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Can Anyone Track Down Sarah Sjostrom’s World Record in Women’s 100 Free? When Sarah Sjostrom became the first woman ever under 52 seconds in the 100 freestyle, her world record seemed unlikely to last eight days, let alone eight years. On day one of the 2017 World Championships in Budapest, Sjostrom...

Sam Short Wins 400 Freestyle Battle of World Champions Against Woomin Kim at Queensland Championships World championship silver medallist Sam Short has won an enthralling 400m freestyle “battle of the world champions” against Korean rival Woomin Kim on night three of the 2025 Hancock Prospecting Qu....

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 ....

Kieren Perkins Welcomes Junior Pan Pacs Down Under As Part Of The Green And Gold Decade Australian swimming legend Kieren Perkins has welcomed the arrival of next year’s Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships onto Australian shores for the first time. The 2024 Junior Pan Pacs will be staged in .....

Ranking the Best Women's Swimmers in the World From 1-25 Looking ahead to yet another Olympic year and putting 2020 in the rearview mirror, Swimming World decided to compile a list of the 25 best swimmers in the world leading into 2021. There was a lot of fast swimming in the first three months of 2...

Tarnished Gold: How the Success of Kristin Otto Was Smoke and Mirrors This month marks the 35th anniversary of the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul. It was an Olympiad known for the excellence of Janet Evans and Matt Biondi, but also for the questions that surrounded East German star Kristin Otto, who wa...

Tokyo Flashback: Adam Peaty Fuels Great Britain to Inaugural Gold in 400 Mixed Medley Relay 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 revisiting the championship finals – e...

Titmus Test For An Excited And Nervous “Arnie” Who Returns to Brisbane’s Crowded House One of Australia’s Tokyo golden girls Ariarne Titmus arrived at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre today and unlike her Olympic successes at a Games swum in empty Stadiums, the 21-year-old returned to racing in front of ...

Australian Women Set to Show Off Freestyle Talent and Depth Again in 2023 Last week’s Australian Championships were hardly more than a tune-up, a glorified exhibition. Sure, national titles are plenty meaningful, but without selection for any major meets on the line, most of the country’s top perfor...

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...

Australia’s Aquatic Stars Light Up The Catwalk At Speedo’s Paris Olympic Swimsuit Reveal The stars of Australia’s aquatic sports lit up an otherwise inclement day when Speedo unveiled its “space age” connected Olympic swimsuits for Paris - overlooking the 2032 Games city of Brisbane today. The gol.....

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....

In a stunning display of racing, rising star of the pool Elijah Winnington claimed his first national title, hometown hero Kyle Chalmers showed his talents extend beyond freestyle and Liam Schluter (S14) smashed his own world record on the opening night of 2019 Hancock Prospecting Australian Swimmin...

Inside With Brett Hawke Podcast Rattles the Railing With Aussie Dean Boxall, Coach of Ariarne Titmus When the 2020 Olympic Games are remembered, several memories will immediately jump out. Some individuals will focus on the five gold medals won by Caeleb Dressel. Others will recount the seven medals...

Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool Cate Campbell, four-time Olympian and the Australian Swim Team’s flagbearer for over a decade, has today officially retired from the sport she began when taught to swim by her mother in a lake in Malawi in So....

The United States and Australia have been the two best countries for most of history in the sport of swimming. And it looks like those countries are headed for a showdown in the 4x200 freestyle relay. The Australians stunned the Americans last summer at Pan Pacs in the women's 4x200 free relay, brea...

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...

Mollie O'Callaghan Named Australia's Olympic Program Swimmer Of The Year At Glittering Awards Ceremony in Sydney Teenage sensation Mollie O’Callaghan has tonight beaten an all-star field to be crowned the Australian Olympic Swimmer of the Year at a glittering awards ceremony in Sydney tonight. A nig...

Australia’s Dolphins Lose Olympic Breaststroke Ace Jenna Strauch For This Year’s World’s In Fukuoka and Cate Campbell Also Out Of Trials Australia has suffered another major body blow on the eve of its World Championship Trials following the withdrawal of Tokyo Olympian and World Championship silver...

World Championships, Day Two Finals: Zhang Yufei Ends Bronze Age With Title In 100 Butterfly A look at the credentials of Zhang Yufei shows an athlete with a vast collection of medals from international competition. Most notably, the Chinese star owns a gold medal from the 200-meter butterfly at the...