2025 U.S. World Trials Previews: The Men’s 100 Breaststroke Is Anyone’s Race
Only two of the eight men’s 100 breaststroke finalists from the 2024 U.S. Olympic Trials have raced since last summer, opening the door for chaos this summer.
American Record Holder Matt Fallon Will Sit Out This Summer’s Major National Meets
U.S. Olympian and American Record holder in the 200 breaststroke Matt Fallon will skip this summer’s major national competitions to focus on an internship.
SwimSwam Pulse: 34.2% Pick Hwang As Most Likely Doha Champion To Return To Worlds Podium
The poll only included male world champions from Doha who did not win a medal (in their specific event) at the Paris Olympics.
Olympic Gold Medalist Melanie Margalis Fink Returns to Georgia Tech as an Assistant Swim Coach
U.S. Olympic swimmer Melanie Margalis Smith will return to Georgia Tech, where she previously coached in the 2022-2023 season.
2025 Pro Swim Series – Ft. Lauderdale: Six Storylines (& Some Bonuses) to Follow
Summer McIntosh is one of seven individual Olympic Champions entered in the meet, but interestingly she isn’t entered in any of her gold medal events.
Wild Speculation: Who Will Steer the Ship for the Wisconsin Badgers Swim Team?
Like the Stanford women a few weeks ago, the Wisconsin Badgers don’t have to look far for an obvious successor candidate for head coach.
2025 Italian Championships Day 2 Prelims Recap: Martinenghi Is On The Prowl
Olympic champion Nicolo Martinenghi led the men’s 100m breaststroke field out of the heats on day two of the 2025 Italian Championships.
SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2025: Men’s #50-41
Guiliano and Dressel had their best meets of 2024 at U.S. Trials. Guiliano made his debut Olympic team and Dressel completed his comeback to make his third.
SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2025: Men’s #90-81
After winning an upset SC world title in the 200 breast in 2024, Carles Coll Marti will aim to take the next step in the long course pool in 2025.
Reviewing SwimSwam’s Top 100 For 2024
Tomoyuki Matsushita (left) was unranked last year but won silver in the 400 IM in Paris, while Leon Marchand (center) backed up is #1 ranking with four golds.
2024 Swammy Awards: U.S. Male Swimmer of the Year – Bobby Finke
With a new World Record and Olympic Gold Medal in the 1500, Bobby Finke takes home the Swammy for U.S. Male Swimmer of the Year.
Neutral Athletes ‘B’ Break World Record In Men’s 4×100 Medley Relay With 3:18.68
The record set by neutral athletes from Russia broke the previous record of a 3:18.98 that both the US and Australia set in 2022.
arena Swim of the Week: Coll Marti Downs Super-Suited Spanish Record For Upset World Title
Coll Marti touched in 2:01.55 to win his first world title and erase the 15-year-old Spanish Record of 2:02.67 set by Melquiades Alvarez in 2009.
Qin Haiyang Breaks Championship, Asian Records In 100 Breast To Claim SC World Title
Qin clocked 55.47 to lower the World Championship Record of 55.70, set by Ilya Shymanovich in 2021, and broke his own Asian and Chinese Records of 55.61.
Neutral Athlete Kirill Prigoda Breaks Russian Record in the 100 Breast at World Championships
Russian Kiril Prigoda, competing under a neutral banner this week, has broken the National Record in the 100 breaststroke in prelims.
