Olympic champion Ariarne Titmus of Australia has confirmed she will remain on hiatus through the 2025 World Aquatics Swimming World Championships.
The 24-year-old who successfully defended her 400m free title in Paris in addition to winning gold on her nation’s 4x200m free relay told The Sydney Morning Herald this week that she is aiming to get back to training this July after having been out of the pool since the summer.
“I’m so grateful that I’ve got Dean and Rohan Taylor, the head coach of Australia, backing me and putting what I need first. I don’t think it was like that 20 years ago.
“I’ve always said that I was going to take a 12-month break off the back of Paris. That’s something that I discussed with Dean and Rohan before the Paris Olympics.
“I just knew that after Paris, I needed some time away. I’ve been on the national team since I was 16, and I just needed a bit of a break mentally from the intensity of the sport.”
Confirming her intention to race at the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, Titmus said, “For me, there’s no point racing when I’m not going to be able to perform at my best or near my best.
“When you’re at the tail-end of your career, the Olympics just become so much more important. I’ll be going back to training to be able to gear up for LA. It’s the Olympic Games that now my eyes are on.” (SMH)
St. Peters Western’s Titmus was one of our honorable mentions for the Swammy Award for 2024 Oceanian Swimmer of the Year. In addition to her aforementioned golds in Paris, Titmus also claimed silver in the 200m free behind teammate Mollie O’Callaghan and silver in the 800m free behind American Katie Ledecky.
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Let’s go Arnie !!
So Summer is now the absolute most likely winner of the 400 free, she could win 200 too if O’Callaghan won’t be at her best. Mission 7 individual golds is on.
Just kidding, I know there’s no chance she will race 7 individual races (and it’s very unlikely she’d beat McKeown and Smith in the 200 back), but it would be nice to see her trying them all
Titmus’ winning percentage in individual events at the few World LCM meets she has chosen to participate in is actually quite low. She has won two individual races out of six where she has medalled, and that does not even count her flameout at 2017 Budapest where she did not make an individual final. Also, regarding her skipping of 2022 Worlds, it is re-writing history to say it was a scheduling issue. That didn’t seem to bother other swimmers (such as MOC) who attended both Worlds and Comms, and Titmus stated that her reason for skipping 2022 Worlds was that she did not want the pressure of Worlds competition (a theme throughout her career).
How old was she in 2017? And she won in 2019 and 2023 plus gold in 2021 and 2024 in her main event. Plus another gold in 2021. Your take is weird.
At this point I just try and find the humor in all these “Titmus (or McKeown) is secretly bad and here’s why” takes.
Titmus and pressure! She beat Ledecky in 2019. She won the most anticipated race at Tokyo Olympics under maximum media pressure. She ran away with the race touted as “the Race of the Century” in 2023. Then with the pressure of being the defending Olympic champion Titmus wins back to back 400 Freestyle at Paris.
Titmus’ continuing success is obviously frustrating for you.
“Titmus is actually bad at mid distance because she didn’t win worlds when she was 16” is definitely a take I would fully expect to see on SwimSwam. Also she came 4th lol
Hot take: Summer is bad at 4IM because she didn’t even qualify in Tokyo when she was 15 lol
See, I wouldn’t mind this meme from you (Steve humour is good humour as far as I’m concerned), except I don’t remember you posting it when Dressel drew back from 2022 Worlds.
I think I started after that?
Or omg please tell me I haven’t been doing it for 3 years
Lmao fair enough. I wasn’t a SS commenter in 2022 anyway, I’m just talking out of my a**.
At least you’re willing to admit it.
or when Dressel missed an Olympic final and everyone claimed it was because he swam a heat session of a relay.
Damn it! You stole my idea.
that’s rich. he started posting this gif when your username was still a medley relay moniker, so it was certainly not your idea
I reckon she will swom till Brisbane its the state where she lives now and calls home , think you will find Aussie swimmers push to swim at a home games
I used to think that but I now get the impression she doesn’t want to put her other plans on hold for that long. Maybe if her plans to go into broadcasting flop between now and LA28 …
Ariarne’s phrase “when you’re at the tail-end of your career” seems to imply a 2028 end of career more so than a 7 and a half year continuation right through to Brisbane 2032.
Seeing her whoop Ledecky one more time in her own country in front of Dopey Donald would be such a beautiful thing to witness
Ledecky probably won’t swim the 400 at that point and do u really give 28 year old Titmus a better shot at winning over 21 year old McIntosh
If all the ridiculous hate Ledecky regularly gets from MAGA crowd is any indication, Dopey Donald probably might actually agree with you.
Ledecky gets hate from MAGA? Why? I’ve never heard about this.
Gone
What part of 1:52 low very recently do u not understand??
yes, she is gone from australia’s world championship team for 2025. good reading comprehension
Swimmers. This is the year for gap year and leisure year.