Ian Hanson - Oceania Correspondent - (Author)

Zac Attack A Rocky Mountain High For Swim Kids At Sell Out Central Queensland Breaststroke Clinic Zac Stubblety-Cook, Olympic gold around his neck, held 60 Central Queensland youngsters in the palms of both his famous hands at a packed breaststroke clinic in in the city of Rockhampton (4,700km from ...

Challenging Times Ahead Outside Of The Pool For Swimming Australia’s Third Female CEO Eugenie Buckley The calm and measured approach to the challenges facing swimming in Australia was the key factor in Eugenie Buckley’s appointment today as Swimming Australia’s third female CEO. Currently working in...

The inaugural “Dawn Award” – named in honour of legendary four-time Australian Olympic swimming gold medallist Dawn Fraser will be announced at this year’s annual Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards on December 2. The Dawn Award will be presented to a courageous Australian ground breaker who has dem...

REPORT: Australian Swimming League Left Floundering As Founding Project Manager “Convicted of Tax Fraud” While Australia enjoyed its best Olympics ever in the pool the state of the sport both domestically and internationally is undergoing a dramatic chain of events with troubling reports surfacing t...

Australia’s Tokyo Stars In Adelaide Splashdown To Kick Start Swimming’s Busy International Year Australia’s Tokyo swim stars will once again splashdown in Adelaide’s SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre next April for the 2022 Australian Open and Age Swimming Championships – to christen the start of what wil...

Chloe McCardel Crowned Queen Of The English Channel After Her World Record Breaking 44th Crossing From England To France Australia’s extraordinary marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel has today been crowned the official “Queen of the Channel” after her world record breaking 44th crossing of the English C...

Calling Sydney Home, Bronte Campbell Itching To Get Back Into the Pool But The ISL Will Have To Wait Australian swimming fans who have fallen in love with the Campbell sisters over the last two decades will be happy to know that Bronte, like big sister Cate, also has the itch to keep on swimming. An...

Coaching Switch For Mack Horton Who Announces Move To Queensland Super Coach Michael Bohl Rio Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton is hoping a change will be as good as a holiday with today’s shock announcement he is leaving his native Melbourne to re-ignite his career for Paris 2024 under master coac...

Ian Thorpe Spends Five-Day Stint In A Sydney Hospital Battling An Infection From Shoulder Surgery Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe spent five days in a Sydney hospital last week "following complications resulting from shoulder surgery” it has been revealed today. A Sydney newspaper website has ...

Queensland’s Class of 2021 Thriving On The Spirit And Competitiveness Of Three Of The State’s Olympic Golden Girls Over 70 of Australia’s finest young State and National Age swimmers have drawn on the competitive spirit and drive of three Olympic and World Championship golden girls as Swimming Queen...

Queensland swimmers provided 50 percent of Australia’s total Olympic gold medal haul in Tokyo and now the State’s governing body is facing a shock funding cut that could well threaten the pathway of future champions with their sights set on the 2032 Games in Brisbane. Queensland's leading newspaper ...

Australian Tokyo Golden Girl Ariarne Titmus Inspires Next Generation Before Taking The Plunge for Paris and Round Two With Katie Ledecky Now that the fanfare of the Olympics has died down dual Tokyo champion Ariarne Titmus, is ready to jump back into the pool again to prepare for the next Olympics i...

The Next Ian Thorpe or Kyle Chalmers? Aussie Flynn Southam a Surging Young Talent Bond University Swimming’s 16-year-old Flynn Southam has eclipsed the times swum by Olympic champions Kyle Chalmers and Ian Thorpe in an impressive record breaking weekend of racing at the Queensland State Short Course...

Nightmare Is Finally Over For Australia’s Shayna Jack After CAS Decision Frees Her To Return To The Pool The nightmare is finally over for banned Australian swimmer Shayna Jack with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) tonight giving the Commonwealth Games gold medallist the green light to retur...

Cody Simpson Headlines Queensland Short Course Championship As Swimming Returns In Australia Brisbane will host its first major swim meet since being announced as the 2032 Olympic host city, with the Brisbane Aquatic Centre staging this weekend’s three-day Queensland Short Course State Championships...

Beijing Gold Medallist Bronte Barratt Named On The Brisbane Olympic 2032 Organising Committee Triple Olympic swimmer and Beijing gold medallist, Bronte Barratt has been elected as the athlete’s voice on the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games Organising Committee, the Australian Olympic Committee announced ...

Para Swim Stars Light Up The SydneyOpera House As Flagbearer Ellie Cole Farewells Tokyo With A Record 17 Medals Australia’s triumphant Paralympic Swim Team is arriving home to unprecedented recognition after a spectacular medal haul of eight gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze for a total of 33 medals in ...

Australia’s Tokyo Golden Girl Emma McKeon Escapes COVID Lockdown and Ready To Roar For London in The ISL Australian golden girl Emma McKeon, the most successful female athlete of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will escape a strict Covid lockdown in NSW to rekindle her International Swimming League (ISL) c...

Tokyo Triumph For Aussie Farm Boy Col Pearse And His Paralympic Dream Created In a Dairy Farm Dam [caption id="attachment_486240" align="alignright" width="414"] BITE SIZED BRONZE: Col Pearse and his prized bronze medal in the 100m butterfly. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).[/caption...

Experienced sports administrator Eugenie Buckley appointed as interim CEO at Swimming Australia Swimming Australia has today announced the appointment of highly experienced sports administrator Eugenie Buckley as its interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective immediately, following the resignat...