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It was a busy day out for Australia’s premier Open Water swim team who were joined by a playful pod of local dolphins who escorted them around the picturesque Busselton Jetty as the race to the Paris Olympics hotted up this week in WA. Local photographer Adam Crane from Salt Diaries was on hand to c...

Kaylee McKeown Delivers Backstroking Masterclass At The Victorian State Championships The world’s fastest female backstroker Kaylee McKeown has continued her Victorian State Championships masterclass with a sizzling 57.93 to win the 100m backstroke on night two at the Melbourne Sports And Aquatic Ce...

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...

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...

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.....

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...

U.S. Nationals: Australian Maddy Gough Lands American Title in 1500 Freestyle Over in England, the Australian squad is off to a stellar start at the Commonwealth Games. Relay victories and podium sweeps have been highlights of the first two days of action for the Dolphins. But the Aussies are not on...

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 ...

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...

Cate Campbell continued to show off her master of consistency in the 100 free on Sunday night at the FINA World Cup in Berlin with a 52.51 in the 100 free. Campbell seems to swim 52 seconds every time she steps up to do the 100 free and continued that in Germany, winning ahead of 2012 Olympic champi...

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’...

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, ...

Australia’s finest swimmers led by Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers and world champions Cate and Bronte Campbell and Ariarne Titmus will converge on Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre next week for the 2021 Sydney Open – their final hit out in preparation for next month’s Olympic Swimming Trials. [ca....

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...

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...

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...

Australian Trials: Olympic Gold Medal Foursome To Lead 38-Strong Dolphins Swim Team For Fukuoka World Championships Australia’s Tokyo Olympic gold medallists Ariarne Titmus, Emma McKeon, Kaylee McKeown and Zac Stubblety-Cook will be joined by the son of a gun and a reincarnated Cameron McEvoy in a ....

Kaylee McKeown The Name On Everyone’s Mind With Australian Trials To Start Saturday In Adelaide The 2020-21 season has seen the emergence of a host of young Australian girls with their eyes on the Tokyo prize – and they will all be on show from this Saturday at the 2021 Australian Swimming Trials at...

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...