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Lani Pallister And Sam Short Headline Australian Short Course Championships Entries Australia’s two most successful swimmers from 2026, Lani Pallister and Sam Short, will headline the entries for this year’s Australian Short Course Championships in Sydney, which is devoid of a host of other big nam....

World Championships, Doha: Former WA Gymnast Iona Anderson Makes A Quantum Leap Towards Australian Olympic Trials A former Western Australian gymnastics star has cartwheeled her way into Australian Olympic Team calculations with a sterling World Championship silver in Doha. Swimming in her first W.....

Commonwealth Games, Day Five Finals: Matt Temple Drops the Hammer on Butterfly, Australia Wins Gold in Mixed Medley Relay Australia won its sixth relay in six chances at the Commonwealth Games after the dust settled on an electric mixed 400 medley relay. The event features two male and two female sw...

Aussie Selection Trials, Day 2, Finals: Kaylee McKeown Digs Deep To Keep Unbeaten Backstroke Record Intact  LIVE RESULTS Australia’s Olympic backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown showed why she remains unstoppable in Sydney tonight, keeping her seven-year unbeaten record in major finals intact, despit.....

Commonwealth Games, Day Five Finals: Kylie Masse Gets Revenge in Women's 50 Backstroke After a disappointing silver medal in the 100 backstroke, Kylie Masse came back to defeat Aussie Iona Anderson in the 50 backstroke. Already one of the greatest backstrokers of all-time, Masse has padded her resum...

World Junior Championships: Lana Pudar, Maximus Williamson Set Meet Records in Victories On either end of the second finals session of the World Junior Championships, Lana Pudar and Maximus Williamson set meet records to claim gold on Tuesday. Pudar set the meet mark in the women's 200 butterfly, an...

Junior Pan Pacs: Erin Gemmell Sets Second Meet Record to Win 200 Free Erin Gemmell's Junior Pan Pacs is off to a fast start. The 17-year-old set a pair of meet records on the opening day of the meet in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the women's 200 freestyle. The latter earned her a gold medal in the first ev...

Dolphins Rocked By Injuries To Sam Williamson And Iona Anderson Before  Australian World Championship Trials Australia has lost Paris Olympians Sam Williamson and Iona Anderson from its prospective World Championship team for Singapore this year before a stroke has been swum at the Trials set down ....

Isaac Cooper Bounces Off The Ropes In Doha And Claims Australia’s 100th World Championship Gold Medal In the Serbian capital of Belgrade in 1973 Stephen Holland churned through 1500m in a new world record time of 15 minutes 31.85 seconds to win Australia’s first ever World Championship swimming gol....

Queensland Championships, Day 2 Heats: Shoulder Injury Forces Mollie O’Callaghan Out Of The Meet; Woomin Kim Disqualified In 200m Freestyle In an eventful morning at the Hancock Prospecting Queensland Championships, Olympic champion Mollie O’Callaghan has withdrawn from the meet with a shoulder inj....

Commonwealth Games, Day Three Finals: Iona Anderson Upsets Kylie Masse for 100 Backstroke Gold Iona Anderson of Australia won the Commonwealth Games title in the women’s 100 backstroke in a time of 58.71, the 20-year-old rallying from a deficit at the 50-meter mark. Anderson flipped second in a time...

Watch Cam McEvoy’s Sizzling 25m Time Trial For This Weekend’s Japan Open In Tokyo The world’s fastest swimmer, Cam McEvoy, has laid down a sizzling time trial to put the finishing touches to his preparations for the three-day Japan Open meet beginning tomorrow at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre. The 31-y.....

Glasgow Offers The Perfect Stage For Dolphins To Cash In On Swimming Australia’s Bold New Contract Plans Timing is everything as they say and the upcoming Commonwealth Games and Pan Pac campaigns could well provide the perfect platform for Swimming Australia’s bold new plan to contract its swimmers....

Roos Vanotterdijk Sets Belgian 50 Back Mark In Stockholm As Kyle Chalmers Rattles Australian 50 Fly Record Roos Vanotterdijk set a Belgian 50 back record and Kyle Chalmers rattled the Australian 50 fly mark on a day at the Swim Open Stockholm when Lukas Märtens downed the long-standing 400 free WR. ...

Aussie Teens Receive Paris Presents Of A Lifetime as Lani Pallister and Mollie O'Callaghan Streamline Olympic Programs Two Australian teenagers,  surf lifesaving star Jamie Perkins and former child gymnastic protege Iona Anderson have been gifted Paris presents of a lifetime – with the revelation th...

Backstroking queen Kaylee McKeown has tonight swum into a realm where only she and US rival Regan Smith have ventured as she chased her first personal in three years - her own world record - on night four of the Australian Trials at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. And the unstoppable McKeow....

 New Wave Of Australian Dolphins Make Historic World Juniors Splash in Netanya (ISR) A new wave of Australian swimmers have arrived home after an historic World Junior Championship performance in Netanya, Israel with a record haul of medals and a host of budding new stars, led by Sydney schoolgirl.....

World Championships, Day 8 Finals: Shayna Jack Anchors Australia Ahead of Sweden to Win Women's Medley Relay Canada established a lead over the first half of the 400 medley relay, with Ingrid Wilm opening up a lead on backstroke and then Sophie Angus providing the third-quickest breaststroke split i...

World Championships, Day 4 Prelims (Women): Canada's Ingrid Wilm Tops Qualifiers in 50m back Canadian Ingrid Wilm – bronze on night three in the 100m backstroke tops the qualifiers into the semi-finals of the 50m backstroke on night four in Doha. The 25-year-old stopped the clock in 27.81 to win he....

Ian Thorpe Declares Australia's 41-Strong Swim Team for Paris As The Country's Best Ever Four-time Olympians Cameron McEvoy and Bronte Campbell will spearhead a 41-strong swimming team announced tonight after a record breaking and emotion charged Trials meet concluded tonight at the Brisbane Aquatic...