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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....

Mack Horton Faces The Race Of His Life In 400m Freestyle Final At The Australian Olympic Trials Defending Olympic champion Mack Horton (Melbourne Vicentre) has put himself in the game, qualifying fourth fastest into what will be a gripping 400m freestyle final on the opening night’s finals of the Au...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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...

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...

Swimming Australia unveils “Greatness Starts Somewhere” Australia has a rich and storied history when it comes to Olympic swimming – winning a total of 58 gold medals since Sydney lifesaver Freddie Lane won double gold in the River Seine at the 1900 Games in Paris. From the first females Sarah ‘Fann...

Swimming Australia has today confirmed the event dates for its national competition schedule leading into the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics next year, with the domestic calendar set to play a vital role in the athletes’ preparation. The four major national meets organised in the first half of 2021 ...

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...

Australia’s Olympic Tribulations Before The Trials Will Be Taylor-Made For Tokyo's Golden Opportunities Australian head coach Rohan Taylor has provided a detailed look at where he thinks the Dolphins are sitting one month out from the Olympic Trials in Adelaide – after which he will send the Olympic...

Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) To Lead Independent Female Panel To Investigate Swimming's Ongoing Issues Celebrated US Olympic champion, leading sports administrator and Swimming Australia director Tracy Stockwell (Caulkins) will head  an independent female panel to investigate the sport's ongoing issue...

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 ...

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...

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...

Operations, injuries and a postponed Olympics has only made Olympic 100m freestyle champion Kyle Chalmers hungrier than ever to defend his gold medal in Tokyo this year. Chalmers, still only 22, has used visualisation methods to picture himself winning gold again in Tokyo and becoming only the seven...

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...

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...