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World Championships, Day Five Finals: Australia's Super-Charged Golden Girls Make It Nine Gold in 4x200 Free Relay in World Record Time Australia’s super-charged golden girls – Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Brianna Throssell and Ariarne Titmus – have won gold medal number nine for the Dolphins in...

Ariarne Titmus Terminates the 400m Freestyle World Record Clocking 3:56.40 In Adelaide Performance of the Week, Sponsored by Luma Lanes Australia’s Tokyo Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has tonight blasted her way to a new world record in the women’s 400m freestyle – clocking 3:56.40 at the SA Aquat...

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...

Australian Coaching Move:David Proud Takes Up Newly Created Endurance Coaching Role At Miami Swimming Club Journeyman coach David Proud will make the move back to Queensland to take up a newly created Rackley Swimming role at Miami Aquatic Centre on the Gold Coast, just 12 months after taking up a ....

Swimming's Unsung Hero Madison Wilson Swims From Strength To Strength Towards Tokyo Rio Olympian Madison "Madi" Wilson is an unsung hero of Australian women’s swimming and on the eve of an era that could well rival the success stories that emerged between 2000 and 2008 – Wilson continues to go from ...

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...

Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus has made a welcome return to racing in the 200m freestyle heats on Day Two of the 2023 Hancock Prospecting Queensland Swimming Championships in Brisbane today - confident she has time on her side to qualify for Paris 2024. Titmus (St Peters Western) raced for the firs...

World Championships, Day 6 Prelims (Women): Claire Curzan Chases Backstroke Treble; Sarah Sjostrom Seeking Record Sixth 50 Fly Title US Tokyo Olympian and exciting Paris prospect Claire Curzan is on target to become only the second female in history to complete a World Championship backstroke treble...

Kaylee McKeown Ponders Steps Towards 200IM Assault As Olympic And Paralympic Stars Line Up For NSW Championships Australia’s premier Olympic swim coach Michael Bohl has given an insight into a “non-stop” racing schedule and the decisions facing his triple Olympic golden girl Kaylee McKeown (Griffith...

Tears And Tributes Flow As Kaylee McKeown Sets A New WR and Ariarne Titmus Rattles Katie Ledecky's 400 Free Mark Australian wonder girls Kaylee McKeown and Ariarne Titmus have tonight sent a clear message to the world – “we’re ready to take the Tokyo Olympic pool by storm.” First McKeown (USC Sparta...

Celebrated international swimming coach and one time Royal Marine, Chris Nesbit, has today described his appointment as the head of High Performance at Carlile Swimming as the most exciting day of his already celebrated coaching career. The Sydney-based Carlile Swimming, founded by legendary Austral...

Mollie O'Callaghan And Aussie Wonder Women On Track For Paris; Kyle Chalmers Still Holds Freestyle Touch Australia’s four individual Olympic event gold medals at this year’s FINA World Championships in Budapest are the most the Dolphins have won since the 2015 titles in Kazan, where they collected s...

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...

Commonwealth Games: Australia Races to World Record in Women's 800 Freestyle Relay; Titmus Throws Down 1:52 The Sunday session of the Commonwealth Games ended with a bang as the Australian women surged to the world record in the 800 freestyle relay. This was the kind of swim Australia was expecting ...

Cody Simpson Produces Impressive 100m butterfly Win In 51.78 At Queensland State Championships Australia’s butterflying pop star Cody Simpson has kick-started his campaign for next year’s tilt at his first World Championships with an impressive victory in the 100m butterfly final on night two of the...

Tokyo Vision: Katie Ledecky Chasing History and Three-Peat In 800 Freestyle Had the COVID-19 pandemic not shaken the world, the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo would be unfolding right now, titles and podium finishes earned by the finest athletes from around the world. Instead, we are in a competition l...

The USA's Katie Ledecky is aiming for her fourth straight world title in the 1500 free. Ledecky set world records on her way to gold at the 2013 and 2015 Worlds and became the first woman to win the event three times in 2017. Ledecky is now aiming to take after Australia's Grant Hackett, who won the...

Multiple swimmers surged up the world rankings on the final night of the 2018 Australian Pan Pacific Trials. Veteran Mitch Larkin led the way in the 200 backstroke after blasting a 1:55.40. The time is now the second fastest in the world so far this year. Kaylee McKeown and Minna Atherton did likewi...

Ariarne Titmus, Shayna Jack, Mollie O’Callaghan and Tommy Neill In The Winners Circle On Night Four Of The Queensland Championships Teenage rising star Mollie O’Callaghan kept her winning streak in check, Ariarne Titmus pulled out all-stops in the 800m and Shayna Jack claimed a well deserved win on ...

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS: Lani Pallister “Wants In” On the Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Action It comes as no surprise that Australian freestyle star Lani Pallister “wants in” for the Dolphins 4x200m freestyle relay team – not an easy assignment in an era described by Olympic gold medal coach M....