Oceania

Ironically it was a judge who overrode the time-keepers to deny Sydney boy John Davies of an Olympic bronze medal in the 200m breaststroke at the 1948 Games in London. Davies first won a NSW swimming championship in 1946 at the old Manly Baths – destroyed by the storms of 1974 – and was discovered a...

Olympic Perspective from the Past for the Present generation coming to terms with a shift from Tokyo 2020 to 2021 that offers hope not finality This weekend, Swimming World is trawling back in history to find some of the stories of the past that contribute to our series in search of perspec...

Australian Olympic legend Grant Hackett says Tokyo 2021 will be just the inspiration the world will need in 12 months time after the IOC confirmed the Games of the XXXII Olympiad would be postponed till next year. The two-time 1500m freestyle gold medallist from 2000 and 2004, produced two of the mo...

Australia’s Olympic family has reacted collectively and positively in the face of enormous adversity to the news that Tokyo 2020 will now become Tokyo 2021 with the Australian Team hash tag remaining #TokyoTogether. Athletes with their dreams on hold, households struggling and thousands of people ou...

Australian Dolphins head coach Jacco Verhaeren never for one moment thought that it would get to this – an Olympic year without the Olympics. The seventh and final year of his contract in charge of the number two swimming nation in the world – a coach in charge of a team that now can’t train and hea...

Swimming Australia’s High Performance programs will be shut down immediately and for the foreseeable future following one of the most dramatic days in Olympic sports with the Australian Olympic Committee confirming it will not be safe to send its team to the Tokyo 2020 Games in July. A dramatic deci...

“It’s clear the Games can’t be held in July,” Australian Olympic Team Chef de Mission Ian Chesterman admitted today as reality struck that Toyko 2020 will now be postponed. The Australian Olympic Committee (AOC) has told its athletes they should prepare for a Tokyo Olympic Games in the northern summ...

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison ruled out any exceptions for Olympic athletes today as he put in place a nationwide travel ban that keep Australian citizens in and all others out for what could be "restrictions to last six months" in an effort to combat the coronavirus (COVID-10) pandemic. ...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com Monday March 23 Cate Campb...

By Dave Crampton Swimming New Zealand is aiming to hold time trials for the Tokyo Olympics for a long list athletes on March 31 despite the New Zealand Government urging New Zealanders to limit non-essential domestic travel. The federation has asked athletes to tell it whether they would attend if t...

With the world shutting down and pressure mounting hourly to make a call on the troubled Tokyo Olympics, Australian swimming’s golden girl and triple Olympian Cate Campbell is already thinking about extending her career until the 2024 Paris Games. It comes amid fears that the Tokyo Olympics could be...

Australia’s head swimming coach Jacco Verhaeren knows first hand that this year’s Tokyo Olympics will not be swum “on a level playing field” and has sent an impassioned and unprecedented message to the world expressing his concerns. To hold the Olympic Games from July 24, 2020, he suggests, "would n...

Swimming Australia’s athletes, coaches and staff have today sent their heart warming support to their international colleagues as the world comes to grips with COVID-19. In a statement issued today it reads: “We express our concern and send our support to everyone impacted; recognising the gravity o...

It could be a case of going “Back To The Future’ for the Australian Olympic swim team with the Australian Institute of Sport on the radar as a training venue in the lead up to Tokyo 2020. Australia’s “Class of 2020” Olympians have received the green light from the Australian Olympic Committee to cha...

Takeoff to Tokyo More than 17,000 passionate Australian fans stood and yelled, anticipating a moment their country had long envisioned. The Sydney Aquatic Center was the focal point of the 2000 Olympic Games, and as the first night of competition came to an end, those who filled the stands in this s...

Siobhan Haughey is in a unique position as a swimmer during this week of chaos that the coronavirus has wreaked on the world. While many of her friends and training partners had their NCAA Championships taken away, Haughey graduated last year. While others are training for an Olympic trials, Haughey...

Two days after saying that they’d hold their Olympic Trials behind closed doors, Swimming New Zealand reversed course early Tuesday, announcing new dates for the New Zealand Open and a second trials event in light of the coronavirus global pandemic. The Aon NZ Open Championships, which were set to b...

Gold Coast Olympic swimming hopeful Maddy Gough will spend the next two weeks swimming in quarantine at TSS Aquatic pool after making a mercy dash home from a Spanish high altitude training camp. [caption id="attachment_381934" align="aligncenter" width="700"] HOME ALONE: TSS Aquatic Olympic hopeful...

Kyle Chalmers (Marion) may well consider adding the 100m butterfly to his Tokyo Olympic program according to his coach Peter Bishop – who says it’s not off the table. The Rio Olympic 100m freestyle gold medallist showed his hand in Sydney overnight with an eye-catching personal best time of 51.37 – ...

By  Dave Crampton Swimming New Zealand is the only federation worldwide that has announced this week that it will be holding Olympic trials this month. In an announcement today, Swimming New Zealand said the New Zealand Open Championships, due to start in Auckland on March 31, will be held but with ...