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Gallery Of Olympic Gold Medalists To Converge On Brisbane for Australia v The World Meet In December Some of the biggest names in world swimming will converge on 2032 Olympic host city, Brisbane in December for a short course duel meet between Australia and The World – featuring 25m events. In a m.....

Aussie Swim Queen Ariarne Titmus Calls Time On Glittering Career: Retires From Swimming At Age 25 Aussie swim queen Ariarne Titmus (OAM) has officially announced her retirement from all levels of swimming. The four-time Olympic gold medallist and current 200m world record holder hangs up her suit af...

Sam Short Turns Up The Heat With His 7:31.79 To Win The 800m Free At the Australian Short Course Former world champion Sam Short has taken just 7:31.79 to signal his intentions for the up-coming World Aquatics World Cup Series in the US – the time it took to win the 800m freestyle on the final nigh....

Cam McEvoy Equals World’s Fastest 25m Freestyle Time With Sizzling 9.36 at Short Course Sprints; Calls For Official Recognition Australia’s two-time world and Olympic 50m freestyle champion Cam McEvoy has won the first official 25m freestyle race – equaling his own unofficial world best time of 9.3....

Australian Short Course, Day 1, Finals: Sam Just Short of His Club Record, Clocking 3:36.12 To Win 400m Freestyle Australia’s former world champion and Olympic finalist Sam Short has Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett in his sights after an impressive time of 3:36.12 to win the 400m freestyle on the ope.....

Top Races To Watch at the Australian Short Course Championships; Cam McEvoy, Sam Short and Brittany Castelluzzo The Headline Acts  Australia’s champion world champion freestylers  Sam Short, Cam McEvoy and Brittany Castelluzzo  will headline the three day Australian Short Course Championships kick.....

Ed Sommerville’s Brave 200m Freestyle Short Course World Record Attempt Falls Short in Brisbane Queenslander Ed Sommerville has bounced back from a disappointing Singapore World Aquatics Championship campaign, to launch an all-out attack on the 200m freestyle short course world record in Brisbane t....

Rising Queensland Star Lincoln Wearing Breaks Sam Short's Australian Age Short Course Record in 800 Freestyle Queensland’s latest rising teenage distance prodigy Lincoln Wearing has continued his record-breaking demolition of Australian swimming’s biggest names, breaking another Sam Short Australian...

Australia’s Dolphins Rewarded With $300,000 Cash Splash From 20-Medal Haul in Singapore Australia’s swimmers have 300,000 reasons to feel on top of the world after the Dolphins' 20-medal haul from the World Championships in Singapore. The 30-strong team arrived home from a successful campaign to r.....

World Championships, Day Eight Finals: Meg Harris Turns Olympic Silver into World Championships 50 Freestyle Gold Australia's Meg Harris has turned Paris Olympic silver into Singapore World Championships gold with an all-the-way win in the women's 50-meter freestyle. The 23-year-old Queenslander, wh...

World Championships, Day Seven Finals: Cam McEvoy Sizzles to Second 50 Freestyle Crown; Ben Proud and Jack Alexy Reach Podium Australia’s Olympic champion Cam McEvoy won his second 50-meter freestyle gold medal at the World Championships on Saturday, clocking 21.14 in an epic final in Singapore, co....

Tokyo Olympian and English Channel Conqueror Linda McGill Dies On the Gold Coast at 79 Australian Olympian, Commonwealth Games gold medalist and international marathon swimmer extraordinaire Linda McGill has died on the Queensland Gold Coast, at the age of 79. McGill passed away on Wednesday aftern....

World Championships, Day 6: Marrit Steenbergen Out-Touches Mollie O’Callaghan in Women's 100 Freestyle Thriller to Go Back-To-Back Marrit Steenbergen from The Netherlands won a slice of World Championships history on Friday night, winning back-to-back 100-meter freestyle titles in a thrilling final....

Australia Wins 800 Freestyle Relay Gold; Mollie O’Callaghan Holds Off a Determined Katie Ledecky in Classic Relay Shootout Olympic and world champion Mollie O’Callaghan held off a spirited challenge from U.S. legend Katie Ledecky to anchor Australia to a memorable victory in an exciting women’s 4x.....

Mollie O’Callaghan Unleashes Her Super Powers To Claim Second 200m Freestyle World Title Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan served up a golden dose of powerhouse turns and a monster final lap to claim her second 200-meter freestyle title on Night Four of the Singapore World Championships. The 21-.....

Breaking: Australian Sam Short Forced Out of 800 Freestyle Final With Gastrointestinal Illness Swimming Australia has confirmed that Olympic freestyler Sam Short has stepped down from tonight's World Championships 800 freestyle final in Singapore due to gastrointestinal illness. An Australian team.....

Australia’s Forgotten 1980 Olympians Finally Recognized After Divisive and Disastrous Moscow Saga It was a diminished and puzzled Olympic team that left Australian shores in 1980 under a cloak of darkness, some heading off to secret training camps receiving death threats and branded as traitors as ....

World Championships, Day 3 Finals: Australia's 'Unstoppable' Kaylee McKeown Edges Regan Smith in Another Classic 100 Backstroke Duel Australia’s double Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown has lived up to her “unstoppable” tag by winning her second 100-meter backstroke World title in Singapore – just .0....

World Championships, Day 2 Finals: Gretchen Walsh Stands and Delivers 100 Butterfly Gold in Sizzling 54.73 U.S. superstar Gretchen Walsh stood and delivered the race of her life and under the toughest of circumstances to win her maiden World Championships gold medal and the U..S team's first gold .....

World Championships: German Lukas Martens Wins 400 Freestyle Battle Royal with Australia's Sam Short and Korea's Woomin Kim German Olympic champion Lukas Martens snatched a last gasp victory and his maiden world title to grab the 400-meter freestyle gold medal in the opening event of the opening ses...