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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...

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 3, Heats: Ariarne Titmus And Mollie O’Callaghan Headline All-Star Cast Into 200 Metres Freestyle final; Kaylee McKeown Misses Top Eight Defending Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus and world record holder Mollie O’Callaghan will lead an all-star cast into tonight’s 200m freestyl....

World Champions and Olympians joined by “Sons And Daughters” As Record Entries Line Up For Queensland State Short Course Championships The who’s who of Queensland swimming, including individual world champions Emily Seebohm (Griffith University), Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western) and Mitch Larkin (...

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...

World Championships, Doha: Brianna Still Going Full Throssell With 16 Medals From Six World Championship Campaigns It’s been quite the journey for Queensland’s two-time Olympian Brianna Throssell who has celebrated her 28th birthday in Doha this week - already adding four more medals – including he....

World Championships: Katie Ledecky Wins 800 Free, First to Win 5 Straight World Titles If anyone can understand how difficult it is to win five straight World Championships, it might just be Katie Ledecky. She won the 400 freestyle at three straight Worlds before Ariarne Titmus dethroned her in 2019...

Titmus Test For An Excited And Nervous “Arnie” Who Returns to Brisbane’s Crowded House One of Australia’s Tokyo golden girls Ariarne Titmus arrived at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre today and unlike her Olympic successes at a Games swum in empty Stadiums, the 21-year-old returned to racing in front of ...

Ariarne Titmus World Record Leads Top Women's Performances of Summer 2022 A busy stretch of senior-level international competition wrapped up earlier this month with the World Championships, Commonwealth Games and European Championships all held in quick succession. Not all of the world's top perfor...

QLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Triple Olympian Cam McEvoy Keeps On Keeping on as Josh Edwards-Smith Rockets Up The Backstroke Rankings Australia’s Triple Olympian Cameron McEvoy (Sommerville House) continues to turn the clock back with another eye-catching performance to win the 50m freestyle in 22.03 at the Qu...

How the U.S. Women’s Relays Stack Up for World Championships Following the U.S. International Team Trials, the U.S. women are set up to win a lot of medals at the FINA World Championships next month in Budapest. Consider this list of swimmers: Katie Ledecky, Lilly King, Kate Douglass, Claire Curzan,...

Ageless South African Roland Schoeman at 43 Joins Influx Of Heroes for 2023 Hancock Prospecting Queensland State Championships Four-time South African Olympic Games freestyle sprinter Roland Schoeman headlines a host of internationals and a plethora of Australian heroes when they converge on the Br....

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 ....

Commonwealth Games: Aussies Chasing Freestyle Dominance in Glasgow 36 Years After the Golden Glow of Auckland in 1990 Australia swimmers have the chance to turn the clock back 36 years as they chase a freestyle clean sweep at the 23rd Commonwealth Games, starting in Glasgow on Friday. Auckland host....

Commonwealth Games: Summer McIntosh Goes 4:29 Again in Dominating 400 IM A summer of potential for Summer McIntosh has turned into a summer of excellence. The latest installment Friday at the first night session of the Commonwealth Games can only be described as Ledeckyian in its dominance. McIntosh...

Australia’s latest world record holders Zac Stubblety-Cook and Ariarne Titmus will be joined by pop star Cody Simpson and a determined world number one Shayna Jack in Australia’s 46-member able-bodied swim team named tonight in Adelaide for this year’s Commonwealth Games. One of the strongest teams ...

No less than 23 Rio Olympians led by gold medallists Kyle Chalmers (Marion, SA) , Cate and Bronte Campbell (Knox Pymble, NSW) and Emma McKeon (Griffith University, QLD) will line up in this week’s three-day 2020 NSW STATE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIPS at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre starting Friday. ...

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...

Aussie Young Guns Isaac Cooper, Flynn Southam and Joshua Edwards-Smith Let The Good Times Roll At Recording Breaking Queensland Championships [caption id="attachment_493507" align="alignright" width="596"] RACKING UP THE RECORDS: Chasing Mitch will bring out the best in Rackley Swim Team's  Isaac Co...

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 Unstoppable In Sydney: World Leading 200 IM of 2:08.73; Then 50 backstroke in 27.16 The unstoppable Kaylee McKeown has today continued on her record breaking spree, wrapping up her Olympic Swimming Trials preparation with two more world class swims at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic C...