OMAHA, NE - JUNE 27: Matt Grevers receives his gold medal from Adolph Kiefer during the medal ceremony for the championship final of the Men’s 100 m Backstroke during Day Three of the 2012 U.S.

Swimming World went into it vast vault of content, photos and videos to relive the life of Adolph Kiefer. Enjoy this republishing of an article first published in October 3, 2007. THE International ...

Adolph Kiefer was about to do the backstroke. Which promised a memorable moment for the awe-struck lap swimmer who was watching. It was Kiefer’s backstroke that launched him to glory in the 1936 ...

Swimmer Adolph Kiefer, a 1936 Olympic champion, died at his Illinois home at age 98 on Friday, according to the International Swimming Hall of Fame. Prior to his death, Kiefer was the oldest living ...

April 10. UNITED States OLYMPIAN Olive McKean Mucha died in her sleep on Friday, March 31, from heart failure after a short illness. At the 1936 Games in Berlin, Olive McKean won a bronze medal as a ...

Eighty years ago today, the Ross High School swimmers were making news for taking on a challenge so that they could take on yet another challenge in the pool. It seems fair to say that this was part ...

Statistics, relating to the winter election of compulsory athletics by the Freshman class, on file at the Department of Hygiene, reveal that, as was the case last year, swimming is the most popular ...