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By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior Writer Fifteen years ago today, one of the most intense races in the history of Olympic swimming took place in the Sydney Aquatic Center in Australia to end the first finals session of the 2000 Olympic swim meet. With about 18,000 screaming Australians in atte...

Before the Pan American Games started last week in Toronto, the name Santo Condorelli didn’t register much of a blip on the global sprint freestyle radar. Those who follow American high school and college swimming were aware of his potential from his days at the Bolles School and now at the Universi...

MELBOURNE, Australia, January 17. IN one of the more star-studded events taking place this weekend, James Magnussen popped a sizzling men's 100-meter free at the Victorian Open Championships on day one. The world champion posted a meet record of 47.73, just missing the time it took for him to win th...

By Eric Bugby, Swimming World Contributor The Coach We've all seen a lazy coach; reading USA Today, drinking a double tall soy latte, playing Bounce on an iPhone. And all during warmup. The swimmers drudgingly stroke back and forth.  No feedback.  No interruptions.  No coaching.  Then a sound is hea...

Each day through July 23, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July 24 in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below! Commentary by D...

By J.P. Mortenson, Swimming World College Intern. If you want to improve as a swimmer, you’re going to have to learn how to make the connection between your body and mind. Plenty of swimmers just go into the water and do what the coaches tell them to do. However, the best swimmers are the ones who s...

Each day through July 23, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July 24 in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below! Commentary by D...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 5. IN the most impressive night of the meet thus far, Christian Sprenger headlined night five of the Australian Nationals and Commonwealth Games with a textile best in the 50 breast. FINALS St. Pete's Mitchell Larkin started the night off with a bang as he popped a Commonw...

Led by three defending World Champions and a host of the world’s best swimmers, a team of 38 athletes for Swimming Australia are set to contest the 2015 FINA World Championships in Kazan, Russia. The team was selected after eight days of intense competition at the 2015 Hancock Prospecting Australian...

Great Photos from Australian Swimmer of the Year Awards night.  Check out all the stars that came to the event. [caption id="attachment_403699" align="alignnone" width="700"] TROPHY TIME: Paralympic Head Swim Coach Brendan Burkett with Paralympic Program Coach Of the Year Harley Connolly. Photo Cour...

Already in the Club, Can Caeleb Dressel Lead Assault on Sub-47s for 100 Freestyle? By Daniel Zeng, Swimming World Intern Year after year, new training methods and the continuous will to improve allow swimmers’ times to drop, seemingly without end. Once a barrier is broken, we immediately begin to en...

There were so many great highlights from Australian swimmers through the decade beginning in 2010 and about to end. Highlights to celebrate included Olympic and Paralympic champions, World and Commonwealth Games champions and a popular comeback from one of the sport's real characters in Geoff Huegil...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 22. THE last thing any swimmer wants to encounter days before the biggest swim meet of the year is a virus. But that's what one Australian swimmer is facing as the start of the Commonwealth Games approaches. According to an article in the Sydney Morning Herald, a member of th...

Former World Champion and Olympic silver medallist James Magnussen has opened his summer of swimming with a win in the men’s 100m freestyle final at the Victorian Open Swimming Championships in a time of 49.35. After a nine month break from racing while he recovered from shoulder surgery, tonight wa...

On the final night of the New South Wales state Championships from Sydney, some of the Australian national team put in last minute racing before the Commonwealth Trials next month. Stars Cate Campbell, James Magnussen, Emma McKeon, and Taylor McKeown were on full display on the last night in Sydney....

Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. GOLD COAST, Australia, August 22. JAMES Magnussen has had issues with his back since the Commonwealth Games, and after w...

NARBONNE, France, September 16. IT’S been a tough 24 hours for some of the best swimming coaches in the world, with James Magnussen and Yannick Agnel leaving Brant Best and Bob Bowman, respectively, in Australia and the United States. Another world champion has announced a major move, with Federica ...

This was a big week in the swimming world, with the IOC announcing the addition of three events to the Olympic schedule and international stars firing back to the fast times in Santa Clara last week at the Mare Nostrum tour in Monaco. Check out all these stories and more below in The Week That Was! ...

Until last week, it was looking very likely that we would not see a 100 long course freestyle under 48 seconds until the world championships. Usually, one or two Australians put up something amazing at their April nationals, but that didn’t happen this year. None of the world championship medal cont...

CANBERRA, Australia, May 17. WORLD champion and Olympic gold medallist Cate Campbell has posted her second fastest 100m freestyle of the year and the third fastest in the world this year, to round out a strong and spirited Grand Prix for members of the Australian Swim Team in Canberra today. More th...