Ian Hanson - Oceania Correspondent - (Author)

Australia’s Dolphins Lose Olympic Breaststroke Ace Jenna Strauch For This Year’s World’s In Fukuoka and Cate Campbell Also Out Of Trials Australia has suffered another major body blow on the eve of its World Championship Trials following the withdrawal of Tokyo Olympian and World Championship silver...

Australian Golden Girls Jodie Henry and Ariarne Titmus Paved The Way From Commonwealth Youth Games To Olympic Glory  First it was Jodie Henry in 2000 before fellow future Olympic gold medallist Ariarne Titmus followed suit in 2015 and now 10 more young Australian swimmers will get the chance to show...

Kieren Perkins Welcomes Junior Pan Pacs Down Under As Part Of The Green And Gold Decade Australian swimming legend Kieren Perkins has welcomed the arrival of next year’s Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships onto Australian shores for the first time. The 2024 Junior Pan Pacs will b...

Kaylee McKeown and Zac Stubblety-Cook Shake The Life Out Of Their World Records On Final Night In Sydney Olympic champions Kaylee McKeown and Zac Stubblety-Cook have chased their own respective world records on the final night of the 2023 Sydney Open And UNISPORT Nationals at the Sydney Oly...

Aussie 100 Freestyle King Kyle Chalmers Back In Fast Lane In 47.69 At Sydney Open It took Australian sprint king Kyle Chalmers just 47.69 seconds last night to send a clear message that he’s both physically and mentally ready to take on the world in Fukuoka this year. The 24-year-old s...

 Kaylee McKeown Unleashes A 2:07.19 The Seventh Fastest 200IM In History In Sydney Open Meet Australia’s swimmer-of-the-moment Kaylee McKeown has continued her record-breaking run at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre – swimming her way into the World All-Time Top Ten for the 200m indiv...

Two of Australia’s premier freestyle sprinters Cameron McEvoy and Bronte Campbell turned back the clock during the first session of the 2023 Sydney Open at Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre today. On the eve of their 29th birthdays, the triple Olympians, showed there was no slowing down as...

Bronte Campbell Back On Deck For 2023 Sydney Open and UNISPORT Nationals Bronte Campbell, the younger half of Australian swimming’s legendary sisters of speed, will spend around 24 seconds in the water racing at the famed Sydney Olympic Pool on Friday morning. The three-day Sydney Open...

Tracey Menzies-Stegbauer, the woman who coached Ian Thorpe to Olympic and World Championship glory, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of those successes with her appointment as Technical Lead on Swimming Australia’s Coach Leadership team. Swimming Australia made the announcement today that Menzies...

Flynn Southam And Exciting Next Gen Girls Headline 30-strong Aussie Dolphins Team For World Junior Championships In Israel Four-time Commonwealth Games and World Short Course relay gold medallist Flynn Southam will be joined by the exciting “next gen” group of Aussie females in a 30-strong Australia...

Six Paralympic Gold Medallists Spearhead 26-strong Australian Team For Manchester Para World Championships Six Paralympic gold medallists will be joined by world record breaking man-of-the moment Timothy Hodge and inspired by the remarkable story of Alex Leary's rise into Australia’s 26-strong Dolph...

Dean Boxall And His Super Squad Of St Peters Western Girls Scoop The Pool At Australian Championships Master coach Dean Boxall and his super squad of girls from St Peters Western swept the pool on the final night of the Australian Championships at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre tonight. The SPW squad...

The Aussie sprinter they call “King” Kyle Chalmers down under kept kid power at bay and his crown in tact with a slashing 100m freestyle win on the final night of the Australian Championships tonight at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre. Chalmers (Marion, SA), the 24-year-old Olympic gold and silver med...

Australia Para Swim Star Timothy Hodge Sets His Second World Record Of The Day In The 200m Individual Medley Australia Para swim star Timothy Hodge has tonight accomplished something rare in the swimming world, setting not one but two world record in one day on Queensland’s Gold Coast at the Austral...

There is no stopping Rackley Swim Team’s Sam Short, who raced up the World and Australian rankings with his 7:42.96 personal best to add the 800m freestyle to his wins in the 400m and the 1500m. Short's 400m time 3:42.46, the fastest time in the world this year and tonight’s 800 sitting him second -...

Ariarne Titmus Lays Down A 4:00.49 To Swim Away With The Australian 400m Title On The Gold Coast Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has laid down one of her fastest ever times in the middle of hard training, clocking 4:00.49 to defend her National 400m title on the Gold Coast tonight. The 22-year-old f...

Kaylee McKeown's Shock Australian Title In The 200m Breaststroke, Stopping The Clock In 2.24.18 The world’s number one female backstroker Kaylee McKeown has tonight won her maiden 200m breaststroke title on night three of the Australian Swimming Championships on Queensland’s Gold Coast - stopping t...

Kaylee McKeown Protects Her Number One World Ranking Winning the 100m backstroke In 57.90 On Night Two of the Aussie Titles World record holder Kaylee McKeown admitted she was hurting in the final stages before producing another world class 100m backstroke time of 57.90 to headline a host of slick s...

Australian swimming’s latest world number one, Queenslander Sam Short (Rackley Swim Team, QLD) will throw all of his eggs into the 1500m freestyle basket on the night two of the 2023 Australian Championships finals tonight – withdrawing from the 200m freestyle final. Just 24 hours after Sho...

Sam Short Rips 3:42.46 For 10th-Fastest 400 Freestyle In History At Aussie Champs; Mollie O'Callaghan Dazzles In Tight Duel With Shayna Jack Australia’s Commonwealth Games 1500m freestyle gold medallist Sam Short has gate-crashed his way into the world all-time top 10 times over 400m freestyle on th...