World Records

Aussie world records tumble in pool

Two Australian world swimming records have fallen on the second day of the short-course World Cup meeting in Stockholm.

Four more world records at Euro champs

The glut of world records has continued at the European short-course swimming championships, with four more being set.

Two Aussie swimmer world records smashed

French swimmers Amaury Leveaux and Coralie Balmy have broken shortcourse world records, overtaking times set by Australians.

LZR world records need asterisk: Rose

Tom Wald Four-time Olympic champion Murray Rose says every world record set in the controversial high-tech swimsuits needs to have an asterisk attached to it.

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Thorpe no show at Australian titles

Swimming Australia (SA) has confirmed Ian Thorpe will not compete at the world championships selection trials in Adelaide.

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Repairs for leak won't hit pool stars

Fleta Page Australian swimming's coach of the year John Fowlie is confident a leak in the Australian Institute of Sport's high-tech Aquatic Testing and Training Centre swimming pool won't affect his athlete's...

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Freney honoured with award

Stathi Paxinos Swimming champion recognised for her standout performance at London Paralympic Games.

Thorpe ready to take his biggest plunge

Grant Hackett A courageous Ian Thorpe will put it all on the line at next week's Olympic trials.

Swim stars make waves in a high-tech costume drama

Samantha Lane They were designed to break world records, the key element of a 'revolutionary racing system' that would deliver gold medals.

Swimsuit row on eve of Games

A new swimsuit war has broken out four months from the Olympics.

Swimming

Libby just keeps on smiling

Lee Gaskin The broadest grin in Australian sport doesn't leave the face of Libby Trickett - even when the dual gold medallist faces the prospect of being a tourist at the Olympic Games.

Swim suits saga 'needs urgent fixing'

Tom Wald Eamon Sullivan's long-time coach says swimming must roll back the clock on suit technology.

Swimming Australia wants new suits ban

Swimming Australia has asked the world governing body to cease approval of any further swimsuits.

Swim coach Carew passes away

Australian swimming has lost one of its greatest ever coaches with the death overnight of master coach John Carew, aged 81.

Thorpe's former coach heads to Britain

Sam Lienert The man who guided Ian Thorpe to greatness is leaving for Britain and believes more Australian swimming coaches may head overseas.

Paralympians waiting for LZR swimsuits

Australia's Paralympic swimmers have flown to Malaysia for their training camp, unsure whether they will be given the superfast swimsuits given to Olympians.

British offer knocked back by swim coach

Jim Morton Master coach Stephan Widmer has rejected an approach by Great Britain to recommit himself to Australian swimming.

Aussies not fazed by US swim record rush

John Coomber Australia's head swimming coach Alan Thompson is unfazed by the rush of world records at the US Olympic swim trials in Omaha, Nebraska.

Olympic swimmers chasing form in Sydney

John Coomber Australia's Olympic swimmers will have their last competitive hit-out before the Beijing Games in a three-day Grand Prix meeting starting in Sydney on Friday.