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Swimming Australia Unveils New Para Athlete Leadership Group

Lakeisha Patterson OAM, Rowan Crothers OAM, Katja Dedekind and Jesse Aungles will lead the Dolphins team through to the Paris Paralympic Games.

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Tokyo 2020 Paralympics Day One Finals: 2 World and 8 Paralympic Records Fall

RPC’s Valeriia Shabalina (S14 W 100 FL) and Roman Zhdanov (SB13 M 50 BR) both broke World records during the first Tokyo 2020 Paralympic finals session.

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2021 Australian Olympic Trials: Day 1 Finals Live Recap

Emma McKeon was one of four swimmers under the OQT during prelims, leading the 100 fly in 56.82, nearly 2 seconds ahead of the field.

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Lakeisha Patterson Opens Australia Multi-Class Championships With 400 Free Win

Belgravia’s Patterson posted a time of 4:39.55 (840 points) – only a second off her gold medal world champs time in 2019.

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Lakeisha Patterson Talks ‘Focusing on Herself’ During Worlds Racing (VIDEO)

Patterson talked about staying in the zone while racing after winning the S9 400 free Friday in London.

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Ellie Cole Leads Paralympic Finals In Brisbane

The Para Grand Prix taking place in conjunction with the Australian World Swimming Trials got underway today in Brisbane.

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Liam Schluter Downs Own S14 100 Free World Record In Australia

Liam Schluter of Queensland took 400m free silver, but crushed his own S14 World Record in the 100m free race tonight at the Australian National Championships.

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2019 Vic Open Doubles As Para Swimming World Series

Unique to the 2019 edition of the Victorian Open Championships is the fact that it is incorporating the Melbourne 2019 World Para Swimming World Series. This is the first World Series event ever held in the Oceania region.

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Rivard, Meyers, Patterson Set World Records To Open 2018 Para Pan Pacs

Canada’s Aurelie Rivard and the USA’s Becca Meyers broke their own world records to highlight day 1 at the 2018 Pan Pacific Para Swimming Championships.

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2018 Commonwealth Games: Day 4 Finals Live Recap

100 back medalists Taylor Ruck, Kylie Masse and Emily Seebohm will do battle once again in the 200 back final on day 4 of the Commonwealth Games.

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2018 C’Wealth Games Medal Table: Canada Moves Ahead of South Africa

Canadians Kylie Masse and Taylor Ruck went 1-2 in the women’s 200m backstroke, helping move the nation ahead of South Afica in the Commonwealth Games medal table through 4 days of competition.

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Commonwealth Countdown: Pascoe Back To Breast In Women’s Para-Events

One defending Paralympic champ is New Zealand’s Sophie Pascoe in the SM10 200 IM. Pascoe blew out the Rio field with a 2:24.90 that still holds up as the world record.

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