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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...

Shogun TV Series Missed the Mark With Dramatic Swimming Scene By Todd Balf, Guest Contributor At the close of Shogun’s Episode 3, the early 17-century English sailor John Blackthorne emerges on the ship’s rail alongside his captor, Japanese regent Lord Yoshii Toranaga. Blackthorne, buff and brawny, ...

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...

Laure Manaudou is First French Athlete in 2024 Olympic Torch Marathon French swimmer Laure Manaudou was the first representative of France to receive the Olympic torch in the relay from Greece to Paris that began Tuesday. The flame was lit in Ancient Olympia Tuesday morning at a ceremony overseen by...

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...

Danish Open: Thea Blomsterberg Delivers 2:23.49 200 Breast to Win Denmark’s Thea Blomsterberg supplied the fastest swim of the Danish Open on its final day on Sunday, going 2:23.49 in the women’s 200 breast. That time is nearly a half-second under the Olympic A Cut. Blomsterberg had been 2:22.42 at ...

Road to Paris: After Making History at NCAAs, Delaware’s Toni Sabev Targeting Olympic Cut The road to the Olympics takes swimmers from all over the world through the American college system. From far and wide, countries big and small, a litany of colleges can contribute to the 800 or so Olympic swim...

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, ...

Gutter Talk: What Has Your Previous Olympic Experience Taught You? Because it only comes along every four years, the Olympic experience is unique. For those who have the opportunity to compete in a second Olympiad, the experience gained during that initial trip can be highly beneficial. In this edit...

Marrit Steenbergen Lowers Her Dutch Record in 200 IM in Double Day in Eindhoven Marrit Steenbergen lowered her national record in the women’s 200 individual medley Saturday at the Eindhoven Qualification Meet, the Dutch dynamo’s second win of the day. Steenbergen clocked in at 2:08.86 in the final o...

SA National Championships: Erin Gallagher Wraps Up Meet with 50 Free Title Erin Gallagher capped an excellent meet at the SA National Championships on Saturday by edging Caitlin De Lange by .01 in the 50 free. Gallagher went 24.95. She overcame De Lange, who had set the pace in prelims at 24.98 and ...

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...

Casper Puggaard National Record Highlights Youth Speed at Danish Open Casper Puggaard started the four-day Danish Open on Thursday by taking down a Danish record set when he was just four years old, the start of a fast opening two days at the meet for Denmark’s up-and-coming generation of swimmers. ...

Erin Gallagher Lowers South African 100 Fly Record; Matt Sates, Chad Le Clos Tie Erin Gallagher lowered her South African record in the women’s 100 butterfly on Friday, while Matt Sates and Chad le Clos tied for the 100 fly title. Gallagher ushered in a stirring night session on the fifth day of the...

Leon Marchand Turns Pro, Will Train with Bob Bowman, Who Will be Part of French Staff Leon Marchand is done swimming at Arizona State and is a professional. Coach Bob Bowman confirmed Marchand will train with him at Texas as Bowman, who recently took over with the Longhorns after leading Arizona Sta...

SA National Championships: Pieter Coetzee Dominates with 52.89 100 Back Pieter Coetzee confirmed his Olympic spot by going 52.89 to win the 100 backstroke at the SA National Championships Thursday. Coetzee was well ahead of the field in both prelims and finals. The 19-year-old went 53.05 in the morn...

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...