Cassiel Rousseau became the first Australian diver to win a world championship in the men’s 10-metre platform,denying the Chinese a clean sweep in Fukuoka.
All eyes at the swimming world championships in Fukuoka are on the women’s 400m freestyle event. Ian Thorpe previews the blockbuster showdown between three stars of the sport.
Australia touched the wall first in the 4x200m women’s relay at the 2001 world championships. Before they left the pool deck,they had lost their gold medals.
Sam Short won three races at Australia’s swimming trials last month,but his coach believes he has yet to peak yet ahead of the World Championships in Fukuoka next week.
Cam McEvoy didn’t compete at all in 2022. Now,after one blistering heat swim,an Olympian believes he could break a 35-year Australian medal hoodoo in the 50m freestyle.
Mollie O’Callaghan swam a personal best and defeated reigning Olympic champion Emma McKeon in the women’s 100m freestyle final but admits she wanted more.
Kyle Chalmers has clocked the second-fastest time in the world this year in the men’s 100m freestyle final,five weeks before the world championships in Fukuoka.
A day after watching her son make his first Australian team,swimming great Hayley Lewis says she had no idea the cameras were on her during a beautiful moment for a famous swimming family.
Aspiring Olympic swimmer Kai Taylor started crying after failing to qualify for the 200m freestyle final. Then,thanks to a competitor,he got a second chance.
Dual Olympian Mack Horton’s international swimming career is at a crossroads unless he can pull off something special on Thursday.
Ariarne Titmus cruised to victory in the women’s 400m freestyle final at the Australian swimming trials but was more than two seconds off Summer McIntosh’s world record.