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Behind Summer McIntosh, Women's 400 IM Has Largely Stagnated The 4:30-barrier in the women's 400 IM went down during the polyurethane-suit era as Australia's Stephanie Rice and Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry (now the President of the International Olympic Committee) achieved the feat at the Beijing Olym...

The boys from Bond University– led by freestyle sprint ace Flynn Southam have broken the first National record on night six of the 2023 Australian Age Championships on the Gold Coast. For the second night running Southam has produced another sizzling sub-48 second relay split, clocking 47.91 to anch...

Australia’s Olympic swimming campaign kick starts in earnest this week with the first of a series of National Event Camps in Brisbane with Australia's top athletes and coaches joined by some of the sport's greatest Olympic champions including  Kieren Perkins, Stephanie Rice and Jodie Henry who will ...

Brisbane the Preferred Choice for 2032 Olympics; New Aquatic Center Part of Plan A proposed new 15,000 seat aquatic centre, the Brisbane Arena, would provide the South East Queensland (SEQ) 2032 Olympics with a long sought-after Brisbane inner-city pool facility and deliver a golden legacy from Aust...

Australian Championships, Day 2: The Unstoppable Kaylee McKeown’s 4:28.22 - The Third Fastest 400IM In History - But It’s “No” For Paris An unstoppable Kaylee McKeown has tonight swum the third fastest 400IM in history – blasting out a time of 4:28.22 to set her second National record in two days .....

Swimmer Stephanie Rice is a two-time Olympian, triple Olympic gold medalist and five-time world record holder who dominated the 200 and 400 IM events.  For her performance in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she was awarded "Female Swimmer of the Meet" alongside Michael Phelps receiving the counterpa...

By Tucker Rivera, Swimming World College Intern. Hello, and welcome back to “Should World Records be Faster?” Last week, we talked about the progression of world records since the mid-nineties and made predictions about what we can expect to see at the 2028 L.A. Olympic Games. This week, however, we...

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...

Kieren Perkins Welcomes Junior Pan Pacs Down Under As Part Of The Green And Gold Decade Australian swimming legend Kieren Perkins has welcomed the arrival of next year’s Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships onto Australian shores for the first time. The 2024 Junior Pan Pacs will be staged in .....

World Championships, Day Five Finals: Australia's Super-Charged Golden Girls Make It Nine Gold in 4x200 Free Relay in World Record Time Australia’s super-charged golden girls – Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack, Brianna Throssell and Ariarne Titmus – have won gold medal number nine for the Dolphins in...

Michael Bohl is one of Australia’s leading Olympic swim coaches who is priming his troops in what will be a fifth Olympic campaign describing the four-year "Big Dance" as “trying to get a predictable outcome in a very unpredictable environment.” [caption id="attachment_418548" align="alignnone" widt...

'Lost, Depressed, Irrelevant': Stephanie Rice Opens Up about Post-Swimming Struggles Australian Olympic champion Stephanie Rice opened up this week about her post-swimming struggles and the challenge of transitioning back to non-swimming life. Rice posted a short clip to her Instagram feed of her cr...

Pre-Race Rituals Stephanie Rice, a three-time Olympic gold medalist, explains that she did "eight arm swings, four goggle presses and four cap touches" before every race. But why? [caption id="attachment_360639" align="alignright" width="268"] Stephanie Rice[/caption] On the surface, these repeated ...

Photo Courtesy: Delly Carr SYDNEY, Australia, September 28. Triple Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Rice lit up the swimming Twittersphere this morning during a prank as part of the Kyle and Jackie O radio show on KISS FM in Australia when it was tweeted on her account that she was staging a comeback...

 Kaylee McKeown Unleashes A 2:07.19 The Seventh Fastest 200IM In History In Sydney Open Meet Australia’s swimmer-of-the-moment Kaylee McKeown has continued her record-breaking run at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre – swimming her way into the World All-Time Top Ten for the 200m individual me....

Queensland Champs, Finals, Day 4: Cameron McEvoy Priming His Performance To Defend 50m Freestyle Crown In Doha World champion Cameron McEvoy is primed to defend his 50m freestyle crown in Doha in February where victory will see the triple Olympian join an elite band of the world’s greatest sprinter....

Olympics: Green And Golden Days Return To Tokyo’s Pool of Dreams With A Headline Act From Australia’s Dolphins The glory days of the Australian Swim Team returned in spectacular style in a memorable eight-day Olympic gold medal rush at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre – and already team bosses are planning ...

Brisbane schoolgirl Elizabeth Dekkers has wasted no time staking another flying leap towards Tokyo selection, clocking the fourth fastest time in the world this year with her stunning 200m butterfly of  2:07.25 (28.86; 1:01.23;1:33.61) on a rain swept Gold Coast tonight. Dekkers (Newmarket Racers, Q...

The Iron Lady Katinka Hosszu broke the most infamous world record of the techsuit era as she clipped Ariana Kukors' amazing women's 200-meter IM global mark at the 2015 FINA World Championships. Hosszu, who broke down in tears after the tremendous feat, did what no one thought would be done anytime ...

Stephanie Rice was on the crest of a wave of success when she claimed three Olympic golds at the Beijing 2008 Games. Or so it seemed to the world watching the speed and smiles. The story had a hidden side: on her way to double medley triumph over 200 and 400m and a share in the 4x200m freestyle gold...