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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...

Australia’s Tokyo Bound Kareena Lee Showing All The Hall Marks Of A World Class Open Water Swimmer  Noosa’s Tokyo bound marathon swimmer Kareena Lee is developing into one of the most capable open water swimmers in the world, according to Swimming Australia’s Performance Manager Greg Shaw after an e...

Speed will be the key to re-opening an Olympic selection door that Nick Sloman thought had been slammed shut when he lines up against a red hot field of fellow Tokyo hopefuls in Saturday’s helter skelter Games Trial and Australian 10km Championship shoot out. Australia’s leading male open water mara...

It is a marathon swimming story of Olympic proportions which will now become an Olympic story of marathon proportions – one that Kai Edwards will savor for the rest of his swimming career after the 22-year-old secured the final berth on the Australian Swim Team for Tokyo. Edwards is the last and 37t...

 Lani Pallister Adds Fifth Lorne Pier To Pub Crown Doing It Her Way En-Route To Paris Olympic Trials Australia’s best all-round female freestyler, Paris Olympic hopeful Lani Pallister has added a fifth consecutive Powercor Lorne Pier to Pub open water swimming crown in a growing list of achievemen.....

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 ...

Rackley’s rising swim star Sam Short is revelling in going the distance – winning the 400m freestyle on the second to last night of action at the 2021 Australian Age Swimming Championships on the Gold Coast. The 17-year-old, who two nights ago broke a 30 year-old Kieren Perkins Australian All-Comers...

Australia has a proud history in surf lifesaving with so many of its Olympians mixing their successful swimming careers with surf racing. The results of over a century of lifesaving activities feature some of the countries greats from Australia’s first Olympic swimming gold medallist in Freddie Lane...

The first eight athletes to qualify for the Australian swim team heading to July’s World Swimming Championships in South Korea have been named, as Swimming Australia finalizes its open water representatives. Comprising of four male and four female swimmers, Kareena Lee (Noosa), Nick Sloman (Noosa), ...

Minna Atherton Joins Marathon Olympians For Queensland Open Water Championships Australia’s only selected Toyko Olympian, marathon champion, Kareena Lee and 2016 Rio open water Olympian Chelsea Gubecka will be joined by world beating backstroker Minna Atherton and a host of pool stars, for Saturday’...

New Faces On Show As Tokyo Olympians Kareena Lee and Kai Edwards Sit Out Australian Open Water Nationals The absence of Olympians, Tokyo bronze medallist Kareena Lee and Kai Edwards will open the door for a new breed of swimmers who also have Paris 2024 on their minds at this weekend’s Australian Op...

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...

Australia’s Olympic men’s open water hopefuls will get a “taste of Tokyo” at the rescheduled 2021 Australian Open Water Swimming Championships that will now be held on March 13 and 14, 2021 at Lake Kawana on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. The Championships, which will double as the first stage of Olym...

It's An Aussie Open Water Dog Fight As Kai Edwards and Nick Sloman Go Head-To-Head For Olympic Spot One of the most dramatic and drawn out roads to Tokyo now has one last stop before the lone Australian is finally confirmed in what has been a true open water marathon, in every sense of the word. Twe...

Two South East Queensland surf lifesavers will go head-to-head in a 10km Open Water shoot-out in May and the prize will be a place on the 2020 Australian Olympic Team. Surf-swim stars Hayden Cotter (Belgravia Swim Club, Burpengary) and Bailey Armstrong (Kawana Waters Swim Club) were the two best per...

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...

Australian World Short Course Golden Girl Lani Pallister’s Now Queen Of The Surf Last December Lani Pallister was the queen of the pool in Melbourne, winning four gold medals at the Fina World Short Course Swimming Championships and today she’s the queen of the surf at the Australian Surf Life Savin...

Australian World Short Course Star Lani Pallister’s Open Water Podium Start To 2023 Australian swim star Lani Pallister has started 2023 the same way she finished 2022 – on top of the podium - after winning the iconic Lorne Pier-To-Pub Ocean Swim Classic on Victoria’s Surf Coast for a fourth straigh...

Olympic champion Ferry Weertman has caught the field by surprise, swimming a wider line to the finish to capture the Australian Open Water 10km Championship in perfect conditions at SA’s Brighton Beach today. The 27-year-old Dutchman showed all his endurance and in the end his incredible speed to st...

Flying Dutchman Ferry Weertman certainly showed no ill-effects from his 10km victory on Saturday to back up to complete the Brighton Beach double with a commanding Australian 5km Championship victory on Australia Day in Adelaide today. [caption id="attachment_412574" align="alignnone" width="700"] R...