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The young Australian men's team also dominated the opening leg of the World Cup Series in Hong Kong. The Australians finished the two-day meet with nine gold medals while the Chinese women collected seven. Michael Klim, 19, led the Australian assault on the second day by adding gold medals in the 20...

Michael Klim and Matthew Dunn each won two events as Australia collected six victories on the first day of the two-day World Cup in Malmo, Sweden. Klim defeated Jamaican Sion Brinn to win the 100m freestyle in 48.86 and later clocked 24.13 to take the 50m butterfly ahead of Sweden's Ola Fagerstrand....

1994 World Champion, Lu Bin from China made a successful return to competition after serving a two-year drug ban. Lu was one of seven Chinese swimmers who tested positive at the 1994 Asian Games. At the World Cup 5 in Glasgow, Great Britain, she celebrated victory in her first appearance in Europe s...

The Chinese women struck gold in eight of the nine events. Surprisingly, the Chinese men also swam extremely well. Granted, the competition took place in Beijing, China, but their performances were very impressive. Wang Luna beat Olympic gold medalist Claudia Poll in the 400m freestyle with a time o...

Adrian Radley, Ryan Mitchell, Geoff Huegill and Michael Klim of Australia set a world record in the 400m medley relay with a time of 3:30.91 at Australian Short Course Swimming Championships. They smashed the previous standard of 3:32.57 set by an American quartet of Tripp Schwenk, Eric Wunderlich, ...

By Ian Hanson Sydney Olympic hopeful Brett Hawke today smashed the Australian record in the heats of the 50 metres freestyle on day two of the fifth World Short Course Swimming Championships in Athens. Hawke, 24, clocked 21.82, taking 0.07 off Sydney University team mate and two times Olympian Chris...

FIVE WORLD RECORDS FOR THE AUSSIES!! By Stephen Thomas After the rigors of the Pan Pacific Championships, it was not surprising that many of the leading Australian swimmers set themselves a limited program or decided to rest from this meet altogether. The SC Championships commenced only four days af...

By Stephen J. Thomas Sydney, Australia - Another sensational night of short course swimming in Sydney saw Aussie stars Ian Thorpe and Susie O'Neill lower their own world marks for the 200m freestyle and 200m butterfly, respectively. Ian Thorpe continued where he left off last year with his first wor...

By Ian Hanson October 24. LEIGHT NUGENT, one of Australian Swimming's most respected National level coaches, has been chosen to succeed Bill Sweetenham as Australia's National Youth Coach. The Melbourne based Nugent, 49, has been an Australian National team coach at the Pan Pacific and World...