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Flynn Southam Stakes A Claim For New Age Australian 4x200m Freestyle Relay Team For Paris Olympics The race for what could well be a new look Australian men’s 4x200m freestyle relay team for the Paris Olympics just started to get a whole lot hotter after 18-year-old Flynn Southam unleashed his 1:46....

TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont: Kate Douglass Navigates 50 Stroke Double Kate Douglass had a busy morning Friday at the TYR Pro Swim Series in Westmont, with the back-to-back 50 breaststroke and butterfly. As has come to be expected from the former University of Virginia star and five-time Olympic med...

TYR Pro Swim Series Westmont: Shaine Casas Achieves Strong Double; Summer McIntosh Blasts 2:04.00 200 Fly The first full finals session of this year's TYR Pro Swim Series saw many of the top U.S.-based swimmers racing long course for the first time since the Paris Olympics, and the resulting times w...

TYR Pro Series Westmont, Day Three Finals: Summer McIntosh Blasts U.S. Open Record in 400 IM; Shaine Casas Continues Roll As an early March competition in the first year since an Olympic Games, there was guarded optimism concerning the performances that would come out of this week’s USA Swimming TYR...

Australia’s Olympic champions are spearheading a nation wide fundraising Foundation drive to raise money for sick children. Ariarne Titmus, Kaylee McKeown, Zac-Stubblety-Cook and Mack Horton were amongst a who’s who group of 20 Australian swimmers and surf ironmen who came together on the Gold Coast...

Australian Champs, Day Three Finals: Ariarne Titmus Rockets to Top of World in 400 Freestyle; Men's Distance Duel a Highlight By Nicole Jeffery After the most testing year of her international career, Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus was back on top of the world today after clocking the fastest 400m ...

2024 AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC TRIALS (June 10-15): Remembering Thorpie’s Fall 20 Years On – Expect the Unexpected The Olympic Swimming Trials can be assured of one thing “expect the unexpected” come Monday at 11am in Brisbane when the gun goes to kick-start the opening session of Australia’s six-day sele....

Dean Boxall Earns A Record Fourth Australian Coach Of The Year Award On The Gold Coast Olympic and World Championship gold medal coach Dean Boxall has been crowned Australia's top swimming coach for a record fourth time on the Gold Coast. The man who steered Australia’s golden girls to a record med....

Cash Splash Payouts For Australia's Dolphins: Million Dollar Medal Bonuses For Fukuoka And Manchester World Championships Australia’s successful World Aquatic Championship and Para World Championship medallists will share a whopping $1 million medal and world record bonus incentive payments thanks ....

Men’s 1500 Freestyle World Record Under Serious Threat This Year Of the nine fastest men ever in the 1500 freestyle, seven posted their best times within the last two years. At the end of 2019, only two men had ever broken 14:35 in the event; now, that number is seven, with four doing so last year a...

Paris Golden Girl Lani Pallister Claims Record-Equaling Sixth Lorne Pier To Pub; Nic Sloman Wins Men’s Thriller  Queensland’s Olympic and world champion Lani Pallister just keeps on keeping on after adding her record equaling sixth Powercor Pier To Pub classic at Lorne on Victoria’s surf coast yest....

Commonwealth Games: In Search of Rekindling Aussie Tradition, Sam Short Mines Gold in 1500 Freestyle The tradition of Australian distance swimming is well-documented. The country pays great respect to all of its champions, but the 1500-meter freestyle has always held special recognition. Plenty of l...

Australia’s Aquatic Stars Light Up The Catwalk At Speedo’s Paris Olympic Swimsuit Reveal The stars of Australia’s aquatic sports lit up an otherwise inclement day when Speedo unveiled its “space age” connected Olympic swimsuits for Paris - overlooking the 2032 Games city of Brisbane today. The gol.....

World Cup Budapest, Day 1 Prelims: Ilya Shymanovich Returns As Neutral Athlete, Ninth In 100m Breaststroke Ilya Shymanovich returned to international competition as a neutral athlete when the third and final leg of the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup got under way on Friday in Budapest. Belarus pa...

Olympic Swimming Predictions, Day 1: Ariarne Titmus Favored in Loaded 400 Freestyle After one hundred years, the world’s premier sporting event returns to Paris. The 2024 Summer Olympics will begin July 26, and there will be 329 events in 32 sports, with roughly 10,500 athletes from 184 countries. T...

Australian Championships Day 1, Men’s 400m Freestyle: Elijah Winnington Turns It On To Win The Battle of the World Champions Elijah Winnington (St Peters Western, QLD) saved his best till last to win the battle of the 400m freestyle world champions in one of the races of the night on day one of the....

Australian Trials: Ariarne Titmus and the Aura That Surrounds The Olympic Champion As She Prepares for 400 Freestyle on Day One Australia’s dual Tokyo gold medallist Ariarne Titmus (St Peters Western, QLD) will take with her the aura of being the defending Olympic champion when she strides onto poo....

Australia Claims Mantle as World's Dominant Swim Team in Fukuoka Has Australia ever performed at such a high level at a major swimming competition? Perhaps in 2001, at the first World Championships held in Fukuoka, Japan, when the team had 13 gold medals. That meet was the signature performance of t...

Australian Open Championships, Day One Preliminaries: Meg Harris Off To A Flyer Clocking 52.60 in the Opening 100m Freestyle Heat Swimming Queensland’s prodigal daughter Meg Harris has set a cracking pace on opening morning of the 2024 Australian Open Swimming Championships, clocking 52.60secs, the....

Ian Thorpe Declares Australia's 41-Strong Swim Team for Paris As The Country's Best Ever Four-time Olympians Cameron McEvoy and Bronte Campbell will spearhead a 41-strong swimming team announced tonight after a record breaking and emotion charged Trials meet concluded tonight at the Brisbane Aquatic...