The United States' winning streak in the 100-meter backstroke continued Monday as Ryan Murphy won with an Olympic-record 51.97 seconds for the Americans' sixth straight gold medal in the event.

Thomas Ceccon has held the world record in the men's 100 back since 2017, but Pieter Coetze, Miron Lifintsev & Ceccon all ...

Ryan Murphy did not defend his 100m backstroke gold medal from the Rio 2016 Olympics despite a very good performance on the biggest stage. Murphy claimed bronze just behind a pair of athletes from the ...

Former Cal swimming star Ryan Murphy is bringing home more medals from the Tokyo Olympics, including a gold, to bring his own Olympics career medal count to six. Murphy, who graduated from Berkeley a ...

The 21-year-old Olympic silver medallist clocked 52.44 seconds with the American duo of Matt Grevers earning silver. Chinas Xu Jiayu won mens 100m backstroke gold at the world aquatics championships ...