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By Ian Hanson MORWELL, Victoria, Australia. April 24. ONE of Australian Swimming’s rising stars, City of Perth’s Travis Nederpelt, completed a golden treble when he won the five kilometer open water championship at the Tip Top Australian National Age Group Championships in Morwell yesterday. Nederpe...

Swimming Australia in conjunction with its State Associations is preparing to unveil a major domestic competition program to simulate the intensity of international racing in the lead up to next year’s Tokyo Olympics. The National Events competition program will become a crucial part of the Dolphins...

By Ian Hanson and Belinda Dennett MELBOURNE, June 17. DISTANCE kings Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett, and emerging star Craig Stevens, provided the packed Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre with entertainment plus in the 800 meter freestyle on Day Two of the Telstra Swimming Grand Prix. It was the rac...

Swimming’s Revolutionary Video Review System A SMART Decision Says Australia's Rio Olympian Josh Beaver Melbourne's Rio Olympic backstroker and Commonwealth Games medallist  Josh Beaver, now one Swimming Victoria's top coaches. has given his seal of approval to the introduction of a a revolutionary ...

MELBOURNE, April 12. OLYMPIC silver medalists Leisel Jones and Kirsten Thomson are among a host of international-level athletes who will join a record 1600 swimmers for next week’s Tip Top Australian National Age Swimming Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Jones (Redcliffe Lea...

By Brooke Hanson HAZELWOOD PONDAGE, Australia. October 6. THREE time Olympic "Super Mum," Hayley Lewis, once again stamped her dominance on Australian Swimming, winning the 5K marathon swim at Austraia's Trials for the World Open Water Swimming Championships in blustery conditions at the Hazelwo...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, October 9. DANIEL Kowalski, a member of Australia's gold medal winning 4x200 meter freestyle relay squad at the Sydney Olympic Games and 1996 Olympic triple medalist, will make a 1500 meter freestyle comeback at this week's Telstra Australian Short Course Championshi...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, October 13. AUSTRALIA's triple Olympic medalist Matt Welsh tonight smashed the world record in the 200 meter backstroke on the second night of competition at the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre. Welsh, silver medal...

Kiah Melverton Strikes Gold With PB in 800m As Australian Short-Course Championships get underway in Melbourne Gold Coast Olympic hopeful Kiah Melverton (TSS Aquatic) has opened up her 2020 Tokyo campaign in the best possible fashion with a double gold and silver and with a career best time on the o...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, Oct. 15. SYDNEY Olympic Games triple medalist Matt Welsh continued his record breaking spree on the final night of the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships in Melbourne with the second fastest time in history in the 100 meter backstroke. The 23-year-old Melbourne sw...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, June 14. THREE emerging Aussie swim stars, who came ever so close to selection on the Sydney Olympic team last year, will continue their charge towards Athens in 2004, when the cream of Australia’s swimmers converge on Melbourne this weekend for the second Telstra Swimming G...

MELBOURNE, Jan. 6. MICHAEL Klim showed he is fully recovered from the injury that hampered his performance at last year's World Championships, clocking 49.41 for the 100 meter (long course) freestyle at the 2002 Open Victorian State Championships. The four-day meet ended today at the Melbourne S...

by Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, Australia. October 14. AUSTRALIAs Grant Hackett today swam within 1.51 seconds of a world record when he clocked 7 minutes 36.41 seconds to win the 800 meter freestyle on Day Three of the Telstra Australian Short Course Championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centr...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, April 23. QUEENSLAND schoolboy Ashley Anderson tonight won his 20th National Age Group title with his fifth gold from five swims on the final night of the Tip Top Australian National Age Group Swimming Championships in Melbourne. Anderson, Australia's leading aboriginal ...

By Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, Oct. 23. OLYMPIC gold medalists Michael Klim and Grant Hackett and backstroke wonderboy Matt Welsh have been joined by national age group star Ashley Anderson and comeback queen Lori Munz on the Telstra Dolphins Australian swimming team for the FINA World Cup in Melbourne, D...

By Ian Hanason MELBOURNE, April 20. AUSTRALIA'S Olympic silver medalist, Leisel Jones, from the Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton Club in Queensland, tonight shrugged off a "touch of the blues" to add another gold medal to her trophy cabinet on the second night of competition at the 2001 Tip Top Austral...

MELBOURNE, November 15. THE Hon. Justin Madden MLC Minister for Sport and Recreation and John Devitt, President of Australian Swimming launched the Telstra 2001 Swimming World Cup at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre today. Australia’s Telstra Dolphins Swim Team, including world champions Gran...

A select group of Australia’s elite swimmers took their first plunge back into competition today with a virtual swim meet which co-incided with what would have been the opening of the postponed Tokyo Olympics. And apart from some encouraging performances over some odd distances and the disappointmen...

Australia Announces History Making Virtual Inter-State Short Course Meet Across Five Venues The cream of Australia’s leading swimmers will participate in the country’s first ever virtual “Non Championship” meet across five States next month. For the first time in Australia’s storied swimming history...

By Brooke Hanson MELBOURNE, April 22. CENTRAL Queensland teenager Craig McLennan became the first Australian 13-year-old to break the 25 second barrier for 50 meters freestyle in a swim which almost went unnoticed at the end of night three of the Tip Top National Age Group Swimming Championships in ...