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Annaliese Carr of Canada became the youngest person to complete a nearly 27-hour, 31.6-mile swim across Lake Ontario.

Endurance athlete Diana Nyad forged ahead in the Straits of Florida with renewed vigor Sunday in pursuit of a record 103-mile (166-kilometer), unassisted swim in open waters without the aid of a shark cage....

History unfolded in 6 minutes and 59.70 seconds. With a little help from three of his friends, Michael Phelps became the greatest Olympian of them all, winning his 19th career medal, breaking the standard set by legendary Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina.

She wanted an individual world record and an individual gold medal. Dana Vollmer didn’t even need 56 seconds to accomplish both feats. The former University of California swimmer and reigning world champion had the Aquatics Centre buzzing when she became the first woman to break the 56-second barrier, winning gold in the 100-meter butterfly in 55.98 seconds, a world record.

Ryan Lochte has set the first world record since high-tech body suits were banned in swimming, breaking his own mark in winning the 200-meter individual medley at the world championships.

Beaten the night before in the 200 freestyle, he sets a mark in the 200 butterfly. For Michael Phelps, the 200-meter butterfly was almost like coming home, and if you want to keep that domestic theme intact, he called it his "bread and butter."

Germany's Paul Biedermann handed Michael Phelps his first major individual loss in four years, setting a world record in the 200-meter freestyle at the world championships.

Germany's Britta Steffen and the Netherlands relay team have kept up the record breaking at the world championships.

Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, exhilarated and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first ...