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World Championships: Chen Yuxi Wins 9th Gold with Platform Title Chen Yuxi is just 19 years old, but she won her ninth career World Championships gold medal on Thursday by triumphing in the women’s platform event. Chen scored 430.50 points in the five-dive final. She blew away the field, with German...

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 27-February 2, 2020 Saturday ...

Olympians Joined By Emerging Stars On Australia A Team For TYR Summer Championships in Irvine Australia will send a team of 21 swimmers led by Olympians Ben Armbruster and Se-Bom Lee and a host of emerging stars to contest the TYR Summer Championships in Irvine in August. Armbruster (Bond, QLD) wa.....

With a late World Championships this year, Swimming Australia is sending 14 swimmers to the Para Swimming World Series in Indianapolis in June for extra racing and preparation opportunities. Leading the school of dolphins is Ellie Cole, six-time Paralympic Gold Medalist and three-time World Champion...

“Dreams do come true,” Emilee Pratt said after meeting her idol Ellie Cole, a surprise which brought the young swimmer to tears. After hearing a knock at the door of her Newcastle home, Emilee did not expect the six-time Paralympic world champion to be waiting to meet her on the other side. “I heard...

A team of 35 swimmers – 21 men and 14 women – will represent the Australian Dolphins at next month’s Para Pan Pacs in Cairns from August 9-14. The team was named after four-days of solid competition at the Hancock Prospecting Pan Pacific Championship Trials at the SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre and inc...

The final night of the 2019 Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide closed Friday night with Kyle Chalmers and Mitch Larkin winning their fourth titles of the week. Chalmers won the 50 free and Larkin won the 200 back for his 18th national title in his career. Calypso Sheridan, Joshua Parrish,...

Multiple swimmers surged up the world rankings on the final night of the 2018 Australian Pan Pacific Trials. Veteran Mitch Larkin led the way in the 200 backstroke after blasting a 1:55.40. The time is now the second fastest in the world so far this year. Kaylee McKeown and Minna Atherton did likewi...

Paralympics: Australia's Brenden Hall Chasing Para Three-Peat in 400m Freestyle Australia’s triple Paralympic gold medalist Brenden Hall will swap his “all guns blazing” attitude with "a touch of finesse" when he chases a slice of Games history in tomorrow’s opening swim session of the 2020 Tokyo Pa...

Two of the stars of Australia’s Rio Olympic swimming campaign Mack Horton and Emma McKeon were front and centre in Sydney today when iconic aquatic brand Speedo unveiled its exclusive sports uniform range for this year’s Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Speedo Olympic and Paralympic swim suit...

Australian Paralympic champion Ellie Cole cemented her comeback from a serious shoulder injury on Monday (13 July), with a new women’s 100m backstroke S9 world record in the heats of the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships in Glasgow, Great Britain. Cole, who had shoulder surgery in 2012 which nea...

DUEL IN THE POOL: The Michael Andrew Led USA Sink The Aussie Dolphins The might of the world’s No 1 swimming nation the USA remained unbroken tonight with the Americans reigning supreme again  over Australia for a fourth time on the third and final day of an epic Duel In The Pool that saw swimming r...

Ariarne Titmus In Record Breaking Touch At NSW Championships in Sydney Dual Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western, QLD) has started her NSW State Open Championship campaign in record-breaking style, setting a new NSW-All-comers record last night in the 800m freestyle. [caption id="attac...

Australia’s top Para-swimmers are set to write a new chapter in the Nation’s decorated sporting history at the Tokyo Paralympics with a 32-strong Team confirmed in Adelaide tonight. The announcement made by Australian Team Chef de Mission Kate McLoughlin came after five hard fought days of competiti...

Green Light For Gold Coast To Host Australian Age and Open Multi-Class Nationals After COVID Lockdown Swimming Australia has today confirmed that its 2021 Australian Age Championships, which includes the Australian Multi-Class Open Championships, will proceed as planned on the Gold Coast – starting ...

Paralympic gold medallists Ellie Cole and Tiffany Thomas Kane, along with young emerging swimmer Jake Michel, have continued Australia’s positive performance in the pool on the second night of the 2019 World Para Swimming World Series. More than 15 years after she began swimming in Frankston, Cole (...

Australia’s Tokyo Stars In Adelaide Splashdown To Kick Start Swimming’s Busy International Year Australia’s Tokyo swim stars will once again splashdown in Adelaide’s SA Aquatic & Leisure Centre next April for the 2022 Australian Open and Age Swimming Championships – to christen the start of what wil...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. Two new world records were added to the record books last week from Ilya Shymanovich of Belarus and Kira Toussaint of the Netherlands, with Shymanovich lowering Adam Peaty's 100 breast world record in short course meters, and Toussaint tying her own mark in t...

Campbell Sisters, Chalmers, Horton and McKeon Headline Olympic Who’s Who for NSW State Champs Olympic gold medallists Kyle Chalmers, Mack Horton, the Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte and the unstoppable Emma McKeon will headline a host of Australian swimming’s biggest names who will return to Sydney...

Para Swim Stars Light Up The SydneyOpera House As Flagbearer Ellie Cole Farewells Tokyo With A Record 17 Medals Australia’s triumphant Paralympic Swim Team is arriving home to unprecedented recognition after a spectacular medal haul of eight gold, 10 silver and 15 bronze for a total of 33 medals in ...