May 10, 2021
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The Australians will have a chance to flex their racing muscles this week at the Sydney Open, a precursor to next month's Olympic Trials.
May 6, 2021
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Australia’s finest swimmers led by Olympic champion Kyle Chalmers and world champions Cate and Bronte Campbell and Ariarne Titmus will converge on Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre next week for the 2021 Sydney Open – their final hit
March 19, 2021
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Not missing a beat, Kyle Chalmers ranks among the top three 200 freestylers while Kaylee McKeown looks backstroke-strong at NSW Championships.
Jan. 22, 2021
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The men’s 200 free might be one of the most wide-open races in the Olympic year. China’s Sun Yang won the 2016 Olympic gold medal and both the 2017 and 2019 World Championships. But with Sun’s status in doubt amid an ongoing doping case, the battle for Tokyo Olympic gold could go in any direction. Japan’s Katsuhiro Matsumoto is making a name for himself in that gold medal hunt. The 23-year-old shaved a tenth off his own national record this week, going 1:45.13 to win the Kosuke Kitajima Cup in Tokyo. That’s the best time in the world this season, supplanting former leader Alexander G ...
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New Japan national record 200m Free #swimming @GoodbyeChlorine
Congrats Katsuhiro Matsumoto new Japan National record 200m free #swimming
Jan. 20, 2021
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Australian Swimming legend Ian Thorpe believes that his sensational 1:44.06 World record over 200 metres freestyle in 2001 remains one off the three most competitive four-length swims of the past two decades because “everyone in the world is swimming the 200 freestyle wrong.” “You can’t swim 150 meters easy and then turn it into a sprint. You are going to limit what time you are going to do,” says Thorpe, Olympic 400m freestyle champion at Sydney 2000 and 200m and 400m gold medallist at Athens 2004. Now 37, he believes that the only way the swimmer who cannot match the rare backend s ...
Brett sits down with swimming prodigy, Ian Thorpe.What makes a champion?What is it like being a World Champion at 15 years old?The level of expectation and p...
March 20, 2020
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Australia’s head swimming coach Jacco Verhaeren knows first hand that this year’s Tokyo Olympics will not be swum “on a level playing field” and has sent an impassioned and unprecedented message to the world expressing his concerns. To hold;d the Olympic Games from July 24, 2020, would he indicates, be “unfair”. Highlights and the coronavirus (COVD-19) crunch in his message to Olympic bosses.
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Australia’s head #swimming coach warns 2020 Olympics won't be contested "on a level playing field"
July 22, 2019
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Great Britain's Adam Peaty made history last night as the first man to ever break 57 in the 100 breast semis. Tonight, he may lower his World Record further.
June 14, 2019
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Swimming Australia has named a 27-athlete strong team to take on the World Swimming Championships in July in Gwangju, South Korea in 37 days.
July 4, 2018
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Defending 200 backstroke World Champion Emily Seebohm is one of 33 swimmers on Australia’s team for this summer’s Pan Pac Championships.
June 30, 2018
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Defending Pan Pacific champion Thomas Fraser Holmes has taken the first step in his comeback to competitive swimming, qualifying for tonight’s 200m freestyle final at the 2018 Hancock Prospecting Pan