Ian Hanson - Oceania Correspondent - (Author)

The Australia Day Long Weekend came to a close in Adelaide today with the cream of Australia’s open water swimmers and Olympic hopefuls putting the finishing touches to three spectacular days of racing at SA’s Brighton Beach. Noosa’s individual brilliance at the Australian Open Water Swimming Champi...

Noosa’s three-time Australian 10km open water champion Nick Sloman will headline a six-strong group of Australians to Doha next month. They will contest the 2020 Marathon Swim World Series Event on February 15 –the next stop on the road to Tokyo Olympic selection. It’s a big deal – the top two from ...

Flying Dutchman Ferry Weertman certainly showed no ill-effects from his 10km victory on Saturday to back up to complete the Brighton Beach double with a commanding Australian 5km Championship victory on Australia Day in Adelaide today. [caption id="attachment_412574" align="alignnone" width="700"] R...

Olympic champion Ferry Weertman has caught the field by surprise, swimming a wider line to the finish to capture the Australian Open Water 10km Championship in perfect conditions at SA’s Brighton Beach today. The 27-year-old Dutchman showed all his endurance and in the end his incredible speed to st...

The road to Tokyo hots for Australia’s open water marathon men at the Australian 10km Championships off Brighton Beach in Adelaide on Saturday. There is one remaining spot on the 2020 Olympic team for open water - an event that was introduced back in 2008 – the year legendary waterman Ky Hurst joine...

Former Australian Olympic swim coach Scott Volkers is fighting to have historic sex charges against him dropped. Volkers launched an appeal in a Brisbane Court yesterday. The New Limited papers, the Courier Mail and The Australian carried the stories on the court hearings in their pages today. Volke...

Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers has kick started his Olympic defence in style– winning his specialist 100m freestyle in the fastest time of the year so far – 47.99 at the South Australian State Championships tonight. [caption id="attachment_399855" align="alignnone" width="700"] PUMPED: Kyle Chalmers...

“Anything you can do I can do too…” was the message from Australian Olympic hopeful Kaylee McKeown to US world record holder Regan Smith from Down Under tonight. [caption id="attachment_411671" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Exciting times ahead for Kaylee McKeown Photo Courtesy: Swimming Australi...

The Aussie Sharks men’s water polo team have given their Olympic hopes a timely confidence boost, completing a 2-1 Test Series win over the USA at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight., [caption id="attachment_411504" align="alignnone" width="700"] FIVE GOAL HERO: Sharks in-form centre forward Lachla...

A dominant five goal final quarter has seen the USA wrap up a hard fought women’s water polo Test Series against Australia with a 10-7 win  over the Stingers in Brisbane tonight. The world and Olympic champions were too strong and too experienced in the closing quarter after the Stingers held a narr...

The Australian Stingers have ended the USA women's water polo team's amazing 69 game winning streak with a heart-stopping 10-9 victory over the World and Olympic champions in front of a vocal 3,000 strong crowd at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight. The Americans hadn't lost in more than a year, an...

The countdown is on for tonight’s second international water polo Tests between Australia and the USA at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre and if the opening games were anything to go by then two more gripping games are on the cards. Tuesday saw Olympic women’s champions the US hang on for an exciting 10-...

Olympic champions the USA have stretched their winning streak to 69 with a thrilling 10-9 victory over a spirited Australian Stingers side to win the first of three women’s water polo Test matches at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre tonight. While in a heart-stopping men's Test the Aussie Sharks came bac...

Australian-USA rivalry in sports has generated history-making moments on both sides of the Pacific – probably none greater than Australia II's America’s Cup win off the coast of Rhode Island in 1983. That rivalry has extended primarily through swimming, basketball and water polo with 2020 the 20th a...

Australian Olympic swim star Emma McKeon has issued an impassioned plea to help those families who have lost their homes to Australia’s worst ever bushfires after her own family survived the utter devastation first hand from a normally majestic Lake Conjola, on the New South Wales (NSW) South Coast....

[caption id="attachment_409114" align="aligncenter" width="700"] A PICTURE TELLS A THOUSAND STORIES: This is a happy man. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr Sports Photography.[/caption] Photographer Delly Carr lives and breathes for those special moments in sports that capture the exact milli-second of an ...

There were so many great highlights from Australian swimmers through the decade beginning in 2010 and about to end. Highlights to celebrate included Olympic and Paralympic champions, World and Commonwealth Games champions and a popular comeback from one of the sport's real characters in Geoff Huegil...

On the eve of 40th anniversary year of the boycotted Moscow Olympics, legendary coach Bill Sweetenham believes Australia’s Michelle Ford should stand as a triple Olympic gold medallist from 1980. [caption id="attachment_408920" align="alignnone" width="700"] Olympic gold: Michelle Ford, 800m freesty...

Energy Standard’s historic International Swimming League victory was also a personal triumph for three-time Olympic backstroker Emily Seebohm. Seebohm was the lone Australian in a never-say-die Standard lineup who stuck the jackpot with one last throw of the dice in a Las Vegas heart-stopper. It saw...

Thousands of Australians with a disability or from culturally diverse backgrounds will now have easier access to swimming programs, with the Australian Government and Swimming Australia unveiling recipients of the new Community Swimming Grants Program, Swimming Australia announced today. The new pro...