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Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer John Konrads has been described as “Mr Unbeatable” as Australian swimming remembers one of its greatest ever champions, following his death on the Sunshine Coast yesterday. [caption id="attachment_470880" align="alignright" width="434"] WORLD RECORD SMILE: John Kon...

Aussie Home Games Heroes Susie O’Neill, Murray Rose And Lorraine Crapp Inducted into Swimming Australia’s Hall Of Fame Three of Australia’s home Games Olympic heroes Susie O’Neill, Murray Rose and Lorraine Crapp have tonight become the latest members inducted into the exclusive Swimming Australia H....

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...

In his first Remembrance Day tribute in Canberra today, Australian Governor-General David Hurley AC DSC, has paid tribute to legendary Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy – who remains the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to lose his life in the line of duty. And sadly a man whose extr...

Olympic Dreams: Assembling History's Greatest Men's Medley Relays The countdown to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, albeit delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, is under the 100-day mark. In three months, the cauldron will be lit, kicking off more than two weeks of competition, including nine days of swimmin...

Legendary Australian Olympic swim coach Harry Gallagher OAM – the mastermind behind Aussie swimming greats Dawn Fraser and Jon Henricks – passed away peacefully early today on the Gold Coast. “The Crafty Fox” as he was fondly known around the pool decks throughout his colourful 96 years was surround...

Commentary Favourite Pools. What are yours? As the swimming-less summer of 2020 draws on, the team at Swimming World is taking a look at some of the great pools we love the most, why and what makes them so special. We'd like you to join in the fun and memories with your own suggestions, either by le...

By Ian Hanson SYDNEY, May 30. AUSTRALIAN Swimming is today mourning the loss of one of its greatest administrators, former Olympian, master coach and fierce anti-drugs campaigner Terry Gathercole, who died in Canberra this morning, aged 65. Gathercole, died of a heart attack after a long illness and...

By Wayne Smith BRISBANE, March 20. NOT content with being Australia's No.1 Olympic sport, swimming is planning to dive into the mass entertainment market to challenge football, cricket and basketball. Australian Swimming Incorporated president John Devitt announced yesterday Australia would host...

AUSSIE TRIALS: Super Coach Michael Bohl Takes A Trip Down Memory Lanes To Inspire His Class of 2024 Australia’s most successful high performance swimming coach Michael Bohl will spearhead his team into his 10th Olympic Trials meet at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre from June 10-15, inspiring them with ....

The Soak - Swim News In Brief Collated weekly 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 April 27-May 3, 2020 ...

By Craig Lord FUKUOKA, Japan. July 27. FIRST the US women's 4 x 200 meter freestyle relay lost a gold (or silver, depending on your point of view) medal when the automatic timing device indicated Cristina Teuscher had left some 3-hundredths of a second earlier than allowable in the relay exchang...

PASSAGES: Australia Mourns The Passing Of "Mr Swimming" John Devitt, A Legend With Chlorine In His Veins The Australian swimming community is in mourning today following the passing of one if its greatest champions, two-time Olympic and three-time Commonwealth Games freestyle gold medallist John D.....

Eight Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medals won by legendary Australian swimmer and International Swimming and Sport Australia Hall of Famer Murray Rose  will go under the hammer in Sydney in December in a landmark public auction. Rose, who won a total of four Olympic gold medals in the pool in...

Throwback Thursday: Remembering Lance Larson - When Silver Was Faster Than Gold As we remember Lance Larson, who passed away last week, this week's Throwback Thursday focuses on his iconic and controversial showdown with Australian John Devitt in the 100-meter freestyle at the 1960 Olympic Games in ...

By Forbes Carlile Friends: The funeral of Terry Gathercole A.M was held in the small country town of West Wylong, in South Western NSW, where Terry was buried beside his father and mother. The local Anglican church was packed with townspeople honouring its famous son and with many swimming friends w...

By Michael McGuire SYDNEY, May 2. AUSTRALIA's top Olympic chiefs all received hefty pay raises last year, rewarding themselves for their part in helping Sydney stage what were described as the "best ever" Olympic Games. AOC president John Coates led the way, pocketing $421,539 last year, an incr...

Operations, injuries and a postponed Olympics has only made Olympic 100m freestyle champion Kyle Chalmers hungrier than ever to defend his gold medal in Tokyo this year. Chalmers, still only 22, has used visualisation methods to picture himself winning gold again in Tokyo and becoming only the seven...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, Japan. May 22. AUSTRALIAN Swimming’s proud tradition in the men’s 4x200 meter freestyle relay continued in awesome fashion tonight when a team of three young guns joined Olympian Rob Van Der Zant to record Australia’s first win of the Games in the fastest time in the world this ...

Minna Atherton World Record - Will FINA allow it? John Devitt: if you're out there tuning into the League, fellow Aussie Minna Atherton just swam the 100m backstroke a fingernail slower than your first World record over 100m freestyle back in 1957. Her efforts helped London Roar to dominate the four...