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Zhang Zhanshuo Destroys World Junior Record in 400 Freestyle at Chinese Nationals A little more than a month after finishing fifth in the event at the World Championships in Singapore, China's Zhang Zhanshuo destroyed the world junior record in the 400-meter freestyle. Racing at the Chinese National...

Men’s 100 Backstroke: Pieter Coetze Leads Deepest Event in Men's Swimming For almost a decade, Ryan Murphy was an international stalwart in the men’s 100 backstroke, winning Olympic gold in 2016 and a world title six years later. He missed an international podium exactly once, by one hundredth of a ...

The All-Time Olympic Medals by Country; United States Owns Massive Lead In a recent article, we looked at the number of countries that have medaled at each Olympiad since the 1896 Games in Athens. At the most recent Olympics in Paris, 19 nations sent athletes to the podium inside La Defense Arena, a...

Women’s Sprint Freestyle: Meg Harris and Marrit Steenbergen Won Gold in 2025 But American Looming The results from the women's sprint freestyle events at this year's World Championships show a pair of veterans claiming deserved, long-awaited gold medals. Marrit Steenbergen was world champion in the ...

World Championships Medal Leaders: McIntosh, Marchand Climbing All-Time List Alongside Phelps and Ledecky The World Aquatics Championships has been held each of the past four years, with meets in Budapest, Fukuoka, Doha and Singapore taking place in succession. That scheduling is an outlier, with th...

Claire Weinstein Opens Cal Days Coming Off Best Season of Her Career The first time Claire Weinstein wore the Team USA colors in international competition, she was a mere 15-year-old. At the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, Weinstein finished 10th in the 200-meter freestyle and helped the Unite...

India & Nigeria Bid To Host Centenary Commonwealth Games In 2030 India and Nigeria are vying to host the centenary Commonwealth Games in 2030 with both countries submitting formal bids by the August deadline. The event five years hence will mark 100 years since the British Empire Games - which late....

Parents of Leon Marchand Passed Down Olympic Genes During his march to global stardom, Leon Marchand has been a central figure in the sport since the 2022 World Championships in Budapest. Olympic gold medals and global titles have been collected at a rapid rate by the Frenchman, who is expected to a...

Appreciating the Career of Jesse Vassallo Olympic success—and even opportunity—doesn’t simply rely on talent. A confluence of good timing and fortune is also required. Ask Michael Phelps. Sure, his unmatched skill set was the driving force to his record eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympic Games in...

The Stunning Age-Group Records of Australian Legend Ian Thorpe We had some fun recently looking at the premier National Age Group (NAG) records in the United States, where legendary names like Mary T. Meagher, Sippy Woodhead, Michael Phelps and Aaron Peirsol still have a presence. While working on t...

How Many Countries Have Won Medals at Each Olympic Games? At the first Modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, the only countries represented in the swimming competition were Greece, Austria, Hungary and the United States. Only the U.S. was locked out of the medals. Fast forward 128 years, to the 20...

Back-to-Back: The Medalists from Paris Olympics Who Returned to World Champs Podium (Women's Edition) At last year's Olympic Games in Paris, 42 medals were distributed across 14 individual events. Of the athletes who earned those pieces of hardware, many competed at this summer's World Championships...

Team USA Sending 20-Athlete Roster to World Para Swimming Championships The United States is sending a 20-athlete squad to the World Para Swimming Championships, which will be held in Singapore from September 21-27. The meet will be held at the OCBC Aquatic Centre and marks the third major competiti...

When a Tie Was Not a Tie; How .002 Decided Olympic Gold and Changed the Sport On Aug. 30, 1972, Sweden's Gunnar Larsson and the United States' Tim McKee touched the wall in identical times of 4:31.98 in the 400-meter individual medley at the Olympic Games in Munich. However, the rules of the day req...

Double-Dipping: The Medalists from Paris Olympics Who Returned to World Champs Podium (Men's Edition) At last year's Olympic Games in Paris, 42 medals were distributed across 14 individual events. Of the athletes who earned those pieces of hardware, many competed at this summer's World Championships...

A Look at the 30 World Records Set at the World Masters Championships Just after the World Championships in Singapore concluded, the best Masters swimmers in the world converged on Southeast Asia to put their talent on display. Competing at the same venue, 30 world records were set at the World Mast...

Enhanced Games Sues World Aquatics, Others for $800 million The Enhanced Games, a performance-enhancing drugs-fueled spectacle, is suing sports governing bodies on antitrust grounds. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in New York. The World Anti-Doping Agency, World Aquatics and USA Sw...

World Juniors Medalist Abdul Jabar Adama Plans to Take Talent to NCAA Ranks When the World Junior Championships concluded over the weekend, athletes from 25 countries captured at least one medal. Among the nations represented on the podium was Nigeria, which saw Abdul Jabar Adama pick up a bronze me...

Men's 200 Breaststroke Building Toward Golden Age on Road to LA28 At his peak, no one could match the talent of Mike Barrowman. The American was a specialist in the 200-meter breaststroke and took the event to new heights via the wave-style technique he employed. A product of the University of Michi...

Rising Stars of Summer 2025: Pieter Coetze Among Men Who Emerged This Year Before trying to deal with the best backstrokers in the world, Pieter Coetze had to navigate an ambitious travel schedule. He was scheduled to represent South Africa at the World University Games in Berlin before flying acros...