Beach holidays complete with sun loungers, sun cream and cold beers in the shade are probably not the first thing travelers associate with Germany. But the country of beer, bread and trains running ...

Germany won the mixed triathlon at the Paris Olympics on Monday after organizers opted to go ahead with the swimming section in the Seine despite Belgium pulling out amid reports an athlete is ill ...

Germany's Florian Wellbrock won the men's marathon swim on Thursday in Tokyo, taking home his first-ever Olympic gold medal. Wellbrock, 23, finished the ten-kilometer, open water swim event in 1:48:33 ...

(AP) Stroke by stroke, they were coming after her. Britta Steffen of Germany had the lead, but it was quickly shrinking, with two elite male swimmers in pursuit. But on this day when top-level ...

BERLINBERLIN — Olympic swimming bronze medalist Sarah Wellbrock is retiring from the sport a year before the Paris Games because of longstanding health issues, she said Wednesday. The German swimmer ...

Emergency services from the Cologne fire department, the DLRG (German Life Saving Association) and the rescue divers (water rescue) simulate the rescue of a person from the Fühlinger See in order to ...

TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) -"Unbeatable" Florian Wellbrock powered to gold in the men's 10km marathon swimming competition at the Tokyo Olympics on Thursday, the German setting the pace early on and ...

Several people lost their lives in swimming accidents over the weekend in Germany as the country experienced hot summer weather. Some others in distress were rescued, including two toddlers. In the ...

Germany’s Florian Wellbrock took home gold in the men’s open water swim on Thursday in Tokyo, making him the second athlete to medal in swimming and marathon swimming in the same Olympic Games.