Ian Hanson - Oceania Correspondent - (Author)

Australia Names 40-Strong Junior Dolphins Swim Team For 2024 Junior Pan Pacs in Canberra Australia will field an experienced  40-strong team including 11 swimmers from last year’s successful World Junior Championship campaign when it hosts this year’s 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships i...

Australian Championships, Day 2: The Unstoppable Kaylee McKeown’s 4:28.22 - The Third Fastest 400IM In History - But It’s “No” For Paris An unstoppable Kaylee McKeown has tonight swum the third fastest 400IM in history – blasting out a time of 4:28.22 to set her second National record in t...

Australian Championships Day 1, Men’s 400m Freestyle: Elijah Winnington Turns It On To Win The Battle of the World Champions Elijah Winnington (St Peters Western, QLD) saved his best till last to win the battle of the 400m freestyle world champions in one of the races of the night on day on...

Australian Champs, Day 1 Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan Still The Best Of The Best Winning A Stacked 100m Freestyle Final in 52.27 Two-time world champion Mollie O’Callaghan has powered home to clock one of the fastest times of the 2023-24 season - winning a stacked 100m freestyle final on nigh...

Kaylee McKeown has tonight sent a firm message to the world: “count me in”  for the 200m individual medley at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris after clocking 2:06.99 to break the National record on the opening night of the 2024 Australian Championships on the Gold Coast. The 22-year-old f...

Australian Open Championships, Day One Preliminaries: Meg Harris Off To A Flyer Clocking 52.60 in the Opening 100m Freestyle Heat Swimming Queensland’s prodigal daughter Meg Harris has set a cracking pace on opening morning of the 2024 Australian Open Swimming Championships, clocking 52.60s...

Next Gen Dolphins Making A Splash In The Top Ten Takeaways From The 2024 Australian Age Championships The nine-day Australian Age Championships have come to a close on the Gold Coast after an action-packed show of class and depth with defending club champions, Australia’s powerhouse club, ...

Australian Age Championships: Fifteen-year-old Sienna Toohey’s 1:07.72 Closes In On Leisel Jones’ 24-Year-Old National Age Breaststroke Record Sienna Toohey, a 15-year-old girl from the NSW country town of Albury, has tonight continued her assault on a 24-year-old record set by Olympic leg...

Flynn Southam Stakes A Claim For New Age Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Team For Paris Olympics The race for what could well be a new look Australian men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team for the Paris Olympics just started to get a whole lot hotter after 18-year-old Flynn Southam unleashed his 1...

Australia’s Aquatic Stars Light Up The Catwalk At Speedo’s Paris Olympic Swimsuit Reveal The stars of Australia’s aquatic sports lit up an otherwise inclement day when Speedo unveiled its “space age” connected Olympic swimsuits for Paris - overlooking the 2032 Games city of Brisbane today. ...

Kyle Chalmers Moves To Queensland And Unveils Ashley Delaney As The Coach To Plot His Olympic Campaign Australian freestyle sprint king Kyle Chalmers has unveiled respected Queensland coach, 2008 Olympian Ashley Delaney as the man to guide his quest to win back his Olympic 100m freestyle crown i...

NSW State Championships, Night 3 FINALS: Teen Machine Mollie O’Callaghan Reveals The  Tokyo Sadness That is Driving Her To Paris Australian teenage swimming sensation Mollie O’Callaghan has tonight revealed her sadness at missing out on the two freestyle relay finals teams at the Tokyo Olym...

NSW State Championships, Night 2 Finals: Kaylee McKeown Nudges 100m Backstroke World Record With A Sizzling 57.57 Kaylee McKeown has continued her world backstroking domination in Sydney tonight – chasing her own world record to the very last strokes of the 100m backstroke final stopping th...

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Night 2, Finals: Ariarne Titmus And Lani Pallister Stage A 400m free thriller in Sydney Tokyo Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Ariarne Titmus had to pull out all-stops to protect a 400m freestyle mantle in a classic duel with reigning world short cours...

NSW State Championships, Night One Finals: Kaylee McKeown Goes 2:04.21 to Push Go Button For Paris The world’s premier female backstroker Kaylee McKeown has thrown down her fourth fastest time ever in winning the 200m backstroke final in 2:04.21 to officially signal the push to Paris and th...

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS, Night 1 Finals: Paris Olympic Hopeful Will Yang Out-touches Kyle Chalmers In 48.48 To Take The 100m Freestyle; Mollie O’Callaghan Wins Women’s 100m in 52.82 SYDNEY's Paris Olympic hopeful Will Yang, who admits he struggled to walk in the middle of last year, has ups...

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Emma McKeon 53.46 and Kyle Chalmers 48.36 Sizzle In 100m Freestyle Preliminaries Olympic champions Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers have flown off the blocks in the opening day’s 100m freestyle heats of the NSW State Championships – McKeon stopping the clock in 53.46 ...

Cate Campbell: 'Sore Losers' Remark Not Intended To Be Disrespectful To U.S. Team Australia’s premier female swimmer Cate Campbell says her “sore losers” remark about the US Swim team last year was “not intended to be disrespectful.” Campbell, who at 31, is aiming to become one of the ...

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Lani Pallister “Wants In” On the Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Action It comes as no surprise that Australian freestyle star Lani Pallister “wants in” for the Dolphins 4x200m freestyle relay team – not an easy assignment in an era described by Olympic gold medal...

Michelle Ford Joined By Australian 800m freestyle Greats Shane Gould and Jenny Turrall For A Trip Down Swimming’s Memory Lanes Australia has a proud history when it comes to the women’s 800m freestyle with no less than seven swimmers between 1956 and 1978 re-writing the world record books ...