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Olympic golden girl Bronte Barratt and her 2008 Australian Beijing teammate and bronze medallist Patrick Murphy have welcomed the arrival of their first-born son William Oswald, to swimming's lovers lanes. Triple Olympian Barratt gave birth to the couple’s healthy baby boy in Brisbane this week with...

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 ...

OSAKA, Japan. May 25. CHINESE women swam two world-leading times on the next to last day of competition at the East Asian Games in Osaka, Japan. Qi Hui, 16, lowered her time in the 200m individual medley to 2:13.09, defeating Japanese champion Tomoko Hagiwara by almost three full seconds. The Chines...

PERTH, Australia, January 31. THE Australian sprint crew had too much for the rest of the teams to handle on day one of the Aquatic Super Series in Perth this afternoon, leaving the Aussies in the combined team scoring lead. While Japan had some of the top individual swims with Daiya Seto and Kosuke...

TOLENTINO, Italy, March 11. ARENA, one of the world’s leading brands in aquatic sports, is pleased to announce that it has renewed its sponsorship agreement with Australian backstroke, freestyle and IM swimmer, Emily Seebohm. The 21-year-old, who lives and trains in Brisbane, first joined the arena ...

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...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov. 18. UNITED STATES swimming team captain Lindsay Benko and Sweden's Johanna Sjoberg were the standouts on the first day of competition at the World Cup in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Benko claimed a gold medal double in the 200m freestyle and 200m backstroke, while Knabe took gol...

Each day through July 23, Swimming World’s Jeff Commings and David Rieder will offer medal predictions in the 19 swimming events on tap at the Commonwealth Games, which begins July 24 in Glasgow, Scotland. We invite you to offer your picks in our Reaction Time comments section below! Commentary by J...

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 Kurt Hanson BRISBANE, May 12. OLYMPIC silver medalist Leisel Jones was upset by her Redcliffe Leagues Lawnton teammate, Tarnee White, in the women's 100m breast-stroke today, to highlight competition on the first day of the Telstra Grand Prix, being held at the Chandler Aquatic Centre in Bris...

By Ian Hanson OSAKA, Japan. May 23. AUSTRALIAN team co-captain Robbie Van Der Zant tonight won Australia’s first individual event at the 3rd East Asian Games in Osaka when he came from behind to defeat teammate Stephen Goudie in a thrilling 100m freestyle final at the Osaka Pool. Van Der Zant finish...

By Ian Hanson SYDNEY, Dec. 5. THE 2001 Qantas Skins kicked off with a bang at the Sydney Aquatic Centre tonight with Australian pair Elka Graham and William Kirby skinning some of the world's best swimmers to collect AUS$6,500 (US$3,250) and AUS$6,000 (US$3,000) respectively. Graham and Kirby le...

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...

By Craig Lord, Ian Hanson, Belinda Dennett and Phillip Whitten PERTH, Australia. August 7. GRANT Hackett, from Miami on the Gold Coast in Australia, shattered his own world short course record over 1,500 meters freestyle today when he hacked 9.45sec off his previous best time to become national cham...

By Ian Hanson and Belinda Dennett HOBART, March 31. TWENTY-SIX members of Australia's 2000 Olympic team have won selection in the 44-strong Telstra Dolphins Australian team to contest this year's World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan in July. Heading the list are individual Olympic ...

By Beinda Dennett and Ian Hanson MELBOURNE, June 16. AUSSIE swim stars Ian Thorpe, Clementine Stoney and Jim Piper all continued their great swimming from the Mare Nostrum European tour with victories on the first day of finals at the Telstra Grand Prix in Melbourne. Less than 24 hours after flying ...

By Ian Hanson HOBART, Tasmania, Australia. March 25. THERE were few surprises on Day Two of the 2001 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships, beeing held on this island state southeast of mainland Australia. The meet also serves as the selection meet for the 2001 World Championships in Japan. Here...

OSAKA, Japan. May 26. JAPANESE swimmers took four of the six events contested on the final day of the East Asian Games in Osaka, to cap a very successful meet. The hosts won all three women's events today, sweeping the top two spots in two of them. In the 200m baackstroke, up-and-comer Reiko Nak...

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...