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WHO is Australia’s youngest and oldest gold medallists at an Australian Open Swimming Championships and who has amassed the most gold medals…and how many sets of siblings have won Australian titles and who has won the most in a distinguished line up in the family ties? Renown Australian author, jour...

Obituary Olympic champion Duncan Armstrong has today paid the highest accolade to his mate, fellow swimmer and coach, Ian “Finnie” Findlay, who passed away, aged 55, after a long battle with Parkinson’s Disease on the Gold Coast yesterday. [caption id="attachment_413732" align="aligncenter" width="7...

Maddy Gough Joins Short Course Record Rumble With The Fifth Fastest 1500m In History It was Maddy Gough’s turn to keep the records rolling in Brisbane today with the 21-year-old Queenslander from the Gold Coast demolishing her own Australian 1500m freestyle mark, clocking the fifth fastest time in h...

Michelle Ford Joined By Australian 800m freestyle Greats Shane Gould and Jenny Turrall For A Trip Down Swimming’s Memory Lanes Australia has a proud history when it comes to the women’s 800m freestyle with no less than seven swimmers between 1956 and 1978 re-writing the world record books in the e.....

Obituary Australia’s “First Leading Lady” of swimming, Evelyn Dill-Macky AM is being remembered today as a sporting trailblazer and a “second Mum to many” after passing away peacefully in Sydney earlier this week at the ripe old age of 94. The popular three-time Olympic Swim Team Manageress who was ...