Oceania

PASSAGES: Tributes Flow For Olympian Neil Rogers – the Lord Of The Lanes At Bondi Icebergs Leaves A Lasting Legacy Tributes have flowed like the incoming tides at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach this week following the sad passing of a local legend “Mr Bondi Icebergs” – two-time Olympian, coach...

Australia Names 40-Strong Junior Dolphins Swim Team For 2024 Junior Pan Pacs in Canberra Australia will field an experienced  40-strong team including 11 swimmers from last year’s successful World Junior Championship campaign when it hosts this year’s 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships i...

Kaylee McKeown Could Chase Unique Company at Olympic Games Only once in Olympic history has the gold medalist of the women’s 200-meter individual medley also been the champion of a 100-meter event during the same Games. That scenario unfolded at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, where Hungarian K...

Australian Championships: Kyle Chalmers Delivers Strong Showing in 100 Freestyle; Reveals Recovery From Ankle Surgery By Nicole Jeffery Rio Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers dispelled any lingering doubts about his Paris preparation, winning the 100m freestyle in 47.63 at the Australian Championships, ...

Australian Champs, Day Four Finals: Mollie O'Callaghan Pops Big 200 Freestyle; Kaylee McKeown Continues Dominance By Nicole Jeffery World 200m freestyle record-holder Mollie O’Callaghan put in the statement swim of the Australian Open Championships today, dominating the Olympic champion Ariarne Titm...

Australian Champs, Day Four Prelims: Kyle Chalmers Heating Up Waters in 100 Freestyle By Nicole Jeffery Rio Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers will look for a first sub-48 100m freestyle in the final after putting together a sharp qualifier of 48.08 in today’s preliminaries at the Australian Open Champi...

Australian Champs, Day Three Finals: Ariarne Titmus Rockets to Top of World in 400 Freestyle; Men's Distance Duel a Highlight By Nicole Jeffery After the most testing year of her international career, Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus was back on top of the world today after clocking the fastest 400m ...

Australian Champs, Day Three Prelims: Ariarne Titmus Chasing 'Perfect Race' With Paris on Horizon By Nicole Jeffery Olympic champion and world record-holder Ariarne Titmus may be “in hibernation from life’’ but she is maintaining a laser-like focus on her preparation to defend her Olympic titles in ...

Australian Championships, Day 2: The Unstoppable Kaylee McKeown’s 4:28.22 - The Third Fastest 400IM In History - But It’s “No” For Paris An unstoppable Kaylee McKeown has tonight swum the third fastest 400IM in history – blasting out a time of 4:28.22 to set her second National record in t...

Australian Championships Day 1, Men’s 400m Freestyle: Elijah Winnington Turns It On To Win The Battle of the World Champions Elijah Winnington (St Peters Western, QLD) saved his best till last to win the battle of the 400m freestyle world champions in one of the races of the night on day on...

Australian Champs, Day 1 Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan Still The Best Of The Best Winning A Stacked 100m Freestyle Final in 52.27 Two-time world champion Mollie O’Callaghan has powered home to clock one of the fastest times of the 2023-24 season - winning a stacked 100m freestyle final on nigh...

Kaylee McKeown has tonight sent a firm message to the world: “count me in”  for the 200m individual medley at this year’s Olympic Games in Paris after clocking 2:06.99 to break the National record on the opening night of the 2024 Australian Championships on the Gold Coast. The 22-year-old f...

Australian Open Championships, Day One Preliminaries: Meg Harris Off To A Flyer Clocking 52.60 in the Opening 100m Freestyle Heat Swimming Queensland’s prodigal daughter Meg Harris has set a cracking pace on opening morning of the 2024 Australian Open Swimming Championships, clocking 52.60s...

A Cuts for Jere Hribar, Taiko Torepe-Ormsby Underscore NCAA’s International Reach For some time, sprinting at the NCAA Men’s Championships has been an international affair. It can become cliché to suggest that an NCAA final in any event resembles an Olympic final. But it has never felt more accurate...

Next Gen Dolphins Making A Splash In The Top Ten Takeaways From The 2024 Australian Age Championships The nine-day Australian Age Championships have come to a close on the Gold Coast after an action-packed show of class and depth with defending club champions, Australia’s powerhouse club, ...

NZ Swimming Championships: Taiko Torepe-Ormsby Blasts 50 Free Record for Paris Ticket Taiko Torepe-Ormsby served notice of his increasing seed in a tremendous season with the University of Wisconsin. He’s brought that speed into international meets in a way that is fodder for collegians’ Olympic dre...

Australian Age Championships: Fifteen-year-old Sienna Toohey’s 1:07.72 Closes In On Leisel Jones’ 24-Year-Old National Age Breaststroke Record Sienna Toohey, a 15-year-old girl from the NSW country town of Albury, has tonight continued her assault on a 24-year-old record set by Olympic leg...

NZ Swimming Championships: Kane Follows, Cameron Gray Books Paris Tickets with National Records Kane Follows and Cameron Gray set national records at the NZ Swimming Championships Friday, earning their way to the Paris Olympics with scintillating swims. Gray set the tone first thing in the morning b...

Lewis Clareburt Sets 400 Free Record at New Zealand Swimming Championships Lewis Clareburt took down the 12-year-old national record at the New Zealand Championships on Thursday. Clareburt went 3:46.85, slashing near a quarter-second off the 3:47.09 that had stood as the national mark from Matthew S...

Flynn Southam Stakes A Claim For New Age Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Team For Paris Olympics The race for what could well be a new look Australian men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team for the Paris Olympics just started to get a whole lot hotter after 18-year-old Flynn Southam unleashed his 1...