Marathon swimming joined FINA (now World Aquatics) fully in 1991 and the Olympic Games in 2008. This journey took advantage of the progression of the sport for the last 200 years and, perhaps more ...

Here are the little-known rules marathon swimmers must follow at the 2024 Paris Olympics, including swimsuit guidelines and drink breaks during the race Sarah Stier/Getty Team USA's Mariah Denigan ...

—Florian Wellbrock, Germany: He is the defending Olympic champion who qualified for Paris with a wire-to-wire victory in the marathon swimming event at the 2023 world championships. At Tokyo in 2021, ...

PARIS, France — Sharon van Rouwendaal became the first woman to ever win the Olympic marathon swimming event twice, reclaiming the title she won in Rio and fell just short of in Tokyo. This win was ...

In the early 1920s, marathon swimming star George Young was as popular as baseball legend Lou Gehrig and famed pilot Charles ...

PARIS (AP) — A test run meant to allow Olympic athletes to familiarize themselves with the marathon swimming course in the Seine River was canceled Tuesday over concerns about water quality in the ...

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