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Sydney Sprints: Cam McEvoy is In The House After A Move To Sydney And The Famous Manly Swimming Club Manly SC is a club steeped in Swimming Australia’s long and proud history and it’s no wonder there were a few eyebrows raised when the fields were released for this week’s Sydney Sprints Meet and Aus...

Andrew "Boy"Charlton, Kieren Perkins And Priya Cooper Inducted Into Swimming Australia Hall Of Fame Olympic 1500m freestyle legends, Manly’s pioneering powerhouse Andrew “Boy” Charlton and Queensland “Superfish” Kieren Perkins with WA’s Paralympic golden girl Priya Cooper have today been unveiled a....

Manly Olympian Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards and who taught Greta Garbo How To Swim, Dies Age 97 One of Australia’s oldest surviving Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, Frank O’Neill, has passed away peacefully at home in his beloved suburb of Manly,....

On this day 100 years ago on April 29, 1920, the federated Australian Olympic Council was formed and one of the unsung heroes of Australian sports administration James “Pa” Taylor was elected President – a position he was to hold until his death in 1944. Today’s anniversary marks the formal separati...

Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer John Konrads has been described as “Mr Unbeatable” as Australian swimming remembers one of its greatest ever champions, following his death on the Sunshine Coast yesterday. [caption id="attachment_470880" align="alignright" width="434"] WORLD RECORD SMILE: John Kon...

Australia has a proud history in surf lifesaving with so many of its Olympians mixing their successful swimming careers with surf racing. The results of over a century of lifesaving activities feature some of the countries greats from Australia’s first Olympic swimming gold medallist in Freddie Lane...

Australia’s Historic Manly Swimming Club Celebrates 100 Years of Olympic Dreams – To Paris And Back From 1924 to 2024. Manly Swimming Club, one of Australia’s oldest and most distinguished swimming clubs, will this Saturday night host a sell-out Gala Dinner to celebrate 100 Years of Olympic Dreams ....

Australian World Short Course Star Lani Pallister’s Open Water Podium Start To 2023 Australian swim star Lani Pallister has started 2023 the same way she finished 2022 – on top of the podium - after winning the iconic Lorne Pier-To-Pub Ocean Swim Classic on Victoria’s Surf Coast for a fourth straigh...

Centenary of The Australian Olympic Council To mark this week’s 100 year anniversary of the formation of the Australian Olympic Council and breakaway from the combined Australasian teams with New Zealand, the Australian Olympic Committee has reflected back on a century of Australian Olympic sports, ...

Cate Campbell, who has been very much the leading lady of Australia swimming over the past decade, will now become one of the leaders of the country’s Olympic team, named tonight to share the Flag Bearing duties at the 2020 Tokyo Games, with another four—time Olympian, inspiring indigenous basketbal...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....