Oceania

Ariarne Titmus Takes Next Step By Eclipsing Remarkable World Record When Katie Ledecky set the world record of 3:56.46 in the women’s 400 freestyle, it was the kind of record that seemed unreachable. Ledecky had already lapped the world in the eight-length race, and here she was swimming a best time...

Kyle Chalmers Deserves Celebration, Not Criticism, For Decision to Race at World Champs There are several instances from history in which an athlete has yielded a position at a major international event to a competitor, consequently allowing that individual to realize a dream. Notably, Michael Phelp...

Australia’s latest world record holders Zac Stubblety-Cook and Ariarne Titmus will be joined by pop star Cody Simpson and a determined world number one Shayna Jack in Australia’s 46-member able-bodied swim team named tonight in Adelaide for this year’s Commonwealth Games. One of the strongest teams ...

Ariarne Titmus Terminates the 400m Freestyle World Record Clocking 3:56.40 In Adelaide Performance of the Week, Sponsored by Luma Lanes Australia’s Tokyo Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has tonight blasted her way to a new world record in the women’s 400m freestyle – clocking 3:56.40 at the SA Aquat...

Shayna Jack, Kaylee McKeown Cap Aussie Champs With Impressive Victories When a world record highlights a session, as was the case with Ariarne Titmus’ global standard in the 400-meter freestyle on Sunday at the Australian Championships, it’s easy to overlook a handful of other standout performances....

Ariarne Titmus Ready to Take Aim at World Record in 400 Freestyle; Shayna Jack, Kaylee McKeown Cruise at Aussie Championships At the time Katie Ledecky registered the performance, an almost unfathomable mark of 3:56.46, it seemed the effort would last for years – unless Ledecky took it even lower. B...

Lani Pallister Follows Mum Into The Record Books; Kaylee McKeown Chases A Slice of Swimming History and William Yang Makes A Splash Anything mum can do then Lani Pallister can do too with the three-time World Junior champion following in her mum’s footsteps for the second time at this week’s Austral...

Even With Stars Absent, Australian Women Are World Title Favorites in Freestyle Relays When the women’s 400 freestyle relay lines up at this summer’s World Championships, the Australian team will be missing three of the four swimmers who guided that nation to a third consecutive Olympic gold medal l...

Rising Star Flynn Southam Claims Top Seed in 100 Freestyle at Aussie Champs; Kaylee McKeown on Cruise Control Much has been made of the talent of Australian 16-year-old Flynn Southam, with the country hoping he is the next star from Down Under. On Saturday morning, during the Day Four preliminaries ...

Great Races: The Breakthrough of Ian Thorpe as a World Champion and Blooming Superstar (Video) As part of our Great Races Series, Swimming World takes a look back at the 1998 World Championships in Perth, Australia. It was where Ian Thorpe emerged as a world champion and took his first global step t...

Ariarne Titmus Attacks World Record En Route to No. 3 Time in History in 200 Freestyle at Australian Champs Over the past few years, Ariarne Titmus has wowed the world with her freestyle excellence, double-Olympic gold secured last summer at the Olympic Games in Tokyo. All that remains is a world re...

Kaylee McKeown In Command of 100 Backstroke at Aussie Champs; Mollie O'Callaghan With Another Star Turn There’s been some demands on Kaylee McKeown since she captured a pair of Olympic titles in Tokyo. She made a coaching change to Michael Bohl. She’s dealt with a shoulder injury. And expectations a...

Ariarne Titmus Continues Speed Surge at Australian Champs; Battle Ahead With Mollie O'Callaghan in 200 Free The buzz from Zac Stubblety-Cook’s world record in the 200-meter breaststroke had not worn off when the third day of preliminaries at the Australian Championships opened in Adelaide. Fittingly...

Kyle Chalmers Paris Butterfly Dream Hatches Re Think On Budapest World Championship Plan Kyle Chalmers dream to swim at the Paris 2024 Olympics in butterfly could well be the telling factor that will see him reverse his decision and declare himself available to swim at this year’s World Swimming Cha...

Zac Stubblety-Cook Smashes World Record in the 200 Breaststroke in 2:05.95 Australia’s Olympic champion Zac Stubblety-Cook has tonight smashed the world record in the 200m breaststroke in a stunning 2:05.95 (1:01.89), setting the SA Aquatic and Leisure Centre alight in Adelaide. [caption id="attachm...

From Pop Star to Elite Swimmer: Cody Simpson Stamps Pool Comeback With Huge Breakthrough It’s a familiar refrain you have surely encountered on the internet. Some famous figure was once a swimmer, only to give up the sport as they got older to focus on music or acting or their endeavors in another s...

Before Backstroke Assault, Kaylee McKeown Tops Prelims in 400 IM at Australian Championships At last summer's Olympic Games, Australian Kaylee McKeown etched herself as a double-Olympic champion in the backstroke events. En route to that status, McKeown skipped the individual medley disciplines, whe...

Mollie O'Callaghan, Shayna Jack Blast Big Times at Australian Championships; Cody Simpson Pops in 100 Fly In an emotionally charged opening night of exceptionally fast swimming, established and shooting stars, returning stars and pop stars all booked their places on the Australian Swim Teams for Bud...

Mollie O’Callaghan Sets The World On Fire With Her Sizzling 100m freestyle of 52.83 At The Australian Championships Australia’s Tokyo discovery Mollie O’Callaghan (St Peters Western, QLD) has produced the fastest time in the world this year in this morning’s 100m freestyle heats in a sizzling start ...

Olympic Champ Kyle Chalmers Says 'I Feel Like I'm Almost 40' Like many athletes, Australian Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers has endured his share of injuries, and he discussed those medical issues in an excellent article by Phil Lutton in the Sydney Morning Herald. Just ahead of the start of the Aust...