Gretchen Walsh

SwimSwam’s Official Ballot for the 2024 Golden Goggles Awards

At the 2024 Golden Goggles Awards, Bobby Finke could match Michael Phelps as the only swimmer to win Male Race of the Year for four straight years.

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Alex Walsh To Undergo Meniscus Procedure; Not Expected To Impact NCAA Season

The two-time Olympian and 19-time NCAA champion will aim to lead the Virginia Cavaliers to a fifth straight national title in March.

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Torri Huske, Gretchen Walsh Lead USA Swimming’s 2024 Golden Goggle Awards Nominations

Torri Huske and Gretchen Walsh each earned four 2024 Golden Goggle Awards nominations thanks to their performances at the 2024 Olympic Games.

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Non Bastano Le Subacquee Di Gretchen Walsh Per L’Oro: Analisi Dei 100 Farfalla Di Parigi

A 25 metri dalla fine Gretchen Walsh ha mezzo secondo di vantaggio sulle sue avversarie. L’oro olimpico dei 100 farfalla è però Torri Huske. Cos’è successo?

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Gretchen Walsh’s Underwater Wasn’t Enough To Win Gold: Women’s 100 Fly Analysis

25 meters to go, Gretchen Walsh has a half-second lead over her opponents. However, the Olympic gold in the 100 butterfly goes to Torri Huske. What happened?

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2024-25 NCAA Digest: A Superstar, Recruit, Transfer, and Fifth Year To Watch In Each Division

Four swimmers–a superstar, recruit, transfer, and fifth-year–to keep track of in each division ahead of the 2024-25 NCAA season.

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A Meet of Inches: Team USA On Wrong End of Several Close Finishes In Paris

Paris was a meet full of close swims decided by tenths and hundredths of seconds, and the U.S. swimmers fell short in a lot of those tight finishes.

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Junior Pan Pacs: A 10 Year Lookback

It’s been 10 years since the 2014 Junior Pan Pacs. Ten years later, how have the swimmers who debuted on a JPP team developed? (Lilly King, pictured above)

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Gretchen Walsh Unpacks Her Olympic Debut and Looks Ahead To New Goals, a 54 100m Butterfly

Walsh loved her first Olympics, and she’s fired up about the ’25 NCAA season and her new goals for the next Olympic quad, meaning a fast 100 fly.

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Home Pool Advantage: A Host Country Swimming Analysis

Léon Marchand led France to a historic performance in the pool this year, winning four events in Olympic record time. Did the home crowd have any effect?

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Virginia Announces 2024-2025 Meet Schedule With Florida In October, Texas Duals In January

Virginia has 11 total meets on its schedule for the upcoming season with Florida in October and Texas, Arizona State, and NC State in January.

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How Deep Are The Pools Where Swimmers Set World Records?

Are there any world record set in “slow” swimming pools? Was this the slowest Olympics ever? We answered some of these questions in this article.

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Torri Huske Sees Her Instagram Following More-Than-Triple Amid Olympic Success

After leading Team USA with 5 Olympic medals in Paris, Torri Huske saw her Instagram following more-than-triple from pre-Games numbers.

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Stanford And Virginia Lead 2024 Paris Olympics Swimming Medal Count By NCAA Ties

Swimmers tied to Stanford earned 7 gold and 16 total medals while Virginia swimmers earned 5 gold and 12 total medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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2024 Olympics Race Data Breakdown: Women’s 50 Free

Sarah Sjöström, the world record holder in the event, recently took home the gold medal in the women’s 50 freestyle. Let’s dig into the data behind her swim.

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