Australia

McKeon and Seebohm Post Top Two Ranked Times in the 50 Butterfly

Emma McKeon posted a 25.99 while Emily Seebohm recorded a 26.05 in the women’s 50 butterfly at the New South Wales Championships…

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Seebohm Eyes Spofforth’s World Record

Emily Seebohm’s coach Matt Brown feels that she could record a time under 58 seconds in the 100 backstroke by the end of the year…

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Australia’s Brianna Throssell Rips World’s New #1 200m Butterfly Time

Brianna Throssell dethroned USA’s Cammile Adams as the worlds #1 in the women’s 200m butterfly.

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Queensland swim club official jailed after guilty plea in indecent sexual conduct case

A 57-year-old official with an Australian swimming club plead guilty this week to indecent treatment of a child, among other things, after making inappropriate advances on a 15-year-old swimmer, the Courier-Mail reports.

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Unfortunate Run of Freak Accidents Leaves Belinda Hocking’s Swimming Career in Question

2014 Commonwealth Games and Pan Pac Champion Belinda Hocking may not race at the 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

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16-Year Old Kyle Chalmers Swims 49.40 in 100 Free to Break Australian Age Record

16-year old Kyle Chalmers has broken the Australian National Age Record in the 100 long course meter freestyle on Saturday…

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Jeanette Ottesen to Travel to Australia to Reunite With Shannon Rollason

Two-time individual long course World Champion has opted to not stay in Denmark to train under the new National Training Center head coach.

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Australia’s Greatest Paralympian Matthew Cowdrey Announces Retirement

Australian para swimmer, Matthew Cowdrey, surprised almost everyone today when he made it publicly known he will not be pursuing…

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Cotterell Feels That Australian Swimmers Need to be Tougher

A few weeks ago Brian King‘s name appeared in the press, he is the man now training Sun Yang in Australia….

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Australian High Performance Director Michael Scott Resigns

It has just been announced that Swimming Australia’s head of high performance, Michael Scott, has resigned and will take on the new role of Chief Executive Officer at Rowing Australia.

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Swimming Australia adds Berlin Open to Paralympic Performance Schedule

To maximise international Paralympic competition opportunities and leading into the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016, Swimming Australia will send a group of 16 swimmers to compete at the Berlin Open in April 2015.

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Retired Swimmer Leisel Jones Now Tackles Reality TV

Australian retired swimming superstar Leisel Jones debuted on the reality TV show, “I’m a Celebrity-Get Me Out of Here”, which…

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Marsh Impressed by the Competition in Perth

The BHP Billiton Super Series finished up on Saturday with the Australians on top of the scoring followed by the…

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Andrew Gemmell, Sharon van Rouwendaal Win Swim The Swan in Australia

Andrew Gemmell (above) earned $17,000 at the top finisher in the men’s 10km race at the Swim the Swan event in Perth, Australia.

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Australia Signs Project 2020 Agreement With Japan, Joining Britain

Swimming Australia has become at least the second country to sign a “Project 2020” agreement with the Japanese Swimming Federation…

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