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Famous Carlile Name  Back In The Fast Lane To Capture 2025 Australian Age Pointscore Carlile, one of swimming’s iconic names, has taken a trip down memory lane to re-capture the National Age Pointscore for the first time in 36 years after nine frantic days of racing at the 2025 Australian Age Champ....

The Australia Day Long Weekend came to a close in Adelaide today with the cream of Australia’s open water swimmers and Olympic hopefuls putting the finishing touches to three spectacular days of racing at SA’s Brighton Beach. Noosa’s individual brilliance at the Australian Open Water Swimming Champi...

Celebrated international swimming coach and one time Royal Marine, Chris Nesbit, has today described his appointment as the head of High Performance at Carlile Swimming as the most exciting day of his already celebrated coaching career. The Sydney-based Carlile Swimming, founded by legendary Austral...

It could be a case of going “Back To The Future’ for the Australian Olympic swim team with the Australian Institute of Sport on the radar as a training venue in the lead up to Tokyo 2020. Australia’s “Class of 2020” Olympians have received the green light from the Australian Olympic Committee to cha...

Australian swimmers have made a splash on both sides of the country with an exciting weekend return to racing in Perth, WA and on Queensland’s Gold Coast. After months of hibernation, meet cancellations and hundreds of kilometres in training due to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions it was finally ...

Gold Coast Olympic hopeful Maddy Gough has gatecrashed her way into the World All-Time Top Ten for 1500m at the 2020 Speedo Short Course Preparation Meet at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre. The 21-year-old clocked the eighth fastest time in history with her new Australian and Australian All-Comers recor...

Two-time Gold Coast Olympian Cameron McEvoy (TSS Aquatic) will return to racing in Melbourne this weekend at the Victorian State Championships – entered in all freestyle events between 50 and 400 metres at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Centre. Racings starts on Friday in the three-day meet which ...

Noosa’s three-time Australian 10km open water champion Nick Sloman will headline a six-strong group of Australians to Doha next month. They will contest the 2020 Marathon Swim World Series Event on February 15 –the next stop on the road to Tokyo Olympic selection. It’s a big deal – the top two from ...

Swimming World soaks up snippets from the realm of water sports around the world in a one-stop digest updated each day of every passing week. If you have a snippet of news for us, let us know: editorial@swimmingworld.com The Week of January 20-26, 2020 Saturday, January 25 Anderson Embraces The Comf...

Australia’s latest world record holders Zac Stubblety-Cook and Ariarne Titmus will be joined by pop star Cody Simpson and a determined world number one Shayna Jack in Australia’s 46-member able-bodied swim team named tonight in Adelaide for this year’s Commonwealth Games. One of the strongest teams ...

Haig Buckingham The Latest Blue Mountains Breaststroke Prodigy On The Rise At NSW Senior States Another boy from Sydney’s Blue Mountains is making record-breaking waves in Australia’s breaststroking ranks after the first four days of the 2022 NSW Senior State Age Championships at the Sydney Olympic ...

Testing Times For Olympic Golden Boys Mack Horton And Kyle Chalmers Caught Up In COVID Lockdown Swimming Australia has confirmed that members of its Olympic team, including Rio golden boys Kyle Chalmers and Mack Horton, “did not attend any high risk locations” during their visit to Magnetic Island, ...

Sydney Sprints: Carlile’s Madeleine Gough Going The Distance To Paris In A Famous Cap Tokyo Olympic finalist Madeleine Gough has confirmed her status as one of Australia’s stand out Paris hopes with her fastest 1500m freestyle in three years on the opening night of the Sydney Sprints 2023 Australia....

Making an Olympic team was never meant to be easy but whoever pulls on the green and gold blazer as Australia’s lone male open water swimmer in Tokyo next year will certainly have one helluva journey to talk about. [caption id="attachment_433787" align="alignright" width="350"] MATESHIP: Three of th...

Cody Simpson’s Flying Visit from Queensland to NSW For Back-To-Back State Championship Victories Paris Olympic hopeful Cody Simpson has won his second State Championship in the space of 48 hours, with a flying visit to Sydney to take out the NSW Senior Age title, following his win at the Hancock Pr....

David Proud Appointed Head Coach Of Sydney’s Southern Performance Centre Swimming NSW has today officially announced the appointment of award-winning Queensland coach David Proud to lead its highly anticipated Southern Performance Centre based out of Sydney’s Sutherland Leisure Centre. As the new...

Good Golly Miss Mollie As Australia’s Dolphins Shake Up Bond Relay Blitz   Mollie O’Callaghan, the 16-year-old Queensland schoolgirl who is swimming faster than Cate Campbell and Emma McKeon at the same age, has again caught the eye as Australia’s top swimmers went through their paces in a virtual R...

The next waves of Australian Dolphin elite swim squad members have finally received the go-ahead to return to training next week but under strict COVID-19 guidelines with pools on the east coast preparing to open their doors. Leading coaches from around the country met via conference link with Swimm...

Five months after the COVID-19 pandemic shut out, Australia’s competition starved swimmers will finally see a return to racing in a series of virtual competitions around the country tomorrow (Friday, July 24). Three venues on the Gold Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast will fire the g...

The road to Tokyo hots for Australia’s open water marathon men at the Australian 10km Championships off Brighton Beach in Adelaide on Saturday. There is one remaining spot on the 2020 Olympic team for open water - an event that was introduced back in 2008 – the year legendary waterman Ky Hurst joine...