TRAGEDY: Sixty-eight-year-old Bruce Smith died during the Sand to Surf event on Saturday. PHOTO/ANDREW WARNER 191116aw21bop By staff

She’s a former ballerina, rower and now marathon swimmer. Kiwi Kim Chambers has just completed a seemingly impossible, historic swim across the Dead Sea. Kim talks to Bernadine Oliver-Kerby from Tel Aviv, Israel.

It's the time of year where the Northland public have their say on the best parts of the sporting year. This years focus - your Favourite

Float the idea of a dip in Whangarei's Town Basin and most people will respond with some variation of "ew .... bad idea". But that's

It's regularly voted one of the world's best, but Coromandel's Hot Water Beach is also New Zealand's most dangerous.

One month before making more history at the Olympics in Brazil, Michael Phelps was getting married in the desert.

Learning how to swim and being safe around water are important lessons many New Zealand children learn early on.

Shelley Bridgeman shares five traps for unwary pool owners.

The Auckland Westpac Rescue Helicopter crew were sent out to Colville on Sunday in one of 19 callouts over the long weekend.

Swimmer Glenn Snyders has retired as one of only four New Zealanders to compete in three Olympic Games.

Auckland's first luxury liner has arrived - marking the beginning of the cruise season.

Ryan Lochte has a new place to dry his tears at night: girlfriend Kayla Rae Reid's apartment.

Sophie Pascoe can't stop breaking records.

Paralympics star Sophie Pascoe is revelling in another gold medal and a world record from her latest success in Rio.

Sophie Pascoe has won her second gold of the Rio Paralympics.

Kiwi swim star Sophie Pascoe won her second medal in her second outing in dominant style at the Paralympics in Rio yesterday.

Sophie Pascoe has won her second medal in her second outing in very dominant style at the Paralympics in Rio.

One of the swimmers caught up in a web of lies with Ryan Lochte has turned against him revealing that Lochte started yelling at security guards.

Questions are being raised about Ryan Lochte's future in swimming as he faces an Olympic disciplinary commission after lying about an armed robbery.

Claims of a rift between swimmers and the rest of the Australian team have been blamed for a disappointing medal haul.

Thousands of Australians have thrown their support behind top swimmer Emma McKeon, declaring the punishment handed down to her for

Ryan Lochte cosies up to two Brazilian teenagers just hours before concocting his bogus robbery story to hide a wild night of women and partying.

He's a 12-time Olympic medallist, an awful artist, a reality TV star - oh, and a big, fat liar.

Ryan Lochte has attracted attention for a long time - and not always for what he has done in the swimming pool. The 32-year-old American

Claims and denials • Ryan Lochte says he did not have his wallet with him when he went through security at the athletes' village. •

US swimmers Jack Conger and Gunnar Bentz have told police that they fabricated claims that they and Ryan Lochte were robbed at a gas station.

Allegations have surfaced that Olympic swimmers on one side of the pool in Rio were advantaged because of a current. Three scientists

Despite having officially hung up the goggles for good, Olympic legend Michael Phelps has spent his first day of retirement in the

Fu Yuanhui's latest admission about how her period affected her performance has seen her win even more respect.