Oceania

Emotional Farewell For Emma McKeon Who Has Swum the last Individual Race of Her Stellar Career in Paris Australia’s most successful Olympian Emma McKeon has swum her final individual race, finishing sixth in the women’s 100m butterfly final in what was an emotional day for the 30-year-old Gold Coa.....

Paris Olympics Day 2, Semi-Finals, Women’s 200m Freestyle: Insights from Ariarne Titmus and Mollie O The Olympic 200m freestyle final is shaping up to be a classic Aussie Duel In The Pool - with defending champion Ariarne Titmus in the gold corner and her Queensland club mate Mollie O’Callaghan in ....

PARIS OLYMPICS, Day 1: Aussie Girls Light Up Paris Pool With A Golden Glow On A Memorable Opening Night For The Dolphins It was a night like no other that saw Ariarne Titmus and an untouchable Australian women’s 4x100m freestyle squad give the wonders from down under a golden glow with a silver lin....

Paris Olympics, Day 1 Final: Lukas Martens Claims Historic 400 Free Gold The electricity in the air for the men’s 400 freestyle final at the Fukuoka World Championships last summer presaged a doozy of an Olympic final 12 months on. The pieces haven’t exactly fallen into place. But the resulting chao...

Australian Coach Michael Palfrey Under Scrutiny For 'UnAustralian' Support of Kim Woo-Min Prior to the beginning of the Olympic swimming competition, Australian coach Michael Palfrey provided consulting services to numerous South Korean swimmers, including 400 freestyle world champion Kim Woo-min. N...

Remembering Frank Gailey, the Australian Who Won Four Medals for the U.S. at the 1904 Olympics Frank Gailey holds a special place in the annals of Australian and US Olympic swimming rivalry as the only Australian to swim for an American team and win four medals in St. Louis in 1904 – before the cen....

Aussie Star Ariarne Titmus is Fitter, Faster and Fired Up For Paris Olympic Assault Ariarne Titmus is fitter, faster and as fired up as ever as Australia’s dual defending Olympic champion puts the finishing touches to her Paris Preparation with the Australian team at their French headquarters in Cha...

Olympic medalist Mitch Larkin has announced his retirement after nearly a quarter century in the sport that included a plethora of international medals. The Australian star made the announcement on social media: "They say all great things must eventually come to an end. As much as I wish this wasn’t...

Manly Olympian Frank O’Neill, The First Australian To Break 60 seconds for 110 Yards and who taught Greta Garbo How To Swim, Dies Age 97 One of Australia’s oldest surviving Olympians and Commonwealth Games medallists, Frank O’Neill, has passed away peacefully at home in his beloved suburb of Manly,....

Olympic Throwback: A Look Back at Australia's Epic Relay Triumph of 2000 and an Air Guitar Concert Ahead of the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, Swimming World has been sharing features on some of the great Olympic races of the past. Today, we look at Australia's dynamic victory in the 400 freestyle rel...

Aussie Teens Receive Paris Presents Of A Lifetime as Lani Pallister and Mollie O'Callaghan Streamline Olympic Programs Two Australian teenagers,  surf lifesaving star Jamie Perkins and former child gymnastic protege Iona Anderson have been gifted Paris presents of a lifetime – with the revelation th...

New Zealand Recovers 1912 Olympic Swimming Medal, Oldest in Nation’s History The New Zealand Olympic Committee has recovered the oldest Olympic gold medal in the country’s history, belonging to swimmer Malcolm Champion. The medal dates from the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. It was won by Champ...

Mel Marshall Heads To Australia After Guiding Adam Peaty To Olympic Gold & Uncharted Territory Mel Marshall – who has blazed a pioneering trail with Adam Peaty to the top of the Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth podiums – will leave Aquatics GB to take up a high-performance role with Swimmin...

Aussie Swimming legend Cate Campbell Officially Calls Time On a Stellar Career In The Pool Cate Campbell, four-time Olympian and the Australian Swim Team’s flagbearer for over a decade, has today officially retired from the sport she began when taught to swim by her mother in a lake in Malawi in So....

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...

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 6, Heats: Shayna The Jack of Hearts Now The Trump Card In Tonight’s 50m Freestyle Finale with Emma McKeon and Cate Campbell Shayna Jack (St Peters Western, QLD) is primed to become the next swimmer to break the 24 seconds barrier in tonight’s red hot 50m freestyle final on t.....

Para Legends With Berets And Baguettes Headline 30-strong Australian Swim Team For Paris Paralympic Games Australia will send a 30 strong team of  swimmers to this year’s Paralympic Games in Paris with a blend of some of the most exciting, experienced and successful swimmers to ever feature on an .....

AUSTRALIAN TRIALS, Day 5, Finals: Mollie O’Callaghan, Shayna Jack 1-2 In Helter-Skelter 100m Freestyle Final After a dramatic and emotional day, St Peters Western training partners Mollie O’Callaghan and Shayna Jack have tonight won Australia’s two coveted spots in the blue ribband 100m freestyle i....

Australian Trials, Day 5 Heats: Cate Campbell Eliminated From Stacked Field in Women's 100 Freestyle By Nicole Jeffery Former world record-holder and world champion Cate Campbell was the major casualty of the cutthroat women’s 100m freestyle preliminaries at the Australian Olympic trials in Brisbane...

Australian Trials: Distance Ace Sam Short Withdraws From 1500 Freestyle Due to Stomach Illness By Nicole Jeffery Former world 400m freestyle champion and 1500m medallist Sam Short has withdrawn from the 1500m freestyle at the Australian Olympic trials due to a gastric illness. Short went down with ....