CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — Clearwater native, Bobby Finke, has struck gold in Paris. In Sunday’s men’s 1500-meter freestyle swim, the 24-year-old secured an Olympic gold medal, on the last day of ...

Some of Katie Ledecky’s historic greatness may have rubbed off on U.S. swimmer Bobby Finke during the men’s 1500-meter freestyle finals in the Paris Games on Sunday. Finke finished the race in ...

Finke also earned a silver medal in the men's 800-meter freestyle race earlier in the Games OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images Bobby Finke has done it again. The star swimmer won the gold medal in the ...

The gold medal count in swimming is all tied up. Bobby Finke scored the seventh gold medal in the pool in these Olympics for the United States on Sunday, setting a world-record 14:30.67 time in the ...

NANTERRE, France (AP) — The final night of swimming at the Paris Olympics stirred a wide range of emotions for an American team that no longer rules the world. A world record from Bobby Finke. Elation ...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Simone Manuel was feeling a bit down as she prepared for her final shot to swim an individual event at the Paris Olympics. So she pulled out some video of her greatest hits. Talk ...

The man to beat in the 1500m men's freestyle is Bobby Finke. The Tampa, Fla., native is now a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and world record holder, after defending his title in the event on ...

PARIS — The century-old streak began at a man-made lake in St. Louis, then traversed eras and the globe. From 1904 until the present, at every Olympics the United States entered, American male ...

The United States has won at least one men's individual gold medal in swimming in every Olympics it's entered dating back to 1904. Through 13 of 14 events in Paris, that streak was in jeopardy. Then ...

Bobby Finke set a new 1500 free world record of 14:30.67, 12 years to the day since Sun Yang set the previous mark at London 2012. The American was 0.94 inside Sun’s WR at 1450 and came home in 26.27 ...

NANTERRE, France (AP) – Bobby Finke set a world record in the 1,500-meter freestyle Sunday, giving the United States a huge boost on the final night of swimming at the Paris Olympics. Finke was under ...