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Australian Championships: Pop Star Cody Simpson Flying Back To The Swim Of Things on The Gold Coast Cody Simpson grew up training alongside Olympians Cameron McEvoy and Thomas Fraser-Holmes at Miami Pool on the Gold Coast and dueling in freestyle with world champion Clyde Lewis. The Gold Coast local...

Australian Championships: Cate Campbell Ignites Her Starter Motor As She Fine Tunes For Toyko Australia’s freestyle sprint queen Cate Campbell has revealed details of how an internationally acclaimed bio-mechanist has ignited her starter-motor as she fine tunes her preparations for a fourth Olympic ...

Ariarne Titmus Registers Aussie Champs Distance Triple With Title in 800 Freestyle Is a distance freestyle medal triple within reach for Australian star Ariarne Titmus at the Olympic Games? If this week is any indication, the 20-year-old appears on course for such an accomplishment, as she collected...

Cate Campbell Mines Another National Title With Gold in 50 Freestyle at Aussie Champs Two months shy of the Australian Olympic Trials, Cate Campbell backed up a strong prelim performance in the 50-meter freestyle with an equivalent outing in the final at the Australian Championships. The veteran spr...

Cate Campbell Rips 24.28 Prelim in 50 Free; Cody Simpson Dives In A quartet of women eclipsed the 25-second barrier in the 50-meter freestyle during Saturday night’s heats at the Australian Championships. Leading the way was Cate Campbell, who covered her lap in 24.28 for a comfortable margin over E...

Mitch Larkin Works On Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte Weaponry As He Ponders A Tough Choice – 200 back or 200 IM? Mitch Larkin is working on the underwater weapons used so successfully by Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte as he plots “campaign Tokyo” – the 200 backstroke or the 200m individual medley? I...

Mitch Larkin Fires Off 1:56.74 Clocking to Win 200 Medley at Aussie Nationals Mitch Larkin clearly had a gameplan when it came to the 200-meter individual medley at the Australian Championships on the Gold Coast: Post a world-class time. Consider Larkin’s goal met, as he cruised to a first-place fin...

Aussies Order a Mc-Double of Top Swims Behind Emma McKeon & Kaylee McKeown The Mc-Aussie Stars were in fine form on Friday morning, as the Australian Championships on the Gold Coast rolled on. Expected to be headliners for the Dolphins at the rapidly approaching Olympic Games in Tokyo, Emma McKeon a...

Ariarne Titmus Produces Strong Response to Katie Ledecky in 400 Freestyle One week after Katie Ledecky packaged a sub-4:00 performance in the 400-meter freestyle, reigning world champion Ariarne Titmus provided her response at the Australian Championships. Charging to the lead from the start, Titmus...

After Impressive 1:54.38 Prelim of 200 Bacstroke at Aussie Champs, Decision Looms for Mitch Larkin Once the Australian Olympic Trials roll around in June, Mitch Larkin will be faced with the decision of whether to contest the 200 backstroke/200 individual medley double. It is a conundrum that others...

A decision to withdraw from the 200m freestyle final due to a “shoulder niggle” has paid a golden dividend for Emma McKeon after a thrilling 100m freestyle final at the Australian Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast today. In a history-making win, the 24-year-old broke an eight-year reign by “t...

Kaylee McKeown Gives Olympic Backstroke Contenders Something to Ponder at Aussie Champs If the baton hadn't already been passed, Kaylee McKeown has officially assumed the title of Australian Backstroke Queen. Over the past year, the 19-year-old McKeown has routinely produced some of the best perform...

Emma McKeon Takes Down Cate Campbell in 100 Freestyle at Aussie Champs; Kyle Chalmers Clocks 48.04 On the first night of finals at the Australian Championships, Emma McKeon was missing from the final of the 200-meter freestyle. Despite qualifying as the top seed, thanks to a 1:55-mid clocking, McKeo...

Australia’s freestyle sprint queen Cate Campbell has rocketed to the top of the 2021 World Rankings in the 100m freestyle with a sizzling 52.43 in the night two heats of the Australian Open Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast tonight. [caption id="attachment_461696" align="alignright" width="55...

Olympic hopeful Ariarne Titmus woke up this morning and went for a stroll in the park but when the “gun went off” at 10.10am for her first ever morning final in the women’s 200m freestyle at the Australian Championships on the Gold Coast it was anything but. Her life and the lives of swimmers here a...

Swimming Australia is delighted to announce that dual Olympic gold medallist, Alex Baumann, has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive of Swimming Australia. Baumann, the current Swimming Australia Chief Strategist who leads the high performance arm of the organisation, is a Canadian nati...

WA’s Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Zac Incerti was the big mover on the opening night of  the Australian Open Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast tonight Incerti is the surprise fastest qualifier after swimming almost a full one-and-a-half second personal best time in the men’s 200m frees...

The countdown is on the Australian Open Swimming Championships opening session on the Gold Coast tonight with all eyes centred on the return of injured stars Kyle Chalmers and Ariarne Titmus and the arrival of home grown swimmer turned international pop star Cody Simpson. Olympic champion Chalmers a...

It’s an unbreakable bond between two friends, former training partners and a rivalry that goes far beyond the length and depth of a pool so when Australia’s Rio’s Olympic swimming star Emma McKeon spoke of her good friend Rikako Ikee on the Gold Coast today – the emotions overflowed. On the eve of t...

Emerging young Queensland distance swimmer Sam Short has tonight slashed almost 20 seconds off his 1500m freestyle personal best time to surface from this week’s 2021 Australian Age Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast with a change of plans that could change his life. The 17-year-old gave the....