Oceania

The Next Ian Thorpe or Kyle Chalmers? Aussie Flynn Southam a Surging Young Talent Bond University Swimming’s 16-year-old Flynn Southam has eclipsed the times swum by Olympic champions Kyle Chalmers and Ian Thorpe in an impressive record breaking weekend of racing at the Queensland State Short Course...

Nightmare Is Finally Over For Australia’s Shayna Jack After CAS Decision Frees Her To Return To The Pool The nightmare is finally over for banned Australian swimmer Shayna Jack with the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) tonight giving the Commonwealth Games gold medallist the green light to retur...

Cody Simpson Headlines Queensland Short Course Championship As Swimming Returns In Australia Brisbane will host its first major swim meet since being announced as the 2032 Olympic host city, with the Brisbane Aquatic Centre staging this weekend’s three-day Queensland Short Course State Championships...

Anniversary Of The Air-Guitar Concert: When Australia Ended American Streak in 400 Freestyle Relay (Video) More than 17,000 passionate Australian fans stood and yelled, anticipating a moment their country had long envisioned. The Sydney Aquatic Center was the focal point of the 2000 Olympic Games, a...

Australian Chloe McCardel Chases Record 44th English Channel Crossing Australian marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel will pursue a world record 44th crossing of the English Channel over the next month. McCardel has made the 34-kilometer crossing of the Channel on 41 occasions. That is more than any man ...

'Lost, Depressed, Irrelevant': Stephanie Rice Opens Up about Post-Swimming Struggles Australian Olympic champion Stephanie Rice opened up this week about her post-swimming struggles and the challenge of transitioning back to non-swimming life. Rice posted a short clip to her Instagram feed of her cr...

Beijing Gold Medallist Bronte Barratt Named On The Brisbane Olympic 2032 Organising Committee Triple Olympic swimmer and Beijing gold medallist, Bronte Barratt has been elected as the athlete’s voice on the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games Organising Committee, the Australian Olympic Committee announced ...

Para Swim Stars Light Up The SydneyOpera House As Flagbearer Ellie Cole Farewells Tokyo With A Record 17 Medals Australia’s triumphant Paralympic Swim Team is arriving home to unprecedented recognition after a spectacular medal haul of eight gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze for a total of 33 medals in ...

Maddie Groves Fires New Shots at Swimming Australia President Kieren Perkins Two months after she withdrew from the Australian Olympic Trials due to claims of misogyny within Swimming Australia, 2016 Olympic silver medalist Maddie Groves has fired shots at Kieren Perkins, the President of Swimming A...

Australia’s Tokyo Golden Girl Emma McKeon Escapes COVID Lockdown and Ready To Roar For London in The ISL Australian golden girl Emma McKeon, the most successful female athlete of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will escape a strict Covid lockdown in NSW to rekindle her International Swimming League (ISL) c...

Tokyo Triumph For Aussie Farm Boy Col Pearse And His Paralympic Dream Created In a Dairy Farm Dam [caption id="attachment_486240" align="alignright" width="414"] BITE SIZED BRONZE: Col Pearse and his prized bronze medal in the 100m butterfly. Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr (Swimming Australia).[/caption...

Experienced sports administrator Eugenie Buckley appointed as interim CEO at Swimming Australia Swimming Australia has today announced the appointment of highly experienced sports administrator Eugenie Buckley as its interim Chief Executive Officer (CEO) effective immediately, following the resignat...

Rowan Crothers Turns The Clock Back To The Mean Machine As He Celebrates Paralympic Gold Bald-headed Queenslander Rowan Crothers has emerged as a modern day inclusion into Australia’s famed “Mean Machine Hall of Fame” after his power-packed performance winning Paralympic gold in Tokyo last night. Wh...

Paralympics: Australia's Brenden Hall Chasing Para Three-Peat in 400m Freestyle Australia’s triple Paralympic gold medalist Brenden Hall will swap his “all guns blazing” attitude with "a touch of finesse" when he chases a slice of Games history in tomorrow’s opening swim session of the 2020 Tokyo Pa...

IOC Withdraws Doping Case Against Australia's Brenton Rickard Who Is Left Holding A $50,000 Bill To Clear Name Nightmare doping charges that emerged some eight years after the London Olympics against Australian triple Olympic swimming medalist Brenton Rickard have today been withdrawn by the Interna...

Golden Games for Dolphins And Rohan Is Now Taylor-Made For Paris 2024 Temporary Head Coach Rohan Taylor, the man who steered Australia’s Dolphins to its most successful Games ever at the Tokyo Olympics, has earned himself a full time role – head coach for the next Games in Paris in 2024. Swimming Au...

Chris Mooney To Spearhead Bond University After Tokyo Glory; Kaylee McKeown’s Future Is Undecided Chris Mooney, the man who steered Kaylee McKeown to triple gold at this year's Tokyo Olympics, has been appointed as the new Head Swimming Coach at Bond University on Queensland's Gold Coast – but ...

Launch of Australian Swimming League (ASL) Delayed to 2022 by COVID-19 The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a delay in the launch of the Australian Swimming League (ASL) until at least early 2022, Reuters reports Wednesday. The ASL was announced just before the Tokyo Olympics to take place in the fall. ...

New Zealand Olympian Ali Galyer Announces Retirement New Zealand Olympian Ali Galyer on Monday announced her retirement from swimming, after competing for her country at the Tokyo Games. Galyer made the announcement via social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ali Galyer OL...

Ian Thorpe Believes His 400 Freestyle World Record Could Have Been Faster Ian Thorpe once revealed his biggest regret in swimming, and it is not what you would expect. Thorpe has admitted that the biggest regret in his swimming career was not swimming all out in the 400 freestyle final at the 2002 C...