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China's Yu Zidi (centre) tops the podium after winning the women's 200-meter butterfly in Tokyo. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumChinese 13-year-old swimmer Yu seals win at Asian Games

China's 13-year-old swimming star Yu Zidi has won the women's 200m butterfly at the Asian Games in Tokyo.

Staff Writers

Kieren Perkins says his Olympic gold medals were just the start of becoming commercially successful. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumPerkins warns: lots of laps don't mean lots of dollars

Australian swimming great Kieren Perkins says he put just as much work into his commercial success as he did preparing for his gold medals.

Roger Vaughan

Australind-raised Kyle Lee with his gold medal after the 10km race at the 2026 Australian Open Water Championships.

SwimmingPremiumAustralian Open Water Championships returning to Bunbury

Bunbury will once again become the centre of Australia’s open water swimming scene when the Australian Open Water Championships and Ocean Swim Festival return to Koombana Bay in January 2027.

Jack Penniment

Lani Pallister capped her superb Pan Pacs campaign with victory in the 800m freestyle final. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumPallister caps dream meet with second Ledecky defeat

Australian distance stars Lani Pallister and Sam Short have both finished the Pan Pacific Championships with three individual gold medals.

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Kate Douglass has broken the women's 50m freestyle world record at the Pan Pacific Championships. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumUS ace becomes world's fastest woman with Pan Pacs swim

Kate Douglass has set the first solo world record at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, clocking a landmark 23.49 seconds in the women's 50m freestyle.

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Sam Short broke Ian Thorpe's Pan Pacific 400m freestyle record as he won gold. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumPallister, Short make statement with more Pan Pacs gold

Aussie middle-distance stars Sam Short and Lani Pallister claimed their second gold medals of the Pan Pacific championships as they won 400m freestyle titles.

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Australia's Meg Harris has won the women's 100m freestyle at the Pan Pacific championships. (Dave Hunt/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremium'Head down, closed my eyes': Aussie swim ace wins again

An Australian swimming star didn't realise she'd won gold at the Pan Pacific championships until told by a teammate.

Steve Larkin

Italy sensation Sara Curtis has broken the world 50m backstroke record again in Paris. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumTeen swim star puts McKeown record further out of view

Teen phenomenon Sara Curtis has set a second world record in as many days in the 50m backstroke, putting Kaylee McKeown's previous mark further in the shade.

Ian Chadband

Lani Pallister salutes after winning the women's 200m freestyle at the Pan Pacific championships. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumAussie swim star strikes gold and silver at Pan Pacs

An Australian swim star has won two medals as the Dolphins claimed four golds on the opening night of the Pan Pacific championships in California.

Steve Larkin

Sara Curtis salutes her world record swim in the 50m backstroke semi at the European Championships. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumKaylee world record broken by Italian teenager

Australian backstroke queen Kaylee McKeown has lost her 50m world record to 19-year-old Italian Sara Curtis, who clocked a new mark of 26.63 seconds in Paris.

Ian Chadband

Aussie swimming champion Shayna Jack is back in Perth.

SwimmingVideoRetired Aussie swimmer returns to Perth keen to explore more

Retired Aussie swimming champion Shayna Jack has returned from the Commonwealth Games, keen to explore more of Perth.

Kellie Balaam

Australian swim star Lani Pallister has been eyeing off the Pan Pacific championships all year. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremiumTest the best: Aussie swim ace primed for Pan Pacs

An Australian swim star says she's primed for the challenge of taking down the world's best at the Pan Pacific championships in the United States.

Steve Larkin

Moesha Johnson has added the Pan Pacs 10km title to her glittering open water swimming resume. (AP PHOTO)

SwimmingPremiumAussie open water swim queen triumphs at Pan Pacs

Moesha Johnson has opened Australia's medal account at the Pan Pacific swimming titles, winning gold in the 10km open water race.

Staff Writers

Flynn Southam and Iona Anderson are at the forefront of a new era of Australian swimming.

SportPremiumHow Australia’s swimming guard changed in the Glasgow pool

Although Australia may have won a record-setting 37 Commonwealth Games in the pool in Glasgow, the 2026 Commonwealth Games may be just as well remembered for a changing of the guard in the pool.

Josh Kempton

Open water swimmer Moesha Johnson is worried the event could be scrapped at the Brisbane Olympics. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremiumAussie open water swimmers rallying for Olympic future

World champion open water swimmer Moesha Johnson says Australia will lose part of its DNA if the sport is cut from the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.

Steve Larkin

Kyle Chalmers and Elijah Winnington in Glasgow.

Sport‘Investing in our dreams’: Swim stars’ praise for Rinehart

Australian swimming star Kyle Chalmers has led a chorus of praise for Gina Rinehart after the mining magnate awarded more than $1 million in bonus money to Commonwealth Games medallists in the pool.

Chris Robinson

Australian swimmer Isaac Cooper has been removed from the Dolphins' leadership group. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremiumAussie swimmer out of leadership group after drinking

An Australian swimmer has stepped down from the Dolphins' leadership group after being out drinking instead of supporting teammates at the Commonwealth Games.

Steve Larkin

Australian ace Mollie O'Callaghan is out of the biggest global swim meet of the year due to injury. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremiumInjured Aussie ace out of major global swim meet

An Australian swim star has been forced to withdraw from the biggest global meet of the year because of injury.

Steve Larkin

After missing the Commonwealth Games with glandular fever, Kaylee McKeown is plotting her return. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremium'Have kids and come back': swim great's Brisbane dream

Australian swimming great Kaylee McKeown has made the exciting revelation that she may try for a family before making a dream finale at the Brisbane Olympics.

Darren Walton

Gold medalists Iona Alexandra Anderson, Sienna Toohey, Alex Perkins and Meg Harris of Team Australia.

COMMONWEALTH GAMESVideoAussies set new aquatic benchmark in Glasgow

A dead-heat not even a fingernail could separate, a legend’s retirement tears and a son of a gun performs his own aquatic alchemy.

Jake Santa Maria and Glen Quartermain

Six and out: Meg Harris will leave Glasgow with a huge haul of gold medals and in esteemed company. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingPremiumThe joy of six: Meg joins the Games golden elite

Swimming star Meg Harris has joined an elite group of athletes who've won six gold medals at a single Commonwealth Games.

Ian Chadband

Our Aussie athletes cleaned up in the pool at the Commonwealth Games.

SportVideoRinehart’s MASSIVE bonus amount for star swimmers revealed

Australia’s all-conquering Commonwealth Games swimmers have smashed the million-dollar barrier in bonuses from billionaire benefactor Gina Rinehart.

Cameron Noakes

MUMMY'S BOY: Kai Taylor has joined mum Hayley Lewis in an exclusive Commonwealth Games club. (Dean Lewins/AAP PHOTOS)

SwimmingVideoPremiumShe's so proud: Hayley hails her boy as Kai fires

Swimmer Kai Taylor has had a tough act to follow as his mum was a Commonwealth Games legend, but he's made his own name in a breakout week in Glasgow.

Ian Chadband

Ben Armbruster and Kyle Chalmers celebrate their tie in the men’s 50m butterfly final, and right, Shayna Jack's emotional farewell.

SportVideoWorld stunned by historic tie amid Jack’s emotional farewell

As Shayna Jack bowed out in style with a bronze medal, a jaw-dropping dead heat for gold wowed the Aussies as they secured a record haul on the final day of swimming action.

Jake Santa Maria