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NSW State Champs, Day 3: Kaylee McKeown Nudges Own 50 Backstroke World Record with Sizzling 27.06 in Prelims The amazing feats of the unstoppable Kaylee McKeown have continued in Sydney today with the four-time Olympic champion nudging her own world record for 50 metres backstroke – clocking 27.06 ....

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Finals, Day One: Emma McKeon Ticks The Paris Box in The 100m Butterfly Alongside New Breaststroke Olympians Sam Williamson and Joshua Yong Australia’s most successful Olympian – five-time gold medallist and 11 time medallist - Emma McKeon has tonight booked her place on a third .....

NSW Championships, Night 2: Absence Makes The Arms Go Faster for Tara Kinder Who Drops A 200m Breaststroke Rankings Buster Of 2:23.84 Melbourne University student Tara Kinder quit swimming two years ago, the former Victorian Age group star spending 14 months away from the sport. And by her own adm.....

Paris Golden Girl Lani Pallister Claims Record-Equaling Sixth Lorne Pier To Pub; Nic Sloman Wins Men’s Thriller  Queensland’s Olympic and world champion Lani Pallister just keeps on keeping on after adding her record equaling sixth Powercor Pier To Pub classic at Lorne on Victoria’s surf coast yest....

Australian Trials, Day 5, Finals: Australia Unearths Its Next 1500m Star With Benjamin Goedemans Producing the Swim Of His Life in 14:52.99  Australia has unearthed a rising star in 21-year-old Queenslander Benjamin Goedemans who has barnstormed his way into a second event for this year’s World Cha....

Australian Champs, Day 2, Finals: Tara Kinder Conquers The Pain Barrier In 4:37.14 To Race Up The 400IM World Rankings For Victoria’s breaststroking IMer Tara Kinder, 2025 will already be a year remembered as “simply the best” after continuing her painful climb up the world rankings in Brisbane las....

Coaching Switch For Mack Horton Who Announces Move To Queensland Super Coach Michael Bohl Rio Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton is hoping a change will be as good as a holiday with today’s shock announcement he is leaving his native Melbourne to re-ignite his career for Paris 2024 under master coac...

Olympic Champion Mack Horton Makes Mercy Dash Out Of Melbourne To Book His Ticket To Tokyo Olympic champion Mack Horton has had to make a mercy dash out of Melbourne and into Queensland with a host of Australian Tokyo hopefuls following Victoria’s latest COVID outbreaks – a move which could ultimate...

Australia's Rio Olympic Gold Medallist Mack Horton Calls Time On a Golden Career With One Regret ... 'Only that the Years Went So Quickly' Australia’s 2016 Rio Olympic gold medallist Mack Horton has today retired from swimming, in the same graceful, humble manner in which he swam, with the aplomb t....

Japan Open: Aussie Breaststrokers Diving Into The Deep End Against Japanese Guns A select group of 13 Australian breaststrokers, under the guidance of two-time Olympic head coach Leigh Nugent, have dived head-first into one of the swimming’s hottest melting pots in Japan this week. Their aim: “To .....

Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister Headline Victorian State Championship Meet Australia’s backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown and World Short Course star Lani Pallister will return to Melbourne for this week’s Victorian State Swimming Championships starting tomorrow at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic ...

Shoulder Injury Forces Ariarne Titmus To Miss Australian Dolphins National Event Camp On The Gold Coast Australia's lone 2019 individual world champion and Tokyo Olympic hope Ariarne Titmus will be missing with a shoulder injury when 64 of the country's top swimmers arrive on the Gold Coast this wee...

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...

Australia’s Olympic swimming campaign kick starts in earnest this week with the first of a series of National Event Camps in Brisbane with Australia's top athletes and coaches joined by some of the sport's greatest Olympic champions including  Kieren Perkins, Stephanie Rice and Jodie Henry who will ...

Eight Olympic Gold Medallists Spearhead Powerful Australian Dolphins Team For Home World Short Course Championships Australia has named a powerful 36-strong team for this year’s 16th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Melbourne in December including eight Olympic gold medallists, a brother-s...

Olympic Champion Mack Horton banking on long game in short course opener in Melbourne; shot at what would be Horton's first-ever Aussie s/c title Australian Short-Course Championships October 24-26 Melbourne Sports Centres - MSAC Meet Info The Hancock Prospecting Australian Short Course Swimming Cha...

Australian Olympic Trials In what has been a lead up like no other Australia's finest swimmers will line up in Adelaide from June 12-17 (Saturday, Australian time) for the 2021 Australian Olympic Trials at the SA Aquatic And Leisure Centre. It has been a frantic and frenetic time where Selection Cri...

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...

Australia’s “Sunshine Sisters” Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister Light Up The Dolphins Fast Lane Australia’s Tokyo Olympic hopefuls led by Queensland Sunshine Coast teenagers Kaylee McKeown and Lani Pallister have rocketed the Dolphins back into the fast lane after the 2020 Hancock Prospecting Austr...

Australia’s head swimming coach Jacco Verhaeren knows first hand that this year’s Tokyo Olympics will not be swum “on a level playing field” and has sent an impassioned and unprecedented message to the world expressing his concerns. To hold the Olympic Games from July 24, 2020, he suggests, "would n...