Oceania

Making an Olympic team was never meant to be easy but whoever pulls on the green and gold blazer as Australia’s lone male open water swimmer in Tokyo next year will certainly have one helluva journey to talk about. [caption id="attachment_433787" align="alignright" width="350"] MATESHIP: Three of th...

Olympic golden girl Bronte Barratt and her 2008 Australian Beijing teammate and bronze medallist Patrick Murphy have welcomed the arrival of their first-born son William Oswald, to swimming's lovers lanes. Triple Olympian Barratt gave birth to the couple’s healthy baby boy in Brisbane this week with...

Kieren Perkins - Distance Legend The history of men’s distance swimming is rich with Australian flavor, from the early days of Andrew “Boy” Charlton to the dominance of Murray Rose to the recent excellence of Grant Hackett. Wait, didn’t we forget one of the all-timers? Obviously, Kieren Perkins is p...

Australia’s leading swim coach Dean Boxall is confident his decision to take a back seat with his star-studded St Peters Western squad during the two month COVID-19 shutdown could well prove to be a golden master stroke. Boxall, who was named the Australian Swimming Coaches and Teachers Association ...

Olympics Tokyo 2020 Coordination Commission boss John Coates has revealed that October is looming as the key month in guiding plans for the postponed 2020 Tokyo Games, with possible quarantines and restrictions on spectators potentially necessary.  Coates has warned that Tokyo 2020 would need to beg...

The Olympic Games has survived World Wars, boycotts, terror attacks and hopefully its Tokyo 2020 postponement with the movement continuing its battle of survival in the middle of the world wide COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The major focus for Governments all over the world is surviving this pandemic an...

St Peters Western (Brisbane, Qld) Head Coach Dean Boxall has joined a “who’s who” of Australia’s legendary list of swim coaches after being named the 2019 Australian Swimming Coaches And Teachers Association (ASCTA) prestigious Coach of the Year today. Boxall won the award for his efforts with Ariar...

Swimming New Zealand Sends Swimming On New Market Voyage By Dave Crampton Three months after hiring national event manager Dale Johnson and cancelling national meets for most of this year, Swimming New Zealand (SNZ) is putting its national events, including the annual New Zealand Open champions...

Cate Campbell has provided an exclusive insight into day one of her return to the pool in Brisbane today as Australia's elite swimmers in the east coast Australian squads rolled up for training for the first time in eight weeks. https://twitter.com/7NewsBrisbane/status/1262304792811933696 The three-...

The gloves are off as banned Australian swim star Shayna Jack prepares for the fight of her life to clear her name against what she has described as a “seriously flawed system”. Jack has posted an update on her Facebook page as she prepares to front a hearing with the Court of Arbitration for Sport ...

Susie O’Neill was never one to chase autographs but in 1986 the then 12-year-old lined up nervously with her friends to seize the prized signature of popular visiting US swimming superstar Mary T Meagher. The three-time Olympic champion had been invited to Brisbane by Swimming Queensland to swim at ...

The next waves of Australian Dolphin elite swim squad members have finally received the go-ahead to return to training next week but under strict COVID-19 guidelines with pools on the east coast preparing to open their doors. Leading coaches from around the country met via conference link with Swimm...

Ian Thorpe, Australian winner of nine Olympic medals topped by five golds, has recalled how special the first night of the home Sydney 2000 Olympic Games was, despite him having "the pressure of a nation on my back". “A [career] highlight for me was winning a medal (gold in the 400m freestyle) on th...

Ian Thorpe -  Three World Records In As Many Days In the last of three  features celebrating the career of the legendary Australian freestyler 20 years after he cracked three World records in as many days at The Australian Olympic Trials on the way to the Sydney 2000 Games, we look at the s...

Ian Thorpe – The Thorpedo Gathers Pace  In the second part of three features celebrating the career of the legendary Australian freestyler, we consider the first of three World records set in as many days at Olympic trials leading into the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, why home expectations we...

20th Anniversary of Sydney 2000 Olympic swimming trials in Australia It was a magical time for swimming in Australia – one week in May in the year 2000 when 665 swimmers gathered in Sydney, some seven years after the International Olympic Committee announced that Sydney had won the right to sta...

Banned Australian swim star Shayna Jack’s fight to save her career is closer to resolution as she forges ahead towards a hearing with the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Jack’s coach Dean Boxall has told Australian media that his charge could well be informed within days of her pending CAS appeal he...

Ian Thorpe - The Beginning In the first part of three features celebrating the career of the legendary Australian freestyler, we look back at the launch of "The Thorpedo" and how he became a world champion at 15. In the coming days, we'll hone in on two achievements at the heart of the pantheon of a...

Grant Hackett - Inside With Brett Hawke One of the greatest distance freestylers in history, Grant Hackett recently celebrated his 40th birthday, as highlighted in this Swimming World piece that looked at some of the premier accomplishments in the Australian's career. Now, Hackett is a guest on the ...

Mack Horton, Duncan Scott and the object of their podium protests at World Championships in Gwangju last year, Sun Yang, were all slapped with warnings from FINA but some of the most senior bosses at the international federation initially wanted to strip the Australian Olympic champion of his medals...