The 2026 campaign could provide Mollie O'Callaghan with the opportunity to display her underappreciated talent in the backstroke events.

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 ...

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.

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Collin Holgerson Sets National Independent High School Record in 100-Yard Backstroke A University of Tennessee recruit and ...

Northampton swimmer Erin Voss finished sixth in the finals of the 200-meter backstroke at the US Olympic Team Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Northampton swimmer Erin Voss set a personal best as she ...

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 ...