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Precious Medal Check For Kaylee McKeown As Airport Security Stops Golden Girl In Her Tracks Kaylee McKeown is slowly but surely getting used to the attention that comes with being a triple Olympic swimming gold medallist in Australia – but there are some things that still come from a left field. Lik...

Aussie Olympic Golden Girl Kaylee McKeown Makes Stunning Revelation: 'I Swam Through Tokyo With A Torn Shoulder' Australia’s triple Olympic gold medalist Kaylee McKeown has revealed how she swam through the pain of a torn shoulder muscle in one of the most remarkable postscripts of physical and ment...

Kyle Chalmers and Holly Barratt The Lone Australian Dolphins For World Short Course Championships in Abu Dhabi Latest world record holder Kyle Chalmers and defending two-time medallist Holly Barratt will be Australia’s lone representatives in next month’s US$2.8 million FINA Short Course World Champ...

Swimming Australia Life Membership Awarded to Legendary Coach Bill Sweetenham Bill Sweetenham AM - a visionary man revered, celebrated and unbroken in the high-powered world of coaching and performance sport has been awarded Swimming Australia Life Membership. A fitting reward for a man who has moul...

Matthew Sates, Emma McKeon Crowned 2021 FINA World Cup Champs South Africa’s Matthew Sates and Australian Emma McKeon were crowed the top point-getters at the 2021 FINA World Cup. The duo were the high scorers in each gender over the World Cup stops this fall, in Berlin, Budapest, Doha and Kazan. Ov...

Flash: Kyle Chalmers Takes Down 100 Free SC World Record Aussie star Kyle Chalmers has taken down the world record in the men’s short-course 100-meter freestyle Friday at the FINA World Cup in Kazan, Russia. Chalmers won the event in 44.84 seconds. It erases the near 13-year-old record set by French...

Zac Attack A Rocky Mountain High For Swim Kids At Sell Out Central Queensland Breaststroke Clinic Zac Stubblety-Cook, Olympic gold around his neck, held 60 Central Queensland youngsters in the palms of both his famous hands at a packed breaststroke clinic in in the city of Rockhampton (615 km north ...

Challenging Times Ahead Outside Of The Pool For Swimming Australia’s Third Female CEO Eugenie Buckley The calm and measured approach to the challenges facing swimming in Australia was the key factor in Eugenie Buckley’s appointment today as Swimming Australia’s third female CEO. Currently working in...

The inaugural “Dawn Award” – named in honour of legendary four-time Australian Olympic swimming gold medallist Dawn Fraser will be announced at this year’s annual Sport Australia Hall of Fame Awards on December 2. The Dawn Award will be presented to a courageous Australian ground breaker who has dem...

REPORT: Australian Swimming League Left Floundering As Founding Project Manager “Convicted of Tax Fraud” While Australia enjoyed its best Olympics ever in the pool the state of the sport both domestically and internationally is undergoing a dramatic chain of events with troubling reports surfacing t...

Australia’s Tokyo Stars In Adelaide Splashdown To Kick Start Swimming’s Busy International Year Australia’s Tokyo swim stars will once again splashdown in Adelaide’s SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre next April for the 2022 Australian Open and Age Swimming Championships – to christen the start of what wil...

Kyle Chalmers Still Superb, Still Searching for Big Win Over Caeleb Dressel When Kyle Chalmers became an Olympic champion, he was just a month past his 18th birthday, the youngest man in a loaded heat of 100 freestylers. He had never swum an individual event at a major international meet, although h...

Chloe McCardel Crowned Queen Of The English Channel After Her World Record Breaking 44th Crossing From England To France Australia’s extraordinary marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel has today been crowned the official “Queen of the Channel” after her world record breaking 44th crossing of the English C...

Calling Sydney Home, Bronte Campbell Itching To Get Back Into the Pool But The ISL Will Have To Wait Australian swimming fans who have fallen in love with the Campbell sisters over the last two decades will be happy to know that Bronte, like big sister Cate, also has the itch to keep on swimming. An...

Coaching Switch For Mack Horton Who Announces Move To Queensland Super Coach Michael Bohl Rio Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton is hoping a change will be as good as a holiday with today’s shock announcement he is leaving his native Melbourne to re-ignite his career for Paris 2024 under master coac...

Ian Thorpe Spends Five-Day Stint In A Sydney Hospital Battling An Infection From Shoulder Surgery Australian swimming legend Ian Thorpe spent five days in a Sydney hospital last week "following complications resulting from shoulder surgery” it has been revealed today. A Sydney newspaper website has ...

Chloe McCardel Ties Record with 43rd English Channel Crossing Australian endurance swimmer Chloe McCardel has tied the all-time record for successful crossings of the English with her 43rd on Thursday. It’s her second of the season, and she will chase sole possession of the record by attempting her ...

Queensland’s Class of 2021 Thriving On The Spirit And Competitiveness Of Three Of The State’s Olympic Golden Girls Over 70 of Australia’s finest young State and National Age swimmers have drawn on the competitive spirit and drive of three Olympic and World Championship golden girls as Swimming Queen...

Queensland swimmers provided 50 percent of Australia’s total Olympic gold medal haul in Tokyo and now the State’s governing body is facing a shock funding cut that could well threaten the pathway of future champions with their sights set on the 2032 Games in Brisbane. Queensland's leading newspaper ...

GoFundMe Page Established To Support Aussie Olympic Medalist Brenton Rickard A little more than a month ago, Australian breaststroke legend Brenton Rickard earned a legal victory when a doping case against him was thrown out by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. That decision by the CAS arrived on ...