World

Paris Olympians Kyle Lee and Moesha Johnson Secure Australian Open Water Doubles To Book World Championship Berths For Singapore Paris Olympians Kyle Lee and Moesha Johnson have swum their way onto the Dolphins World Championship team after adding the 5km National titles to their 10km wins on the f....

Pan Zhanle Secures Swimming World Pacific Rim Male Swimmer of the Year Award The path traveled en route to the 2024 Olympic Games varied. Some athletes opted to focus solely on the Games, unwilling to break loose from their typical preparation. Others chose to compete at a February edition of the Wo...

Paris Olympian Kyle Lee Nails Photo Finish To Claim Maiden 10km National Open Water  Crown Local WA Olympian Kyle Lee has out-touched defending champion Thomas Raymond in a frantic stroke-for-stroke shoot out to win his maiden 10km Australian Open Water Championship in Busselton. The 23-year-old L.....

Australia’s Peak Aquatic Sports Push For World Leading National Aquatics Centre For Brisbane Australia’s peak aquatic sports have today unveiled plans of  a joint proposal for a world-leading National Aquatics Centre at Victoria Park in Brisbane as a legacy piece ahead of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic ....

Tatjana Smith Selected As Swimming World African Female Swimmer of the Year Rare are athletes who walk away from their sport at the peak of their powers. Frequently, retirement calls when an athlete – regardless of sport – competes at a percentage of the excellence they once knew. Then again, there ...

With 6 World Championships in 3 Years, Who Has Won the Most Medals? It’s been a busy three years of international swimming. The sport, like much else, came to a screeching halt in 2020 thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. International meets, including the Tokyo Olympics, were postponed, and the backlog...

Swimming Australia And Nine Network Australia Launch Landmark 10-year Broadcast Deal SWIMMING Australia and Nine Network Australia have today announced a landmark 10-year, multi-platform media rights and sponsorship agreement through to 2034 - swimming’s longest and most wide-ranging broadcast deal....

Throwback Thursday: The Early Training That Led Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman to Legendary Status (Sample Sets) Together, Michael Phelps and Bob Bowman  forged the most successful athlete-coach relationship in the history of the sport. Here is a look at some of the early workouts that led to Phelps'...

$50,000 Prizemoney On Offer As Olympians And Weekend Warriors Line Up For Australian Open Water Championships In WA Paris Olympic medallists and a host of world champions will headline this year’s $50,000 Australian Open Water Championships and Ocean Swim Festival at Busselton in Western Australia.....

Jordan Crooks Shares How Consistency Leads to Victory: 'Get Out, Stay Out, Finish Out In Front' No swimmer may face more pressure than a sprint freestyler. Every moment of hard training comes down to just milliseconds, defeat and victory separated by a blink. It’s heavy stress for the athlete, requi...

The quality of the 2024 Olympic medals is under scrutiny after more than 100 athletes have returned them because of damage and rust just months after the Games, according to a Daily Mail report. The scrutiny started during the Paris Games after U.S. skateboarder Nyjah Huston posted on social media a...

Paris Golden Girl Lani Pallister Claims Record-Equaling Sixth Lorne Pier To Pub; Nic Sloman Wins Men’s Thriller  Queensland’s Olympic and world champion Lani Pallister just keeps on keeping on after adding her record equaling sixth Powercor Pier To Pub classic at Lorne on Victoria’s surf coast yest....

Throwback Thursday: Ahead of His Time, Mike Barrowman Revolutionized the 200 Breaststroke World records take on iconic status due to a multitude of factors, ranging from the stage on which they were produced to the gap stretching to the No. 2 athlete in history. Of course, duration plays an integral...

Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun Lighting the Way for Surge by Canadian Men's Program What Josh Liendo and Ilya Kharun did in Paris last summer—winning three Olympic medals between them—was historic for a Canadian men’s program that has so long been fallow at the highest levels of international competiti...

Happy New Year! Winter Issue of Swimming World Magazine Available for Free - Plus Special Trial Subscription Offer! It's official! 2025 is upon us, and we’ve got something incredible to help you start the year strong. For a limited time, the Winter Digital Edition of Swimming World is available for ...

The Men's 200 Backstroke World Records Have Stood the Test of Time Backstroke events have seen generational talents take center stage year after year. In 2024, it was Thomas Ceccon and Hubert Kos who swept the available men's Olympic gold medals, while the women's events were swept by Kaylee McKeown...

World Coach of the Year: Bob Bowman Has Mentored a Global Gathering of Champions Bob Bowman leapt into the pool at the IU Natatorium in late March, and somehow his year was just starting. Unspool the rest of the 2024 and it seemed that Bowman leading Arizona State to its first NCAA men’s championshi...

Top Swim Meets to Watch in 2025: World Championships Head to Singapore in July The post-Olympic year will usher in a new quadrennium, with swimmers aiming to build toward a peak at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. Elite swimmers will take varying approaches to 2025, with some of the stars of the Pa...

Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice...

WADA 2025 List of Banned Substances Now in Effect (Links Here) With the start of a new year, the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances for 2025 has gone into effect. The list can be found here and below, and is made available to assist athletes by providing knowledge of what is an ill...