Kaylee McKeown pulled off her second successful title defense in Paris on Friday night in the women's 200-meter backstroke. The Australian, who also repeated in the 100-meter backstroke, set an ...

Regan Smith has another medal to add to her haul. The 22-year-old Lakeville star swimmer claimed silver in her best event — the 100-meter backstroke — in the pool Tuesday in Paris, finishing second to ...

St. Mary’s senior Joe Hayburn seems to have made it his mission to accomplish as many fantastic feats as possible before graduation. The reigning Capital Gazette boys Swimmer of the Year has already ...

* – in our series, we will use Lane 9 to add an athlete whose story reflects extraordinary situations of different kinds, including being deprived by doping or political decisions or, indeed the ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. --Wingate junior Samuel Knapp set a 200 backstroke pool record in the Royal Invitational. Knapp swam an NCAA Division II "B" cut time of 1:48.05 Saturday. He was one of five Bulldogs ...

Here’s a recent story on the Olympics, via the Associated Press: NANTERRE, France (AP) — Anastasia Gorbenko considers herself caught between two world conflicts. She’s an Israeli Olympic swimmer with ...

MELBOURNE, April 17 (Reuters) - Backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown marked herself a major threat for the 200 metres individual medley gold at the Paris Olympics as she shattered a national record at the ...

PARIS, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Hubert Kos won the men's 200 metres backstroke to give Hungary a first gold of the Paris Olympics on Thursday while Apostolos Christou took Greece's first medal in a swimming ...

Three-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown broke the world record in the 200-meter backstroke Friday at the New South Wales State Open swim championships. McKeown finished in 2 minutes, 03.14 seconds, ...

Mitch Larkin won the 100m and 200m backstroke titles at the 2015 World Championsips. Then, countrywoman and girlfriend Emily Seebohm did the same. Both Australians are racing in the 100m backstroke ...

Russian Olympic Committee's Evgeny Rylov came into the men's 200-meter backstroke event as the favorite. He lived up to the hype. Rylov set an Olympic record with a time of 1:53.27, holding off the ...