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From the Start, the 2024 Swimming Campaign Was Defined by Speed ... and a Fresh Approach to the Sport As the calendar flipped to 2024, maybe we should have known. The signs – after all – were there. For starters, we entered an Olympic year, which history suggests is almost always faster than a typic...

POLL: What Would You Rather Have: An Olympic Medal or World Record? (VOTE HERE) For athletes who reach the pinnacle of the sport, pursuing an Olympic podium and world records are targets of their training. For years, they have worked tirelessly to place themselves in esteemed company, their talent e...

Poll: Which Swimming-Related Item Would You Like to Receive this Holiday Season (VOTE HERE!) There's still some time to run out and get the swimmer in your life the perfect gift for the holiday season. Swim shops are still open and Amazon working overdrive to deliver packages. So, what can you purch...

Rohan Taylor Reappointed As Australia’s National Head Coach For A Third Olympic Campaign Rohan Taylor, the man who steered Australia to gold-studded Olympic campaigns in Tokyo and Paris, has been reappointed as head coach for the next Games in LA28. [caption id="attachment_485674" align="alignleft.....

Emerging Queensland Teen Lincoln Wearing Breaks Grant Hackett’s Long Standing 1500m Freestyle Age Record A star was born at the 2024 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships this week, with the arrival of a 15-year-old Brisbane schoolboy Lincoln Wearing who smashed a 28-year-old record held by ....

Grass Roots to LA28: A Panel Discussion Featuring Some of the World's Greatest Coaches (Video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQjjxcKGLoc The Eastern States Clinic, which made its annual visit to the Philadelphia area in late September, featured some of the most notable coaching names in the sport....

Jordan Crooks Followed Unique Path to Becoming Fastest Man Ever The run to becoming a world-record holder was not without its stumbles for the best swimmer to ever come from the Cayman Islands, a country of less than 100 square miles and a population of under 100,000. Jordan Crooks was first pegged ...

Poll: What Individual Women’s World Record Was Most Impressive at World Short Course Champs (VOTE HERE!) Earlier this week, Swimming World put together a poll that asked readers to choose the most impressive individual men's world record from the recently concluded World Short Course Championships i...

Swims That Flew Under the Radar at the Budapest World Championships The World Short Course Championships in Budapest were incredible. Thirty world records were broken during the six-day meet, and it seemed every race saw some sort of historically fast swim. Flying under the radar, however, were hund...

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....

World records are some of the most exciting moments in swimming. The 2024 Short Course World Championships in Budapest was loaded with them. How loaded? How about 30 in one meet. While short-course worlds usually has more world records than other big-time meets, 30 is just an astounding number, espe...

Queensland Championships, Day 3: Self Coached Jamie Jack Fires Off Impressive 48.27, Wins 100m Freestyle From Kai Taylor48.96 Emerging Queensland sprint star Jamie Jack has taken a huge leap towards easing the pain of missing this year’s Paris Olympics with an impressive win in the 100m freestyle f....

A Special Week: Gretchen Walsh Achieves Greatest Short Course Performance Ever Surprised by the sheer dominance that Gretchen Walsh imposed on the world's best sprinters at the Short Course World Championships? Then you haven't been paying close enough attention to the 21-year-old's trajectory over ...

Bob Bowman Talks Gretchen Walsh & The World Record Rush In Budapest The World Short-Course Championships ended on Sunday 15 December after six whirlwind days that featured 30 world records of which nine were set on individual basis by Gretchen Walsh with the American playing a part in 11 overall. Lo...

Poll: What Individual Men's World Record Was Most Impressive at the World Short Course Champs (VOTE HERE!) The World Short Course Championships in Budapest wrapped up on Sunday, and the competition at Duna Arena certainly put an exciting cap on what has been a sensational year of international racin...

Australia Banking on Brazilian Coach Fernando Possenti To Bring The Midas Touch To Its Olympic Marathon Program Swimming Australia is hoping the appointment of Brazilian Fernando Possenti as it's new Open Water Head Coach will provide the golden glow to its open water program for LA28 and towards B....

FLASH! Regan Smith Breaks 100 Back WR, Leads American Women to Clobbering Medley Relay WR The American women have flexed their dominance throughout the six days of the Budapest World Championships: Gretchen Walsh won five individual golds while Regan Smith had three and Kate Douglass two. In their i...

FLASH! Neutral Athletes of Russia Cap World Champs With WR in Men's 400 Medley Relay Heading into the final event of the  World Short Course Championships, the Neutral Athletes of Russia had a distinct advantage in the 400-meter medley relay. On the breaststroke leg, Kirill Prigoda figured to be a g...

Budapest 2024, Day 6 Finals: Hubert Kos Wins 200 Back with ER, Brush with WR The home fans at the Duna Arena in Budapest have been treated to one home-country gold medal this week, courtesy of Zalan Sarkany. A man who knows about winning world titles supplied the second on Sunday. Hubert Kos set a m...

FLASH! Luke Hobson Takes Down His 200 Free WR; Oceania Record For Max Giuliani In Second Luke Hobson cut 0.30 from the 200 free WR he set earlier this week when he went 1:38.61 at the short-course worlds in Budapest. The USA swimmer had made clear his intention for the final when he blasted 1:41.55 ...