{"id":624585,"date":"2025-10-15T15:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=624585"},"modified":"2025-10-16T04:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:28:01","slug":"aussie-swim-queen-ariarne-titmus-calls-time-on-glittering-career-retires-from-swimming-at-age-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/aussie-swim-queen-ariarne-titmus-calls-time-on-glittering-career-retires-from-swimming-at-age-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Aussie Swim Queen Ariarne Titmus Calls Time On Glittering Career: Retires From Swimming At Age 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aussie Swim Queen Ariarne Titmus Calls Time On Glittering Career: Retires From Swimming At Age 25<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aussie swim queen Ariarne Titmus<\/strong> (OAM) has officially announced her retirement from all levels of swimming.<\/p>\n

The four-time Olympic gold medallist and current 200m world record holder hangs up her suit after a staggering haul of 33 international medals including eight Olympic medals (four gold; three silver and one bronze); nine World Championship medals (four gold; two silver and three bronze) and eight Commonwealth Games medals (seven gold and one bronze).<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old, dubbed “Arnie The Terminator” after her breakthrough Olympic performance in Tokyo, retires as one of the greatest distance swimmers of all time.<\/p>\n

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Titmus achieved an historic third individual Olympic gold medal, defending her 400m freestyle title in \u00a0“The Race Of The Century\u2019, where she defeated the other two previous world record holders of this event – American all-time great Katie Ledecky,<\/strong> and Canadian swimming prodigy Summer McIntosh.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

In doing so, Titmus became the first Australian athlete since Dawn Fraser in 1964, to win back-to-back gold medals in the same event.<\/p>\n

Born and bred in Tasmania, whose family left “The Apple Isle” to give their daughter an opportunity to pursue her swimming dreams, unearthing a phenomena who chased those \u00a0dreams with coach Dean Boxall at the Brisbane-based St Peters Western Swim Club program in Indooroopilly – her “leave no stone unturned and all or nothing” attitude saw her conquer the mountain time and time again.<\/p>\n

In a tell-all and at times emotional retirement interview, “Arnie” gives a thought provoking \u00a0insight into the little girl who left Tasmania to set her sights on Olympic gold – something she admits was probably out of her reach..but the goal to be the best and to chase Katie Ledecky<\/strong> “The GOAT” who she praises for her pursuits…and reveals the toll of her health scare and a what’s next in a life about to re-start at aged 25.<\/p>\n

What a true champion you have been both in and out of the pool Arnie….Thanks for the memories !<\/p>\n

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