Ali Truwit, a Connecticut native, took home the silver medal Thursday in the women's swimming 400-meter freestyle. Silver medalist Alexandra Truwit of Team United States poses for a photo during ...

PARIS – Three years after surviving a horrific bike accident, Australian Paralympic swimmer Alexa Leary claimed her second gold medal in a world-record time in Paris on Sept 4. Leary’s 59.53 ...

With that, Rivard became the first Canadian swimmer to win a gold medal in the same event in three consecutive Paralympic Games since Stephanie Dixon won the S9 100 backstroke in 2000, 2004 and 2008.

New Zealand's treacherous Cook Strait is one of the world's most difficult swim challenges. The channel between New Zealand's North and South Islands is famed for rough swells, icy water and ...

"That fight for the last 50 (metres), that made it worth it." The 17-year-old is the youngest Canadian swimmer to win a Paralympic medal since Aurelie Rivard's silver in 2012 when she was 16.

American swimmer Leanne Smith overcame what to many would have been impossible — winning Paralympic record gold just two years after suffering a partially collapsed lung. The 36-year-old from Ma ...

Bennett described to Swimming Canada that the last 50 metres were painful. “I had to hammer the last 50, lose whatever I had left in the tank,” said the 20-year-old, who is coached by his sister Haley ...

Grab your towel but leave your sunnies behind — it’s time to go night swimming in Dubai. One of the best things about the warmer months, pools across the city come to life at night so you can make the ...

A U.S. swimmer has reclaimed her love for the water and is going for gold in Paris when the Paralympics kick off this week — just over a year after she lost her leg in a shark attack.

An ultra swimmer is trying again to cross Lake Michigan, from Michigan to Wisconsin, just a few weeks after trouble with a GPS device forced him to give up after 60 miles (96 kilometers).

last year when Bennett-Osborne got a job coaching the Red Deer Catalina Swim Club at the Michener Recreation Centre. “I don’t think we have the typical sibling dynamic,” Bennett said.

The University of Bristol swimming pool is 32 metres long at full length. The pool has a moveable bulkhead which enables us to create two distinct area for activity; a larger area is a 25-metre ...