Australian swimming star Kaylee McKeown has smashed the 50 metre backstroke world record by 0.12 seconds to underline her status as swimming's backstroke queen. Kaylee McKeown now holds the world ...

As the second stroke to be contested at the Olympics, backstroke is often said to be the inverse of freestyle. Backstroke made its debut at the 1900 Olympic Games, where only the 200-meter race was ...

This innovation is particularly helpful to backstrokers, who used to go "sun blind" while swimming outdoors. Gravity wave: ...

As the only swimming stroke entirely on the back, any swimmer performing backstroke has to rely on body awareness, timing, spatial awareness - and a little intuition goes into it as well. It can be ...