Oceania

Exclusive: Despite Mitch Larkin’s Painful 12 Week Ordeal Post Shoulder Surgery, Australia’s Backstroking Top Gun Has Paris In His Sights Australia’s Olympic backstroking top gun Mitch Larkin has revealed for the first time the pain and anguish he swam through during this year’s World Championships a...

Australian Dolphins Honoured At A Glittering Patron’s Awards in the 2032 Olympic City In a glittering night In Brisbane the who’s who of the 2021 and 2022 Australian Swim Teams turned out in all of their glitterati for Hancock Prospecting’s Patron’s Annual Awards in Brisbane last Saturday night. The...

Time Will Tell If Someone Can Jump Out Of The Box and Long Standing 800m Freestyle World Record of Grant Hackett When Grant Hackett set swimming’s oldest world record in the short course 800m freestyle 14 years ago at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Centre he produced one his fastest 50 splits on t...

Race Of the Century — Part II? Women's 400 Freestyle the Can't-Miss Event On Path to Paris Given that it was only four years into the new millennium, the moniker was a bit of a stretch. Hyperbole, though, has long been a part of the sporting landscape, and not giving the matchup a nickname seemed wr...

Shelley Taylor-Smith Heaps Praise On Chelsea Gubecka Who Leaves Olympic Golden Girls Behind in Israel Legendary Australian open water swimmer Shelley Taylor-Smith has heaped praise on her fellow countrywoman Chelsea Gubecka after a momentous marathon win – after 10 years in the sport. The never-say-...

In A Major Coup, Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) Dumped As President From Swimming Australia Board In a major shake up, Swimming Australia membership stakeholders have voted to dump  Tracy Stockwell from the SA board after serving as president for just nine months. Her exit from the board opened up the p...

Australian Olympic Medalist Scott Miller Sentenced to Five Years In Prison For Drug-Ring Role Australian Olympic medalist Scott Miller has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison for his role as the ringleader of a drug operation in New South Wales. Arrested in February 2021 and behind...

Kyle Chalmers has dominated the 100 freestyle for the past couple of years. Long course, he is fast. Short course, even faster, gearing up to take down his own world record at the 2022 FINA Short Course World Championships in Melbourne later this year. In the FINA World Cup, nobody could stop him. F...

Voice For the Sport: Keeping Michael Klim In Our Thoughts As He Battles A Very Different Opponent As he walked toward the starting block inside the Sydney Aquatic Centre, an entire nation roared. It was a moment of opportunity for a swim-crazed country and for a relay that could disrupt the sport’s ...

Remembering Dr. Bob Treffene – A man At The Heartbeat Of  Swimming  For Five Decades Dr. Bob Treffene, a pioneer in the often complex world of sports science, was “a one of a kind” who helped transform the world of swimming. Swimming in Australia, Great Britain and around the world is saddened this ...

Swimming Australia Awards Life Membership on Michael Bohl, Nicole Livingstone and Matthew DunnLegendary coach Michael Bohl OAM, and fellow former Australian Dolphins and accomplished administrators Nicole Livingstone OAM and Matthew Dunn OAM have all been awarded with Swimming Australia Life Members...

Eight Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medals won by legendary Australian swimmer and International Swimming and Sport Australia Hall of Famer Murray Rose  will go under the hammer in Sydney in December in a landmark public auction. Rose, who won a total of four Olympic gold medals in the pool in...

Passages: Two-Time Australian Olympic Medalist Allan Wood Passes Away At 79 Australia has lost one of its unsung heroes from the 1960 and 1964 Olympic swim teams with the passing this week of Commonwealth Games freestyle gold medallist Allan Wood. Aged 79, Allan passed away peacefully at John Flynn ...

Olympic Flashback: Dawn Fraser and the First Olympic Three-Peat It was 58 years ago, on October 11, 1964, that the Olympic Games in Tokyo opened. During the week in Japan, Australian star Dawn Fraser made history by capturing the 100-meter freestyle for the third consecutive time. The feat was the f...

Hall Of Fame Week: When Michael Klim Led An Olympic and Air Guitar Performance For the Ages (Video) This weekend, Australian Michael Klim will be inducted into the International Swimming Hall of Fame. To celebrate the moment, we look back at one of Klim's most-iconic moments. ***********************...

Tokyo Golden Girls Emma McKeon and Kaylee McKeown Return To Racing In Brisbane Two of Australia’s Tokyo Olympic golden girls Emma McKeon and Kaylee McKeown joined a host aspiring teenagers when they returned to racing at Swimming Queensland’s first Long Course Preparation Meet of the season at the B...

Australian Swim Schools Association Leading Water-Safety Course Opportunities A new, streamlined approach to swim teacher accreditation is opening the doors for more teachers to hit the water in time for summer. The Australian Swim Schools Association (ASSA) has introduced an Australian-first teachi...

Olympic Hero Kieren Perkins Adds Gold Medal Touch To Australia's Green And Gold Runway To 2032 Kieren Perkins remains one of Australia’s greatest Olympic swimmers – a two time gold medallist in the 1500m freestyle in 1992 and 1996 – and now he is a major player in guiding Australian sport towards it...

Cate Campbell Tells Of A Sobbing Session That Changed Her Life Before Tokyo Gold You have to hand it to Cate Campbell. The same week she takes her first serious strokes towards a fifth Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 the face of Australian swimming also puts her hand up as the face of Mental Health W...

PHOTO GALLERY: Australia’s Future Olympic Stocks Pull Out All Stops In Thrilling Finale To Queensland Tri Meet Queensland’s future Olympians have shown why Australia’s premier swimming State is in exciting hands with the next generation putting on a classic show of strength at the Queensland Short C...