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 ...

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"I'm embracing turning 60 … my catchphrase is '60 kilometres at 60 years,'" he said. "The last swimmer to do the double crossing was 37 years ago and in their 20s … it's a bit of a change in ...

"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 ...

Aug. 6, 2024, in his attempt to swim to Wisconsin. (Blace Carpenter/The Tribune via AP) GRAND HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — An ultra swimmer is trying again to cross Lake Michigan, from Michigan to Wisconsin, ...

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.

Nicholas Bennett won Canada’s first gold medal of the Paralympic Games on Monday. The 20-year-old swimmer from Parksville, B.C., was first in the men’s 100-metre breaststroke and collected his second ...

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).

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 ...

The sea swimmer, who was raising money for Isle Stand Up to Suicide in memory of his son Martin, had completed 3km (1.9 miles) of the 154km (96 mile) challenge. Mr Higson said it was "like ...

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