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Swimming Siblings: When Two (or More) Members of One Family Achieved International Success When a child dives into summer league or club swimming for the first time, he or she often has familiar company with a sibling: a few years older, a few years younger or even a twin. When a swimmer reaches eli...

Australia’s Most Decorated Olympian Emma McKeon Hangs Up Her Goggles Australia’s most decorated Olympian Emma McKeon has today officially announced her retirement from all levels of swimming – hanging up her goggles after the most celebrated career of any Australian swimmer. McKeon boasts an unsurpa...

Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers Undergoes Surprise Shoulder Surgery In Sydney Australia's Rio Olympic gold medallist Kyle Chalmers has had arthroscopic shoulder surgery in a Sydney Hospital where doctors removed a troublesome bursa and revealing the 100m freestyle champion would be "good to go" for h...

Australia’s Forgotten 1980 Olympians Finally Recognized After Divisive and Disastrous Moscow Saga It was a diminished and puzzled Olympic team that left Australian shores in 1980 under a cloak of darkness, some heading off to secret training camps receiving death threats and branded as traitors as ....

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 6-12, 2020   Sunday, January 12 Tokyo 2020 Golden Shot Mats...

2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS (June 10-15): Remembering Thorpie’s Fall 20 Years On – Expect the Unexpected The Olympic Swimming Trials can be assured of one thing “expect the unexpected” come Monday at 11am in Brisbane when the gun goes to kick-start the opening session of Australia’s six-day sele....

Tokyo Flashback: Hail The New Queen - Australia’s Emma McKeon Wins 100m freestyle Gold; Cate Campbell A Proud Bronzed Aussie One year has passed since the Olympic Games, delayed by a year due to COVID-19, unfolded in Tokyo. To celebrate what went down in the Japanese capital, Swimming World is revis...

Australian Olympic swim star Emma McKeon has issued an impassioned plea to help those families who have lost their homes to Australia’s worst ever bushfires after her own family survived the utter devastation first hand from a normally majestic Lake Conjola, on the New South Wales (NSW) South Coast....

Australia’s Celebrated Supercoach Michael Bohl To Take “Long Service Leave” After Paris Olympics. Michael Bohl, one of Australia’s most celebrated coaches, will leave the pool deck for 12 months after guiding his athletes to this year’s Paris Olympics. It is a deserved long service leave for not o.....

David McKeon, a two-time Olympic swimmer representing Australia, announced his retirement from the sport Thursday. McKeon announced the decision via Facebook. “After being involved in a sport that has gave me more than I could have possibly dreamed, it’s with both trepidation and excitement I announ...

It was the night of 6 August 2016 at the Aquatics Stadium in Rio de Janeiro and Hannah Miley appeared to be on course for her first Olympic medal. Coming out of the final turn in the 400IM, the Scot was in bronze position and on track to make the Olympic podium in the third final of her career. Litt...

The second day of the Japan Open upped the ante for the host country as two senior national records and one junior record fell in Tokyo. The meet is featuring a contingent of athletes from Australia and Great Britain, while American Anthony Ervin is also in attendance. Satomi Suzuki set the first na...

BRISBANE, Australia, April 6. THE Australian Swim Team for the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow has been announced, tonight following a week of world class action at the Australian Swimming Championships in Brisbane. World champions Cate Campbell, Christian Sprenger and James Magnussen will join g...

The Soak - Swim News In Brief 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 3-February 9, 2020 Saturday, ...

Emma McKeon and the Story Behind Australia's Most Underrated Star (From February's Swimming World Magazine) After not qualifying for Australia’s Olympic team in 2012, Emma McKeon was ready to quit, but over the next several months, she had a change of heart and understood what was necessary to compe...

Swimming Australia’s next generation of swimming stars will receive a major boost to their development pathway and future swimming careers thanks to the Australian Commonwealth Games Association (ACGA) NextGEN squad support grant. Following on from the impressive results at the 2015 Georgina Hope Sw...

Photo by Delly Carr Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. By David Rieder GOLD COAST, Australia, August 22. ALMOST any American would call Kevin Cordes the be...

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr Editorial coverage for the Pan Pacific Championships is proudly sponsored by Master Spas! For complete coverage of the Pan Pacific Championships, check out our event landing page. GOLD COAST, Australia, August 23. Korea’s Tae Hwan Park became the first man to ever win the ...

Swimming Australia Lands A Major Coup With Rob Woodhouse Appointed New CEO Dual Olympian, swimming entrepreneur and English Channel conqueror, Rob Woodhouse, will take over as Swimming Australia’s next CEO in April. To say this is a major coup for the sport’s governing body is an understatement ...

There were so many great highlights from Australian swimmers through the decade beginning in 2010 and about to end. Highlights to celebrate included Olympic and Paralympic champions, World and Commonwealth Games champions and a popular comeback from one of the sport's real characters in Geoff Huegil...