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NANTERRE, France —In a battle of the fastest women’s butterfly swimmers in history, Americans Torri Huske won the Olympic gold medal in 55.59 seconds and American Gretchen Walsh won the silver in ...

Torri Huske edged out Gretchen Walsh in the women's 100-meter butterfly in a race dominated by American swimmers. Huske beat Walsh at the wall by four-hundredths of a second to earn her first-ever ...

May 3 (Reuters) - Gretchen Walsh improved on her own American record and became the second fastest woman to swim the 50 metre butterfly after Swede Sarah Sjostrom by clocking 24.93 seconds at the TYR ...

WASHINGTON — Team USA has secured a second gold medal at the Paris Olympics, as well as a close silver medal in the women's 100-meter butterfly swimming final. Torri Huske won her first gold medal ...

Penn women’s swimming and diving started its season with a huge splash last Saturday. After a season of bouncing between two practice sites, the Quakers dominated the Delaware Blue Hens 175-118 in the ...

Here’s a recent story on the Olympics, via the Associated Press: PARIS (AP) — Concerns about the water quality in the Seine River led officials to call off the swimming portion of an Olympic triathlon ...

The college swimming season has entered its home stretch. January features the final dual meets of the season before conference championships in February and the NCAA Championships in March. Prior to ...

The University of Wisconsin men’s and women’s swim and dive teams completed their Big Ten Championship meets over the past ...