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STOCKHOLM, Jan 25. SWEDEN'S Anna-Karin Kammerling delighted the hometown crowd in Stockholm, when she obliterated her own 50 meter butterfly short course world record in the final race of the FINA World Cup IX meet. Kammerling clocked 25.36, wiping out the mark of 25.60, which she set at the Eur...

At 2001 World Championships, Ian Thorpe Steered Australia To Its Finest Hour In The Pool It was the first morning in Fukuoka, when all roads led to the pool in preparation for the 2001 World Championships. And as is so often the case, the race to catch the bus in some ways was just as competitive a....

UWA-West Coast training partners Ashton Brinkworth and Zac Incerti have shared the top honours in the blue-ribband 100m freestyle on Day Two of the 2020 Hancock Prospecting Western Australian Swimming Championships at the HBF Stadium, Perth. The morning session saw Brinkworth (50.09) utilise his ear...

By Phillip Whitten and Michael Collins Sydney - Day 4 Preliminary results: Men's 100 Free Prelims Top 16 advance to semi-finals: 1. Hoogenband NED 48.64 2. Klim AUS 49.09 3. Frolander SWE 49.16 4. Popov RUS 49.29 5. Hall Jr. USA 49.32 6. Pimankov RUS 49.45 6. Fydler AUS 49.45 8. Iles ALG 49.70 -...

Michael Klim became as synonymous in Sydney in 2000 as the Harbour Bridge and the Opera House – standing tall as the pillars of an Olympic city, brimming in national pride. And the up-comimg 20th Anniversary of the Games will bring an even greater joy as the world comes to terms with the horrors of ...

By Belinda Dennett HOBART, Tasmania, Australia. Mrch 29. THE MAN of the moment, Ian Thorpe, became the first person since John Konrads in 1959 to win Australian national titles in the 100m, 200m, 400m, and 800m freestyle after blowing away a field which included six Olympic medalists in a dramatic 1...

By Belinda Dennett HOBART, Tasmania, Australia. March 27. EIGHTEEN-YEAR OLD Australian wonder boy, Ian Thorpe, destroyed the world record in the 200 meter freestyle with a time of 1:44.69, taking back the mark Dutchman Pieter van den Hoogenband snatched from him at last year's Sydney Olympics at...

OBITUARY: Australian Olympian Adam Lucas Pays A Special Tribute To His Celebrated Coach Grant Stoelwinder Australia’s 2004 Athens Olympic medley swimmer Adam Lucas summed up his coach Grant Stoelwinder perfectly when the Western Australian swimming community gave the coach they all called “Stolly” t...

By Craig Lord with Takahisa Ide FUKUOKA, Japan, July 22. THORPEMANIA spilled over on to the poolside at the World Championships in Fukuoka tonight as Ian Thorpe was greeted by hundreds of screaming Japanese girls after lowering the world record in the 400 meter freestyle to 3:40.17 and going on to b...

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...

By Phillip Whitten & Michael Collins SYDNEY, Sept. 19. It's the half-way point of the swimming portion of the Olympics. Excitement is still at a fever pitch and every event seems to be a new world or Olympic record, produce a surprise winner, or hold a special story. Tonight's competition at...

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 Stephen Thomas SYDNEY, Jan. 30. IAN Thorpe cruised through the New South Wales Age & Open Long Course Championships held at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre (January 12-19), scoring sufficient points to take male swimmer of the meet honors. Fellow Olympian Elka Graham, until recently ranke...

In his first Remembrance Day tribute in Canberra today, Australian Governor-General David Hurley AC DSC, has paid tribute to legendary Olympic swimming gold medallist Cecil Healy – who remains the only Australian Olympic gold medallist to lose his life in the line of duty. And sadly a man whose extr...

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...

SYDNEY, Dec. 6. The final fields for the 2000 Qantas Skins swim meet, to be held at the Sydney Aquatic Centre on Saturday, December 9, have been set, announced Ian Hanson, media director for Australian Swimming. Swimmers will compete for prizes ranging from $5,000 to $300 per event. *Fields are list...

By David Mason and Belinda Dennett BRISBANE, QLD., Australia. March 21. HISTORY was once again rewritten tonight at the 2002 Telstra Australian Swimming Championships when Ian Thorpe became the first man to win back-to-back 100m, 200m and 400m trebles. Last year he joined John Konrads as the only ma...

ROME, June 9. AUSTRALIANS turned in three stunning victories on Day One of the Mare Nostrum tour meet in Rome, stunning a capacity crowd that had turned out to see Italy's Olympic champions in action. Ian Thorpe, Jim Piper and Clementine Stoney were the spoilers from Down Under. Triple Olympic c...

By Ian Hanson BRISBANE, July 8. LOOK out world! – Ian Thorpe is stronger physically and mentally today than the Ian Thorpe who won three gold medals at last year’s Sydney Olympic Games. Thorpe wrapped up his preparation for the Ninth FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, starting on July 22, w...

By Stephen J. Thomas PERTH, Australia. Aug. 6. THE fast times kept on rollin' on the fourth day of the Australian Short Championships in Perth. Women's Events In a semi-final of the 50 freestyle Great Britain visitor Allison Sheppard lowered her own Commonwealth record set in the morning hea...