TOKYO — It happens so fast. After years of preparation, Lakeville's Regan Smith and her rivals walk to the pool, discard their robes and flip-flops, and dump them into a laundry basket set there by ...

No one was beating Regan Smith in her signature event. Bouncing back from a close-but-no-Olympics call in her first race, Smith set a world record in the women's 100-meter backstroke at the U.S.

Hungarian Tamas Darnyi won the 200 IM at the 1991 World Championships, becoming the first man to break 2:00 in the event.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NANTERRE, France (AP) — When it’s time to ...

Kate Douglass became the first American swimmer to break a 100m freestyle world record in 21 years, while Australian Kaylee McKeown and American Regan Smith each went under Smith’s 200m backstroke ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Katharine Berkoff, an Olympian and Missoula native, took home the top spot in the USA Swimming Championship in Indianapolis for the 50-meter backstroke. Berkoff's time of 26.97 ...

United States athletes at the Olympics often are draped in red, white and blue … and gold. The U.S. reached a historic milestone by capturing its 1,000th gold medal in the history of the Olympic Games ...

Australia’s “unstoppable” backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown has made a habit of going back-to-back in her stellar career in the pool and she did it again yesterday on the Gold Coast. The 24-year-old ...