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• Craig Beardsley: 1980 Olympic Hopeful and World Record Holder in the 200 Butterfly to be Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame

There was magic in the water.

Ray, a Masters Swimmer turned volunteer swim instructor was helping Mary. On the other side of the pool, Mary’s two kids were doing bobs in Station One of our SwimAmerica program. Just as Mary lifted her face from the water, the first time she had ever done this, her two kids started clapping because they were well aware their mother’s fear of water. The other adult students around Mary took notice and also started clapping, and in a few seconds, everyone in the pool, the kids on one side and the adults on the other, were celebrating Mary’s courageous first step towards swimming.

When Michael Phelps Stood Atop the World in the 100 Freestyle

Where did Michael Phelps deliver his greatest performance? The immediate answer – at least for most – is Beijing, site of the 2008 Olympic Games. It’s where Phelps won eight gold medals to produce the finest Olympic showing in history. And given the prestige of Olympic competition, the argument for Beijing is sound.

Yet, a little more than a year earlier, Phelps was nothing short of spectacular at the 2007 edition of the World Championships. Racing at Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Phelps collected seven titles and set a quartet of individual world records – 200 freestyle, 200 butterfly, 200 individual medley and 400 medley. There was also a solo crown in the 100 butterfly and golds in the 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay.

Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers To Accept Wild Card Nominations For Birmingham Commonwealth Games

In a major shift in Australian National Swim Team selection policy Olympic gold medallists Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers will accept “wild card” nominations onto this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

Swimming Australia has written into its policy that Tokyo Olympic medallists would be given an opportunity to swim at the Games without contesting next month’s Selection Trials in Adelaide.

The Trials for the World Championships and Commonwealth Games will be contested at the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre from May 18-22. The World Championships will be held in Budapest from June 18 to July 3 with the Birmingham Commonwealth Games from July 28 to August 8.

Craig Beardsley: 1980 Olympic Hopeful and World Record Holder in the 200 Butterfly to be Inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame

Craig Beardsley is a former American competitive swimmer who was a world record-holder in the 200-meter butterfly for three years in the early 1980s. Beardsley won the gold medal in his signature event, the 200-meter butterfly, at the 1979 Pan American Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He received an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he swam for coach Randy Reese’s Florida Gators in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1979 to 1982. 

Come and meet Beardsley in person and hear his incredible life story at the ISHOF Induction dinner on Saturday, October 15, 2022. Can’t attend the event? Please consider donating to ISHOF and support Craig and our other inspirational Honorees.