The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold runs 12.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Will Damron (about 8.4 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12.6 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 26 days |
| 1 hour / day | 13 days |
| 2 hours / day | 7 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 9 days |
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What our data says
- At 12.6 hours, it runs longer than 73% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Will Damron
Will Damron narrates 464 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,932 hours in all.
About as long, on the World shelf
969 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold is an audiobook by Michael Loynd: a 12.6-hour unabridged recording, read by Will Damron, released June 7, 2022, on the World and Sports shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12.6 hrs
- Narrated by
- Will Damron
- Released
- June 7, 2022
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Sports, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780593587614
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold as an audiobook?
The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold runs 12.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8.4 hours.
Is The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold?
The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold is narrated by Will Damron.
Is The Watermen: The Birth of American Swimming and One Young Man's Fight to Capture Olympic Gold worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8.4 hours, saving 4.2 hours.