Passages: Joan Harrison, South African Olympic Gold Medalist, 89 Joan Harrison, who won the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Olympics for South Africa, has died on May 20 at age 89. Harrison ...

The Angolan National Swimming Team will compete in the African Open Water Swimming Championship on June 6th and 7th in Mauritius, where they aim to at least retain their third-place finish from the ...

TOKYO (AP) — After an Olympics of too little diversity in the swimming pool, and less on the medal podium, the sport's governing body is investing tens of millions of dollars to change that by 2024.

The Indian and South African Swimming Federations today signed a milestone partnership agreement to further jointly develop swimming and water polo in their countries, Swimming South Africa announced.

For years swimming was a skill that was not embraced by African Americans and Hispanics, according to a 2010 study conducted by the U.S. Swimming Foundation. However, the value of swimming was ...

Nomawethu Nogaga used to stand on Shark Rock Pier watching other people swim, never imagining she could be one of them. Then ...

TOKYO (AP) — South Africa’s Tatjana Schoenmaker was the star of the day, setting the first individual swimming world record at the Tokyo Olympics. Others shined, too. Evgeny Rylov completed a ...

LONDON, July 29 (Reuters) - South African Cameron Van der Burgh, struggling to contain his emotions, shook his finger in disbelief at the screen above the pool as it flashed his 100 metres ...

After an Olympics of too little diversity in the swimming pool, and less on the medal podium, the sport’s governing body is investing tens of millions of dollars to change that by 2024. Elite training ...