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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 ...

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...

By Jeff Commings PHOENIX, Arizona, May 28. THE Olympic Games begins in 800 days in Rio de Janeiro. It seems like a lifetime from now, but as every athlete knows, the Opening Ceremony will be here in the blink of an eye. In swimming, we still have this summer's international meets and next year's wor...

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...

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 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...

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...

Katie Ledecky stopped by Rockefeller Plaza in New York City today for her first Stateside interview after what most would call a stellar week at the FINA world championships in Russia, talking with Matt Lauer on the “Today” show on NBC. Right out of the gate, Ledecky downplayed her performances, say...

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...

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...

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 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 ...

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...

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...

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...

After making history at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games by becoming the second woman in history to win the 200, 400, and 800 freestyle individual events five-time Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky has been making the rounds visiting various media outlets. Ledecky's most recent appearance was on The Ell...

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...

The latest issue of Swimming World Magazine is now available for download in the Swimming World Vault! Non-Subscribers Can Download This Issue Here A Voice For The Sport: Teenage Tradition At Trials By John Lohn As much as change is a constant in the world, some things have remained steady throu...

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...