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By Andy Ross, Swimming World College Intern The Rio Olympics are quickly approaching and the swimming community is buzzing with excitement. Swimmers under the age of 10 will be viewing their first Olympics and people around the world of sports will be paying attention to the sport. Ask any swimmer o...

Olympic golden girl Bronte Barratt and her 2008 Australian Beijing teammate and bronze medallist Patrick Murphy have welcomed the arrival of their first-born son William Oswald, to swimming's lovers lanes. Triple Olympian Barratt gave birth to the couple’s healthy baby boy in Brisbane this week with...

St Peters Western (Brisbane, Qld) Head Coach Dean Boxall has joined a “who’s who” of Australia’s legendary list of swim coaches after being named the 2019 Australian Swimming Coaches And Teachers Association (ASCTA) prestigious Coach of the Year today. Boxall won the award for his efforts with Ariar...

New President Chris Fydler’s Plan To Make Swimming Australia’s Number One Sport  Newly appointed Swimming Australia president, triple Olympian and Sydney 2000 gold medalist Chris Fydler (OAM), has wasted no time declaring his intentions in the countdown to the LA28 and a third home Olympics in Brisb...

Swimming Australia President Chris Fydler To Deny And Defend World Aquatics Integrity Unit Allegations Newly appointed Swimming Australia president Chris Fydler (OAM) faces a fight for his administrative life following allegations made against the Olympic gold medalist by the World Aquatics Integri....

THORPE SLASHES PERKINS' 400 FREE WORLD RECORD BY ALMOST TWO SECONDS By Stephen J. Thomas The Sunday morning heats here in Sydney attracted the largest crowd ever to a heat session in Australia, setting the scene for an action-packed evening in front of a full house. The lure of A$25,000 on offer for...

ANOTHER WORLD RECORD FOR AUSSIE MEN By Stephen J. Thomas The Aussie 800m freestyle relay annihilated their existing world record by more than 3 seconds. Thorpe as part of the team has broken a world record on each night of this meet!!! Tom Malchow (US) swam the 2nd fastest 200 fly in history and Sus...

By Stephen J.Thomas SYDNEY, May 17 – SUSIE O’Neill’s has come close to the great Mary T. Meagher’s, 19-year-old 200 meter butterfly record several time in the past, just failing to keep pace over the telling last 50 meters. Tonight with a capacity crowd of over 10,000 willing her on, the 26-year-old...

By Stephen Thomas SYDNEY, December 4. IN the hiatus that has followed the pressure and tension associated with the World Championships and Goodwill Games, many of Australia's leading swimmers have been using the opportunity to take some important 'dry land' matters in hand. Several have ...

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...

Michael Klim became as synonymous in Sydney in 2000 as the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House – standing tall as the pillars of an Olympic city, brimming in national pride. And the up-comimg 20th Anniversary of the Games will bring an even greater joy as the world comes to terms with the horrors of ...

Takeoff To Tokyo: "We Will Smash Them Like Guitars" - The Infamous Air-Guitar Race By John Lohn More than 17,000 passionate Australian fans stood and yelled, anticipating a moment their country had long envisioned. The Sydney Aquatic Center was the focal point of the 2000 Olympic Games, and as th...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins SYDNEY, September 16. WORLD records fell in all four final events on the first night of competition at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. In fact, five world marks fell in the four events. Women's 400 IM - FINALS GOLD - Klochkova UKR 4:33.59 WORLD RECORD! SI...

How Will The US Swim Team Fare in Sydney? The U.S. Olympic Trials are over and the US team has made the long trans-Pacific trek. How will the Americans fare at the Olympic Games in Sydney against the world's best? Swimming World has a pretty good idea and offers its predictions for gold, silver...

20th Anniversary of Sydney 2000 Olympic swimming trials in Australia It was a magical time for swimming in Australia – one week in May in the year 2000 when 665 swimmers gathered in Sydney, some seven years after the International Olympic Committee announced that Sydney had won the right to stage t....

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 21. No world records were set on the sixth night of competition at the Sydney Olympic Games, but the US dominated competition at the Aquatic Centre. The Americans took home 8 out of a possible 12 medals on the night - 1 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze. Eve...

By Stephen J. Thomas SYDNEY, May 19 – In front of a crowd of over 11,000, the much-heralded clash between world record-holder, Michael Klim and second ranked Aussie, Geoff Huegill, proved to be a thrilling battle. As the swimmers mounted the blocks for the final, Klim had already qualified for the O...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, July 22. Australian Swimming's wonderkid Ian Thorpe made an impressive Telstra Grand Prix debut at Chandler Aquatic Centre in Brisbane today today after hatching a pre-race plan with fellow Olympian Grant Hackett before the race. Thorpe, the world record holder and world ...

Twenty years on and Iconic Australian Olympians Ian Thorpe And Dawn Fraser Take A Trip Down Memory Lane Two of Australia’s greatest Olympians, swimmers Ian Thorpe and Dawn Fraser have today taken a trip back down memory lane to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Sydney ...

Tributes Flow For Don Talbot - Coaching Icon Leaves Lifetime Legacy For Swimming In Australia Tributes have poured into Swimming Australia following the passing of one of Australia’s greatest ever sporting coaches with the death yesterday of legendary former National Head Coach Don Talbot, AO, OBE. ...