the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games would have un...

A Look At the Most Iconic Pool Moments From the Olympic Games In the summer of 2019, one year prior to the original date of the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Swimming World designed a series that would pay homage to the history of the sport on its biggest stage. Dubbed Takeoff to Tokyo, the series would f...

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...

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 ...

Commentary by Bruce Wigo, CEO of International Swimming Hall of Fame. From the Middle Ages to the dawn of the 20th century, women were discouraged from participating or even watching physical activity. This view was held because a woman was supposed to be passive, obedient and the “weaker sex." In f...

By Proteeti Sinha, Swimming World College Intern. While sprinters swim one, two or four lengths of the pool, distance swimmers often swim up to 30 lengths of the pool for one race. That’s a lot of swimming and a lot of staring at the black line. Even though it can sometimes get boring, distance swim...

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....

College basketball is not the only sport that deserves a bracket that decides the best in the nation. On Thursday, USA Swimming released a Swim Showdown bracket that aims to let the public decide the best male and female American swimmer in history through an elimination-style contest. The winner in...