PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — More than 80 people, from across the region, took part in one of the longest swimming races in the Pacific Northwest. On Sunday, participants came out to the Willamette River ...

When 84-year-old La Jolla native Don Baker heard that a group of 70-year-olds had set a record for being the oldest team to swim the 21-mile Catalina Channel, the competitive swimmer had one goal: ...

SOLON -- Marjorie Zimmer, 93, who died Sept. 12, was a retired placement counselor and ad writer for the former Twinsburg Employment Agency, and a swimming instructor for two area programs. She died ...

An 80-year-old Carlsbad man has entered the record books as part of the oldest team to successfully swim the Catalina Channel. Bill Spore is part of a relay team of six men, all in their 80s, who took ...

GRAND HAVEN, Mich. — Jim "The Shark" Dreyer is attempting his fourth swim across Lake Michigan on Monday. The swimmer is embarking on his 80-plus-mile journey from the Grand Haven shores to Milwaukee.

If he wasn't a hard-bitten former newspaper reporter, you might think his story was a piece of fiction. John Albright, who worked at the Battle Creek Enquirer in the 1970s and enjoyed and competed in ...

An 80-year-old Irish man who hadn't swum in 60 years is attempting to swim at every Irish beach and pier over the Christmas period to raise money for charity. Paddy Conaghan, from Arranmore Island off ...

NEWPORT, Tenn. (WATE) — 80-year-old Sheila Creveling’s story of survival is nothing short of incredible. She lives along the French Broad River on River Chase Trail just outside of Newport. As the ...