Ian Hanson - Oceania Correspondent - (Author)

Japanese Young Guns Shin Ohashi and Yumeki Kojima On Show At NSW Sydney Open and Unisport Nationals 2026 NSW SYDNEY OPEN AND UNISPORT NATIONALS EVENT PAGE A 16-strong all-star Japanese Team featuring teenage sensations Shin Ohashi and Yumeki Kojima will headline this weekend’s 2026 NSW Sydney Open ....

Australia Names 18-Strong Para Swim Team for 2026 Glasgow Commonwealth Games A 27-year-old who will make her fourth Commonwealth Games appearance and a 14-year-old rookie are among Australia’ 18-strong Dolphins Para Swim team named today for this year’s Games in Glasgow. Paralympic golden girl Lak.....

Carlile Defends Australian Age Championship Club Pointscore With A 13-Year-Old “Young Gun” Winning Seven Gold Sydney’s Carlile Swim Team has gone back-to-back with a hard fought defence of the coveted Australian Age Club Championship Pointscore on the Gold Coast.  The Carlile kids, swimming under .....

Australia Names 32-Strong Team For Junior Pan Pacs After Record Breaking Age Championships Australia has named a 32-strong team of swimmers for this year’s Junior Pan Pacs after a hugely successful Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast -which saw 18 new National records set. Queensland’s...

Aussie Age Champs: 17-year-old Henry Allan Produces The Swim Of The Meet, winning the 50m backstroke in 24.51 Australian swimming’s latest wonder boy, 17-year-old Henry Allan, has tonight produced the swim of the meet at the Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast, with a sizzling world clas....

Aust Age Champs: Lincoln Wearing Joins Distance Greats Kieren Perkins, Grant Hackett and Mack Horton In Age Group Who’s Who Queensland’s teen distance destroyer Lincoln Wearing continued his march into the annals of Australia’s best age group 1500m swimmers on the Gold Coast last night. Wearing be.....

Zac Stubblety-Cook In Dramatic Split from Coach Mel Marshall, heads to Melbourne To Prepare For The Australian Trials Meet In a dramatic chain of events, Australia’s Olympic breaststroke gold medallist Zac Stubblety-Cook has left his Gold Coast training base with Griffith University after a reporte....

Aust Age Champs: Commonwealth Games Hopeful Henry Allan Rockets Up The 100m backstroke World Rankings In 53.45   Regional areas have long been a lifeblood of swimming in Australia and the 2026 National Age Championships have continued to showcase the latest batch of rising stars from around the cou....

Aust Age: Can Rockhampton Teenager Amelie Smith Break Into Australia’s Commonwealth Games Team for Glasgow? Multi-talented Aussie teen Amelie Smith has her sights set on breaking onto the Australian Dolphins team for this year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after winning her fourth gold medal on n....

Aussie Age Champs: Sydney Freestyle Sprint Ace Ollie Moclair Launches Challenge to Swim Faster Than Caeleb Dressel Sydney’s emerging 50m freestyle sprinter Ollie Moclair has US superstar Caeleb Dressel squarely in his sights in what will be a record-chasing four-month race against time. In a whirlw....

AUST AGE: Lincoln Wearing’s Record Breaking 800m freestyle Assault Continues on The Gold Coast Queensland’s rising distance prodigy Lincoln Wearing has continued his record-breaking barrage, breaking his own 16 years 800m freestyle mark on the second night of the Australian Age Championships on the....

Record Breaking Teen Backstroker Henry Allan Emerges As Commonwealth Games Bolder Australian teenage backstroke sensation Henry Allan has been anointed by one of the country’s greats after a record-breaking onslaught on day one of the Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast as a Commonwealth ...

Paralympic Champion Benny Hance Pumped with Second World Record in 50 Freestyle Australia’s charismatic Paralympic golden boy Benny Hance has finished his Australian Open Championship campaign the same way he started – on world record pace. One of Australia’s more expressive swimmers out of the po.....

It’s Strike Three For Kiwi Medley Maestro Lewis Clareburt At The Australian Open Championships On The Gold Coast Victoria’s “Adopted Kiwi” Lewis Clareburt has stolen the show at the Australian Open on the Gold Coast, winning three events – wrapping up the three-day meet with a stirring victory in t....

Will Mollie O’Callaghan Become The First Woman Under 1:52.00 In The 200m Freestyle? Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan has declared she has set her sights on the long course 200 metres freestyle world record – claiming she is aiming to become the first woman in history to swim under 1:52.00. The .....

Aussie Freestyle Sprint King Kyle Chalmers Now Chasing Butterfly Gold In LA in 28  Australia’s 100m freestyle sprint king and 2016 Olympic gold medallist Kyle Chalmers will now be chasing gold in another event at the LA28 Games after rocketing to the top of the 50m butterfly world rankings. Chalme.....

Brisbane Lifeguard Bailey Lello Sinks Zac Stubblety-Cook’s 200 Breaststroke Reign at Australian Open Former Olympic and world champion Zac Stubblety-Cook has suffered his first defeat in the 200m breaststroke in an Australian pool in eight years at The Australian Open – his reign coming to an end a....

Sam Short Unleashes Second-Fastest Time of Year to Win Men’s 400 Freestyle at Australian Open Former World Champion Sam Short has unleashed the world’s second fastest time of the year to sink the men’s 400m freestyle field on the opening night of the 2026 Australian Open on the Gold Coast tonight. ....

Mollie O’Callaghan Off to Flying Start at Australian Open  on Gold Coast Two-time world champion Mollie O’Callaghan has taken just 53.26 seconds in the preliminary heats of the 100m freestyle to show she means business at the 2026 Australian Open on the Gold Coast. O’Callaghan – out in 25.80 – pow.....

Paralympic Golden Boy Benjamin Hance on World Record Pace at Australian Open  Paralympic star Benjamin Hance has opened his 2026 Australian Open campaign on world record pace – setting a new mark in the S14 category 50m butterfly at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre today. The 25-year-old from St Andr.....