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Australia Names 25-Strong Team For World Para Swimming Championships In Singapore Australia has named a 25-strong team, including nine Paralympic gold medalists, for the 2025 World Para Swimming Championships following a successful Selection Trials Meet which concluded in Adelaide last night. The .....

Australian Trials, Day 5, Finals: Australia Unearths Its Next 1500m Star With Benjamin Goedemans Producing the Swim Of His Life in 14:52.99  Australia has unearthed a rising star in 21-year-old Queenslander Benjamin Goedemans who has barnstormed his way into a second event for this year’s World Cha....

“The Dominator" Kaylee McKeown Chasing Another Slice of Backstroking History Kaylee McKeown will be chasing another slice of backstroking history after qualifying for her third event at this year’s World Championships – winning last night’s 200m backstroke in 2:04.47 at the Australian Trials in the....

Aussie Sprint King Kyle Chalmers Blasts Out A 47.29 To Win 100m Freestyle; Flynn Southam second in 47.69 Sprint king Kyle Chalmers says he’s training smarter, his body is feeling better than ever, he’s the happiest he’s ever been and the triple Olympic medallist is swimming faster after clocking 47....

Australian Trials, Day 4 Finals: Lani Pallister Rips 8:10.84 Australian Record; Third-Fastest 800 Freestyler in History One of the biggest decisions of her life has paid huge dividends in Adelaide tonight for Dolphins distance queen Lani Pallister, who smashed the Australian and Australian All-Come....

Australian Trials, Day 3 Finals: Sam Short Has More To Give After Stunning 800 Freestyle Win in 7:40.95; And a New Star Is Born Sam Short has emerged as a real medal threat in the 800m freestyle at this year’s World Championships in Singapore, declaring the best is yet to come after an impressive t....

Australian Trials, Day 3, Finals: Cam McEvoy On Top Of World in 21.30 With Kyle Chalmers Faster Than Ever in 21.68 Olympic champion Cam McEvoy has taken just 21.30 seconds to rocket back to the top of the 50m freestyle world rankings in Adelaide tonight and chased all the way by hometown hero and f....

Splashdown In Adelaide As Harrison Turner Unearthed As Australia’s Fastest 200m Butterflyer in 16 Years Australia has unearthed its fastest 200m butterflyer in 16 years after 21-year-old Queenslander Harrison Turner’s 1:54.90 in Adelaide tonight – one of the most impressive swims in what has alrea.....

Australian Trials, Day 3, Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan’s 1:54.43 The Fastest 200m Freestyle Of The Year Before A Raw And Emotional Breakdown On Pool Deck Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan broken down in tears on pool deck at the Australian Trials in Adelaide tonight, after posting the fastest time ....

Australian Trials, Day 3, Prelims: Mollie O’Callaghan, Lani Pallister and Jamie Perkins Headline Women’s 200m Freestyle Final Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan is the headline act in tonight’s 200m freestyle final at the Australian Trials in Adelaide with the top three qualifiers all from Dean Bo....

Australian Trials, Night 2 Finals: Ed Sommerville 1:44.73 200 Free Rockets Boy From Brisbane to Fourth In World Ed Sommerville, a swimmer who was last week named the Brisbane Swimming Rising Star, has tonight sunk five Olympians to book his place on the plane to his first Long Course World Champion....

Australian Trials, Day 2 Finals: Tears Of Joy From Country Teen Sienna Toohey In World Championship Swim Country teen Sienna Toohey, a shy 16-year-old from the NSW regional town of Albury, where the local pool closes its doors for winter, has gate-crashed her way onto the Australian Dolphins World ....

Paris Olympian Alexandria Perkins is on a roll at the World Trials meet in Adelaide, taking down Cate Campbell’s seven-year-old Australian All-Comers 50m butterfly record, clocking a time of 25.46 in the day two heats session. Four-time Olympian Campbell, who was in the commentary booth calling the....

Australian Trials, Day 1: From DQ To Reinstatement - Kaylee McKeown Keeps Her Head And Her Cool To Win 50m Backstroke After a tumultuous day when she was disqualified and then reinstated, backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown returned to the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre tonight and kept her head and h....

Australian Champs, Day 1 Finals: Sam Short Shows The World He’s Back With A Vengeance In 3:41.21 To Win the 400m Freestyle Former world champion Sam Short arrived into Adelaide determined to show the world he was back and that’s just what he delivered at the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre tonight. [....

Australian Trials, Day 1 Finals: Lani Pallister’s Heart Stopping 3:59.72 To Join The Exclusive “Sub Four Minutes” 400 Free Club Paris Olympian Lani Pallister has joined the exclusive “sub four minutes club” in taking out the women’s 400m freestyle, stopping the clock in a time of 3:59.72 in a race ....

Australian Trials, Day 1 Finals: Rising Star Alex Perkins Sizzles To Second In The World with her 56.42 In The 100m Butterfly One of Australian swimming's rising stars, Alex Perkins, has swum her way onto this year’s World Championship Swim Team for Singapore, clocking the second fastest time in th....

Kaylee McKeown Disqualified And Then Reinstated from 50 Backstroke In Dramatic Opening Day In Adelaide Four-time Olympic champion Kaylee McKeown was disqualified and then reinstated in a dramatic afternoon that sent the opening day of the Australian World Championship Swimming Trials in Adelaide int...

Australian Trials, Day 1 Prelims: Alex Perkins’ Flying Start In 100 Fly With World Championship Qualifier of 56.78 Queensland rising star Alex Perkins has given the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials a flying start in Adelaide today, with a World Championship qualifier and a personal best time of 56.7....

Australian Trials: Kyle Chalmers Returns From The Brink Of Retirement To Forge A Smarter Future toward LA And Brisbane Kyle Chalmers will unleash his new lease on life and in his own backyard when the 2025 Australian Swimming Trials get underway tomorrow, Monday (June 9), at the SA Aquatic And Leis....