Oceania

The International Swimming League's two newest teams get underway in ISL Match 3, with the Tokyo Frog Kings and Toronto Titans each hitting the water for the first time. They're joined by two teams looking to make up ground after difficult starts. The LA Current finished third against a difficult fi...

Good Golly Miss Mollie As Australia’s Dolphins Shake Up Bond Relay Blitz   Mollie O’Callaghan, the 16-year-old Queensland schoolgirl who is swimming faster than Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon at the same age, has again caught the eye as Australia’s top swimmers went through their paces in a virtual R...

Olympic gold medallists Susie O’Neill AM and Chris Fydler OAM and legendary coach Harry Gallagher OAM have been awarded Life Membership of Swimming Australia at its 111th Annual General Meeting [caption id="attachment_450450" align="alignright" width="452"] LIFE MEMBERSHIP: Harry Gallagher with 1956...

Swimming Australia President John Bertrand Calls Time On His Seven-Year Term As Dolphins Receive Added Financial Support  Out-going Swimming Australia president John Bertrand AO has delivered a stirring message to the swimming community on his departure after seven years at the helm, urging people t...

Australian Swimming legend Ian Thorpe believes that his sensational 1:44.06 World record over 200 metres freestyle in 2001 remains one off the three most competitive four-length swims of the past two decades because "everyone in the world is swimming the 200 freestyle wrong." "You can't swim 150 met...

The Tokyo Frog Kings will make their ISL debut next week on October 24, and many of their team swam one final meet in Japan before heading to Hungary for the ISL bubble. Four national records fell on the weekend as the Japanese team is looking strong ahead of the ISL next week, which already got und...

Australia’s Tokyo Bound Kareena Lee Showing All The Hall Marks Of A World Class Open Water Swimmer  Noosa’s Tokyo bound marathon swimmer Kareena Lee is developing into one of the most capable open water swimmers in the world, according to Swimming Australia’s Performance Manager Greg Shaw after an e...

Minna Atherton Joins Marathon Olympians For Queensland Open Water Championships Australia’s only selected Toyko Olympian, marathon champion, Kareena Lee and 2016 Rio open water Olympian Chelsea Gubecka will be joined by world beating backstroker Minna Atherton and a host of pool stars, for Saturday’...

Australia Announces History Making Virtual Inter-State Short Course Meet Across Five Venues The cream of Australia’s leading swimmers will participate in the country’s first ever virtual “Non Championship” meet across five States next month. For the first time in Australia’s storied swimming history...

On This Date: Dawn Fraser Begins Pursuit of Her Olympic Trifecta Takeoff to Tokyo Series (From the October issue of Swimming World Magazine) When the 2020 (2021) Olympic Games open next July, there will be no round-number anniversary of what Australian Dawn Fraser accomplished 57 years earlier in 19...

Lewis Clareburt, one of three New Zealand swimmers set to swim in the ISL next week, narrowly missed the national record in the 400 IM at the New Zealand Short Course Championships. Clareburt swam a 4:07.47 to win the final by seven seconds, just missing Dean Kent's record of 4:06.66 from 2003. Clar...

Aquatic Industry Alliance wants Victorian kids back in the pool Victoria’s aquatic power brokers have stepped up their concerns for a timely return to indoor pools for essential swimming and water safety programs. Victorian Aquatic Industry Alliance (VAIA) was established in May 2020 in response to ...

Two-Time Australian Olympian Matt Targett on Comeback Trail Seven years after he retired as a two-time Australian Olympian, Matt Targett is back in the water and training under the watch of former Auburn coach and fellow countryman, Brett Hawke. A three-time Olympic medalist and once a mainstay on t...

New Zealand Government eases COVID-19 Restrictions In Auckland For Last Three Days of NZ Short Course Nationals. By Dave Crampton Swimming New Zealand has confirmed that it will only award National titles from its AON NZ Short Course National Short Course Championships in Hamilton for events conduct...

Australian star Madi Wilson out of ISL after clocking a hot 100 in SA State Short Course Rio Olympian and World Championship relay gold medallist Madi Wilson is the latest Australian to withdraw from the International Swimming League, due to start in Budapest later this month. Wilson’s coach at Mari...

Ian Thorpe once revealed his biggest regret in swimming, and it is not what you would expect. After seeking a comeback in 2012 that came up short, Thorpe had a consistent presence in the media after writing an autobiography about his depression in 2012, battling a serious infection in 2014 and comin...

Suzuka Hasegawa served up a scorching 57.70 in the 100 fly on the third day of the Japan Student Swimming Championships in Tokyo. Yuya Tanaka unleashed a 51.76 in the men's race ahead of a fast-finishing Kouta Akahane who stopped the clock at 51.83. Hasegawa has been on sizzling form of late, consis...

Wang Shun Nears Season Best in 200 IM at Chinese Nationals A day after the first swimming world record of 2020 fell, the Chinese National Championships continued from Qingdao as the reigning Olympic bronze medalist in the 200 IM, Wang Shun, highlighted the night. Wang took the 200 IM final with a so...

Shoma Sato and Waka Kobori set meet records in the 100 breaststroke and 400 free respectively and Tomoru Honda unleashed a 1:55.76 in the 200 fly on the second day of the Japan Student Swimming Championships. Suzuka Hasegawa again impressed with a 2:07.82 in the 200 fly while there was also a new me...

China's team of Xu Jiayu, Yan Zibei, Zhang Yufei and Yang Junxuan lowered the world record in the mixed medley relay at the Chinese National Swimming Championships in Qingdao with a 3:38.41. The swim lowers the Americans' world record of 3:38.56 from the 2017 World Championships, as this marks the f...