Oceania

World Champion Freestyler Sam Short Bolsters Australian Dolphins World Cup Squad Reigning 400m freestyle world champion Sam Short (Rackley, QLD) will be joined by the Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte, the return of World champion backstroke ace Mitch Larkin and a host of exciting youngsters...

Tilly Cup Swim Meet: No signs of Pink, Taylor Swift, or Harry Stiles – But Enough Mayhem To Suggest They Were In The House It’s all quiet when meandering through the picturesque grounds that decorate the All-Saints Anglican School - a 40-hectare campus tucked away on Queensland’s Gold Coas...

Cam McEvoy Is Living Life in the Fast 'Lane'; Aussie Star Has Resurrected His Career Cam McEvoy resurrects a 20-year sprinting odyssey in Coach Tim Lane’s “Fast Lane to Fukuoka,” a pool of resistance and a little help from his friends. Getting to the bottom of Australian Cam McEvoy’s Fukuoka revival...

Dean Boxall Earns A Record Fourth Australian Coach Of The Year Award On The Gold Coast Olympic and World Championship gold medal coach Dean Boxall has been crowned Australia's top swimming coach for a record fourth time on the Gold Coast. The man who steered Australia’s golden girls to a re...

Sydney Sprints (SC): Bronte Campbell Back In The Fast Lane And Taking A Leaf Out Of The Cam McEvoy Play Book One of the fastest female sprinters in the world, Bronte Campbell says she has been encouraged by newly crowned world champion Cam McEvoy, in her pursuit of a fourth Olympic team in ...

Sydney Sprints (SC): Cody Simpson’s Attack Mentality Earns Him A Second National Title in the 100m Butterfly An attack mentality from Cody Simpson has seen the 24-year-old Gold Coat-based Olympic hopeful tear up the pool for his second National title in two nights on day three at the Austra...

A relieved Australian Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has been cleared after undergoing emergency surgery to remove benign tumors from one of her ovaries, she revealed today. In one of the scariest moments of her 23 years, the reigning Olympic and world champion and world record holder for ...

Sydney Sprints (SC): Bronte Campbell Kick Starts Paris Campaign In Earnest With Impressive 100m Freestyle Win Bronte Campbell has tonight kick-started her road to Paris and her bid for a fourth Olympic team, with an impressive 100m freestyle victory, winning the Australian Short Course tit...

Sydney Sprints: Carlile’s Madeleine Gough Going The Distance To Paris In A Famous Cap Tokyo Olympic finalist Madeleine Gough has confirmed her status as one of Australia’s stand out Paris hopes with her fastest 1500m freestyle in three years on the opening night of the Sydney Sprints 2023 A...

SYDNEY SPRINTS: Bronte Campbell Headlines Tokyo Connection At Australian Short Course Tokyo Olympians Bronte Campbell, Madeleine Gough, Tamsin Cook and David Morganwill headline the 2023 Australian Short Course Championships – the Sydney Sprints – when the four-day meet gets under way at th...

 New Wave Of Australian Dolphins Make Historic World Juniors Splash in Netanya (ISR) A new wave of Australian swimmers have arrived home after an historic World Junior Championship performance in Netanya, Israel with a record haul of medals and a host of budding new stars, led by Sydney sc...

Following Stunning Relay Leg, Olivia Wunsch Rising Through Ranks of Australian Sprinting Hoping to join the Australian women's 400 freestyle relay squad? Good luck. Even with veterans Cate Campbell and Bronte Campbell not part of the team since the Tokyo Olympics, the group still comprises the world...

World Junior Championships: Tomoyuki Matsushita Sets Meet Mark in 200 IM for Day 2 Prelims The second day of the World Junior Championships got off to a flying start in Netanya, Israel, Tuesday, thanks to Japan’s Tomoyuki Matsushita. Matsushita took down the meet record set in the 2019 edition of th...

Could Addition of Campbell Sisters Make Aussies More Dominant in Sprint Freestyle? In recent months, a four-time Olympian and one of the greatest relay swimmers in history has made progress in her comeback to swimming while her younger sister, a world champion in her own right, is also on the way ba...

Bronte Campbell Returns to Winners Circle At NSW State Short Course Championships Next stop, the Australian Short Course Championships at the Sydney Sprints Meet for dual Olympic gold medalist Bronte Campbell after returning to the winners circle yesterday. The 29-year-old took out the...

Swimming Australia Chasing Its Fifth President In Three Years After Michelle Gallen Resigns Swimming Australia is about to elect its fifth president in three years following the resignation of latest chairperson Michelle Gallen. Gallen had been in the role less than 12 months after suc...

Missouri Hires Bex Freebairn as Associate Head Coach The University of Missouri last week hired Bex Freebairn as an associate head coach, bringing her over after a successful stint at Akron. Freebairn had been an assistant coach at Akron, where she helped the Zips to the Mid-American Conference cham...

PASSAGES: Australia Mourns The Passing Of "Mr Swimming" John Devitt, A Legend With Chlorine In His Veins The Australian swimming community is in mourning today following the passing of one if its greatest champions, two-time Olympic and three-time Commonwealth Games freestyle gold medallis...

A new Swimming Australia constitution that will ensure more power to athletes and a stronger voice for athletes and coaches will be endorsed at a Special General Meeting of its voting members in October. The meeting will vote for the adoption of a new constitution aimed at delivering governance refo...

Swimming Australia is in hot water with World Aquatics who are threatening one of the sport’s superpowers with expulsion from the sport’s international governing body over governance issues. Sydney’s Daily Telegraph has reported today the serious concerns from World Aquatics “over the way t...