After serving as a decorated airman during WWI, Ross beat Europe’s best swimmers in winning 5 gold medals at the Inter-Allied Games of 1919. The next year at Antwerp, Ross won 3 Olympic gold medals ...

Today marks the start of the swimming competition at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp 100 years ago, Hawaiian Warren Paoa Kealoha the first gold medalist in the pool when he claimed the first of his ...

"Mermaids en route to Ancient City for the meet" declared the headline in a February 1926 issue of The St. Augustine Record. The meet was the Women's National Amateur Athletic Union Swimming ...

From white violence to the rise of exclusive swim clubs, people of color have long faced barriers to American swimming pools. In the 1920s, swimmers cool off at the Fairgrounds Pool in Saint Louis, ...