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Queensland Championships, Night 4: Shayna Jack and brother Jamie Set Their Sights on LA28 After Impressive 50m Freestyle Double Act Paris golden girl Shayna Jack and her exciting little brother Jamie Jack have taken their first steps towards delivering a “sister-brother” act for the LA28 Olympic Ga....

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 26. IT was an epic night of swimming for England's Fran Halsall as she posted a textile best in her 50 free win and clocked a Commonwealth Games record in her 50 fly semis. LIVE RESULTS LIVE STREAM FINALS Men's 200 fly It wasn't his fastest time of the year, but South Africa'...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 27. TEAM Australia dominated the fourth night of action at the Commonwealth Games with medal after medal going into the nation's medal tally. Meanwhile, England's Fran Halsall collected her second sprint title of the meet, and South Africa's Cameron van der Burgh put up a siz...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 25. THE second night of the Commonwealth Games proved to be exciting with close finishes throughout the evening. Team Australia, meanwhile, had the strongest night of them all with four gold medals by the time all was said and done, including a monster double by Thomas Fraser...

By David Rieder. Kicking off this afternoon’s prelims at the Olympic Aquatic Center will be swimming’s glamor event, with perhaps the most coveted gold medal in the pool on the line. Not to mention the fact that the men's 100 free is typically one of the most hotly-contested events of the Olympic Ga...

Imagine competing in swimming at an elite level and having an entirely legal advantage that could help you smash a world record. Thanks to the new Australian sports technology lab eo, there’s no need to daydream. With a combined 70-years experience in their respective industries, former SKINS boss J...

By David Rieder. For two years, the NCAA swimming community had already been enthralled with Caeleb Dressel. His sophomore and junior years at Florida, Dressel posted mind-numbing, internet- wrecking records at the SEC and NCAA championships: His 18.20 in the 50-yard free, his 40.46 and then 40.00 i...

GLASGOW, Scotland, July 29. THE final day of competition at the Commonwealth Games featured a chance for Australia to sweep the relay gold medals with the 400 medley relays on tap. Were they able to hold off determined English swimmers? Women's 400 free Breaking away from a pack of five swimmers at ...

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...

The Difference Between David Popovici and Other Sprint Greats? All On Back Half Over the summer, Romanian teenager David Popovici broke a record so many sprint greats fell just short of. Cesar Cielo was the standard-bearer in the 100 freestyle for 13 years, and in the period of time after polyuretha...

By David Rieder. The Olympic Games have come to an end, and all the interested parties are back home in the United States recharging their batteries. But before we start thinking about 2017—the World Championships will be in Budapest next July, by the way—we at Swimming World need to hold ourselves ...

Swimming World has compiled the best Instagram posts of the week by some of the top swimmers in the world! Here are our picks of the week for Best Grams of the Week: 1.) Two-time Olympian Cullen Jones shows off his impressive training this past week with Power Stacks at NC State. 6AM #RiseandGrin...

Photo Courtesy: Jeff Commings SYDNEY, Australia, September 15. JUST two years out from the 2016 Rio De Janeiro Olympics, Australian world champion James Magnussen has decided to leave his longtime coach Brant Best according to multiple media reports. The two-time world champion and Olympic silver me...

The Australian Olympic Committee and Swimming Australia has been rocked by a positive drug test to champion breaststroker Brenton Rickard, back-dated to the 2012 London Olympics. The test threatens to strip six Australian swimmers of their medals for the first time in history and comes at the same G...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....

It was a stormy start to the 2016 Victorian Open Championships with racing delayed due to lightning strikes this morning at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Once the competition commenced, all eyes were on the men’s 100m freestyle as former world champion James Magnussen made his much antici...

By Kevin Gill, Swimming World College Intern. The United States men's national team has been the top nation in the sport of swimming for as a long as most people can remember, including this past summer at the Olympic Games. This dominance is clear in events like the 100 backstroke, an event the US ...

Just three races in following shoulder surgery and a nine month break from competing, former world champion James Magnussen will leave the Victorian Open Championships with both the 50 and 100m freestyle titles to his name. The 24-year-old posted impressive early season times and will be able to tak...

This week saw no shortage of fast swimming, the stars converging at the 2018 Sette Colli Trophy in Rome and Australians gearing up for the Pan Pac Championship Trials Down Under. Read about all the fast swimming at those meets and the other biggest stories of the week in the week that was! The Week ...

Photo by Griffin Scott Editorial coverage for U.S. Senior Nationals proudly sponsored by Master Spas! IRVINE, California, August 5. THE first morning of preliminary competition certainly set up a loaded set of finals tonight as a handful of Top 10 times in the world went up on the scoreboard at the ...