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Two of the stars of Australia’s Rio Olympic swimming campaign Mack Horton and Emma McKeon were front and centre in Sydney today when iconic aquatic brand Speedo unveiled its exclusive sports uniform range for this year’s Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Speedo Olympic and Paralympic swim suit...

In a morning of high drama on Day Two of the Australian Olympic Trials in Adelaide Mack Horton and Zac Incerti have both lived to fight another day and will both race in the men’s 200m freestyle final to keep their Tokyo dreams alive at the SA Aquatic Leisure Centre tonight. Last night Horton finish...

Pop Star Cody Simpson Achieves Lifelong Dream of Australian Olympic Trials Cody Simpson, who is best known as a world famous singer, has returned to the pool and achieved one of his lifelong dreams of qualifying for the Australian Olympic Trials. Simpson, who was a highly successful age group swimme...

If Tokyo Games Canceled, Swimming Australia Planning on Backup Event Swimming Australia's newly elected president and Olympic legend Kieren Perkins has revealed that the country’s most successful Olympic sport is preparing its National team to swim on in 2021 – Tokyo or no Tokyo. Two-time Olympic go...

It's been a huge week in Adelaide for Australia's Multi-Class swimmers who have thrilled the audiences who have packed the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre and tonight Australia will name one of its strongest ever swim teams for this year's Paralympics in Tokyo. The big performers this week have includ...

World ranked number one Kaylee McKeown has tonight continued on her record breaking way to this year's Tokyo Olympic Games - with Matthew Temple and Ariarne Titmus joining the record rush in a spectacular first hour of the final night of the Australian Trials in Adelaide. McKeown set a new  Commonwe...

Swimming Australia Reveals Backup Plans and Insurance Swims for Olympic Trials Swimming Australia (SAL) has today announced a range of scenarios if a COVID lockdown and border closures disrupts its June Olympic Trials in Adelaide. Regardless, it will almost certainly see the Western Australian Tokyo...

Two-Time Australian Olympian Matt Targett on Comeback Trail Seven years after he retired as a two-time Australian Olympian, Matt Targett is back in the water and training under the watch of former Auburn coach and fellow countryman, Brett Hawke. A three-time Olympic medalist and once a mainstay on t...

Little did a 16-year-old Rohan Taylor realise that he would one day become the latest National Head Coach of the same Australian Olympic Swim Team that showed up in his family backyard in San Jose in 1984. Taylor was born in Melbourne in 1968 but grew up in Hong Kong and the United States with his f...

Emma McKeon has had a flying start to the 2021 Australian Olympic Swimming Trials with a sizzling 100m heat swim of 56.82 in the 100m butterfly at the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre. McKeon, the 27-year-old Commonwealth and Australian record holder and Commonwealth Games gold medallist from the Gold ...

The Day Mitch Larkin and Dean Boxall Sealed An Olympic Deal Over A Few Beers At Brisbane’s Regatta Hotel A chat over a few beers at an iconic hotel over looking the Brisbane River could well see a gold medal toast for Australia’s Mitch Larkin at this year’s Tokyo Olympics. Two-time Olympian and dual...

Swimming Australia has today paid tribute to its departing head coach Jacco Verhaeren who will reluctantly step aside early from his National Team duties on a day they also welcomed the appointment of Dolphins Team coach leader, respected Olympic team coach Rohan Taylor as his replacement. [caption ...

This year’s 2021 Australian Swimming Trials at Adelaide’s SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre (June 12-17) which kicks off today in Adelaide will feature the country’s best Multi-Class swimmers – old and young - vying for selection for this year’s Paralympic Games in Tokyo (August 24-September 5). The Tri...

Australia’s top Para-swimmers are set to write a new chapter in the Nation’s decorated sporting history at the Tokyo Paralympics with a 32-strong Team confirmed in Adelaide tonight. The announcement made by Australian Team Chef de Mission Kate McLoughlin came after five hard fought days of competiti...

Swimming Australia is delighted to announce that dual Olympic gold medallist, Alex Baumann, has been appointed to the position of Chief Executive of Swimming Australia. Baumann, the current Swimming Australia Chief Strategist who leads the high performance arm of the organisation, is a Canadian nati...

Ariarne Titmus has missed the longest standing women’s swimming world record by a whisker with a powerhouse 200m freestyle win, clocking a stunning time of 1:53.09 at the Australian Olympic Trials in Adelaide tonight before suggesting she can go faster in Tokyo. RACE VIDEO VIA AMAZON PRIME [caption ...

Kaylee McKeown's Mobile Phone Meltdown, A Message From Regan Smith And The Fastest 200IM In The World This Year A mobile phone that went into meltdown, five hours sleep after getting to bed at 1.30am and a congratulatory text from her main rival were all part of Kaylee McKeown’s world record breakin...

Amazon Prime Video and Swimming Australia In Historic Streaming Splash Down Under In a first for swimming, USA-based streaming giant, Amazon Prime Video will broadcast the 2021 Australian Olympic Swimming Trials live from Adelaide in June in the countdown to the Tokyo Games. Amazon Prime Video and S...

The 2021 Australian Olympic Trials will begin June 12 and continue through June 17 as the meet will be held at the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre in Adelaide, which has been home of the last two Olympic Trials in Australia. Spots in Tokyo will be on the line as the Australians are one of the last natio...

Mack’s Attack Not Enough In Epic 400m Freestyle Showdown As Winnington And McLoughlin Turn On Tokyo Turbos Australia’s Rio Olympic champion Mack Horton (Melbourne Vicentre) won’t get the chance to defend his 400m crown in Tokyo after one of the greatest races in the history of swimming in Australia ...