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Mental Health Issues  Mental health issues are driving coaches out of sport, says Leigh Nugent, the respected former Australian Olympic head swimming coach and leadership figure. Nugent spearheaded Australia to a tall wave of successes at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games. In the wake of the Dolphins to...

World Championships, Doha: Aussie Breaststroker Sam Williamson Makes A Splash After Taking The Plunge Into Enemy Territory Australia’s latest swimming world champion Sam Williamson has answered a vital call that could well “parlay” the Dolphins relay gold medal hopes for Paris. Williamson’s 50m br.....

Nunawading has again confirmed itself as the powerhouse of Victorian swimming after running away with the prestigious Fred Blunt State Championship pointscore Trophy in Melbourne last weekend. The super club has always been at the forefront of elite High Performance swimming in Australia under the l...

Tracey Menzies-Stegbauer, the woman who coached Ian Thorpe to Olympic and World Championship glory, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of those successes with her appointment as Technical Lead on Swimming Australia’s Coach Leadership team. Swimming Australia made the announcement today that Menzies...

Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool Cate Campbell, four-time Olympian and the Australian Swim Team’s flagbearer for over a decade, has today officially retired from the sport she began when taught to swim by her mother in a lake in Malawi in So....

This year has been another stacked with thrills and spills in the aquatics world. It included the World Championships in Gwangju, South Korea, and the debut of the International Swim League (ISL). Swimming World had our readers covered every step of the way. During the final days of the year, we're ...

Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers To Accept Wild Card Nominations For Birmingham Commonwealth Games In a major shift in Australian National Swim Team selection policy Olympic gold medallists Emma McKeon and Kyle Chalmers will accept “wild card” nominations onto this year’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingh...

The Australian Para Swim Team has shifted their focus from the World Championships in Mexico City to the Canadian Open Swim Meet. Rio Paralympic gold medallists Brenden Hall, Lakeisha Patterson and Tiffany Thomas-Kane will kick-start Australia’s three-day Canadian Open Meet campaign, starting Tuesda...

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....

Mental Health And Burnout: Coaches Mental health issues are driving coaches out of sport, says Leigh Nugent, the respected former Australian Olympic head swimming coach and leadership figure. Ian Hanson's report today highlights the #lookafteryourcoach initiative unveiled in Australia this week by t...

Mack’s Attack Not Enough In Epic 400m Freestyle Showdown As Winnington And McLoughlin Turn On Tokyo Turbos Australia’s Rio Olympic champion Mack Horton (Melbourne Vicentre) won’t get the chance to defend his 400m crown in Tokyo after one of the greatest races in the history of swimming in Australia ...

Swimming Australia’s Blockbuster Swim Trials Moved To May in SA In a welcomed move Swimming Australia has shifted what it has labelled as a “Blockbuster Trials Meet” to May in Adelaide. The stars of Australia’s best ever Olympics in the pool in Tokyo last year will now have time on their side to pre...

Japan Open: Aussie Breaststrokers Diving Into The Deep End Against Japanese Guns A select group of 13 Australian breaststrokers, under the guidance of two-time Olympic head coach Leigh Nugent, have dived head-first into one of the swimming’s hottest melting pots in Japan this week. Their aim: “To .....

Little did a 16-year-old Rohan Taylor realise that he would one day become the latest National Head Coach of the same Australian Olympic Swim Team that showed up in his family backyard in San Jose in 1984. Taylor was born in Melbourne in 1968 but grew up in Hong Kong and the United States with his f...

St Peters Western (Brisbane, Qld) Head Coach Dean Boxall has joined a “who’s who” of Australia’s legendary list of swim coaches after being named the 2019 Australian Swimming Coaches And Teachers Association (ASCTA) prestigious Coach of the Year today. Boxall won the award for his efforts with Ariar...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, May 10. AUSTRALIA'S leading swimmers, including six Olympic gold medalists will be among the star attractions when the cream of the Aussie swim team converge on Brisbane’s Chandler Aquatic Centre this weekend, May 12-13, for the opening Telstra Swimming Grand Prix swim me...