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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...

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...

Kyle Chalmers Thrills His Hometown Crowd With A Powerhouse Final Lap Burst To Book His Seat For Tokyo Olympic 100m freestyle champion, Kyle Chalmers has produced one of his famous powerhouse finishes to book his place on the plane to Tokyo - thrilling his home town crowd with a stirring victory in t...

Kyle Chalmers Stops the Clock at 47.59 In The 100m Freestyle To Book His Place For "The Greatest Race" Defending Olympic 100m freestyle champion Kyle Chalmers is primed for what he has declared will be “one of the greatest races in swimming history” after barnstorming his way into the top five times...

Ahead of Tokyo Games, Katie Ledecky vs. Ariarne Titmus Showdowns Taking Form With the countdown to the Olympic Games at fewer than 100 days, greater hype will be placed on several impending individual showdowns in Tokyo. Caeleb Dressel vs. Kyle Chalmers. Lilly King vs. Yuliya Efimova. Shoma Sato vs....

Triple World Junior champion and Tokyo Olympic hopeful Lani Pallister will prepare for next year’s Tokyo Trials on the Gold Coast after her coaching mum Janelle Pallister accepted an offer she just couldn’t refuse. Janelle Pallister, who swam at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul as Janelle Elford, has...

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...

Zac Stubblety-Cook’s Sizzling 2:06.28 Down Under Sets Up A Tokyo Showdown With Anton Chupkov Australia’s Zac Stubblety-Cook has set up an Olympic showdown with Anton Chupkov in Tokyo after missing the Russian’s 200 breast world record by just 0.14 in a race against the clock at the Australian Trials...

The boy from the Blue Mountains Matthew Wilson wore the biggest smile on the pool deck in Adelaide earning inclusion in the  35-strong Australian Olympic Swim Team for Tokyo - after missing automatic qualification. Wilson was nominated to the Team under Swimming Australia’s selection policy under e....

Shayna Jack Has Doping Ban Reduced, But Will Miss Tokyo Games; Sisters in Sport Offering Support Australian swimming's golden girls Cate Campbell and Libby Trickett, have led a flood of support following news of Shayna Jack’s 2021 return to the pool after the banned freestyle star had her four-year ...

Kaylee McKeown Blasts WR 57.45 in 100 Backstroke at Aussie Trials: Ariarne Titmus Scares Ledecky Record As the United States Olympic Trials await their start in a few hours, a world-record warning shot was fired Down Under on Sunday when Kaylee McKeown, riding a hot streak for several months, broke ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Australian sprinter Shayna Jack revealed the emotional toll that her failed drug test has had on her in the past couple months in an Instagram post. Jack originally failed a drug test right before the World Championships in July and withdrew herself from the Australian team. Jack, 20, has uncertaint...

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...

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...

Swimming Australia is pleased to announce the renewal of its partnership with iconic swimwear brand, arena. The partnership, which is an extension on the previous four-year agreement, will see arena confirm to be the official swimwear and apparel partner of the Australian Dolphins swim team until De...

Kaylee McKeown The Name On Everyone’s Mind With Australian Trials To Start Saturday In Adelaide The 2020-21 season has seen the emergence of a host of young Australian girls with their eyes on the Tokyo prize – and they will all be on show from this Saturday at the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials at...

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...