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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...

Olympics: In Debut of Women's 1500 Freestyle, Katie Ledecky Goes No. 8 All-Time Performance History was made at 6:55 p.m. (Japanese time) when the first of five heats in the women's 1500-meter freestyle started at the Olympic Games in Tokyo on Monday night. This Olympiad marks the first time in whic...

Swimming World Staff Picks: Top Races to Watch in 2020 The 2020 Olympic year is finally here. Athletes from around the globe have started the push toward Tokyo and  excitement is mounting for what could happen at the Games beyond the thrills and spills of trials for each country that will keep the s...

UPDATED: Kaylee McKeown and Emma McKeon Light Up NSW State Championships in Sydney Tokyo Olympic hope Kaylee McKeown and Rio star Emma McKeon have both started their 2021 NSW State Championship campaigns in blistering fashion at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. McKeown, the 19-year-old from Q...

The Week That Was sponsored by Suitmate. There were a couple domestic swim meets that finished off the summer of 2020 as those in Japan and Australia got a taste of racing as they reset on the Olympic cycle for 2021. Notably, Rikako Ikee had her first meet back after she sat out 2019 to fight leukem...

Cody Simpson Headlines Queensland Short Course Championship As Swimming Returns In Australia Brisbane will host its first major swim meet since being announced as the 2032 Olympic host city, with the Brisbane Aquatic Centre staging this weekend’s three-day Queensland Short Course State Championships...

Kaylee McKeown On Song For Medley After Breaststroke-Freestyle Double at Victorian State Championships Dual Olympic backstroke champion Kaylee McKeown has tonight served notice of a pending  200m individual medley attack after winning a rare double –on the opening night of the Victorian State Open C...

Australia’s lone 2021 Tokyo Olympic swimming qualifier, Noosa’s Kareena Lee, will be a serious contender for a second event at next year’s Games after a powerful win in the 1500m freestyle at tonight’s Queensland State Championships in Brisbane. The 26-year-old, coached by legendary Platinum Coach J...

Aussie 'Awesome Foursome' Puts on Early Speed Show at NSW State Champs Swimming Australia’s “awesome foursome” have blasted out their own double-barreled attacks on an action-packed day three of finals at the NSW State Open Championships in Sydney today. Kaylee McKeown (USC Spartans, QLD), Mitch Lar...

Gold Coast Olympic hopeful Maddy Gough has gatecrashed her way into the World All-Time Top Ten for 1500m at the 2020 Speedo Short Course Preparation Meet at the Brisbane Aquatic Centre. The 21-year-old clocked the eighth fastest time in history with her new Australian and Australian All-Comers recor...

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 (...

Australian Trials: Kyle Chalmers and Jack Cartwright All Heart As They Chase World Championship Places In Tonight’s 100m Freestyle Final If both Kyle Chalmers and Jack Cartwright can qualify for next month's World Championships together in Melbourne tonight it will be another remarkable chapter fo.....

Campbell Sisters, Chalmers, Horton and McKeon Headline Olympic Who’s Who for NSW State Champs Olympic gold medallists Kyle Chalmers, Mack Horton, the Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte and the unstoppable Emma McKeon will headline a host of Australian swimming’s biggest names who will return to Sydney...

Kaylee McKeown Surfaces Again In Sydney - This Time In 58.14 Seconds in The 100m Backstroke Heats The Kaylee McKeown train rolled on in Sydney tonight with the in-form Queensland teenager swimming her second world ranked number one time for 2021 – this time in the heats of the 100m backstroke at the...

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...

Testing Times For Olympic Golden Boys Mack Horton And Kyle Chalmers Caught Up In COVID Lockdown Swimming Australia has confirmed that members of its Olympic team, including Rio golden boys Kyle Chalmers and Mack Horton, “did not attend any high risk locations” during their visit to Magnetic Island, ...

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 ....

FINA World Swimming Championships: (Katie Ledecky in 1500) Gwangju 2019 Day 2 Heats USA's Katie Ledecky cruised through the women's 1500 free heats on Monday morning at the 2019 FINA World Swimming Championships in Gwangju. Ledecky swam a 15:48.90, which is well off her best time and world record of...

Minna Atherton Joins Marathon Olympians For Queensland Open Water Championships Australia’s only selected Toyko Olympian, marathon champion, Kareena Lee and 2016 Rio open water Olympian Chelsea Gubecka will be joined by world beating backstroker Minna Atherton and a host of pool stars, for Saturday’...

Australian Dolphins Swim Team Pushed Out Of Their Comfort Zone For Tokyo Relay Blitz If Australian Olympic team boss Ian Chesterman had any concerns surrounding his elite Australian swimmers and their motivation for the Tokyo Olympics then they were very quickly dispelled at a very impressive and in...