James Magnussen - (Tag)

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...

Pre-coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing. Each week leading up to the start of the swimming competition at the FINA world championships, Swimming World will offer medal predictions for the 42 events set to be contested in Kazan, Russia. Commentary by Jeff Commings, Swimmi...

Each week leading up to the start of the swimming competition at the FINA world championships, Swimming World will offer medal predictions for the 42 events set to be contested in Kazan, Russia. Coverage of the World Championships is sponsored by Wylas Timing By Jeff Commings, Swimming World Senior ...

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...

James Magnussen's shoulder injury is so severe that it will require surgery, and means the 24-year-old will not defend his 100 freestyle title at the world championships. Magnussen has withdrawn from a Grand Prix meet in Australia because he experienced extreme pain when swimming at a high intensity...

James Magnussen Discusses Participation in Controversial Enhanced Games on Social Kick Podcast At one time, James Magnussen was the premier 100-meter freestyle in the world. The Australian was the world champion in the event at the 2011 and 2013 editions of the World Championships, with a silver med...

The Week That Was, Sponsored by Suitmate The Week That Was featured auctioning off Lochte's Olympic medals, reflecting on World Championship performances, announcing the CSCAA Names Scholar All-American Teams and more. The Week That Was #1: Six Ryan Lochte Olympic Medals Hit Auction Block [caption i...

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...

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...

PHOENIX - Last week we wanted know if you felt Sun Yang’s recent doping suspension makes you question his world record and gold medal performances from the 2012 London Olympics Games. You guys weighed in and it was almost a landslide. Note: YouTube Measures Views Only For Episodes Watched On YouTube...

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...

Commonwealth Games Australia has announced a 70-strong swimming team for next month’s 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. The team was announced on the Gold Coast following the four-day Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimming Trials at the Optus Aquatic Centre. Made up of 49 able-bodied swimmers and...

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...

It is touted as swimming’s blue ribband event and the men’s 100m freestyle at the Olympic Games is again developing into a good old fashioned duel in the pool between Australia and the USA. And 2020 in Tokyo with Australia’s Kyle Chalmers and the USA’s Caeleb Dressel is shaping up to be one for the ...

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...

IOC Withdraws Doping Case Against Australia's Brenton Rickard Who Is Left Holding A $50,000 Bill To Clear Name Nightmare doping charges that emerged some eight years after the London Olympics against Australian triple Olympic swimming medalist Brenton Rickard have today been withdrawn by the Interna...

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...

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...

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'...

By Emily Thirion, Swimming World College Intern. Swimming is not a sport for wishful thinkers, and there are no golden tickets to success. Swimmers are more than aware of how much hard work is required every day to be the best. Easy victories are not the ones that are celebrated or remembered - it’s...