The medley relay features teams of four, where each team member swims a different stroke. Teams are usually comprised of a ...

Swimming is one of the marquee Olympic sports, and it comes with a long list of rules. Between individual events, relays and medleys, there are a bevy of swimming races. Add in varying distances and ...

Short course: A term used to describe a pool in which one length measures 25 meters (or 25 yards). Most college pools are short courses, and most events during the winter are held at short-course ...

There’s nothing out of the ordinary for a record or two to fall at a championship swimming meet. Sometimes, you can see it coming, like when Lancaster Catholic’s Addison Elliott reset her league and ...

The evolution of the women’s 100 backstroke has been simply astonishing the past two-plus decades. With some of the greatest swimmers in U.S. history swimming the event – and having to battle it out ...

Center Grove’s Henry Lyness celebrates his victory in the 100-yard backstroke during Saturday’s state finals at the IUPUI Natatorium. In short-course swimming, races are won under the water more often ...

Great Britain had a good day in the pool Wednesday, finishing with a bronze in women's synchronized 10m diving, but disaster struck during the men's 200-meter backstroke heats at the 2024 Paris ...

For the first time in his Olympic swimming career, Ryan Murphy missed out on the final, eliminated Wednesday in the semifinal of the men's 200-meter backstroke at Paris La Defense Arena. Green Cove ...

Nearly a decade separates the ages of former Cal swimmer Ryan Murphy and Golden Bears freshman Keaton Jones, but they looked similar on Thursday night in the U.S. swimming Olympic Trials in ...

It is not very common to see a Greek swimmer at the top of the world rankings in any event, but that’s where 19-year-old Apostolos Siskos sits in the 200-meter backstroke. And 2025 might just be the ...