Four-time Olympic backstroke champion Kaylee McKeown will this weekend kick-start her 2026 racing season on the road to the 2028 LA Olympics, when she continues her love affair with Australia’s “pool ...

As the second stroke to be contested at the Olympics, backstroke is often said to be the inverse of freestyle. Backstroke made its debut at the 1900 Olympic Games, where only the 200-meter race was ...

Swimming the backstroke may seem a harmless pursuit, but it has been banned at a council pool in case of accidents. Daisyfield baths, in Blackburn, is believed to be the first to implement such a ban.

St. Mary’s senior Joe Hayburn seems to have made it his mission to accomplish as many fantastic feats as possible before graduation. The reigning Capital Gazette boys Swimmer of the Year has already ...

Australian swimming star Kaylee McKeown has smashed the 50 metre backstroke world record by 0.12 seconds to underline her status as swimming's backstroke queen. Kaylee McKeown now holds the world ...

Evgeny Rylov broke the American streak of winners in the men's 100-meter backstroke on Monday night. The United States entered the race with a first-place finish in the event in six consecutive Summer ...

The World Aquatics Championships featured a big upset as the US Men's team failed to advance to the semifinals of the 100m backstroke. This marks the first time since 1908 that the team has failed to ...

Visitors to a council-run swimming pool have been banned from doing backstroke, it emerged today. Bathers at the Daisyfield pool in Blackburn, Lancashire, have been told they can only do front strokes ...

GWANGJU, South Korea, July 24 (Xinhua) -- China's Fu Yuanhui led the pool into women's 50m backstroke semifinals at the 18th FINA World Championships here on Wednesday. Fu, who grabbed a 100m ...